The Demonic Scourge of the Earth
Israeli Hostage "Rescue" is rooted in the demonic hordes of European crusades and colonial conquest
British journalist Owen Jones, meticulously details the Israeli military's recent operation to free several hostages held in Gaza. But the harrowing accounts, again, reveal the utter disregard for Palestinian lives and the West's complicity in enabling such depravity.
As the journalist recounts, the depravity of the Israeli forces knew no bounds as they staged an operation that involved masquerading as a humanitarian aid convoy to gain entry into Gaza to lure desperate and hungry people. They then proceeded to massacre innocent Palestinian civilians by the dozens, leaving the area littered with "mangled bodies" and "bloated corpses" - a scene of incomprehensible brutality.
Yet in the eyes of the West, this bloodbath elicits little more than a shrug. Prominent British politician David Lammy celebrates the hostage rescue as "a glimmer of hope in the darkness" - failing to even acknowledge (!) the approximayely hundred innocent Palestinian lives extinguished as an acceptable consequence.
This depraved indifference, this "lack of pretense that Palestinian life has any real meaning at all," as Jones so chillingly exposes, lays bare the rotten, dehumanizing core of Western civilization. We have become a people utterly unmoored from our common humanity - adrift from the interconnected tapestry binding all peoples and cultures into one global community.
Mass Systemic Sexual Abuse
While Western public debate still tries to deflect with false accounts of unproven 'mass systemic sexual abuse' by Hamas - something that even the New York Times has had to retract and fire one of its journalists over - it becomes increasingly clear that this accusation is a clear case of projection by the Israeli side. The sexual terror innocent Palestinians currently go through in Israeli prison dungeons is unfathomable. Keep in mind that many of the prisoners are minors - underage boys and girls.
As new witness testimony chillingly reveals, the contemptuous disregard for Palestinian dignity extends into the realm of nightmarish sexual torture and violence. A senior Palestinian nurse named Younis Al-Hamlou recounts how he was arrested by Israeli forces, with a "female officer ordering two soldiers to lift him up and press his rectum against a metal stick fixed to the ground." The nurse stated that the metal rod then "penetrated his rectum for roughly 5 seconds, causing it to bleed and leaving him with unbearable pain."
In other instances, evidence has been found of IDF soldiers sharing photos of imprisoned underage Palestinian girls blindfolded and forced into sexually humiliating positions.
Imagine the horrors these children go through every hour, every minute, of every day.
The New York Times buried these horrific details - just another day's casual dismissal of Palestinian humanity. Imagine if the evidence was the other way around: Hamas militants abusing underage (white) Israelis. The West would be up in arms and it would be portrayed as clear evidence of their depravity and justification for harsh retaliation. Such sadistic torture and abuse, if inflicted on an Israeli prisoner, would rightly spark outrage across the Western world as a despicable atrocity. But for Palestinians, it merits little more than a passing footnote. Their lives hold no intrinsic meaning or value to us.
In fact, our corporate media apparatus still attempts to accuse and vilify them - the victims - for the very horrors that are currently being inflicted upon them by Israeli IDF soldiers.
This inability to extend the most basic dignity and empathy to the Palestinians, to recognize their humanity and universal rights, is just the latest nadir of the West's long, torturous embrace of ethical depravity fueled by white supremacist ideology. Our societies, our cultures - our people - have become demonic harbingers of death, devourers of any culture and community that stands in the way of Western hegemony.
White Above and Beyond Humanity and Nature
It metastasized during the Crusades, as we first dehumanized the Muslim world and persecuted Jewish communities to justify religious conquest and cultural domination. It found its most horrific and unrestrained expression in the colonial era, as we arrogantly decreed that melanin levels correlated to diminished humanity - providing the pseudo-scientific rationale to sanction genocide against Aboriginal, Asian, Indian and African peoples worldwide. Any cultural norm, ethical system, or faith that fell outside of Western doctrine was savaged as irredeemably backwards and inferior.
So was planted the seed of Western supremacist thought - an ideological virus that has spread and strengthened over centuries. We placed ourselves on an island, utterly isolating our cultures and peoples from the rich interconnected tapestries of nature and humanity. We deluded ourselves into believing we were something more, above and detached from the humble position as part of this Earth's ecology and global community.
Now that racism and detachment have fully metastasized in the Western psyche, we are unmoved by slaughtered Palestinian children, unable to locate the most basic moral revulsion. Violence against those we classify as the"other" does not register, as we have thoroughly indoctrinated ourselves that certain peoples are subhuman and expendable in service of Western conquests and resource dominance.
The rot of racism is so deep and so powerful, that it resulted in the most cynical turnarounds: While white supremacism slaughtered Jews during the crusades, colonialism, pogroms and the Holocaust, it has now infected the Israeli Jewish community itself, resulting in the butchering of Palestinians and the systemic derogation of non-Ashkenazi (i.e., non-white) Jews within Israeli society.
We are at the heart of Global Calamity
Our failure to value the lives of the global community is the root cause afflicting all the existential calamities we now face. Our disavowal of a shared planet, of symbiotic interconnection with nature and all of humankind, has permitted climate change to rage unabated. Our insatiable greed and hunger for resources drive us to consume the Earth, rendered deaf and blind to the death rattles of ecological ruination we are seeding across the planet.
The racist disregard for human dignity perpetuates exploitative capitalism, oppression born of a belief in Western entitlement and superiority over the labor and rights of the non-white masses. Our exceptionalist arrogance manifests a constant thirst for military interventionism to bend the world to our needs. The looming omnipresent threat of nuclear fire is stoked by this egomaniacal drive to remain the apex racial culture unchallenged.
And in truth, little has changed - whether the Crusades against "infidels," colonialism against the "savages," or modern-day militarism for "democratic freedom." In every era, our wealthy elites used ideology to mobilize the common folk to massacre others for financial gain and resource dominance. Racist dehumanization provides the justification to brutalize and subjugate the "other," all in service of enriching the coffers of the ruling class.
We are trapped in this cyclical, self-perpetuating evil - a demonic psychopathy consuming itself across generations. The oppressive forces plundering the Earth's bounty and humanity's dignity have adjusted their veneer, but their core motives of conquest and greed remain insatiable and immutable.
Demonic Hordes
We are truly the demonic scourge of the Earth, a human civilization that cedes more death and destruction with each passing decade. What hope is there for harmony and sustainability when we clinically describe the butchering of Gazan children as a "glimmer of hope"? When Palestinian life has "no real meaning" beyond being a subhuman afterthought to the grand chessboard of Western conquest?
Until we confront centuries of racist, xenophobic programming, until we shatter the delusions of Western racial superiority, we will remain the Armageddon of life itself. We must re-integrate our cultures into the unified whole of humanity, jettisoning beliefs that certain arbitrary groups of people are more or less deserving of dignity and rights. Our fates are interwoven, and either we embrace our common humanity and planetary existence or we will all be consumed by the soulless supremacist legacy manifested in the utter barbarity inflicted on the Palestinian people.
Why are you citing Owen Jones?
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