We have failed the people of Palestine 🇵🇸
Palestine has been subject to an illegal occupation for many decades. The Israeli military have, for
years, imposed harsh military laws on Palestinians on their own land.
Illegal Israeli settlers, along with their military, have attacked and murdered scores of Palestinians [1]
[2].
Gaza has become an open-air prison [3],
with the land, air and sea blockade imposed since 2007 [4].
The military power imbalance
Palestine has no land army, air force or navy [5].
Under the illegal occupation, the Palestinians have been denied the ability to develop a military [6],
whilst their oppressor possesses advanced military capabilities. This has resulted in a significant
imbalance of military power, which has effectively enabled the countless acts of brutality towards
innocent Palestinians.
The reason behind the oppressor denying the oppressed a military, should be obvious to all.
The current massacre
Over 40,000 Palestinians have been killed [7],
most of whom were women and children. Many hospitals and other medical facilities have been rendered
inoperable or completely destroyed [8].
Medical staff have been forced to perform amputations on children, in the absence of anaesthesia [9].
Children, whilst waiving white flags, have been shot dead by IOF snipers [10].
Civilian bodies are decomposing on the streets [11].
Journalists and aid workers - brave men and women who willingly put themselves in harm's way to help others - are
being stripped naked, humiliated, tortured, and in some cases, murdered by Israeli soldiers
[12]
[13].
IOF soldiers are intentionally crushing civilians, alive, with military vehicles [14 - WARNING: EXTREMELY GRAPHIC].
Genocidal intent and justification of civilian massacre
The Law for Palestine
human rights organisation has released a database containing a number of instances of Israeli soldiers, politicians
and other officials expressing genocidal intent, dehumanising Palestinians and justifying civilian massacres
[15].
- "It’s an entire nation out there that is responsible. This rhetoric about civilians not aware, not
involved, it’s absolutely not true. They could’ve risen up, they could have fought against that evil regime." - Isaac Herzog, President
- "I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel,
everything is closed, we are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly" - Yoav Gallant, Minister of Defence
- "Who doesn't have water and electricity? Gaza!, who’s going to live in tents? Gazan! [..] This is the land of Israel we
don’t want peace with Gaza" - IOF soldiers
The United States, United Kingdom and Germany are supporting and participating in a mass murder and potential genocide
Leaders of the US, UK and Germany have provided political, military and financial support to Israel
[16],
whilst dismissing allegations of war crimes and genocide [17].
Joe Biden discredited widely accepted death toll figures [18],
whilst refusing to place any conditions on the financial and military support provided by the US
[19].
The US has repeatedly vetoed Security Council resolutions calling for a ceasefire [20],
displaying utter disregard for the innocent Palestinians being massacred.
Via a congressional bill, the US has effectively threatened to starve Palestinians in
response to any attempt by them to seek justice via the International Criminal Court (ICC), for alleged
crimes committed against them by any Israeli national [21]
[22]
[23 - page 875].
The US state department falsified a report to absolve Israel of responsibility for blocking
humanitarian aid into Gaza [24].
We've repeatedly elected leaders who meet the definition of despicable. We've failed to hold our
leaders to account for atrocious crimes against humanity, resulting in a political system with
near-zero accountability, furthering the deterioration of decency among political candidates, for whom
we will vote, under the pretence that it's our "only option" and that we're voting for the
"lesser of two evils".
Through our inaction, we've allowed the two-party system to become untamable, resulting in an
environment where the party currently perceived as the "lesser of two evils" willfully neglects the
will of their own voters, knowing full well that we will not abandon the party, out of sheer
desperation.
The "lesser of two evils", as a voting strategy, has normalised evil.
