Another excellent piece by Jonathan #Cook in the Middle East Eye @middleeasteye
“To continue the Gaza genocide, Israel and the US must destroy the laws of war: The world's two highest courts have made an implacable enemy of Israel in trying to uphold international law and end Israeli atrocities“
“Both the ICJ and the ICC are fully aware of the dangers of taking on Israel – which is why, despite the dissembling complaints from the US and Israel, each court is treading so slowly and cautiously in dealing with Israeli atrocities.
Pick at the Israeli thread of war crimes in Gaza, and the entire cloth of atrocities around the world committed and promoted by the US and its closest allies starts to unravel.”
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“It is Washington that tore up the rulebook of international law and elevated above it a self-serving ‘rules-based order’ in which the only meaningful rule is might makes right.”
This is a horrifying must read article describing Israel’s secret ‘black’ site torture facilities where Palestinian men and boys, often after being snatched off the streets, are routinely subjected to brutal, degrading conditions!
Don’t look away! Please read and boost!
“The message of Israel’s torture chambers is directed at all of us, not just Palestinians”
“The complicity of western establishments in Israel’s current genocide is not an anomaly. It does not derive from a misunderstanding or confusion. The western political and media class see the genocide in Gaza as clearly as the rest of us. But for them, it is justified, required even. The colonised and oppressed must be taught that resistance is futile.
Sde Teiman [‘black’ site], like the Gaza death camp, is serving its purpose. It is there to break the human spirit. It is there to turn the Palestinians into willing collaborators in their own destruction as a people, in their own ethnic cleansing.
And a subliminal message is being directed at the western public at the same time: this could also be your fate if you do not join in cheerleading Israel’s atrocities in Gaza.”