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[This article was updated on October 22, 2023.]
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Preface
Oh, the savagery and immorality of it all! Still more innocent babies, new arrivals from distant worlds in the cosmos, barely here on earth; more pregnant women burgeoning with new expectant life; still even more young boys and young girls, young men and young women in their prime, still radiant with new hopes and dreams for the future; so many more old men and old women, in the sunset of their lives, meant to savor and reflect upon the meaning of it all. All Gone Now, Forever!
It’s an Old Tired Story but Here We Go Again
What is transpiring in the Hamas-Israel War reminds this writer of the early heart-breaking days in the New World when immoral marauding Europeans from the Old World, would-be Canadian and American settler-colonist occupiers of the New World as it were, justified their killing and removal of its indigenous First Nation peoples, especially the babies and young ones, who they basically considered were all obstacles – impediments – in their way; referring to them as nothing more than “Nits who Grow Lice”, simply to be disposed of for the good of all!”
What followed was over two centuries of nightmarish genocide against not only First Nation peoples themselves, as an entire race of humans, but also against the New World’s non-human, one-of-a-kind species of life, many of whom are now either gone or in the process of fast disappearing.
The continual indifference to the massacre of the Earth’s natural human and non-human life forms is shameful beyond what any words can ever attempt to convey.
How Far Will the Madness Go
A similar immoral history could be told of the sudden, unannounced arrival of the marauding, occupying Zionist Jewish settler-colonists of Palestine, over the past 75 years since the end of WWII in 1948, and ever since while many United Nations of the world, in many cases, have had to continue to hold their noses and look the other way as the Zionists have acted like Bears in a China Shop as they’ve perpetually allowed ever since a flood of emigrant Jewry into the lands of Palestine from every corner of the earth and given them virtual carte blanche to do whatever they would, even blatant murder, at the constant expense of he Palestinians.
Roy Sharon, a noted radio and TV commentator on Israeli’s main broadcasting corporation airwaves, recently declared his desire, over a comment he made in response to the recent scandalous Al Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital atrocity in Gaza. Sharon felt comfortable and protected enough to openly expressed his desire to see “a million dead bodies in Gaza.”
While extremist anti-Palestinian politicians, like Israel’s Finance Minister Bezatel Smotrich, publicly has declared, “We need to be cruel, and not to think of the Hamas captives.” Smotrich has gone on the record, when asked the question “Is there a Palestinian history and culture?” Smotrich answered, “No! There is no Palestinian people or culture.”
In the West, where countries need to take a more definitive moral-political-ideological stand on their beliefs about the plight of Palestinian peoples, those like Canada’s conservative Senate Speaker, George Forey, has joined with the country’s Conservative Senate to invite Israel’s right wing politician, Amir Obana, Speaker of Israel’s Parliament, to speak before Canada’s government and its people. Even though Amir Obana has gone on the record to proclaim that “Muslims are prone to cultural murderousness.” While Obana, as the former public safety minister, was also responsible for modifying Israel’s COVID 19 vaccination priority list to exclude prisoners who were Palestinians. Apparently, this is what it means in the West to take a stand.
It’s Such an Old, Tired, Tragic Tale to Tell
From the first beginnings of European contact with the peoples of the New World, the American and Canadian counterparts to the Israeli Zionists referred to the First Nation people they encountered, as “Animals, Vermin and Savages” who had to be eradicated”, so deeply embedded are the beliefs of the Zionist Jews of Israel towards the Palestinian peoples.
Yet, once again, what the American, Canadian and Western Corporate mainstream media (MSM) allies constantly do is to repeatedly support this fascist, ideological world view that always downplays, or holds at fault, the indigenous side of this age-old story, while the average citizenry, Like Pavlovian dogs, dutifully respond to all the corporate society’s cues.
Israeli Racism Is So Rampant But How Much Does the World Care
On the streets of Tel Aviv, New York, Paris, Brussels, everywhere, one can find placards and bumper stickers that demand, “Exterminate Gaza”, “Don’t Destroy Gaza, Flatten It!”
While in the case of so many contentious reasons and lies for the unfolding current war between Hamas and Israel, one constantly hears the Corporate MSM declaring that it is Hamas, not Israel, who recently bombed the Al Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza. But it’s the same Who Blew up the Nordstream Pipeline lies and hate propaganda that has been used ad infinitum by the West, most recently with nauseating results in its other recent War in Ukraine.
