By Jeremy Salt
Despite the ceasefire, Palestinians continue to die in multiple ways—directly from Israeli fire, from lack of medicine, or from freezing conditions. (Photo: QNN. Design: Palestine Chronicle)
The savages are now lighting a fuse under the most sacred site of all, the Aqsa mosque. Israel always goes too far, but too far is never far enough for Israel.
The ‘international rules-based order’ is clearly collapsing. Actually, not so much collapsing as being collapsed by the US/Israel and their allies. Lying beneath this collapse is the far more significant collapse of the morality that underpins all laws ever written in pursuit of a rules-based global order.
There is now a shrinking global order but rising global disorder created by states responsible for maintaining global order, not paradoxically because they have always been prepared to rupture peace in pursuit of their own interest. Now, though, there is an abandonment of morality as if it doesn’t even matter.
Palestine has brought this steadily deteriorating situation to a head. The murder of Hind al Rajab and the welcome to Australia of the genocidalist ‘president’ of an occupied land whose armed gangs fired 355 bullets in her family car are part of the same US/Israel-led assault on the ‘rules-based’ order. The capacity to disregard even the mass murder of children is stunning.
The savages let loose in Palestine in 1948 have now slaughtered at least 3.4 percent of the Gazan population in 15 months, including 22,800 children, 19,470 women, and 32,900 men. They run wild in the West Bank, killing, wounding, vandalizing and burning. This is occupied territory as decreed by the ICJ, yet now it is being put up for sale to anyone in the tribe who wants to buy.
There is no punishment for this. There is not even condemnation. There is hardly any criticism. No block is put in the way. No head of government is standing up to declare anathema on the genocidal occupiers of Palestine. Instead, there is acquiescence and complicity in the greatest crimes committed so far this century and crimes that are among the worst in history.
In the place of punishment of the perpetrator, there is punishment of the victim and those who stand up for their rights. The demonstrators against the arrival of the genocidalist tribal leader in Australia are viciously beaten by the police in Sydney. Praying Muslims are pulled off the street so the genocidalist can enjoy his stay.
France, Germany, Austria, Czechia, and Italy are now demanding the dismissal of Francesca Albanese, the UN human rights coordinator for the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. They seized the opportunity of a misquote to demand her sacking, but this is something they have wanted all along.
This truly heroic woman has embarrassed them by highlighting their cowardice and complicity in the war crimes and crimes against humanity being committed in Gaza by savages who have only contempt for the international law these governments profess to uphold.
Instead, again, they take the side of the criminals committing or authorizing the crimes being committed on a daily basis in Gaza and on the West Bank. The Gaze genocide has exposed their venality as never before.
Because the UN General Assembly regularly draws attention to the crimes committed in Gaza, Israel wants the UN destroyed. Donald Trump is happy to oblige by withdrawing funding for UN agencies and NGOs. They are now having to cut essential services and concentrate on survival.
Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ will run Gaza, not in the interests of the people but in the interests of those who have tried to annihilate them. The architect of this mass destruction – an indicted war criminal – will himself sit on this board. Nothing more grotesque can be imagined than perhaps Hitler being invited in the 1940s to join a ‘Board of Peace’ to run occupied Poland.
The mass-murdering Netanyahu has no intention of letting go of Gaza now that it is being cleared to make way for settlement and annexation by his tribe. Gaza will be built anew under the rubric of the ‘Board of Peace’ and placed under the ‘protection’ of the savages who destroyed it, and an international force of thousands of imported soldiers still to be found.
Stolen, occupied land is now being set aside so a US base can be built for them. Who might own this land is an irrelevant detail. If they can’t defend it, they don’t deserve to have it, so runs the Trump doctrine.
Because the Zionists will only feel safe when everything around them is destroyed, Trump has now massed military forces in the Persian Gulf for the war that Netanyahu is pressing hard for him to launch against Iran. This is the last obstacle blocking US/Israeli hegemony over all of West Asia. Never mind the human consequences of such a war. The tribe only cares about itself.
The war would follow decades of sanctions and sabotage to destroy Iran. They have failed, and so have the military attacks of the past year and the ‘regime change’ operation through the infiltration of agents and mercenaries into demonstrations against an abrupt currency devaluation.
This was the trigger for countrywide sabotage and murder intended to create the chaos that would bring down the ‘regime’, but this failed too. Now the US and Israel are standing back, considering what they might need to do next time to finally bring Iran down. Trump is hesitating, which raises the possibility of a false flag attack that will pull the US into the war that Netanyahu is determined to have.
Given the penetration of Iranian territory by Mossad agents, arranging a missile strike from Iran on a US base or a US warship in the Persian Gulf would surely not be too difficult to arrange.
Deep immorality is the basis of the new ‘rules-based order’. Those who comply will be rewarded, and those who don’t will be punished. European governments are complying and so is the Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, who brought chaos to the streets of Sydney by inviting a flagbearer for genocide to his country.
The invitation was set up by the agents of a foreign government in Australia, known generally as the ’Jewish lobby.’ This is a deliberately deceitful misnomer because they lobby for a state whose interests are not aligned with Jewish interests, but rather threaten them every day of the week by its criminal behaviour.
Once Herzog agreed to come, Albanese was asked to invite him. Subservient to the US-Israel axis of chaos, violence, and terror, he dared not refuse even if the thought even crossed his mind.
What all of this has done is to shine a deep light into the penetration of Australian political parties and governments – state and federal – and cultural institutions by the agents/supporters of Zionist savagery in Palestine. Genuine anti-semitism will rise as Australians become aware of the extent to which their politicians have buckled to zionist interests. That they cannot even raise their voices against genocide is a sign of how far the rot has gone.
The media is either cowed, too frightened to speak the truth, or fully supportive of the annihilation of Palestine and the mass murder of its people. This applies particularly to the Murdoch media, which breathes toxins into the air every time it opens its mouth.
A flagging moral order has now been turned upside down. Like an upturned hourglass, the sand is now trickling down into a ‘new’ world order based on the law of the jungle. In fact, it is hardly new because it was the only law until thousands of years ago, when philosophers, jurists and a few wise leaders began basing laws on the moral principles that would take us out of this jungle.
This provided relative safety for a few hundred years but it is the jungle that suits the savages in Palestine and the deal-maker in Washington and to the jungle we are being returned.
Too frightened to challenge them, other governments join the rush to the abyss of their madness. A world dominated by a Trump, Rubio, Hegseth and the genocidal chief of the Zionist tribe in Palestine cannot be said to be a sane or a safe place.
The savages are now lighting a fuse under the most sacred site of all, the Aqsa mosque. Israel always goes too far, but too far is never far enough for Israel. It knows no restraint and is currently exploiting the ‘window of opportunity’ opened by the Trump re-election to reach all its primary goals before the window closes.
Of its very extreme nature, the tribe is destined to go so far one day that it will bring the roof down over its own head. Al Aqsa or another failed war on Iran might be the occasion. If it is heading towards another defeat by Iran, it can still go further than ever before by using nuclear weapons to save itself, a doomsday possibility that is already in the mind of some well-informed commentators. We watch the burning trail to see how this will ultimately play out.
– Jeremy Salt taught at the University of Melbourne, at Bosporus University in Istanbul and Bilkent University in Ankara for many years, specializing in the modern history of the Middle East. Among his recent publications is his 2008 book, The Unmaking of the Middle East. A History of Western Disorder in Arab Lands (University of California Press) and The Last Ottoman Wars. The Human Cost 1877-1923 (University of Utah Press, 2019). He contributed this article to The Palestine Chronicle.
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