U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Tom Fletcher excoriates Israel for intentionally starving Gaza and shames the rest of the world for failing to stop it.
The U.N.’s humanitarian affairs chief held nothing in reserve on Tuesday at the U.N. Security Council as he unloaded on the State of Israel for deliberately starving the civilian population of Gaza.
“The ICJ is considering whether a genocide is taking place in Gaza,” Tom Fletcher said, “It will weigh the testimony that we have shared. But it will be too late.” With the Israel and U.S. representatives sitting opposite him, he demanded:
“What more evidence do you need now? Will you act – decisively – to prevent genocide and to ensure respect for international humanitarian law? Or will you say instead that ‘we did all we could?’”
Video: 20min, 12sec. Below is the full transcript of Fletcher’s remarks, followed by the 2hr, 16min minute video of the full Security Council meeting, including remarks from Palestine, Israel and the United States
New York, 13 May 2025
As delivered
Mr. President, Members of the Council,
Briefing you again on this subject is a grim undertaking.
Before starting, I ask you to reflect – for a moment – on what action we will tell future generations we each took to stop the 21st century atrocity to which we bear daily witness in Gaza.
It is a question we will hear, sometimes incredulous, sometimes furious – but always there – for the rest of our lives.
We will surely all claim to have been against it? Maybe we will say we issued a statement? Or that we trusted that private pressure might work, despite so much evidence to the contrary?
Or pretend that we thought a more brutal military offensive had more chance of bringing the hostages home than the negotiations which brought so many hostages home?
Maybe some will recall that in a transactional world we had other priorities.
Or maybe we will use those empty words: “We did all we could.”
Mr. President,
Let me start with what we see and are mandated by this Council to report.
Israel is deliberately and unashamedly imposing inhumane conditions on civilians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
For more than 10 weeks, nothing has entered Gaza – no food, medicine, water or tents.
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have, again, been forcibly displaced and confined into ever-shrinking spaces, as 70 per cent of Gaza’s territory is either within Israeli-militarized zones or under displacement orders.
As my colleague from the FAO will explain, every single one of the 2.1 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip face the risk of famine. One in five face starvation.
Despite the fact that you have funded the food that could save them.
“The ICJ is considering whether a genocide is taking place in Gaza. It will weigh the testimony that we have shared. But it will be too late.”
The few hospitals that have somehow survived bombardment are overwhelmed. The medics who have somehow survived drone and sniper attacks cannot keep up with the trauma and the spread of disease.
Even today, the European Gaza Hospital in Khan Younis was bombed, again, with even more civilian casualties reported.
I can tell you from having visited what’s left of Gaza’s medical system that death on this scale has a sound and a smell that does not leave you. As one hospital worker described it, “children scream as we peel burnt fabric from their skin…”
And yet we hear that “we did all we could.”
Mr. President,
Our response as humanitarians is to make a single ask of the Council: let us work.
The U.N. and our partners are desperate to resume humanitarian aid at scale across Gaza in line with the fundamental principles of humanity, impartiality, independence and neutrality.
We have a plan. We have shown we can deliver, with tens of thousands of trucks reaching civilians during the ceasefire. We have life-saving supplies ready, now, at the borders.
We can save hundreds of thousands of survivors. We have rigorous mechanisms to ensure our aid gets to civilians, and not to Hamas.
But Israel denies us access, placing the objective of depopulating Gaza before the lives of civilians. It is bad enough that the blockade continues. How do you react when Israeli Ministers boast of it?
Or when attacks on humanitarian workers and violations of the U.N.’s privileges and immunities continue, along with restrictions on international and non-governmental organizations.
Mr. President,
This Council has adopted resolutions that demand all parties to the conflict comply with international humanitarian law and protection of civilians, including humanitarian personnel.
A reminder that Israel also has clear obligations under international humanitarian law.
It must treat civilians humanely, with respect for their inherent human dignity. It must not forcibly transfer, deport or displace the civilian population of an occupied territory.
