By LUIS FELIPE MIGUEL*
The impotence of solidarity with the Palestinian and Lebanese people, tolerance of Zionist racism and complicity with genocide and Zionist expansionism are clear symptoms of humanity's moral bankruptcy.
1.
Anyone who reads the press “knows” that Israel is at war with Hamas and has now entered into a war with Hezbollah. In fact, Israel has been carrying out an extermination operation against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip for almost a year and now, after carrying out a series of terrorist attacks, has begun a war of aggression against Lebanon.
There is no war by a state against any organization, except as a metaphor. And the target is not that organization when the overwhelming majority of victims are civilians — largely children.
Israel is the aggressor power in the Middle East, with an expansionist and racist policy that denies the rights and recognition of humanity of all Arabs.
This policy only survives thanks to the active complicity of Western powers. Through a mixture of geopolitical interest and submission to LOBBY Zionist, economically and media-powerful, the United States and the largest Western European countries not only turn a blind eye to what is happening in Palestine and throughout the region, but also protect Israel in international forums, boycott solidarity measures for the victims and provide war material for the killing of innocents.
2.
From the beginning, Zionism has been a colonial project based on a form of racial supremacism. The supposed “only democracy in the Middle East” has never been anything more than a regime of police and segregation.
Under Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel is taking on clearly fascist features. Media outlets are simply shut down by government order for presenting uncomfortable information — I can imagine the outcry from “defenders of press freedom” if this were to happen in any other country.
Arbitrary arrests are common, including of adolescents, without any kind of legal process. Torture and sexual abuse are common in prisons.
None of this bothers the West's good conscience, certainly because anti-Arab racism, although unconfessed, is increasingly normalized in North America and Europe.
But Benjamin Netanyahu does not only count on the complicity of his far-right colleagues. Liberal political forces, which often appear in their countries as an alternative to the advance of those close to neo-fascism, also align themselves with Israel.
Just look at the speeches of Kamala Harris, the Democratic candidate for president of the United States. Her formal lament for the innocent lives that have been lost is enough for Donald Trump to accuse her of being pro-Palestine, but the fact is that she courts the support of Zionists and, when it comes time to announce concrete policies, makes it clear that she will continue on Joe Biden’s path of financing genocide — and war in the Middle East.
In the UK, the ruling Labour Party continues to sell arms to Israel (after hypocritically announcing that it would suspend the delivery of some weapons) and “abstained” in the UN General Assembly vote on ending the occupation of Palestine. At the party congress, the leadership banned the use of the word “genocide”. The German Social Democrats, also in power, are working to make support for Israel a requirement for citizenship (and also abstained at the UN).
The impotence of solidarity with the Palestinian and Lebanese people, the tolerance of Zionist racism and the complicity with genocide and Zionist expansionism are clear symptoms of the moral bankruptcy of humanity.
* Luis Felipe Miguel He is a professor at the Institute of Political Science at UnB. Author, among other books, of Democracy in the capitalist periphery: impasses in Brazil (authentic). [https://amzn.to/45NRwS2].
Originally posted on the author's social media.
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