April 8th 2024
As recent days have shown, the lives of foreign aid workers are valued more than those of the 30,000 plus Palestinian people, the majority of them women and children, murdered by the Israeli Defence Forces in the past six months.

Since the murder of the World’s Kitchen aid workers pressure has been mounting on the Biden administration with Democratic Party senators in the United States calling for a suspension of arms to Israel.

Mounting Pressure

There are further calls for an end to Israeli airstrikes. Even a number of Tory MPs are demanding a temporary halt to the UK’s supply of war materials. Countries around the world are also adding their names to call for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire. Public outrage against the genocide in Gaza is mounting.

Even the mainstream media is having to revise the way in which it has been reporting Israel’s actions. It may be that we are witnessing a new era in which the appalling violence and destruction being inflicted in Gaza by Israel are now simply too great to for main stream media to deflect and conceal as they have been doing in recent months.

Distractions and Cover Ups

That does not mean that there are not places for Israel, its allies and supporters, including the mainstream media, to hide, or spaces they will create to cover up their ongoing genocide.

Already, Israel and others are attempting to shift the focus of public opinion to the opening up of aid channels, as if an increase in the trickle of food, water, medicine and supplies is an answer to the continuing air and land bombardments.

It would be naïve to think that either the Israeli government, the US administration, the UK, the EU or NATO are on the brink of halting the slaughter.

Naïve

The revulsion and rejection of Israel’s campaign is genuine and politically held amongst many millions of people and protest groups throughout the world. It is even a genuine expression of opposition from some governments and individual politicians. However, it would be naïve to think that either the Israeli government, the US administration, the UK, the EU or NATO are on the brink of halting the slaughter.

The reality is likely to be that Israel, with the backing if its allies will simply attempt to ride out the current crisis and continue with ‘business as usual’, as soon as it thinks it can get away with it.

Despite their public statements, their concerns, their internal investigations and the pressure from genuine humanitarians, the reality is likely to be that Israel, with the backing if its allies will simply attempt to ride out the current crisis and continue with ‘business as usual’, as soon as it thinks it can get away with it. The main stream media will quickly follow suit as if nothing had happened.

International Court of Justice 

While the US, the UK, Germany and others continue to arm, supply and underwrite Israel’s assault on Gaza and the Palestinian people they continue to be enablers of genocide. In the very near future, they must be summoned to the International Court of Justice to explain their actions.