As the occupying power, it must agree to aid and facilitate it.
So, for anyone still pretending to be in any doubt, the Israeli-designed distribution modality is not the answer.
It practically excludes many, including people with disabilities, women, children, the elderly, the wounded.
It forces further displacement.
It exposes thousands of people to harm.
It sets an unacceptable precedent for aid delivery not just in the OPT, but around the world.
It restricts aid to only one part of Gaza, while leaving other dire needs unmet.
It makes aid conditional on political and military aims.
It makes starvation a bargaining chip.
It is cynical sideshow. A deliberate distraction. A fig leaf for further violence and displacement.
If any of that still matters, have no part in it.
Mr. President,
For the record, we have tried. The U.N. has met 12 times – and again this morning – with the Israeli authorities to discuss this proposed modality. We wanted to find a way to make it possible.
We repeatedly explained the minimum conditions for our involvement on the basis of long-settled fundamental principles: aid based on independent assessments of who needs it – the globally tested and donor-demanded basic requirement – and the ability to deliver aid to all those in need wherever they are.
The Secretary-General set out the relevant international law in his submissions to the International Court of Justice.
And your resolutions have strongly condemned starvation of civilians as a method of warfare and the unlawful denial of humanitarian access.
Resolution 2417 demands the Council’s full attention to widespread conflict-induced food insecurity.
Mr. President,
It’s not just Gaza. Appalling violence is also increasing in the West Bank, where the situation is the worst in decades.
The use of heavy weaponry, military methods of war, excessive force, forcible displacement, demolitions and movement restrictions. Ongoing, illegal settlement expansion.
Entire communities destroyed, refugee camps depopulated.
Settlements expanding, and settler violence continuing at alarming levels, sometimes with the support of Israeli forces.
“So, for those killed and those whose voices are silenced: what more evidence do you need now? Will you act – decisively – to prevent genocide and to ensure respect for international humanitarian law? Or will you say instead that ‘we did all we could?’”
Recently, settlers abducted a 13-year-old girl and her three-year-old brother. They were found tied to a tree. Do we also say to them that “we did all we could?”
Mr. President,
There is, I fear, a broader context here.
For the past 19 months Palestinian journalists, civil society and individuals have live-streamed their destruction to the world. Many have been targeted and killed for their testimony.
And during this time, international aid workers have been the only international civilian presence in Gaza, watching and reporting the unfolding horror. We are your eyes and your ears.
And be in no doubt that we feel the weight of that responsibility, to you, to the communities we serve and to the world.
And so, we have briefed this Council in great detail on the extensive civilian harm that we witness daily: death, injury, destruction, hunger, disease, torture, other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, repeated displacement, on a large scale.
We have described the deliberate obstruction of aid operations and the systematic dismantling of Palestinian life, and that which sustains it, in Gaza.
So, you have that information. And now, the ICJ is considering whether a genocide is taking place in Gaza.
It will weigh the testimony that we have shared. But it will be too late.
Recognizing the urgency, the ICJ has indicated clear provisional measures that must be implemented now, yet they have not.
Previous reviews of the U.N.’s conduct in cases of large-scale violations of international human rights and humanitarian law – reports on Myanmar, 2019; Sri Lanka, 2012; Srebrenica and Rwanda, both in 1999 – pointed to our collective failure to speak to the scale of violations while they were committed.
So, for those killed and those whose voices are silenced: what more evidence do you need now? Will you act – decisively – to prevent genocide and to ensure respect for international humanitarian law?
Or will you say instead that “we did all we could?”
Mr. President,
This degradation of international law is corrosive and infectious. It is undermining decades of progress on rules to protect civilians from inhumanity and the violent and lawless among us who act with impunity.
Humanity, the law and reason must prevail.
This Council must prevail. Demand this ends. Stop arming it. Insist on accountability.
To the Israeli authorities: stop killing and injuring civilians. Lift this brutal blockade. Let humanitarians save lives.
