Tonight I sit in a restaurant eating a lovely meal, when a news feed on a big screen catches my eye.
1.8 million Palestinian hostages in Gaza are being starved to death by Israel. Skeletal figures appear on the screen, motionless, fading, the sparkle in eyes lined with suffering, gone. The food sours in my mouth.
Israel calls it a "military operation" and the BBC reports Netanyahu says he's going to "expand" it.
No remorse. No horror. No regrets.
The BBC calls this outrageous display of blatant genocide a "war" - despite any sign of actual combat or military resistance - and interviews the brother of an Israeli hostage - who apparently has been starved along with his Palestinian captors. Who really starved him? Is that not Israel? Of course it is.
Some "war".
But they focus on that, disingenuously, talking about the suffering of the relatives of the Israeli hostages, like their minds can't accept the disconnect between the stark, glaring horrible truth - and the lies leaving their own lips.
Like the welfare of one Israeli colonizer should actually be of interest to a global audience watching his countrymen wage an unjust and unfolding genocide... and not only is no nation, army or politician seriously trying to stop this horrific nightmare, but some are overtly, blatantly supporting Israel's fascist ambitions and genocide. Some are cracking down on public opposition to this support, labeling resistance as "terrorism" and the rhetorical favorite: "anti-semitism" - even when the protests come from Jewish lips and hearts. Nonsensical. What used to be called "the West" has lost it's collective fucking minds.
The most powerful nations on earth wage campaigns of economic intimidation and disinformation against smaller, less powerful nations who demonstrate the moral fiber of standing up for justice, and who dare to hold Israel accountable for its abhorrent actions.
And these same people want to talk about God? Invoking holiness and righteousness for themselves, their actions, and their position? Are we supposed to understand? Are sane, rational, empathic, caring human beings supposed to accept the rhetorical nonsense that Israel is somehow fully justified in cruelly shooting people trying to collect food from distribution points, and brutally starving nearly 2 million people, including children? An army - a "military operation" - wiping out thousands of innocent people? For hate's sake, for spite?
What sort of person would respect that? Or even try to justify the unjustifiable?
There is no god. If there were a god - any god - these people would be cast into a Hell of their own making, alive, and they would deserve it.
Check please.
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