Brecht Jonkers
Brecht Jonkers
With a death toll of well over 43,000 in Gaza alone in one year, of which nearly 17,000 are children, this genocide is one of the most rapid, most minutely organized and brazenly open massacres in recent history.
With the zionist project known as ‘Israel’ now in its 76th year of official existence, the increasingly arrogant leadership in Tel Aviv doesn’t even seem to particularly care for optics anymore, relying instead on its influence on western media and political figures to do the damage control for them. True, the official statements by Benjamin Netanyahu and his ilk still retain a veneer of humanity by claiming to target only military targets, often “weapons storage facilities” and “underground tunnels beneath civilian buildings” but the reality is well-known. Internally, many zionist officials don’t even bother with the veiled rhetoric anymore.
Knesset member Yitzhak Kroizer, for instance, said that “the Gaza Strip must be flattened, and for all of them there is but one sentence, and that is death”. Tally Gotliv went even further, calling for a nuclear strike on Gaza for “strategic deterrence”—an interesting choice of words since Israel claims to not have any nuclear weapons arsenal. Likud MP Boaz Bismuth went even beyond that, calling Palestinians the “seed of Amalek”, and using Biblical scripture to claim that as a result the entire ethnicity must be utterly wiped out to the very last person.
As if to add even more gravitas to this latter claim, Netanyahu himself has used the reference to Amalek and its “divinely sanctioned” destruction in a speech that has remained auspiciously under-analyzed in western media outlets.
In more mundane terminology, Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich were recently seen at the Gaza frontier, openly calling for the complete colonization of the tiny strip by Jewish squatters and the “encouragement of Palestinian migration” out of their own ancestral land.
A mere list of genocidal statements by Israeli politicians would take too much time and space, as the past year has shown masks falling off at a rapid pace. But it does present an interesting and pressing question: why, even after all this time, the ongoing carnage and the blunt admission of genocidal intent, does the colective west still largely support the zionist entity?
Why has the United States sent some $50 billion in military aid alone to Israel since October 7, 2023? Why do western rregimes, with few exceptions such as Ireland and Spain, still refuse to take any action whatsoever, at the very least to stop being complicit in the ongoing genocide? Why did German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock take the stage as recently as October 10, 2024 to defend Berlin’s unconditional support for the zionist entity?
Of course, zionist influence in the economic, intellectual, cultural and spiritual spheres of western societies, and the nearly all-encompassing and deeply entrenched zionist control over the ruling classes of the west, are major reasons for this. The historical trauma of World War II and the ‘Holocaust’ still hover as a specter across Europe, and is being greedily manipulated by Jewish supremacist groups to shoot down any and all criticism of Israel as antisemitic.
Added to this, there is the fact that zionist interest groups seem to have a stranglehold over the ruling elites of much of the west, like the Mossad blackmail operation run for several decades by Jeffrey Epstein in the US. The true extent of the Epstein “guest” list remains unknown, as do most of the names that appeared on it. A ruling class that has been either bribed or blackmailed into submission by Jewish supremacist interest groups, naturally forms a handy protection against any real criticism of the demonic ideology of zionism and its genocidal operations.
And even if there is criticism leveled against Israel, this usually limits itself to calling out the grossest of excesses of only the past year. Only a brave few in positions of power have the courage to take on the zionist project, or point out that the oppression of Palestinians is rooted not in the person of Netanyahu or even in the occupation war of 1967, but in the very beginning of the Nakba in 1948.
The liberal “critics of zionism” desire little more than a return to pre-1967 borders at most, with a defanged and declawed Palestine that would control only 22% of historic Palestine. Even that would be a patchwork of Bantustans disjointed from each other in which the Palestinians would be allowed to collect garbage only. The Palestinian Authority under Mahmoud Abbas provides a glimpse into what a future Palestinian state would look like, if it ever came into existence.
It is barely possible to find a mainstream western politician who would be brave enough to demand at least the implementation of the original 1947 UN plan that called for Palestinians to have 45% of the land.
Of course, even that was a gross violation of Palestine’s territorial integrity. It misses the point entirely that there never was a legitimate reason to assign any piece of land to the zionist invaders and squatters primarily from Eastern Europe to begin with. But the fact that it is considered unthinkable in the west to allow Palestinians any more than 22% of their own land goes to show just how degenerate the political system has become.
Compare the European and North American reaction to Russia’s intervention in Ukraine in 2022. When Russia officially decided to intervene in the Donetsk conflict that had been sparked by the 2014 EuroMaidan coup in Kiev, it caused a tidal wave of seething anger across the west. Russia quickly became the most sanctioned country in the world, overtaking even Iran and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Of course, as the success of the recent summit of BRICS in Kazan has shown, these sanctions have failed to make Russia change its course or to have any significant impact on its economy.
