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May 20, 2025

by Eric Margolis

PARIS – The UN’s Under-Secretary-General just warned that 14,000
Palestinians children risk starving to death in the coming hours due
to the total Israeli blockade of food, medicines and water. Thousands
of other adults will also die due to famine or Israeli bombing in
coming days.

No amount of running old documentaries on Auschwitz or threatening pro-Palestinian protestors will cover up what the UN calls a `war
crime.’ Nor will threatening financial hardship on those who protest
Israel’s savage repression of Gaza.

So far, Israel’s extreme right-wing government led by Benyamin
Netanyahu has rejected all calls to aid the 2.2 million starving or
injured Palestinians in the hellhole of Gaza. His government will
eventually bend a little in the face of outrage from France, Canada,
the UK, Australia and other western powers.

Meanwhile, Israel has run amok, becoming what Jewish author Arthur
Koestler called ‘a nasty little Sparta.’ The slaughter in Gaza would
not be happening without the prior connivance of the Biden
administration, which fell under the control of the rabid pro-Israel
neocons in Washington, and now Israel’s cheerleader, Donald Trump.

But Palestinians will continue to starve or die from US-supplied bombs
dropped on refugee camps because Washington keeps blocking real action
to halt the mass killing. Jewish hostages in Gaza have been forgotten.

Interestingly – or shockingly – the rest of the Arab League has only
issued little peeps of criticism over the slaughter in Gaza, with the
exception of remote, impoverished Yemen, which was heavily bombed by
the US and Israel. President Trump’s visit this week to the obedient
Gulf states showed once again how the west has re-colonialized most of
the Arab world and brought it to heel.

Meanwhile, Israel and the US keep talking about ‘transfer’ of 2.2
million Palestinians from Gaza to someplace else. For a while in the
1930’s Ethiopia and Kenya featured as key deportation centers for
Germany’s Jews. When National Socialists (aka Nazis, a British
propaganda creation) spoke of moving Germany’s Jews to other remote
countries, they were scourged as horrid racists by the Brits and
Americans. But today the US and UK are doing something similar with
their efforts to expel third worlders and Latinos or move them to
Albania, Zimbabwe or Libya.

Israel’s far rightists – ‘Jewish Nazis’ in the words of the late,
great Israeli columnist Uri Avnery – aim to kill as many Palestinians
as possible to limit their future reproduction. They are determined to
thwart creation of a long-overdue Palestinian state, and seized lands
occupied by West Bank Palestinians. These could include much of
Lebanon and Syria, and possibly Iraq’s oil producing regions, and even
some of Saudi Arabia’s northern territories.

Many of the one million former Soviet citizens who moved to Israel
thanks to US financial help will recall Stalin’s infamous saying, ‘no
man, no problem.’ But following in the footsteps of Heinrich Himmler
and the Stalinist mass murderers in Ukraine, is ‘worse than a crime’,
to paraphrase Talleyrand, a ‘mistake.’

Many Israelis want to be rid of the Netanyahu government and end the
mass killing of Palestinians. Former Israeli prime minister Ehud
Olmert speaks for them. The western powers should ensure he returns to
office.

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