Genocide is as bad as it gets (Jan. 16th completed)

 

Years and years ago I heard about a book with the title Eating People is Wrong.  I got the book from somewhere and started it but the way the white, male, British author used some international student from Africa as a figure of fun soon gave me a bad taste in my mouth and I quickly stopped reading.  I mention it here because the title seemed to be this proud assertion of the obvious attempting to combat an age of moral relativism.  

Some would argue it's not as simple as that.  They would say that settler families trapped in the Sierra-Nevada mountains, or a soccer team on a plane that crash-landed in the Andes were only doing what they had to, to survive, when they ate the bodies of those who were already dead.  Relatedly, through online dating, I met a mousy woman (small, plain, quiet, nervous) who somehow felt compelled to tell me four times during our short acquaintance that she would have no problem resorting to cannibalism in such situations.  We met late on a Saturday afternoon after she'd insisted we could still meet even though she'd been up all night with her suicidal gay friend at CAMH emergency after having spent the day looking after her dying father.  I thought it best to call it an evening when she finished her glass of cola as she looked and sounded exhausted.  That seemed to piss her off and she was quietly hostile to me on the streetcar trip to Yonge Street.

A scene from my life.  I think that was at least five years ago.  I'm fifty-seven.  Thousands upon thousands of Palestinian children will have no future, no more scenes from their lives to look back on, no ability to look back upon anything, as they were murdered by Israeli bombs.  And tens of thousands more will die from starvation and disease, deliberately inflicted upon them by the nazi-brained zionist scum in the Netanyahu coalition of corrupt, murderous racists.  This includes the racist, apartheid-enforcing Israeli Defence Force of cowards and bullies.  And how many tens of thousands of Palestinian children might survive this nightmare with their bodies whole but their minds traumatized by the murders of their parents, their brothers and sisters, their friends, their communities, at the hands of the Israelis?  GENOCIDE IS WRONG.  GENOCIDE IS AS BAD AS IT GETS.  And every single Canadian shit-head from Justin Trudeau, to Pierre Poilievre to Cathie From Canada, who tries to deny this simple fact has lowered themselves beyond redemption.

As the South African legal team presented in their case against Israel's genocide in Gaza, Netanyahu and his ministers have openly declared that they are engaging in collective punishment of the people of Gaza for the actions of Hamas.  They have openly declared that they intend to make Gaza unliveable for Palestinians.  They have openly declared their intention to expel the Palestinians and to take the land for themselves.  We have seen the saturation bombing of civilian infrastructure including the deliberate targeting of hospitals.  

In response, the Israeli shit-heads have nothing but stupid, irrelevant talk about "blood libel," along with obvious lies about how they're not dropping the bombs they're dropping and they're not assasinating the  civilians they're assassinating, plus statements made by the IDF and the Netanyahu government about minimizing civilian casualties that were only ever made to be used as a legal cover: "Look! In early November I said we had to get food and water to the Palestinians ASAP.  The fact that I've actually been blocking their getting food and water should be disregarded." 

"Blood libel" is a step below the canard that criticizing the actions of the state of Israel is "antisemitic." 

Blood libel or ritual murder libel (also blood accusation)^[1][2] is an antisemitic canard^[3][4][5] which falsely accuses Jews of murdering Christians in order to use their blood in the performance of religious rituals.^[1][2][6] Echoing very old myths of secret cultic practices in many prehistoric societies, the claim, as it is leveled against Jews, was rarely attested to in antiquity. According to Tertullian, it originally emerged in late antiquity as an accusation made against members of the early Christian community of the Roman Empire.^[7] Once this accusation had been dismissed, it was revived a millennium later as a Christian slander against Jews in the medieval period.^[8][9] This libel, alongside those of well poisoning and host desecration, became a major theme of the persecution of Jews in Europe from that period down to modern times.^[4]

Blood libels often claim that Jews require human blood for the baking of matzos, an unleavened flatbread which is eaten during Passover. Earlier versions of the blood libel accused Jews of ritually re-enacting the crucifixion.^[10] The accusations often assert that the blood of Christian children is especially coveted, and historically, blood libel claims have been made in order to account for the otherwise unexplained deaths of children.

You'd have to be either a complete idiot or a shameless cynic or both, to attempt to say that accusing Israel of mass-murder of Palestinians (after having watched footage of the IDF bombing civilians and the Israeli government saying they're all being punished because they all support Hamas and there are no innocents in Gaza) is akin to wild accusations of drinking the blood of Christian babies during cultic celebrations in the Medieval forest.

Either an idiot, a cynical liar, or a psychopath.  It is a fact that Netanyahu is facing major corruption charges should he ever lose power.  To avoid this he has allied with the most extremist, nauseatingly racist Israeli nazis in a coalition by pandering to their maximum-expansionist colonial project regardless of the consequences for peace or for Israel's international reputation.  

Things were still dicey for Netanyahu and many are also saying that he's been temporarily rescued from his legal troubles by this political-military crisis in Gaza.  There's also good reason to believe that Netanyahu allowed the Hamas attack to happen so as to allow this crisis and save his skin.  As I've said before, I don't tend to subscribe to false-flag theories and conspiracies.  But this time I'm on the fence.  One of the reasons I tend not to believe in such things is because of the impossibility of keeping the necessarily large group of individuals who orchestrated it to remain quiet.  In the case of the Hamas attack on October 7th though, a number of authorities, both inside and outside of Israel, including the Egyptians and the United States, have said they tried to warn Netanyahu.  You see?  In this instance, the people who are supposed to have been blindsided have instead told us that Netanyahu didn't listen to their warnings.