To Hamas and other armed Palestinian groups: release all hostages immediately and unconditionally. Stop putting civilians at risk during military operations.
And for those who will not survive what we fear is coming – in plain sight – it will be no consolation to know that future generations will hold us in this chamber to account.
But they will.
And, if we have not seriously done “all we could,” then we should fear that judgement.
Thank you.
Is there no way for the UN to expel/exclude countries , in this case Israel, which joined without having the basic requirements? Israel has no firm borders and did not ever keep to the rule about treatment of the native people of the land they were “given” by someone who was not the owner. This should have denied them membership.
Of course the USA , still now the main supporter of Israel, keeps this destroyer in the UN. Is there no way to “punish” Israel, the way all of the Western “democracies” especially the USA and the EU, are able to do with impunity with their illegal sanctions against Russia, Iran and many others??
*“And the only sound that’s left; after the ambulances go,” is the USG’s “Chainsaw” on high f/$peed; &, the ICJ, 5.7.25, slow-walking its *“[ADVISORY Opinion],” expected in a [Matter of MONTHS]. “Although its decision will not be legally binding, it will probably have a profound impact on international law, international assistance to Israel and global public opinion.” Marjorie Cohn, 5.7.25 @ hxxps://consortiumnews.com/2025/05/07/at-icj-only-us-hungary-back-israel-starving-gaza/ … [It Will Be Too Late] “[WHAT] more evidence do you need now?” TOM FLETCHER, 5.14.25.
No doubt, “The Beast,” (AUKUS, NATO, “El Chapo,” the U.S.Congress, Israel), have engineered a genocidal war machine they know is, “SNAFU,” (Situation Normal, All F—ed Up). *“The US president owns every despicable aspect of the calamity unfolding in Gaza perpetrated by his country’s ever reliable and obedient proxy, Israel.” Andrew Mitrovica 10.19.23
“And for those who will not survive what we fear is coming – in plain sight – it will be no consolation to know that future generations will hold us in this chamber to account. But they will.” Tom Fletcher 5.14.25
Not for nothing, “NO OFFENSE;” but, “The future generations,” are HERE > May 2025, in the 21st Century (January 1, 2001-December 31, 2100), “in this chamber,” in the streets, from sea to shining sea, from the river to the sea, in the deserts, here; &, the deserts, far away. *“The root of all the violence, including the violence of October 7th, is Israel’s occupation of Palestinian land and its subjugation of the Palestinian people. History did not begin on 7 October 2023.” Arundhati Roy
… The owl asks, “WHO would willingly submit to the indignity that Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank have been subjected to for [DECADES]? WHAT peaceful means have the Palestinian people not tried? WHAT compromise have they not accepted – other than the one that requires them to crawl on their knees and eat dirt?” The bird tweets, “Israel is not fighting a war of self-defence. It is fighting a war of aggression. A war to occupy more territory, to strengthen its Apartheid apparatus and tighten its control on Palestinian people and the region.” Arundhati Roy
*“[NOT] all the power and money, not all the weapons and propaganda on earth can any longer hide the wound that is Palestine. The wound through which the whole world, including Israel, bleeds.” Arundhati Roy 10.15.24
”But we keep pointing at Gaza, because what the hell else are we going to do? The alternative is to join the lunatics acting like it isn’t happening.” Caitlin Johnstone 5.10.25. As well, Johnstone gifts us with Words To Live By, “Preserve our sanity. Preserve our humanity. Prevent the bastards from warping and twisting us into psychopathic freaks like them. Even if we can’t stop them from destroying Gaza, we can at least stop them from destroying our hearts.” Caitlin Johnstone.
…… “If, you can’t be the lighthouse. Be the candle.” TY, CN. KEEP IT LIT!!!
* Desolation Row,” Bob Dylan
* hxxps://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/10/19/joe-biden-owns-this
* hxxps://pentransmissions.com/2024/10/15/no-propaganda-on-earth-can-hide-the-wound-that-is-palestine-arundhati-roys-pen-pinter-prize-2024-speech/
* hxxps://consortiumnews.com/2025/05/10/caitlin-johnstone-society-averts-its-gaze-from-gaza/
What more evidence do you need to understand that League of Nations 2.0 is a failure just like League of Nations 1.0?