Yet the Conscience of the World is now being called upon, like perhaps never before, to express its deeply troubled pathos over the increasingly-grim angst on the ground of Gaza, Palestine, Israel and everywhere else in the world where humans are still willing to support such inhumane savagery.
Like somnambulists, or brain-dead zombies, the Human Race, in Israel as well as everywhere else continues to blindly enter, willy-nilly, into the unchartered, unknown waters of severe human degradation. But what somnambulant world leader is ever, finally, go prepared to speak truth to power, like they’ve never spoken before?
Yet Here We Go Again
A human disaster of gargantuan proportions continues in the Middle East. In this regard, the Jewish Revolt in the Warsaw Ghetto against the Nazi in 1943, and the Palestinian Revolt in the Gaza Ghetto in 2023 against the Zionists, are virtually two sides of the same coin, the proverbial shoe-on-the-other-foot, that represents the basis and prelude of a very long, slow-burning old fuse, that has only just begun to explode in more calamitous ways than the world has yet to witness or remotely even understand..
The sick biases of the Zionist’s long-standing propaganda of irrational hate towards the Palestinian’s eight decades-long cause and plight to regain something of their peoples lost human freedoms and sovereignty, continues to be in question, as it has been for decades by the world’s supporting corporate mass media and fascist governments still providing the same underpinnings of the same gross biases, indifference and denial of the Palestinian’s never-ending frustrated struggle for freedom and dignity that is the inherent right of every human being.
So incessant has the Zionist zeitgeist become to virtually eradicate the Palestinian presence in Israel, that its world-wide hate propaganda, supported everywhere by the corporate mainstream media, now represents the common bias of much of the world’s general populace who have bought into the Zionist propaganda, hook, line and sinker; so much so that this Zionist spin could be called the world’s conventional wisdom as to the cause and ultimate solution of the “Palestinian Problem”.
Warsaw Ghetto Revolt and Gaza Ghetto Revolt Are Teaching Lessons
To answer that question, one must first understand something more about the existing realities behind the related historical human tragedies between the Jewish Revolt in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943 & the Palestinian Revolt in the Gaza Ghetto in 2023.
Both these human tragedies contain universal truths that the world has yet to squarely address, and probably never will, caught as it is in the midst of yet the next, and then the endless next, rolling, out-of-control train wreck of a human catastrophe that now is the current genocidal slaughter of Hamas and Palestinians by Israel. The Israeli government’s state criminality every bit as viscous as anything Hamas has ever done since its October 7th surprise attack against Israel that has led to humanitarian outrages and condemnations on both sides since the onset of the current war.
Jewish Warsaw Ghetto Freedom Fighters Marched Out for Execution (Licensed under the Public Domain)
Yet without attaching any blame to either side for its genocidal practises against the other it’s essential that ever human wake up to the serious nature of the Genocide that, more and more, is occurring everywhere
Do Not be Silent About Genocide
On October 15th, an Open Letter was sent from Birzeit University on the West Bank, in the State of Palestine, to International Academic Institutions, worldwide. It declared:
We at Birzeit University call upon international academic institutions to take concrete action to stop the genocidal war on the Palestinian people and to end Israeli settler colonialism. Over the past 8 days, Israel’s brutal and vicious bombardment of the Gaza Strip—which has been besieged by Israel for the past 17 years—has resulted in the killing of over 2,400Palestinians, one third of whom are children, the injuring of over 10,000 Palestinians, the deliberate displacement of more than half a million Palestinians and the call for the removal of another million from the north of the Gaza Strip, the destruction of 60,000 residential units, in addition to targeted attacks on hospitals, schools and universities.
Recent statements by Israeli government officials calling Palestinians “human animals” that are to be starved and further made hostage through a complete blockade of food, water, electricity, and fuel amplifies Israel’s founding racist ideology that operates with pervasive international impunity and complicity. This war of elimination begun in 1948 continues to escalate, devoid of humane rules or ethical constraints, exacerbating an already insufferable living situation for Palestinians.
Birzeit University calls upon the international academic community, unions, and students to fulfill their intellectual and academic duty of seeking truth, maintaining a critical distance from state sponsored propaganda, and to hold the perpetrators of genocide and those complicit with them accountable.
