The apartheid state appears to have no objective other than violence and an urge for desolation.
Protest in London on June 25 against U.K. provision of diplomatic, military and logistical support to Israel during its genocidal assault on Gaza. (Alisdare Hickson, Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
By Craig Murray
CraigMurray.org.uk
It is no longer possible to categorise the nihilistic violence of the Israeli state. It appears to have no objective other than violence and an urge for desolation.
In 24 hours Israel has murdered the man with whom it would need to negotiate hostage release in the short term and political settlement in the long term, and a key figure in its most dangerous potential military enemy which has refrained from full-on war.
In doing so it has violated the territory, indeed the capitals, of two crucial regional states.
[See: Netanyahu Risks Regional War With Assassination]
Israel has also taken a policy decision that the mass rape of detainees by soldiers — and, somewhat strangely, homosexual rape in particular — is acceptable in war and not to be punished.
Ironically Israel has also underlined its genocidal intent in Gaza by proving that it has the technical ability to carry out targeted attacks, and that the flattening of entire cities with 2,000lb bombs and the massacre of tens of thousands of innocents has been a policy choice.
The Western media appears paralysed by this. I have seen virtually no serious comment or analysis. Nor has anybody pointed out the contrast between Israel’s lies about mass rape on Oct. 7 and Israel’s now-admitted policy of tolerating rape of detainees.
The political class seems even more paralysed than the media class. Caught in their commitment to Zionism — basically bought and paid for – they have nothing to say about these incredible events more sensible than Kamala Harris’ zombie-like incantation of “Israel’s right to self-defence.”
The British Foreign Office has failed to produce its promised considered reaction to the ICJ Opinion on the illegality of Israeli occupation, let alone responded sensibly to Israel’s crazed paroxysm of destruction this week.
[See: ICJ: Israel’s Occupation of Palestinian Territory Is Illegal]
For me it is now axiomatic that there is no two state solution and that apartheid Israel must be completely dismantled as an entity. I believe that more and more people around the entire globe believe that now.
And if we have to dismantle our own political and media classes to get there, so be it.
Craig Murray is an author, broadcaster and human rights activist. He was British ambassador to Uzbekistan from August 2002 to October 2004 and rector of the University of Dundee from 2007 to 2010. His coverage is entirely dependent on reader support. Subscriptions to keep this blog going are gratefully received.
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dear craig murray,
thank you for your straightforward articles and analyses.
i draw much courage from your reporting and campaigning.
i have stopped reading and listening to the MSM in my EU country
bc i don’t want to constantly feel lied to any longer … i feel offended
and OUTRAGED, of course.
[remember CIA director william casey: “we’ll know our disinformation
program is complete once everything the american public believes is false.”]
as to the atrocities committed and the indifference towards them,
the global north was not moved by the fact that for years, the number
of displaced people has been increasing by an annual 10 million and has
now reached a staggering 120 million people w/o roofs over their heads.
jean ziegler used to tell the international community for decades
that every five seconds a child dies of hunger bc we allow proxy wars
to be fought and food speculation etc. to happen at stock exchanges.
who cared then? and who really cares enough now?
once, out of a colonialist habit, people have made themselves
comfortable in their global northern mode of indifference,
it seems, to them, uncalled for, if not outright impossible,
to change that mindset. “we have the better values based
on our rules-based order. so things are not going to adversely
affect us”, is what too many global northerners seem to think.
if they saw more pictures of daily atrocities
would they finally be swayed? or retreat even further
into their denialist corners? the dehumanization that
comes with that has reached levels beyond repair …
i recently listed to a piece of music by
nusrat fateh ali khan and heard him affirm:
“in the midst of darkness, light persists.
in the midst of lies, truth persists.” here’s to hope
and loads’n’ loads of comrades in welcoming arms!
These are, indeed, times that try men’s souls.
“The British Foreign Office has failed to produce its promised considered reaction to the ICJ Opinion on the illegality of Israeli occupation, let alone responded sensibly to Israel’s crazed paroxysm of destruction this week.”
Well hardly surprising, given they sought to block that ruling in the first place:
Xxxx://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/24/uk-seeking-block-icj-ruling-israeli-occupation-palestine
Yes! Yes! Yes!
Thank you, Craig Murray and CN.
Israel must indeed be dismantled and it’s a great relief that more and more people are saying it out loud. On some level I think many Israelis know it too, if unconsciously. It would go some way to explaining their utterly demented and debased behavior. As awareness dawns I think Israel and Jewish Israelis will become even more dangerous – difficult and terrifying though it is to imagine – and inclined to use nuclear weapons.