Different this time. In 1.0, Chancellor Hitler withdrew Germany from the League. In 2.0, the USA has taken over the League and prevents it from doing its duty. But, the same result from the same methods, the attempt at International Law and organization has failed just like League of Nations 1.0 and the Kellogg-Briand Pact to renounce war.
The violent control freaks won’t let these efforts succeed. Which leads to the obvious conclusion that humanity needs a way to keep violent control freaks out of power. So far, no luck with that, as when given the vote, people love to vote for violent control freaks.
A big “Thank You” to all three of you. What an evil world the Zionist Nazis and their supporters in the U.S. and Europe, etc. have given us. They want us to believe that the “Jewish Zionist Nazis” are a “race, ethnicity”, etc. instead of just a fanatical religion and cult, and therefore deserving of their own country. Jews have been living in the area known as Palestine for centuries, since their “Jewish” religion was created, but the people called Palestinians have been there longer. Give the Palestinians back their land. A bunch of transplanted European “Jews” would have been better served by giving them a “Homeland” in Germany , after WWII.
Apt, I suppose. I’m underwhelmed by the lack of any mention of what could be done by the speaker, or of the conditions which constrict possible international action. It could’ve been constructive to have a representative of a U.N. body discuss the Security Council and its members vetos, for instance, but I guess it’s not in the interests of those involved to undermine their own legitimacy.
Another quibble: the term “inhumanity” he uses, what does that mean? The actions he describes are carried out by humans, so how can they be inhuman? Seems a radical denial of fact to assert this. Instead of that framing, which dehumanizes humans who commit atrocities, it may be more productive to discuss and deliberate on the causes of these actions, and crucially, what can be done.
The U.S. and Israeli representative were sitting right opposite him. The whole world knows he was referring to their obstruction to save the people of Gaza.
The second remark almost deserves no response, as everyone with a dictionary knows that inhumanity means extremely cruel behavior.
Sure, it may have been obviously implicit, but why not make it apparent?
As to the second point, I think it makes sense to talk about semantics and language, especially when nothing will be done in the physical world.
I agree with you re the “inhumanity” implications, though I myself have probably used it to describe these heinous acts by humans on the “other” before too.
It really isn’t truthful or helpful, is it? After all, we all are in fact human and that is the crux of it: how are humans, who love their own peoples and families and pets etc. capable of doing these terrible things to other humans? What horrific training and propaganda results in such people?
And crucially, how can people be untrained and unprogrammed from this condition? For example, I’m not sure Israelis realize how poorly they are viewed now, almost universally … would an apartheid South Africa treatment circa late 80s be successful in driving home the point that they are reviled and must change?
No offense; but, “LOL.” Yes, Vicky Cookies, “RTD,” read the dictionary. Look It Up,” (LIU), “in lieu” of asking.
……“it may be more productive to discuss and deliberate on the causes of these actions.” As written above, “The U.N.’s humanitarian affairs chief held nothing in reserve on Tuesday.” Imo, it’s beyond ridiculous to quibble about semantics, inferring that Tom Fletcher’s “Findings” should be questioned. We should be skeptical. FEAR is NOT inspiration.
