Opinion | A consensus is emerging: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Where is the action? | Nesrine Malik (Guardian, 2024-12-23)
[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/23/israel-gaza-war-genocide-where-is-the-action]
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“Despite the overwhelming evidence we see before us, still nothing changes. The war continues…”
“But the failure is not in the descriptions of what is happening in Gaza. The failure, as Lina Mounzer wrote, is ‘of the rotten substructure of the world within which this language is meant to function’. … Israel’s allies force an adaptation on to the world after which it simply becomes accepted that rights are not bestowed by humanity, but by the parties who decide who is human.”
“As the murder continues, what stops it from being a perfect crime is that people remain on the scene, loudly call it murder, point to the culprit, say the names of the dead, mourn them, hold vigils, and fiercely protect their rights for restitution.”
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Oh a consensus is forming you say?
Maybe they’ll all form a committee to talk about it and vote on a resolution to wag their finger at them for being naughty.
I've seen dozens of videos (not even looking for them, they just pop up on my timeline).
A bunch of buildings turned to rubble
A red crescent ambulance
People speaking Arabic in a distressed tone.
Sometimes, they pull a survivor out of the rubble
Other times, you hear family members of the deceased scream in a way that you never stop hearing in the back of your mind.
I've seen a lot of of these videos long before October 7th 2023.
Like, I legit want to cry that even getting to this point has taken so long.
"Consensus" is such a fucking slap in the face of anyone who's been paying attention, even if accidentally.
Dropping white phosphorus on civilians, bombing entire villages off the face of the map, sniping children in the head and executing journalists.
This is not a spectrum. This is not even binary. They are committing genocide.