This is what disgusts me.  Netanyahu is 74-years old.  He apparently thinks his own freedom to take his decrepit body wherever he wants it to go (and not have it confined to a prison) is so goddamned precious and important that he was willing to have hundreds of other Israelis and hundreds of thousands of Palestinians killed to preserve it.

Genocide is the lowest that human beings can go.  There are no nuances.  There are no "extenuating circumstances" to explain the deliberate physical removal of a people from the earth.  It is EVIL, if the word "evil" has any sort of meaning.

And that is why the Trudeau Liberals have utterly disgraced themselves with their stupid, mewling support for Israel against South Africa's case against Israel at the ICJ.

The Liberal government has faced days of questions about where Canada stands on South Africa's case before the top United Nations court.

"Canada has long been a tremendous supporter of the international rules-based order and processes and structures that have been put in place over the past decades to be able to actually ensure that international law is respected and enforced," Trudeau told a press conference Friday in Guelph, Ont.

"And the ICJ, International Court of Justice, is a key part of that. Our wholehearted support of the ICJ and its processes does not mean we support the premise of the case brought forward by South Africa."

In a statement released Friday afternoon, Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly echoed Trudeau's remarks and said Canada will watch the case before the ICJ very closely.

"Under the UN's 1948 Genocide Convention, the crime of genocide requires the intention to destroy or partly destroy a group because of their nationality, ethnicity, race or religion. Meeting this high threshold requires compelling evidence," said Joly.

"We must ensure that the procedural steps in this case are not used to foster antisemitism and targeting of Jewish neighbourhoods, businesses and individuals. At the same time, we will continue to stand against Islamophobia and anti-Arab sentiment."

In the statement, Joly went on to say that Canada remains deeply concerned about the scale of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and supports urgent international efforts to secure a sustainable ceasefire.

"This cannot be one-sided. Hamas must release all hostages, stop using Palestinian civilians as human shields and lay down its arms," she said.

Let's discuss this stupidity:  

"Canada has long been a tremendous supporter of the international rules-based order and processes and structures that have been put in place over the past decades to be able to actually ensure that international law is respected and enforced," Trudeau told a press conference Friday in Guelph, Ont.

Trudeau fucked-up a little there.  People noticed that the USA has recently stopped talking about "international law" since its serial violations of it in the 21st Century.  Instead imperialist mouthpieces would talk about a nebulous "rules-based international order."  By equating both of these ideas in the same sentence Trudeau shows that he doesn't understand what he's talking about.

"And the ICJ, International Court of Justice, is a key part of that. Our wholehearted support of the ICJ and its processes does not mean we support the premise of the case brought forward by South Africa."

Trudeau is making the meaningless comment that he supports a legal system but not all sides of all parties in that legal system.  If somebody asked him if he thought that one person being sued by another person for slander was guilty, would Trudeau waste time by saying that he recognized the legitmacy of the court where the case was being heard before saying that he disagreed with the plaintiff's case?  Methinks that Trudeau was just trying to obscure the central point of his disagreeing with South Africa.  Because if he simply said that he disagreed with South Africa's argument that Israel is committing a genocide, he'd have to explain WHY he disagrees.  And there's no good reason to disagree with South Africa's complaint because Israel's own defence against the charges was so ridiculous.

Trudeau's stupid yammering about how wonderful he is to accept the legitimacy of the ICJ is akin to a student who hasn't studied trying to pad their presentation with inanities like: "The question of how the Roman Empire got so big is an important one with many important facets.  How we answer this question depends upon how we deal with these many important points of view."

At the same time, Melanie Joly does her duty by continuing to embarrass herself (and us) with further garbage:

"We must ensure that the procedural steps in this case are not used to foster antisemitism and targeting of Jewish neighbourhoods, businesses and individuals. At the same time, we will continue to stand against Islamophobia and anti-Arab sentiment."

Melanie; South Africa isn't trying to stir-up "antisemitism."  Whether or not Israel is guilty of committing a genocide (and it's pretty obvious that it is) is a question of fact, not on whether the per ... OMFG!!! Did she just accuse the government of South Africa of being antisemitic???  What a fucking idiot!!!

It is comforting to know though, that Joly states that her callous indifference for the lives of Palestinians has nothing to do with anti-Arab racism or Islamophobia.  I'm reasonably certain that that's the case.  I believe Joly's position is based on cowardice, political calculation and moral stupidity.  Of course, while speaking of Hamas as this evil, genocidal terrorist entity (and not the IDF which is morally AT LEAST as bad as Hamas, and in terms of lives murdered is thousands of times worse than Hamas), people like Joly perpetuate the stereotype of Muslims as terrorists and Muslim terrorism as some sort of irrational cultural-mental defect that comes from we know not where.

In the statement, Joly went on to say that Canada remains deeply concerned about the scale of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and supports urgent international efforts to secure a sustainable ceasefire.

"This cannot be one-sided. Hamas must release all hostages, stop using Palestinian civilians as human shields and lay down its arms," she said.

In other words, Israel gets to keep it's hostages.  Israel gets to continue its illegal siege of Gaza.  Israel gets to continue to steal Palestinian land in the West Bank.  The IDF keeps its weapons (including its "secret" nuclear arsenal) and Hamas surrenders.  Totally not one-sided.  Joly, you are a stupid, Liberal puke.  You fuck-face.  You apologist for genocide.  You worthless individual.  You disgrace.  

All you fucking Liberals.  You disgust me.  You have no idea how evil and stupid you are.