Amid renewed Israeli bombardments, Palestinians leave Beit Hanun in the northern Gaza Strip with their belongings, heading towards Gaza City following Israeli evacuation orders on Wednesday. AFP
All US presidents since the end of World War II—perhaps with the exception of John F. Kennedy—have granted exception to the exceptionalism norm when it comes to Israel’s immorality and crimes
By Ameen Izzadeen
The suhoor—or pre-dawn Ramadan meal—massacre has only drawn perfunctory condemnation from the Western nations that matter. To its utter disgrace, the Donald Trump administration rushed to endorse the resumption of the genocide. It exposed President Trump’s double standards. He portrays himself as a president who will end all wars. What a load of rubbish? He should have added the words “except Israel’s war”.
Perhaps this is how he understands American exceptionalism, which, on paper, is based on a messianic zeal to spread US values and a global leadership founded on justice and morality. But in reality, the exceptionalism has seen more exceptions to the United States’ self-assigned rule of international relations. The concept has become a politicised deception.
All US presidents since the end of World War II—perhaps with the exception of John F. Kennedy—have granted exception to the exceptionalism norm when it comes to Israel’s immorality and crimes. This week’s happenings indicate that the Trump administration is as complicit as the Joe Biden administration had been in Israel’s genocide.
In an interview with Fox News, the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, revealed that the Trump administration had been consulted by Israel “on their attacks in Gaza”. What an outlandish understatement? Leavitt should have called it “on their resumption of Gaza genocide”. There were no efforts to salvage the ceasefire which the Trump administration brokered and enforced and which Israel did not like from the word go.
Instead, the press secretary added that the latest assault had “made it clear” that Hamas and “all those who seek to terrorise not just Israel, but also the United States of America, will see a price to pay”. The warning is not only aimed at Hamas but also at Yemen’s Houthis, who resumed their attacks last week on Israeli-linked ships and US warships in the Red Sea in response to Israel’s blockade of food aid into Gaza in breach of the ceasefire.
And she also warned, “All hell will break loose”—an hackneyed phrase borrowed from Trump. What is the Trump administration’s fascination with hell? While it may be figurative, the frequent references to hell probably make one wonder whether the word hell has a literal connection to those who overuse it to terrorise vulnerable people or weaker nations.
Fight Hamas; that’s fine and gallant. But killing innocent children, women and unarmed civilians is outright evil that should buy the Israeli war party and their Western supporters a sure ticket to hell. Call it divine justice or cosmic karma; what goes around should come around. How can child killers strut about the earth, breathing fire and arrogance without inviting retribution?
Do they think that they are God’s chosen people with a licence to commit genocide? The spiritually inclined Jews shun the murderous Zionists who are upending Judaism. The right-minded Jews came in their hundreds last week to the Trump Tower in New York to protest Trump’s move to deport a green card-holding Palestinian student activist, Mahmoud Khalili. Such Jews can stake a claim for being the chosen people, but not those who distort the scriptures to commit crimes. The spiritually enlightened will hold that chosen people is not an ethnic label. Chosen people are an inclusivistic concept. Ethnic superiority has no place in spirituality. The more righteous one is, the stronger his or her right to be counted among the chosen people, irrespective of ethnic or religious labels.
It is in this light that a clear distinction needs to be made both intellectually and spiritually when one cries out that the Amalekites are here to haunt the chosen people. For the benefit of those who are not familiar with the biblical terminology, a brief explanation of Amaleks is given here.
According to the Hebrew Bible, Amaleks are a nation that was historically an enemy of the Israelites. The Amalekites lived in the Negev and Sinai regions. Days after Israel began the genocidal war against the Gaza civilians in response to the Palestinian resistance group Hamas’ daring raid on Israeli border towns in what was once historic Palestine, Israel’s hardline Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, while addressing the nation in Hebrew, said his government was committed to completely eliminating the Palestinian evil from the world. He added: “You must remember what Amalek has done to you, says our Holy Bible. And we do remember.”
He was referring to Samuel 15:3, a passage in which God commands Saul, “Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.”
Citing the scripture to justify the murderous expansionist project is Israel’s strategy that helps it win the West’s support, especially from the spiritually misled and confused Euro-Americans in the United States. It enables the murderous Zionist regime to portray its crimes against humanity as the fulfilment of God’s holy command.
By etymologically, Amalek means “a people who lick or lap (blood)” or “a people that wring (off the head of the birds).” The discerning people know now who an Amalek is. I believe the Palestinians are the chosen people.
The claim that Israel has the right to ensure its security is fair enough, but using it as a justification to commit genocide of the Palestinians who have more right to the land than the Zionists who came from Europe is totally obnoxious and unacceptable.
As the terrorist Zionists continue their bombardment of Gaza and issue a “last warning” for Palestinians to return hostages and remove Hamas from power, one thing is becoming more clear. The civilised world has failed the Gaza people.
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