If Israel were a normal country, Netanyahu would be somewhere hiding on a flight to The Hague, perhaps, handcuffed. But normalcy is not the norm of even a single leader who has come into power in Israel. They call their victims animals, but it’s easy to see they are the beast. Netanyahu seems to be convinced that the more Palestinian she kills, the people of his country will count him as a hero he will emerge as a hero and, thus, save his skin. He has not even learned the lesson Hitler had to finally accept. Hitler committed suicide via a gunshot to the head on 30April 1945 in the Führerbunker in Berlin after it became clear that Germany would lose the Battle of Berlin, which led to the end of World War II in Europe. Something identical will be the fate of Netanyahu. His luck will runout sooner than later because the level of his crimes has matched those of Hitler’s. Even worse, it would appear. He has yet to really win a war against the people of Gaza. He might have wrought destruction and death on its many thousands and made Gaza dilapidated. But even after 2023 October, the people have returned. By contrast, Israel has lost huge sections of their population fleeing out of fear. After all, attachment to the land is vague. There is no sort of affinity that those Israelis who fled feel any connection to the land whatsoever. They did not just leave, they took with them their belongings, investments, and they could.
The United States has been one of the biggest architects in the development of Israel as a nation-state in thepost-70s world. Billions of dollars of US funding are earmarked for building and strengthening Israel’s state capabilities. America’s unequivocal support for the occupying state’s right to self-defense at any cost is not shocking. But on the brink of a regional war with other state actors and militant proxy groups in the Middle East, and acceleration into a deeper and longer conflict, the US needs to ask if it has produced its version of Frankenstein, an aggressor state armed to the teeth, which will eventually put US interests at risk. What is farcical about the US’ humanitarian claims is that on the one hand, the administration is complicit in inflicting harm, and on the other, itis slapping a band-aid on the wound by sending humanitarian aid to Gaza, a drop in the ocean considering the massacre that has been perpetrated in the past few weeks. The US has supported colonization and dictatorial state actors in its diplomatic past, but what is novel about its position in this conflict is its unique relationship with Israel. There is a vocal, powerful, and corporate Zionist constituency that advocates for Israel.
Despite this, Israel is compelled to use back-hand methods to stave off defeat and intimidate Palestinians. Naturally, Palestinians are in despair. They have no clue when their cities and homes are next in line. But their courage is stunning. They are ‘here to stay’. Not live in foreign lands from the largesse that Trump offers them from further stolen land.
Israel and the US have chosen routes to war that can lead to the worst. Albert Einstein predicted that a third world war was inevitable and would be huge with massive destruction albeit the tools of service were unclear. His idea makes us uncomfortable. Einstein further claims that after World War III, humanity will be left with nothing but the provision of nature to fight with, stones and twigs. How absurd, and how is that possible? If we have and continue to be progressive, why are our gains turning against us? These are the pertinent questions worthy of our attention. We shall all be dead or find ourselves in a killing spree that will kill most. We, after all humankind’s progress, will have gone backwards ages or into oblivion. Two of the world’s biggest political clowns – Trump and Netanyahu- joined by a minor cast of clowns such as Zelensky– will bring it on. That seems to have already begun. The murderous spree is on full blast. But what goes around always comes around.
In solidarity
4 April 2025
Ranjan Solomon
On behalf of MLN/Palestine Updates