Western civilisation in the dock

To say Israel is committing crimes against humanity is an understatement. The mind behind the daily routine killing of unarmed and relief-seeking hungry Palestinians is diabolical at its worst. Even at a time when the Zionist state is at war with Iran, its pogrom continues unabated---lately its targets being Palestinians desperately looking for UN food aid including drinking water for mere survival. History's irony is that the people who suffered the 'final solution', an euphemistic expression for extermination of the Jewish people of Europe, are now the perpetrators of an equally outrageous mass murder of a people on whose soil an artificial state called Israel was created from nowhere to rehabilitate the former.

If the Nazi programme orchestrated to eliminate the Jews continued from 1941-45, the lesson learnt should have been sobering and humane. Instead, brutality and barbarity of the extreme form mark the Jewish state's existential mantra. To the Jewish leaders like Netanyahu, the Palestinians are not just enemies---they are vermin which can be destroyed at will. The ultimate disgrace of the modern civilisation is that the so-called civilised nations not only approve of this genocide but also provide Israel with the killing machines and other material supports. A nation of less than 10 million in a land area of only 8,355 sq miles could not wield so much power unless its Western bosses helped it to be armed to the teeth. In fact, the Western powers are pulling the strings from behind the scene.

No wonder that 14 cargo planes loaded with military equipment and hardware from the US and Germany landed in Israeli airport right at the time the Jewish state and Iran are trading barrages of missiles following the aggression of the former on the latter. Middle East media including the Times of Israel have confirmed this. This fresh batch of military supply is on top of more than 800 cargo planes that have arrived in Israel since the start of the genocidal war on the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023.

The US, no matter if it is under a Republican or Democratic president, has been leading the pack of Israel's Western allies. Colonial powers may have gone and the blatant exploitation of resources from Asia, Africa and Latin America may also have ceased but it has taken a vicious form of inciting internal conflict within a country or region thanks to Western powers' ruthless chessboard diplomacy. To establish monopoly access to natural resources such as fuel oil and minerals as also to ensure sale of arms aimed at stoking feuds and destabilising nationalist governments and regional peace, these materially developed nations can go to any length.

The exporters of democracy thus practise something diagnostically opposite to what they preach. Not that the peoples who fall victim to their Machiavellian designs are unaware of the sinister purposes but they are helpless. The hypocrisy and double standard of the defenders of democracy and moral guardians thus get exposed. Their sustained campaigns to paint a regime as evil have time and again proved unsubstantial. It has happened in case of Afghanistan, Iraq and wide swathes of the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Latin America. Now they have targeted Iran.

It is not difficult to see how the Western macabre scheme at times gets exposed. One recent example is Donald Trump's question-answer session on the White House lawn on the day of installation of new flag poles there. In answering to a question, he said 'we' control the sky. This referred to the Israeli and Iranian skies. The US was not officially involved in the war but his use of 'we' bares it all. Then again, an Israeli minister called it a war crime when an Iranian missile struck a hospital called Soroka Medical Center in southern Israel. Contrast this with the destruction of one after another healthcare facilities in Gaza strips. Gaza City hospital, Nasser Hospital, European Gaza Hospital and finally the last fully functional Ahli Arab Hospital all were partially or totally damaged.

The choice of words by some of the Western media outlets also favours their governments' stands. There lies the moral turpitude of the Western civilisation. Despite all its materialistic progress, it is morally depraved and debased.

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