We also hold Israeli universities responsible as they have been indispensable to the regime of settler colonial oppression and apartheid, complicit in grave violations of human rights, including developing weaponry, military doctrines, and legal justification for the indiscriminate, mass targeting of Palestinians. These academic institutions must be shunned by the international academic community.
Birzeit University urges the international community to immediately intervene to stop this barbaric aggression and to protect Palestinians from the dramatic escalation of Israeli war crimes, crimes against humanity, and ethnic cleansing throughout all of Palestine.
The ongoing impunity granted by the international community to the Israeli occupying forces must end today.
Common Roots of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and Gaza Ghetto Uprising
The roots of the catastrophe, caused by the Nazi’s brutal walled-in imprisonment of the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto of 1943 during WWII, that finally led to their revolt and massacre at the hands of the Nazi, are the same roots of the catastrophe, caused by the: original massacres of the Zionist Nakba Catastrophe of the Palestinians in 1948; followed by the Zionist imprisonment of the Palestinians, 75 years later, under similar horrendously-punitive conditions in the Gaza Ghetto. The Palestinian’s revolt in 2023 turning into yet an even more horrific Gaza Catastrophe between Hamas and Israel; that has yet to become even more unimaginably-horrific, not only for the Palestinian peoples and Israeli Jews but for the world, as a whole.
No blame should ever be held against those Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto for killing so many Nazi in the process of their desperate revolt. Nor should the same blame ever be waged against the Palestinians for their related revolt in the Gaza Ghetto. Its what desperate people do when all hope is disappearing for something better to happen to them; leading them to consider preparing to sacrifice the most precious thing every human has the right to give for a moral principle, which is their very life. Of course, the other side of this moral tale is that all those who finally arrive at such a moment of destiny sometimes also take the attitude, “Well, the bastards may be forcing me to martyr my life but I’ll be damned if I don’t take as many of them with me as I can.”
Over time immemorial, his is what has dictated the actions of many brave, honorable, highly-moral men and women who have taken upon themselves such roles as: suicide bombers, kamikaze pilots, soldiers who throw themselves on a grenade to save his mates, etcetera.
Siege of Masada Mentality Happens When Humans Are Put Against a Wall
Enough is enough! After three quarters of a century, one human being’s normal lifetime, the world and human race have once more reached another monstrous milestone of immorality in their long, sad, tragic evolution together. No turning back now to the way life once upon a time once was between Israel, Palestine, Gaza and the world. Only more endless, senseless mass martyrdom and ethnic cleansing everywhere one looks. The Human world still the same old, nasty, violent dirty little place in the universe it always has been.
It’s a Very Long Tragic Story
During the Roman siege of Masada, in the first Jewish-Roman War in 72-73 MCE, when nearly 1,000 trapped Jewish rebels were faced with a similar hopeless situation, as to what is going on in Gaza, they chose to kill themselves by leaping to their deaths from their Masada Stronghold, rather than continue to be slaughtered or fall captive and become enslaved by their enemies.
Now, in the midst of all the unbelievable carnage of the Hamas-Israel War, a haunting whisper repeats incessantly to this writer’s ear and conscience: “Never forget the horrors of the Nakba and Zionist terrorists who committed all the horrors as they continue to do again on the once sacred grounds of the Jewish and Christian Faiths.”
If life for the Palestinians continues to deteriorate it’s not unconceivable that a similar situation of suicide bombings against the Zionists could also manifest in the current war.
75 Years Ago Many Predicted How the Nakba in Palestine One Day Could End
The Palestinian people, like so many other unfortunate humans before them, are now at that same point in their existence where there’s absolutely nothing more to lose, besides their lives and those of their loved ones; except but try to regain something of the last remaining vestiges of their basic human dignity.
So, not surprisingly, Palestinians have now risen up and continue to resist, at whatever the costs, Israel’s outrageously-heinous blowback and the equally despicable actions of their U.S. and Western alli theires, like President Biden, Prime Minister Trudeau and tdheir governments who continue to offer the Zionists everything from monies to weapons to AI logistics, while, in the mean time, what continues to unfold amounts to yet another historic Nazi Holocaust moment in the making in another Warsaw Ghetto. This time, though, it isn’t against the Nazi’s in occupied Poland. It’s against the Zionist’s in occupied Palestine and Gaza.
But Will Wise Minds Ultimately Prevail to Right So Many Wrongs?
