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Israeli terror-bombing and shelling of besieged Gazans continues in its 11th day with no letup so far.
Unindicted war criminal Netanyahu says he’s “determined” to keep massacring Gazans and terrorizing Palestinians throughout the Occupied Territories until his diabolical aims are achieved.
A readout of Wednesday’s conversation between him and Biden’s impersonator was more head-fake deception than a White House call for “significant de-escalation today on the path to a ceasefire (sic).”
For 73 years, the US aided, abetted, and financed the worst of Israeli high crimes of war, against humanity, slow-motion genocide of the Palestinian people, and preemptive wars against neighboring states.
In the past week, the Biden regime blocked three Security Council (SC) joint statements that called for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas — showing its dominant hardliners support war, not resolution.
On Wednesday in response to a French draft SC statement, jointly supported by Egypt and Jordan — that states “(t)he shooting must stop.”
“The time has come for a ceasefire and the UN Security Council must take up the issue,” the Orwellian response of the Biden regime’s UN mission was as follows:
“(W)e will not support (what furthers deescalation and ceasefire) actions that we believe undermine efforts to de-escalate (sic).”
According to an unnamed French source, Wednesday discussions on the above joint proposal at the UN were “very intense.”
Separately from Beirut, Lebanon, Islamic Jihad official Ziad Nakhaleh said neither nuclear weapons, warplanes or peace agreements between Israel and some Arab states achieved regional peace and security, adding:
Gazan resistance against Israeli state terror “made miracles that you can see with your own eyes and you live them every moment when you run to shelters.”
He referred to Strip responses to longstanding Israeli state terror against millions of long-suffering Palestinians under militarized occupation.
Because of increased dispossession of Palestinians from their homes on their own land, “we had two choices, to surrender and to give them everything or fight them over everything,” he explained.
One-sided US-dominated Western support for the highest of high Israeli high crimes permits its ruling regimes to do whatever they damn please with impunity — no matter how egregiously in breach of international law.
As for long-suffering Palestinians, rhetorical Western concern for their rights and welfare is hollow.
It’s virtually never followed by actions with teeth on their behalf.
Support for apartheid Israel has always been and remains entirely one-sided.
In January 2006, Hamas democratically won a Palestinian legislative majority over pro-Israeli puppet rule under Fatah.
Yet in October 1997 at the behest of Israel, the Clinton co-presidency false designated Hamas a “foreign terrorist organization” — what it never was and isn’t now.
At the time in response to what Israel urged, Hezbollah was falsely given the same designation.
Its officials are part of Lebanon’s elected government.
In May 2018 general elections, its candidates and allies won a 67-seat majority of parliament’s 128 seats – equally divided between Muslims and Christians.
At the time, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah called parliamentary results a “political and moral victory” for the resistance — giving the group and its allies power to veto legislation they consider unacceptable.
For self-defense against threatened Israeli aggression, its ruling authorities maintain a military wing.
Much stronger today than during Israel’s 2006 aggression against Lebanon, embarrassing IDF ground forces at the time, it’s a force to be reckoned with if the Jewish state again preemptively attacks the Lebanese people.
In April 2019, the Trump regime falsely designated Iran’s military — the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)— a terrorist organization even though the Islamic Republic never attacked another nation preemptively or threatened one except in self-defense if attacked, the UN Charter right of all nations.
In stark contrast, aggression is what the US, NATO and Israel are guilty of time and again.
The world community of nations for peace, stability and compliance with the rule of law should designate them terrorist organizations.
Overnight Wednesday, Israel continued to terror-bomb and shell Gazan residential areas.
According to the Strip’s health ministry, at least 64 children and 38 women was massacred so far, the overall death toll around 230 — numbers that keep rising by the hour.
Interviewed on French television Wednesday, South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa said the following:
“Palestinians want their own self-determination rights.”
“They want their own state. They want to be able to run their own affairs and have freedom, and not have to be restricted to move around.”
Israel denies them “their rights” as affirmed under international law.
It’s an “apartheid” state. “I have no other reference point to describe what the Israelis are doing against the Palestinians.”
According to political analyst Omar Baddar, “Israeli leadership understands that…they are completely free to carry on with their massive assault against Gaza’s civilian population.”
No US/Western actions against the Jewish state will follow.
For 73 years, Israel has been free to commit the most egregious high crimes with impunity.
The US-dominated West and world community never did anything to hold its ruling authorities accountable for Nuremberg-level high crimes.
Nothing punitive will follow its ongoing rape and destruction of Gaza — for the fourth time since December 2008.
Nor will anything be done to halt its state terror against Palestinian civilians throughout the Occupied Territories.
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