Au contraire,“he,” TOM FLETCHER, Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs AND Emergency Relief Coordinator” “left no stone unturned.” *“The cataclysm that the world is witnessing is the by-product of the, by now, familiar mantra [AT THE CORE] of every modern US president’s so-called Middle East “foreign policy”: Kill first, think later.” Andrew Mitrovica 10.19.23
*“But that is the American way: in South East Asia, South and Central America, Africa, and Iraq and Afghanistan – graveyards all, brimming with the innocent victims of the arrogance and ignorance of a succession of cocky presidents who blundered their way into war without pausing to consider the disastrous and, ultimately, humiliating consequences.” Andrew Mitrovica @ * hxxps://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/10/19/joe-biden-owns-this
“what could be done by the speaker?” IMO, “Say Their Names,” U.S. Presidents 42-47 + the U.S.Authority’s i.e., William J. Clinton. George W. Bush. Barack H. Obama, Jo$eph R. Biden. Donald J. Trump, Benyamin Netanyahu; AND, if, Tom Fletcher had the power, he could “MANDATE” the US’ & Israel’s Signatures/Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. “Pray For Gaza. Be their cover.” Ciao
Vicky Cookies, about the “Security Council and its members vetos,” imo, your guess, “it’s not in the interests of those involved to undermine their own legitimacy.” IS on flippin’ point. “It’s “Not good. Buhlieve, me. Not good,” i.e., November 20, 2024, *“United States vetoes Gaza ceasefire resolution at Security Council.”
…… Exhibit A-Z: The FOURTH (4) Veto! The FOURTH Time!! IN November, 2024, The U.S., “blocked a Gaza ceasefire draft resolution at the United Nations Security Council. This is the FOURTH Time, the U.S., used its veto power during the conflict to shield its ally, Israel.” *Robert Wood, Deputy US ambassador to the UN, said, “The document “abandoned” the necessity for there to be “a linkage between a ceasefire and the release of hostages.”
Consequently, “The Butchers. The Bankers. Ukraine’s “Hay-Maker,” France, were “rebuked” by the UNSC. The criminals response, “eh! “Big f/Deal.” In between “Hearings,” the three Amigos & Volodymyr “El Chapo” Zelensky courted the US Congress w/flags & thanks, for “making the money pile up, higher! &, keeping the MADness (Mutually Agreed Deception, Destruction, Death, endless!” The U.S. Congress’ forté.
No doubt about it, Trump-Vance, Inc., + the U.S. Congress, haven’t put the brakes on the Genocide War Machine. Au contraire, Trump-Vance, Inc., “got” in 1, 2, 3 Months, the “Chainsaw;” &,the U$G’s $teamroller doing their thing, fm sea to shining sea, from the river to the sea, in the deserts here & the deserts far away. Call it what it is, “Shake Down. Crack Down. Shut Down!”
Vicky Cookies, Onward & Upwards!
* hxxps://news.un.org/en/story/2024/11/1157216
It’s clear that Israel is not going to stop this genocide and it is clear that the UN has basically adopted an approach that is summarised by shouting “Stop doing these terrible things!” To no avail.
The UN stands, therefore at a crossroads.
It should now initiate a blue-helmet armed invasion of Palestine with food, and medicine, etc .
If the UN troops are fired on by the IDF then they should be allowed to fire back and proceed to completely destroy the Israeli armed forces.
If the UN fails this test of courage, it effectively takes its own steps to nullify its mission and its purpose, and should be disbanded.
Such a mission would legally have to be approved by the U.N. Security Council and would no doubt be vetoed by the United States and possibly by Britain too. So they would rightfully be blamed, not “the U.N.”
That cowering, defeatist attitude—“would”; “could”; “would no doubt”; “would rightfully. . . “—is part of the “We did all we could” mentality and language.
No, you didn’t do all you could if you hide behind these defeatist woulda-couldas.
It is time to take action and cut the woulda-coulda-gordian knot.
The US and UK must be directly challenged in the Security Council and, if necessary, overridden.
This is not cowardly or defeatist but a simple fact of how the Security Council works. A veto in the Security Council cannot be overridden. However a coalition of nations can take military action in defiance of the Security Council, as the US-led coalition did in the 2023 invasion of Iraq. Does anyone see a coalition of countries coming together — Arab, Iranian, Turkish or other — to attack Israel to get it to stop its genocide? Hezbollah and Iran perhaps came closest, but who will attack a nation that has nuclear weapons and is mad enough to use them if their survival as a state is threatened? The only way to stop this genocide, and Biden could have done this and now Trump, is to cut off the money and the guns immediately.
