By: Donald V. Watkins
Copyrighted and Published on September 17, 2024
An Editorial Opinion
There has never been a war in history where 80% of the country has been destroyed, 100% of the population displaced, and 50% of the deaths are children. By any definition of war, this is genocide.
I also agree with Prof. Noam Chomsky’s statement of the Israel-Hamas War:
“The Israeli decision to rain death and destruction on Gaza, to use lethal weapons of the modern battlefield on a largely defenseless civilian population, is the final phase in a decades-long campaign to ethnically- cleanse Palestinians.
Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and naval vessels to bomb densely- crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques, and slums to attack a population that has no air force, no air defense, no navy, no heavy weapons, no artillery units, no mechanized armor, no command in control, no army... and calls it a war. It is not a war, it is murder.”
Of course, Prof. Chomsky is a highly respected Jewish scholar.
The problem in the Israel is not the Jewish people. For the most part, they are wonderful human beings who are demanding an end to the War.
The problem in Israel is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He is a ruthless, corrupt, “thug” who is despised by many Jews inside and outside of Israel. However, a host of top politicians in Washington fear him.
Netanyahu has used a massive amount of Jewish campaign money to place a chokehold on the political positions of Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump with respect to the Israel-Hamas War. There is not a dime’s worth of difference between these two politicians on this subject. Harris and Trump are appeasing an internationally condemned thug who does not deserve anyone's respect.
Harris and Trump fully support Netanyahu’s relentless campaign of genocide against the Palestinian population in Gaza. Both of them are on Netanyahu’s political leash and Netanyahu walks them like he walks his dogs.
The U.S. government has confirmed and documented the genocide that America funds and supports with military equipment. For the right amount of Jewish campaign money, Harris and Trump are committed to supplying the weapons of war that Netanyahu needs to slaughter tens of thousands of Palestinian children.
For critics who say Israel’s campaign of genocide is necessary, I remind them of Israel’s conduct in “Operation Wraft of God” (1972 to 1979). This Israeli campaign of retaliation against the terrorists who massacred Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich confirms that Israel knows how to neutralize terrorists without inflicting massive collateral damage upon innocent civilians. “Operation Wraft of God” had only one innocent civilian casualty in its 7 years of operation, and it was 100% effective.
To be clear, Israel has an absolute right to exist in the territory once known as “Palestine.” It also has a right to defend itself from terrorist attacks. However, Israel doe NOT have a right to commit war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.
At the end of the day, it is important for me to be on the right side of history regarding the Israel-Hamas war.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was on the right side of history with respect to the Vietnam war long before it was popular in the U.S. to oppose the war. Dr. King caught pure hell from Americans in 1967 for opposing the war. The passage of time showed that Dr. King was right on the Vietnam war issue.
As Israel's campaign of genocide continues in Gaza, I am reminded that the flow of Jewish campaign dollars to top American politicians is more important than human lives, particularly when the lives are Palestinian children of color.
I knew that Donald Trump would tolerate genocide because he does not care about anybody other than himself. If Trump has a conscience or soul, nobody has found it.
I also knew that Joe Biden would tolerate genocide because he is nothing more than an old, senile, cadaver-like, shell of a man whose time on the Washington political scene has come and gone.
I now know that Kamala Harris will tolerate genocide in Gaza because she is hustling for campaign money. As such, Harris does not want to offend her Jewish campaign donors by working to stop Netanyahu's campaign of genocide.
As for me, genocide is not a political issue. It is a human rights issue. I have never compromised my values on human rights issues. And, I have never been "for sale."
What are your views on the historical and current treatment of Palestinians by Israel, and how does he compare this to past Block Blast actions such as Operation Wrath of God?