How can humanity allow an openly ongoing continuous mass murder of children, captive children at that, for over four months time, with the criminally insane maniac ordering the mass murder promising the world he will not stop the killing for the foreseeable future.
Benjamin Netanyahu, as the Prime Minister of State of Israel, has commanded the murder, maiming and starving to death 31,000 captive Palestinians under Israel’s Illegal Military Occupation by his four months long orders for Israel’s air forces to continuously bomb and air strike Israel’s illegally military occupied Palestinian territory of Gaza, and by his orders blocking food, water, electricity, fuel and medicine from entering Gaza.[1][2]
Jan 30th Satellite data analysis, showed the extent of the destruction. The analysis suggests between 144,000 and 175,000 buildings across the whole Gaza Strip had been destroyed or damaged already six weeks before this writing. That was already between 50% and 61% of Gaza’s buildings.[1] As of March 5th, 70% of homes in Gaza are thought to be destroyed.[2]
Soon after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, Israel (read Netanyahu) blocked entry of all food, water, fuel, medicine and other supplies into Gaza. Under U.S. pressure, Netanyahu began to allow a trickle of aid trucks to enter from Egypt at the Rafah crossing, and in December opened one crossing from Israel into southern Gaza.[3]
Only Someone Criminally Insane Would Starve Children to Death- If We Hear of Someone Starving a Child, Don’t We Call the Police? Where Is Everyone? Especially in the Global South Where Murderous Colonialism Is Remembered
At this writing a total of 13,430 children have been killed in the Gaza Strip by the Israeli airstrikes and ground operations ordered by criminally insane Prime Minister Netanyahu since Oct. 7,[4]
What Is More Precious Than the Life of a Child and Why Hasn’t Netanyahu Been Stopped Taking Already 13,500 Children’s Lives?
It noted that 8,900 women were killed over the course of 150 days, adding that 7,000 people, 70% of whom are women and children, are still under the rubble or missing.[4]
Only a Racist Madman Would Continue Ordering Thousands the Deaths of Thousands of Women Along With Their Children.
The Gaza media office said that 364 health personnel and 132 journalists also lost their lives during the period.[4]
So It’s Kill, Kill Everyone! And Nobody Says Much About It.
Warning against a growing famine in Gaza, the Gaza Media Office said Israeli military has prevented the entry of food and aid supplies and has even targeted aid vehicles trying to reach the region, causing the deaths of dozens of people looking for food for their families.[4]
Under International Humanitarian Law, “the occupying power must ensure the humane treatment of the population and provide for their basic needs, including food and medical care.”[5]
Netanyahu has had the Israeli military push 85% of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million into internal displacement amid acute shortages of food, clean water and medicine, while 60% of the enclave’s infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed, according to the UN.[4]
Israel not Netanyahu stands accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice. An interim ruling in January ordered Tel Aviv to stop genocidal acts and take measures to guarantee that humanitarian assistance is provided to civilians in Gaza.
Netanyahu Must be Prosecuted
Nations cannot be prosecuted. Individual perpetrators of crimes must be prosecuted. “whether they are constitutionally responsible rulers, public officials or private individuals.” [Article IVConvention on Genocide.] That is an obligation of international customary law and therefore, binding on all States, whether or not they have ratified the Genocide Convention.[5] Article II reads, “Genocide means acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, Killing members of the group; Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.”[6] https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml
Unfortunately, there are more than a few Israelis, even rabbis, [7] who are led to believe genocide can be God’s will.
Deuteronomy 2:16 “You must not let any living thing survive among the cities of these people the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.”
Genesis 15:18 “On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram and said, “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates.”
1 Samuel 15:3 “… and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling” [Standard Bible]
Netanyahu is certainly not the only Israeli guilty of mass murdering Palestinians. Israeli pilots know they kill children when dropping massive amount bombs on city centres. Have the pilots been made to feel that God, and not just Netanyahu, is on their side in any and all circumstance?
Netanyahu uses October 7th Hamas led guerrilla attack as a pretext to annihilate the Palestinians trapped in Gaza. Is Netanyahu crazed with guilt for Israelis having learned of his having funded Hamas for years? (Netanyahu’s plan was keep Palestinians divided and thus less unable to create a Palestinian state.) Netanyahu said, “whoever is against a Palestinian state should be for” transferring the funds to Gaza, because maintaining a separation between the PA in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza helps prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state. [Jerusalem Post, March 12, 2019] [8]
Media Fabricates Israel as Victim: Netanyahu as Saviour
Western Journalists Work As Accessories to Genocide
Through ‘News’ Selection and Omissions.
The United Nations human rights chief on Friday condemned the record expansion of illegal Israeli apartheid settlements in the occupied West Bank including East Jerusalem and the “dramatic increase” in violence against Palestinians by Israeli occupation forces and settlers. Over 720,000 Israeli settlers live illegally in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. ”Reports this week that Netanyahu has approved plans to build a further 3,476 settler homes in fly in the face of international law,” According to the report, Israeli occupation forces and settlers have killed at least 413 Palestinians—including 107 children—while wounding more than 4,600 others in the West Bank since October 7. [9]
Israel’s generations long illegal and very often murderous occupation of Palestinian lands and settler colonialism notwithstanding, CIA-overseen PPS,CNN,CBS,NBC,ABC,FOX CNN, and other U.S. and European entertainment/news conglomerates [10] have had their viewers, listeners and readers focus their attention on the 100+ Israelis held hostages without ever mentioning their release being bargained for some of the many thousands Palestinians including, women and children, imprisoned by Israel.
