Richard Mellor
Afscme Local 444, retired
GED/HEO
3-23-24
The US rogue regime has failed in its most recent efforts at the UN Security Council to cover for its main proxy in the Middle East that is conducting a genocidal war in Gaza. Referred to by one of the main supporters of the Israeli genocide, U.S. secretary of state, Antony Blinken as, sending, “a strong signal” to the Zionists, the resolution does the opposite.
Millions of US citizens pay little attention to the details when it comes to the actions of the US government and military abroad, but the rest of the world’s citizens that suffer the consequences of these actions are less fortunate.
The US proposal got 11 votes at the UN Security Council with three opposing, China, Russia and Algeria. Guyana abstained. The no vote by China and Russia count as vetoes as they are permanent members of the security council.
The representative for Guyana, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett (in the video above) explained her country’s abstention pointing out that, “Contrary to media reports, this resolution does not call for an immediate ceasefire.” She also stressed, as did others, that an immediate ceasefire shouldn’t be linked to a release of hostages or a condemnation of Hamas.
An argument could be made that the “hostages” are not hostages but prisoners of war, captured forces of the occupying power. It is important when discussing this issue to raise the point that the population of Gaza are displaced persons or the relatives of people who were driven from their homes by the occupying power. As the noted Israeli Historian Ilan Pappé pointed out, the communities attacked by the resistance when it broke through the Gaza fence were once 11 Palestinian villages whose residents were driven out, homes destroyed and settlements built in their place.
And if we want to talk about hostages, the Zionist regimes has thousands upon thousands of Palestinian hostages in its prisons, many of them children.
In addition, one also has to think deeply about what sort of people would hold a rock concert a couple of miles from a concentration camp or what some have described as the world’s largest outdoor prison under siege by an occupying power that controls all important aspects of life there.
Guyana’s representative also stressed that:
“If one were to read this resolution without background knowledge, it would be difficult to ascertain which party in this conflict is committing the atrocities in Gaza – atrocities which necessitated this draft resolution being put forward. In a resolution of 41 paragraphs, 2,036 words, the occupying power is mentioned once in the penultimate paragraph.”
The US mass media is attempting to portray US imperialism’s competitors, namely China and Russia, as blocking US attempts to bring peace and an end to the genocide just to make the US look bad, and will no doubt have some success here at home, but the rest of the world is not fooled. This crisis did not arise on October 7th 2023, it is decades old.
And this obsession of demanding any criticism of Hamas as a condition for any discussion at all on the subject is simply a distraction. The Zionist regime wants to drive Palestinian life and culture from the region no matter what leadership the Palestinians have. It’s a war against the Palestinian resistance not Hamas. The Quakers could be leading it, it wouldn’t matter.
Lastly, there are anti-Semites that are stressing that Israel runs the US, that the tail is wagging the dog. I do not agree with this view and what they really mean is that Jews control America. While most anti-Zionists are not anti-Semites, genuine anti-Semitic forces will use the brutality of the Zionist regime to equate it with Jewishness. This is given support by some states and the Zionists themselves to link the two. Zionism is a political formation, a racist and extremist ideology; it is not Judaism. Israel’s behaviour must be condemned but that does not mean we are not vigilant in rooting out genuine anti-Semitism when it raises its ugly head.
Israel was created as a foothold for European and western capitalism in the Middle East as a result of the vacuum left by the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in WW1 and in addition, it would be one way of dealing with Europe’s “Jewish problem”. A “Loyal little Ulster in the Middle East” as one British official put it. The European Jewish community, survivors after the murder of 6 million of them by the Nazi’s and suffering centuries of violence and discrimination in Christian Europe, were a useful tool in this great game. It has been a disaster.
As distasteful as the Zionist regime is, I find it difficult when there are calls to kick Israel out of Fifa or the Olympics and so forth while the US and Britain, two of the main architects of the crisis do not face the same criticism. In the last analysis, this crisis is one of many, a legacy of colonialism and Imperial power. It is a crisis of the system that created it and cannot be resolved within the framework of capitalism. We are faced today not simply with a choice of Socialism or barbarism, as Rosa Luxemburg once stated, but socialism or annihilation of human civilization.
For a glimpse of the mentality of the Zionist settlers check this out:
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