28 Mar 2024
Tuesday 15 May 2018 - 15:11
Story Code : 305141

US embassy baptized with blood



Sputnik- On the very hour of the US opening its embassy in Jerusalem, hundreds of unarmed Palestinian civilians, including children, were being slaughtered by Israeli snipers.




Nearly 60 people, including eight children, were brutally murdered incold blood byIsraeli sharpshooters. At least a thousand others were injured frombullet wounds, many ofwhom will be maimed forlife. More bloodshed is expected incoming days.

What kind ofcriminal world are we living in? When news channels can report this carnage asif it's somehow normal. Where is the outrage ofWestern pundits who foam atthe mouth overalleged atrocities elsewhere?

While American and Israeli dignitaries were regaling themselves withhosannas abouttheir "shared values" of "democracy" and "peace", only a few miles away thousands ofPalestinians inGaza were being shot atfor daring todemand respect fortheir human rights.

President Donald Trump's decision torelocate the US embassy fromTel Aviv toJerusalem has been widely rebuked bythe rest ofthe world. The move is killing whatever little peace process there was betweenPalestinians and Israelis, withthe latter emboldened byTrump toruthlessly annex all territory.

Trump was not present atthe embassy ceremony, sending his congratulations byvideo link instead. His daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner headed the American delegation. Kushner inan address praised Israel forits "democratic values" and how the US and Israel were eternal allies. With a solemn face, Kushner said: "those who incite violence cannot be part ofany peace process".
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gloated overAmerica's backing forhis dream tomake Jerusalem the "undivided capital ofthe Jewish state". Without a hint ofshame, Netanyahu crowed that "you can't build peace ona foundation oflies". He called it a "great day".


What Trump has done is give official US endorsement tothe Israeli occupation ofPalestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, which Palestinians and international law designate asthe future capital ofa Palestinian state supposedly arrived atthrough negotiations withthe Israelis.

Thus, underTrump, Washington is now blatantly complicit inthe illegal annexation ofPalestinian territory byIsrael. The role ofthe US insponsoring Israeli violations was always present, albeit deceptively disguised withclaims ofbeing a mediator and "honest broker" betweenPalestinians and Israelis.

Nearly 25 years aftersigning the Oslo Peace Accords, underPresident Bill Clinton, the Israelis withWashington's acquiescence have expanded their illegal settlements and carried outcountless massacres againstthe Palestinian population, who are confined toopen-air concentration camps likethe Gaza Strip.

And yet, given this audacious unmasking byTrump ofAmerica's role asa brazen accomplice toIsraeli crimes, the American president has the brass neck tosay this week that Washington is still committed to "full and lasting peace betweenIsraelis and Palestinians".

The opening ofthe US embassy onMonday was timed tocoincide withthe 70th anniversary ofthe founding ofIsrael asa state in1948. That foundation was built onpogroms and massacres carried outby Jewish settlers who had migrated tohistoric Palestine fromaround the world withtheir Zionist dream and blessings fromthe United Nations and Western powers tousurp Palestinian rights.

Netanyahu's speech aboutpeace not being possible on "a foundation oflies" applies, ironically, tothe creation ofthe state ofIsrael. Appropriately, though despicably, the 70th anniversary and the opening ofthe US embassy was accompanied withthe massacre ofunarmed Palestinians.

The followingday, Tuesday, is what the Palestinians commemorate as "Nakba" or the "Catastrophe" the 70th anniversary marking their dispossession asa people fromtheir historic lands.

Over seven decades, millions ofPalestinians have been expelled torefugee camps inneighboring states likeJordan and Lebanon. Others ended upin confined ghettos likeGaza or the West Bank, held undersiege byIsraeli "defense forces".

Out ofthese balkanized shards ofland, the Palestinians are intheory supposed togain future statehood. But that is a cynical pipe-dream that neither the Israelis nor the US really believe in. The trite talk offuture peace is just a cover forthe ongoing slow-motion dispossession ofPalestinians untilthey are driven outaltogether bythe encroaching Israeli state.

The opening ofthe US embassy inJerusalem this week, crushing Palestinians claims toEast Jerusalem, is emblematic ofthe cynical and insidious process ofhistorical ethnic cleansing.

In Gaza, where two million Palestinians subsist inappalling conditions ofno clean water or electricity, the UN says that the coastal enclave will become unlivable ina matter ofyears. Under siege fromthe Israeli military, the people ofGaza are trapped inan open-air prison. Eventually, when they have been ground downinto total destitution, the Israelis will probably evacuate them undersome grubby American-backed deal toa compliant neighboring state, and finally, annex Gaza.
It is underthese conditions ofdesperation that the people ofGaza have forthe pastsix weeks taken toprotesting atIsraeli military penning them inwith a so-called "security border". Over the pastsix weeks, nearly 50 unarmed protesters, including journalists and children, were shot dead byIsraeli snipers underorders fromhigh command ina tactic ofshoot-to-kill. This week, the death toll more thandoubled.


The sickening paradox ofIsrael is too much forwords. The state was set upby Jewish migrants fleeing Nazi persecution inEurope. Today, it is maintained bythe murderous practices ofthe Nazi SS and a Western media propaganda system that would marvel Josef Goebbels.

What adds tothe horror is how supine European governments, the UN and the Western media are towardsthe barbarity being inflicted onPalestinians bythe Israeli state and its American sponsor. The Arab client regimes ofSaudi Arabia and the other Gulf states are equally odious intheir silence.

European officials have called for "restraint" by "all sides", thus obfuscating the sheer criminality ofIsrael and the US. Why aren't the EU and UN calling forwar crimes prosecutions?

The hypocrisy and double standards shown byWestern governments is truly shocking. Only a few weeks ago, they were clamoring overan alleged chemical-weapons incident inSyria, and carried outair strikes onthat country in "retribution". It turned outthat the incident was a fabrication concocted byWestern-backed terrorists.

How many times have we heard Western governments and their media pontificate aboutalleged Russian "annexation" ofCrimea?

But these Western hypocrites say nothing aboutthe ongoing murderous annexation ofPalestine bythe US-backed Israeli state.

We are living innefarious, lawless times, where Western governments and media say next tonothing aboutthe murder ofcivilians when it suits their geopolitics. But these same governments make upaccusations onthe basis oflies and fulminate withrighteous condemnation outof cynical expedience against "enemies" likeSyria, Iran and Russia.

The opening ofthe US embassy inJerusalem this week was anointed withthe blood ofinnocent people shot downby Israeli snipers. That massacre is surely the grotesque sign ofthe iniquitous and very dangerous times were are living in.

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