What a time to be alive.
“Israel’s right to self-defence.”
A mass murderer has no right to self defense …
@caliman
if i read international law correctly,
an occupying power cannot claim the
right to self-defense in the territories
it occupies – while occupied peoples
have every right to do everything to
shake the occupier and oppressor off
[which is what ‘intifada’ literally means].
“Kamala Harris’ zombie-like incantation of “Israel’s right to self-defense.””
Mass murderers do not have a right to self defense …
A nuclear armed adversary will never succumb to unacceptable changes or challenges. A trapped rat will bite its threat.
If the opposition to Israeli policies joins the Nuclear Club an inadvertent act could plunge the Middle East into a localized armagedon. Iran has the capability. If Israel keeps pushing it’s only logical, from an Iranian view, to develop and threaten use as can israel.
Had Israel not pursued “Lebensraum,” creating Jewish settlements on Palestinian land, and were its political stance have avoided seeing its enemies as “Untermenschen,” perhaps conversation could have avoided Gaza and so many other atrocities.
And embarked on a War of Annihilation.
Oh, what a gay day in Israeli concentration camps and prisons. What do we have here: oh yes, the hanging of prisoners their anal rape to the point of death. Yes, it gets that bad. There is a time when words fail one. We have just passed it.
I think we passed it some time ago. But these episodes reiterate the conviction of my belief of the absence and fiction of any god. (Benevolent or otherwise.)
It is essential to continue with clear observation to expose this lunatic obsession with war in the region. “It’s Israel’s right to self-defense” is a canard, a meaningless diversion, a subterfuge. It’s similar to answering a serious accusation against somebody with “humans walk on two legs.” We are amidst a war of propaganda, as usual, during hideous war. Continue to call it out, expose it!
What we have here is not only failure to communicate but the machinations of unhinged brutes and bullies. We need to put them all in the dock as at Nuremberg and make careful records of what they are doing, just as was done at the end of World War 2. We are seeing a return of the same type of idiots who caused that war.
Having nuclear weapons in the mix makes the job of stopping aggression more difficult than it would otherwise be. A most fateful decision humans need to undo if we are to survive.
The main question is whether Israel will take the rest of the world down with it. That seems to be their intent. When madmen are in charge, expect ultimate disaster. I put most of the blame squarely on the Biden administration which is not just enabling all the atrocities, but are actually encouraging them. We still have 6 months of genocide Joe to suffer through, and it isn’t clear at all what additional carnage he can perpetrate in that time.
Why should Kamala Harris hold different views from Biden? She is in thrall to same lobby groups, military and intelligence institutions and election donors.
..Neocon “Project For A New American Century” manifesto “Total Global Military Domination”, and biden adherence to, clarify…
But Genocide Joe and his neocons had no real opposition in Congress, the GOP CONDONED AND PARTICIPATED in all the war crimes the Israeli and American Zionists committed, and the media is in full support. Congress glorified the IDF zombie killing machine massacres with standing ovations and support for more, telling Netanyahu they have his back. They are swimming in blood.
Do assume anything will change after the ‘election’?
The government of the ‘usa’ is THOROUGHLY under zionist control.
The only candidate that seemingly is not on board is Jill Stein, ironically
Netanyahu stood before the pathetic congress blaring forth how Iran hangs homosexuals. Well, thank god the Israelis only rape a man until he can no longer walk. So much more humane. Barbarism against humanity he proclaimed as barbarism on steroids lies under his command. The impotence of international humanitarian response is certainly on display. Perhaps the Palestinians shall not die in vain if it brings an ultimate end to the Zionist state and the empire by which it is allowed to exist.
I read yesterday that the poor fellow had, in fact, died in hospital.
Hear, hear. Israel has got to go.
So really the US is supporting Israel as a proxy genocidist to keep arms-length from the stench required to achieve the New World Order?
Agreed, but they surely won’t go quietly, and this Frankenstein and its Western enablers seem hell-bent on taking us all with them.
If they keep agitating for a wider war with Hizbollah and Iran, what’s left of the settler-colonists will go where they’re told. The US has not the ability to save them, these are not poorly armed sandal-wearers that can be obliterated from 60,000ft, these are modern armies and the days of either the US or its genocidal demonic spawn threatening West Asia are over…..and that wee yapping British bulldog can shut up too!
You mean that bloody brit bulldog can shut up too.