This writer oft finds himself returning in his writings about anything to do with the tragedy that has long since befallen the plight of the Palestinian peoples; turning for answers to the writings of Professor Ilan Pappe, a professor of Palestinian Studies at Exeter University in the UK, who possesses many keen insights, wisdoms and measured, balanced understandings of the dynamics involved in this unbroken 75 year long resistance movement..
In one of Professor Pappe’s most recent interviews on You Tube, Professor Pappe gives his take on the current status of the war in Gaza and what might unfold in the coming days, weeks and months that are still to follow. His insights are profound:
It’s a Cry for the World to be a Different Place Than It Is
But this age-old struggle isn’t just for the Palestinians. It’s for all of us, because it represents the same basic, defiant, last gasps of human hope for help that continues to be everywhere heard on earth by those oppressed ones who find their own necks hopelessly jammed beneath the same genocidal, Nazi-like jackboots of whatever fascist oppressor.
When Nazi Germany’s blitzkrieg invaded Poland, kicking off the onslaught of WWII, it culminated in the Jewish Warsaw Ghetto and massacre of brave, defiant Jewish Freedom Fighters of all ages in Warsaw and millions more like them throughout the world. There were no other answers for any of them in Warsaw in 1943, just as there are no other answers for the Palestinians and all the rest of us in Gaza in 2023; but to throw all caution to the wind and strike out, strike back, as futile, bloody and messy as it may be, and resist, at all costs, the new Catastrophe being perpetrated against us all in the name of Gaza, Palestine or wherever else.
Coming on the heels of the equally heinous abominations of the war in Ukraine, it seems highly likely now that the geo-political-military human crises happening everywhere in the world can only but lead, at some point in time, to yet a WWIII with even more disastrous consequences for the human race; endlessly brought on, like so many other world wars that have come and gone before, without ever providing any real final resolution.
God, Allah, Heaven, Help Us! Because We Humans Are Incapable of Doing It Ourselves!
Epilogue
One Man’s Truth Speaks Out Against All the Madness
A Jewish friend and associate recently expressed to this writer in a private conversation some of his thoughts about the crisis in Gaza:
From the beginning of the massacre in the south I came out against the heinous crime, but despite this I continue to receive threats and insults and accusations as if I was responsible for it and not the government of atrocities. Why?
Because I refuse to go with the mobs of instigators who seek revenge and not a solution, bloodshed and not security, humiliation and not peace. These bloodthirsty people are driven mad by my pain for all those who were or are being killed, whoever they were or might still be, and not only for the Jewish ones. It is my insistence on a political solution of ending the occupation, reaching a peace that will end the violence, which drives them crazy.
I will not give up! I will continue to raise my voice and fight for the liberation of the Palestinian people from their enslavement, an enslavement which is not only a terrible injustice but is also killing us all.
One more thing. My dear friend who was recently murdered was a proud leftist, a supporter of my Hadash Party. I knew many of those who already have been massacred and murdered, they were my companions and fellow activists.
I often get nasty and threatening messages for protesting such violence. “May you and your fellows be killed by your Arab friends!”, they say. “So, you got your wish,”, I say back, “You vile hypocrites!”
I continue in the face of so much violence to say, “Yes, to Palestinian independence! No to War! Yes, to a Just Peace! No to Violence! Yes to Equality! No to indiscriminate Inequality!
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The writer Jerome Irwin is a Canadian-American writer who originally was a Criminology student working in one of America’s local police departments. For decades, Irwin has sought to call world attention to problems of environmental degradation and unsustainability caused by a host of environmental-ecological-spiritual issues that exist between the conflicting world philosophies of indigenous and non-indigenous peoples.
Irwin is the author of the book, “The Wild Gentle Ones; A Turtle Island Odyssey” (www.turtle-island-odyssey.com), a spiritual odyssey among the native peoples of North America that has led to numerous articles pertaining to: Ireland’s Fenian Movement; native peoples Dakota Access Pipeline Resistance Movement; AIPAC, Israel & the U.S. Congress anti-BDS Movement; the historic Battle for Palestine & Siege of Gaza, as well as; the many violations constantly being waged by industrial-corporate-military-propaganda interests against the World’s Collective Soul. The author and his wife are long-time residents on the North Shore of British Columbia.
He is a regular contributor to Global Research.