UN Troops with Blue Helmets in Lebanon have been fired upon by Israeli Occupation Forces. Several times during the recent fighting. Like the Lebanese Army, they never shoot back. They aren’t even in Israel, and yet the Blue Helmets act like accepting fire from across the border is just a part of their job. Those are not new orders from NY, as this has been the case for years.
You might want to ask the people of Haiti about how wonderful it is to have Blue Helmets around? The boys from Brazil ended up with sexual assault charges from their time under Blue Helmets, iirc. I once saw a story where Haiti is trying to figure out what to do with the children left behind by the Blue Helmets. The official UN authorized force in Haiti today isn’t having much luck providing peace, although at least so far I haven’t heard of any accusations of rape.
The UN has already failed multiple tests of courage. The fact that the organization was created to prevent war, and especially another world war, but that we effectively already have a world war waging today speaks loudly to the failure of the UN. This is largely from multiple failures of “tests of courage.” That’s to the point where using the word “courage” with “U.N.” makes one ask if this is some sort of joke.
“The UN stands, therefore at a crossroads.
It should now initiate a blue-helmet armed invasion of Palestine with food, and medicine, etc .
If the UN troops are fired on by the IDF then they should be allowed to fire back and proceed to completely destroy the Israeli armed forces.
If the UN fails this test of courage, it effectively takes its own steps to nullify its mission and its purpose, and should be disbanded.”
Exactly.
For God’s sake, stop IMPLORING Israel to change.
Israel is not going to change.
Israel cynically banks on the UN’s doing nothing.
Time for action.
Military action.
Walk the talk.
The UN must immediately organize a beach landing on the beaches of Gaza and bring food to land.
It must storm Occupied Palestine and force the entrance of aid trucks into Gaza.
My god, what do we pay the UN for?????
What is is the UN waiting for? “Permission” from the USA? France? Germany? Who?
There are plenty of countries that would quickly join a UN coalition of the willing to end the famine and the genocide.
The Israel Lobby castrates everything it touches, including the UN.
The UN really had better find its balls fast. Or it will be no more.
Tom Fletcher’s words are nice, but totally useless. I’ve come to the conclusion that the majority of humans are brutal beasts, with no empathy for those killed by the ruthless, nasty, inhuman creatures that are the Israelis. The slaughter of the Palestinian people does not matter to them and the majority of humans on this planet, that’s because they don’t care. That’s because we’re not really human, for what ever that word is supposed to mean. We have no soul, no decency, no concern for the other.
‘Human rights’ is just a popular slogan. The rights of the child is just a silly term that means nothing. Creatures like the Israelis exposes who we really are. So, the next time anyone tells me that western countries believes in human rights, I’ll laugh in their face and tell them to F off!
Odd, that you take the sociopaths, the psychopaths as representatives of the “majority of humans” in their bestiality…”who do not care”…I fear you are succumbing to the pressures of the Super Wealthy Zionist White Supremacists (University Boards directing the evisceration of rights of free speech/assembly) who’ve been successful in brain washing the Israeli population (see remarks/book by ex Israeli Miko Peled) and the whole freaking lot of Zionist racist colonialists in Wall Street, media, and corporations who have been hyper-controlling the public narrative….they want exactly the attitude that possesses you to spread far and wide. For the more you and others believe that – forgetting artists, physicians, working people fighting for decent wages and healthy care, – then the greater the license they have to wreak more violence as a weapon for land grabs, and power. I recommend the recent The Chris Hedges Report where he interviews the head of the Human Rights Watch about his book. That said. The silence of so many seems to reveal the depth of fear so many have about demonstrating that they care. Or as you so passionately point out – the emptiness in the heart of so many that vacates their capacity to care, witness the USA grand leader.
A famous story involving Gandhi.
A member of the Brit MSM shouted a question at him one day …. “What do you think of Western Civilization?”
Gandhi’s answer ….. ” I think it would be good idea!”
