Owen Jones Instagram – We all know that if Russian forces had just burned alive dozens of refugees, including little kids, there would be justified screams of outrage and disgust from Western leaders and media outlets.
It would be used as key evidence that Putin is one of the great monsters of our age.
But when Palestinians are burned alive by Israel, the best that can be hoped up for is handwringing, and Israeli lies and attempts at deflection and muddying the waters being indulged.
There hasn’t even been an attempt to disguise how little worth is attached to Palestinian life.
To those who backed Israel’s murderous onslaught, and now scroll past the charred bodies of kids on your timeline, trying to reassure yourself that this isn’t on you, you didn’t sign up for this:
Yes you did.
Israel’s political and military leaders could not have been clearer from the start that they were planning one of the great crimes of our age.
From the very beginning, they made bloodcurdling promises whilst slaughtering Palestinian civilians.
You either chose not to listen or you ignored them.
More realistically, you made a conscious choice – that you did not believe Palestinian life had anything like the same value as an Israeli life – and you acted on that choice.
Political, media and public figures aided and abetted one of the worst crimes of our age, when they were given more prior warning of what was to happen than most crimes in history.
You could have put pressure on your government to use its leverage over Israel. You did not.
Process this fact.
There was more outrage over the beheading of Israeli babies which did not happen – which was entirely invented – then there has been over thousands of Palestinian babies, toddlers and kids being slaughtered by Israel.
Including the babies beheaded in Rafah.
We let the guilty men and women get away with Iraq.
We cannot let them get away with a crime so blatant, unapologetic and depraved, or these horrors will only foreshadow worse to come. | Posted on 27/May/2024 21:23:15