Corporation journalists for months have had their audiences watch, hear and read interviews of relatives of the Israeli hostages, while Israel and Netanyahu, with U.S. warplanes, bombs and missiles, have been committing genocide and making 80% of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million homeless.[11]
Mindbogglingly, criminal media has cruelly underreported Palestinian intense suffering as Israel blocked food, water, fuel, electricity and medicine from entering Gaza until the point when children began to die of malnutrition. Israel’s planned starvation is now a indescribably horrific double sided genocide as the bombing and shelling of starving captive Palestinians continues with U.S.A. constantly replenishing Israel’s used up munitions while its criminal media make ‘the hostages’ ‘the hostages’ ‘the 100+ hostages’ and Israel’s criticism of Palestinian freedom fighting guerrillas successful attack on October 7.
Netanyahu would not be able to continue to order the Gaza genocide without the continuing supply of weaponry from the U.S.[12] and without CIA controlled media journalists, [10] who are accessories to the ongoing double genocide.[see earlier article: Hegemonic Western Colonialist Media Journalists Are Accessories to Israeli Mass Murder of Children, Counter Currents, Feb. 26, 2024. [13]
International recognition of Netanyahu as criminally insane would seem to be a step in the direction. It might get more Israelis to be concerned, to rethink, and consider halting their ongoing horrific genocide. and since Netanyahu’s starvation of children genocide was backed from its beginning and for four months by the Biden administration, once it could be widely established or accepted world wide that Netanyahu is criminally insane, it would become easier to focus attention on the mental disability of U.S. President Biden, the facilitator of the genocide in Gaza.
The majority humanity of the Global South might become more vocal in condemnation of the genocide, Netanyahu and the present leader of violent Western hegemonic colonialist imperialism.
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End Notes
1. At least half of Gaza’s buildings damaged or destroyed … – BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68006607
2. Zeitoun neighbourhood in rubble: 70% of homes in Gaza thought to be destroyed Al Jazeera, March 5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgaptVioFME
3. https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-02-20-2024-26d2afd9b81868c74ff2e4393692f91f
4. https://www.yenisafak.com/en/news/13430-children-killed-in-gaza-since-oct-7-media-office-3678636.
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/13-430-children-killed-in-gaza-since-oct-7-media-office/3155285
5. Regardless of how many claims it makes about annexation, under International Humanitarian Law, the occupying state does not acquire sovereignty over the occupied territory. The occupying power must ensure the humane treatment of the population and provide for their basic needs, including food and medical care.Oct 30, 2023 GENEVA CONVENTION RELATIVE TO THE PROTECTION OF CIVILIAN PERSONS IN TIME OF WAR OF 12 AUGUST 1949, Article 60 II. Responsibilities of the Occupying Power. page 189
6. https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide-convention.shtml
7. Rabbi Dov Lior, a national- religious leader and the chief rabbi of Kiryat Arba and Hebron, published a letter on Monday saying that Jewish law permits destroying the entire Gaza Strip[Jerusalem Post, July 23, 2014]
8. Netanyahu: “Money to Hamas part of strategy to keep Palestinians divided” Jerusalem Post, MARCH 12, 2019 https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Netanyahu-Money-to-Hamas-part-of-strategy-to-keep-Palestinians-divided-583082#google_vignette
9. UN Human Rights Chief Decries ‘War Crime’ of Rapidly Expanding Israeli Settlements Mar 08, 2024 https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-children-starvation
10. “Worldwide Propaganda Network Built by the C.I.A,” December 26, 1977, New York Times
11. https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-gaza-wounded-child-second-chance-65b993f4b77b6d474c52062f6ca0fb10
12. The U.S. has provided (or is on track to provide) Israel over 25,000 tons of military supplies: dozens of F‑35 and F-15 fighter jets (to be received in the coming years), a dozen Apache helicopters, two thousand Hellfire missiles, MK‑84 bombs and Joint Direct Attack Munitions to guide them, Spice bombs, M141 bunker‑buster munitions, one million rounds of 7.62mm munitions and thousands of 155mm artillery shells, 30mm cannon munitions, night‑vision devices and much more. Meanwhile, the presence of U.S. surveillance drones in Gaza suggests the possibility of greater U.S. military involvement than previously thought. https://informationclearinghouse.blog/2024/03/08/complicity-in-genocide-the-case-against-the-biden-administration/12/
13. https://countercurrents.org/2024/02/hegemonic-western-colonialist-media-journalists-are-accessories-to-israeli-mass-murder-of-children-in-gaza/
14. Complicity in Genocide—The Case Against the Biden Administration March 8, 2024, Information Clearing House
These briefs make it abundantly clear that the Biden administration, in its steadfast support of the Israeli government, is complicit in the ongoing genocide, the displacement of approximately 80% of Palestinians from their homes and the deaths of more than 29,000 so far in this latest chapter of a 76‑year-long Nakba (catastrophe) that never ended.
Jay Janson is an archival research peoples historian activist, musician and writer; has lived and worked on all continents; articles on media published in China, Italy, UK, India and in the US by Dissident Voice, Global Research; Information Clearing House; Counter Currents and others; now resides in NYC; First effort was a series of articles on deadly cultural pollution endangering seven areas of life emanating from Western corporate owned commercial media published in Hong Kong’s Window Magazine 1993; Howard Zinn lent his name to various projects of his; Weekly column, South China Morning Post, 1986-87; reviews for Ta Kung Bao; article China Daily, 1989. Is coordinator of the Howard Zinn co-founded King Condemned US Wars International Awareness Campaign, and website historian of the Ramsey Clark co-founded Prosecute US Crimes Against Humanity Now Campaign, which contains a history of US crimes in 9 countries up to 2006 9 countries up to 2006
