This will fall on deaf ears in the White House, no matter who the new resident will be next year, but here goes anyway: Chinese and Russian analysts are taking note of the United States’ inability to curb Israel or contain the conflict in the Middle East. This of course emboldens President Xi of China to move against Taiwan and deepens President Putin’s resolve as far as Ukraine is concerned.
Now that Israel’s Netanyahu has ramped up the conflict with Hezbollah and Iran, while continuing to flatten Gaza and killing thousands of innocents, something that Bill Clinton asked while president comes to mind: “Who is the superpower, us or Israel?” Historically, the United States has set an example of a superpower going over the top. Incinerating Dresden, Hamburg, and Berlin was deemed necessary because of Nazi evil. But to say that incinerating Tokyo, with 100,000 dead women, children, and old people, plus 200,000 in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was necessary to shorten the war leaves a great question mark: Were the Japanese also evil, or did we force them to go to war after Uncle Franklin compelled them to it with his boycott?
“Perhaps the new president will get enough courage to hint to the Israelis that a little moral restraint and some regard for the strictures of international law will not have the Jewish lobby up in arms.”
Let us now get back to the present. The last functioning hospital in Gaza was recently destroyed by Israeli bombs, with its stockpile of medical supplies that were recently delivered by the World Health Organization going up in smoke. Doctors were detained and are being held. No surgeons are left, while there are children with abdominal shrapnel injuries and some are bleeding to death. If this is a just war, I’m a banana. Gaza is now one big atrocity, a bombed-out cemetery, its ruins a monument of man’s inhumanity. In Khan Younis 60 percent of anything standing is destroyed. In Gaza City 75 percent of buildings have been turned into dust. In Jabalia 85 percent of buildings have been destroyed. The dead are now close to 50,000, while the wounded are too many to even start counting. Famine and disease are everywhere and raging. A willfully blind media hides the truth.
Back in good old America, campuses are in full swing and Jewish students are claiming anti-Semitism is everywhere. A new House probe into campus anti-Semitism reveals college leaders across the country have failed to hold the line against bigotry. A headline screams that campus bigots are free to run amok. The bad guys are shown to be those who protest against Israel’s leveling of Gaza and turning it into one big cemetery.