Doctor King famously said in 1967 that America needed a “revolution of values” to get on the right side of history. I have always admired both Dr. King and Gandhi. Neither appears to believe the myths about how wonderful and kind and “civilized” the west actually is. I suppose seeing troops fire at non-violent protestors against a salt monopoly, or seeing young girls killed in a Birmingham bombing of a church gives one a better view of “western civilization.”
@miguel
while those in power in israel promote and carry out brutal,
ruthless killings, there are many israelis who disagree with
such policies and advocate for peace.
[i’m always careful with generalizations.]
while i agree that this century confirms all the flaws
that characterize human beings — selfish, hateful, destructive,
careless and utterly insatiable creatures too many of them —
i do recognize more than a handful of those who fight tirelessly
for peace, for freedom and justice for all … an eternal struggle,
uphill most of the way, but one that needs to be fought anyway,
for the sake of the dignity and sanity of those who still believe
that love and respect for people, and for their natural habitat,
will find their way.
if they don’t, man[un]kind’s dying out won’t be a big loss for
anyone/ anything, after all.
as to mr fletcher’s appeal: thank you for reminding the perpe_traitors
in power that HUMANITY, THE LAW and REASON MUST PREVAIL.
although i am afraid they might not listen this time, either, i do know
that they dislike being reminded of their shamefully atrocious policies.
The disgusting and paranoid Jewish supremacists have inflicted the most obvious and grotesque genocide our generation has ever witnessed, it’s out there for anyone to see with a basic smart [sic] phone.
Relatively soon, these same depraved, arrogant and paranoid Jewish supremacists will cajole and browbeat Trump into attacking Iran; probably within the next 12 mos. It’ll be an ultimately bloody and repulsive military venture that’ll be extremely dangerous as it has the potential to easily usher in World War 3! Just keeping to an attack on the Persian state proper, it will kill hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women and children when it’s all said and done.
Of course, I’ve said nothing about the impending total ethnic cleansing of all of Gaza.
Every single member of the establishment press and mainstream media who have kept quiet or even perhaps encouraged these Jewish supremacist inflicted bloodbaths will face no consequences and still live in beautiful upscale suburbs and urban penthouses, still send their spoiled kids to expensive private schools, still dine at fancy restaurants and vacation in beautiful summer homes. They’ve completely shut out dissident anti-Zio voices (myself personally has had every scathing letter (over half a dozen now) I’ve submitted completely ignored by local/statewide newspapers.). How these corporate mouth pieces don’t wake up screaming in the night is a mystery to me.
Finally, peace movements that beat around the bush and refuse to call out the Jewish supremacists have some soul searching to do.
Well, I am old enough to remember when America killed some 3,000,000 Vietnamese. When there are pictures of a naked girl burning with napalm, and kill zones like My Lai, it was also pretty obvious. And LBJ’s boys racked up some impressive “body counts.”
And, there are still probably a few still older than me who saw the Japanese Internment Camps and the Life Magazine cover of the young girl holding a skull sent to her by her hero soldier boy, and the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The rhetoric about ‘my generation’ can cover a lot of horror when you’ve managed to survive long enough to have gray hair in a capitalist society.
I’m not talking about 60 and 80 years ago, I’m talking about the contemporary genocide going on right now in the Middle East carried out by the paranoid and sadistic Jewish supremacists.
Yes, the Washington empire has tons of blood on its hands, no doubt, but right now let’s keep our eyes on the ball. The Jew supremacists and their tens of millions of dollars in campaign contributions are browbeating everyone in Washington, the media and academia to get on board the ugliest ethnic cleansing in at least a few generations.
“A reminder that Israel also has clear obligations under international humanitarian law.
It must treat civilians humanely, with respect for their inherent human dignity. It must not forcibly transfer, deport or displace the civilian population of an occupied territory.”
Before that can happen, israel has to recognise Palestinians as humans and not by the debased names they are fond of using such as “cockroaches”.
And one day…and hopefully sooner than later, israel will pay a very heavy price for the atrocities it is committing.