The point, however, remains that across the Occident, Russia turned into a boogeyman: Russian media was banned, Russian financial assets were stolen and in some cases given to Ukraine; Russian culture heavily frowned upon and any economic dealings with Moscow curtailed or outright forbidden. Perhaps the most egregious example of double standards was the Paris Olympics, from which Russia was barred while the genocidal zionist entity could partake as if nothing ever happened.
Not even remotely resembling the extensive anti-Russian punishment has been meted out to Israel, even when the most documented and broadcasted genocide in human history is taking place in front of our eyes. The response of European countries has, at best, been a temporary cessation or restriction of arms sales to Israel. The US and Germany, who together make up almost 90% of weapons exports to Israel, have categorically refused to make any changes to their policy of absolute support for the zionist onslaught.
With even the basic requirement of halting arms sale to the genocidal entity not in place, it is not surprising that more general economic or diplomatic sanctions against Israel have remained largely absent.
With the exception of Ireland and Spain, there has been little action to impose economic sanctions on the zionist colonial entity in the face of its egregious crimes. This is all the more disturbing since the European Union superstructure maintains a major grip on economic policy of its member states. And in terms of diplomatic relations, the western response has basically been non-existent.
While Latin American countries such as Bolivia and Nicaragua have suspended all relations with the zionist entity, or at the very least withdrawn their ambassadors. The European and North American powers, on the other hand have, far from cutting diplomatic ties, are not even prepared to entertain such a thought.
It must be said that the west does not consider all human beings as equal. Those who are considered westernized and “civilized”, and preferably white, are clearly a few rungs higher on the ladder of human value in the geopolitical playbook of the Occident.
These include primarily countries whose location makes them specific targets for the expansion of the European Union and NATO, such as Ukraine and, more recently, also Georgia and Moldova. Secondly, there are the non-occidental satellite states that are important for the projection of power globally, such as Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. Israel occupies an honorary place in this ranking that transcends either of these categories, as it is considered a fully western, “civilized” and democratic extension of the west.
Regardless of the question of who controls whom, and of the discussion on whether Israel is a “proxy of the US in West Asia (aka the Middle East)” or if it’s a Jewish supremacist lobby that steers US foreign policy worldwide, this fact remains clear. Among the western ruling elite, Israel holds a special place and needs to be protected at all costs.
The idea of history as linear progression, in which the barbarians need to be civilized by force or swept away entirely by the “march of progress” that is led by Europe and the US, is deeply ingrained in western psyche. The unipolar world model and the globalized economic system are exponents of this linear model of civilization that has dominated western political thought since the 19th century.
The influence of this unipolar way of thinking is shown by the fact that the suffering of Palestinians is often downplayed in the west by pointing to the “lack of women’s rights” or refusal to embrace the LGBT agenda. In each case, the specific policy choices of the west are used as if they are a litmus test; an unassailable dogma of what is right for the world, which has to be met in order to be considered civilized.
The collective west has a choice: it either accepts the fact that the world has changed, that its claim to unique and unquestionable dominance over the world’s affairs no longer holds in the face of the global population, and that a multipolar world has already dawned in which Europe and North America are simply one of many poles.
Or it can continue blindly in the destructive and murderous ways, remaining blind to the rise of the East and the Global South and trying to defend its ill-gotten gains by ever increasing levels of violence.
No matter what choice it makes, the time of the west in the limelight of global hegemony is over. There is nothing anyone in Washington or London can do about it. The only difference is that the second option would be far more bloody and far more horrifying than rationally accepting the inevitable.
The overall result in the end will be the same. The wheel of history keeps turning, and the period of western global domination that began around the 1860s, is coming to a close.
The long-lasting mental indoctrination of cultural and racial superiority impressed upon westerners must finally be dismantled, if we want to get rid of the hypocrisy of occidental geopolitics. This is by no means a new demand. Russian linguist and historian Nikolai Trubetzkoy, one of the founding fathers of the ideology of Eurasianism, made a similar demand over a century ago, in 1920:
“By virtue of the heterogeneity between the materials of the mental lives of the savage and the European, their respective intellectual baggage should be recognized as incomparable and incommensurable, hence why the question of the superiority of one over the other must be considered insoluble.”
As long as the delusion of the inherent superiority of the west persists, as long as the masses in Europe and North America don’t rise up and make a fundamental change to the way their countries are run, there is very little hope for change within the western geopolitical sphere. And that would mean continuously turning a blind eye to the suffering of Palestinians at the hands of the zionist colonists who were planted there by Europeans for a specific western projct.
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