Netanyahu’s speech at the UN confirms the alleged superiority of the Zionist Entity as the foundation of Israel’s colonial presence in the Middle East
by Glauco D’Agostino
What would Israel be without a war to fight? It is its very essence pushing it towards conflict, while fueled by a victim mentality that reverses the roles on the field, presenting itself as the subject attacked instead of the eternal aggressor. “We are winning the war,” Netanyahu exclaims triumphantly at the UN in the guise of a tormentor, refusing to consider the possibility of peace before the extermination is total. This is the task Tel Aviv has given itself as a war of conquest, disguised as a fight against terrorism that very few believe in anymore.
It is not an extremist drift. From the beginning, it is the nature of a badly born state based on the aggressiveness of those who fear their own shadow and feed on ghosts, plots and persecutions carried out against those who do not share its origins arising from the gun tip. A country deemed as democratic but stuffed with permanent militarism and where the rule of law and human rights have no citizenship. The continuous invasions, the undue territorial acquisitions, and the violation of international law are not the worst part of the story compared to the daily humiliation of non-Israeli citizens who live in the territory of their fathers and where they were born, but under the yoke of a “democracy of terror” justified by ethnic and blood superiority. Some consider it a true Western state inspired by the Judeo-Christian civilisation!
Protests in Caesarea, Israel (Photo credit: The National)
Netanyahu’s fanaticism is also justified: “We are winning,” he says. This is precisely the problem. Israel is winning this war. What’s the next one? Who dares to stop the devastating fury of a radical regime waging war against peoples and defining some other countries as “rogue states?” The Western allies do not even have the credentials to make morals to Tel Aviv on topics of massacres against civilians, given their recent and past history. “We are winning,” says shamelessly a nuclear power, which does not openly declare it is one and is not subject to IAEA controls. “We are winning,” says the exponent of state terrorism which relies on the only atomic weaponry in the entire Middle East and which for this reason feels entitled to violate national borders, bomb when and how it wants, carry out targeted and ad personam attacks with impunity. “We are winning.” That goes without saying. No one doubts Tel Aviv’s military capabilities. However, no one also doubts the wickedness and brutality with which the State of Israel implements this ability.
With this background, the fierce Bibi says to the Islamic Republic of Iran: “If you strike us, we will strike you.” He says it a few months after the brutal assassination of former Palestinian Prime Minister Ismā’īl Haniyeh on Iranian soil. He says it after years of shooting down dozens of high-ranking Iranian military officials without even being at war with Tehran. He says it after the terrorist attack perpetrated against the Iranian Embassy in Damascus. Without Tehran ever seriously reacting. It’s a game for Tel Aviv. It is nice to wage war when you never risk anything and every military intervention is reduced to a computer game that unleashes highly technological Western weapons, massacring thousands of defenceless citizens. Collateral damage? Not when most of the victims are civilians, women and children.
The problem in Tel Aviv is not winning wars. It’s about making wars last. And genocides can cynically be carried out in two ways: as in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, that is, instantly and trusting in the effects following the extermination; or distributed over time, little by little, with less media hype. “Genocide is a process, not an act,” according to the Polish Raphael Lemkin, the creator of the term “genocide.” Israel knows this story well. If every daily bombing kills one hundred people, it is enough to declare yourself a winner in the long run. After all when the present war is over, it can move on to the next one, with other “moderate” massacres resulting.
Dear Bibi continues: “There is no place – there is no place in Iran – that the long arm of Israel cannot reach. And that’s true of the entire Middle East.” That’s because Tehran isn’t a nuclear power, of course. Behold Netanyahu’s nightmare: not of being hit by Iran, but of no longer being able to do as he pleases throughout the Middle East. Western analysts are unlikely to consider this evidence. And yet, those who hope for a lasting peace in the Middle East must consider the need for Iran to rely on nuclear deterrence. There is no alternative. Perhaps, even Iran’s so-called proxies will be safer under Tehran’s atomic umbrella. Question of security and the right to exist!
Israel must understand that the right to defence exists not only for its citizens. Neighbouring peoples have the same rights, and international disputes are not necessarily solved by weapons but by negotiation and diplomacy. But what to do if its Prime Minister attacks the highest body of the worldwide community and calls the UN “a swamp of antisemitic bile, an anti-Israel flat-earth society, and a contemptuous farce?”
Israel is isolating itself internationally as never before. Its political and military leadership, but also its civil society, must sooner or later question the reasons for this irreversible process that is leading towards obscurantism. The maniacal sordidness of Netanyahu and his complicit government cannot involve the Jews of the entire world. Netanyahu speaks on behalf of Israel and does not necessarily receive the praise of the millions of Jews in the diaspora. The Jews should distance themselves from those behaviours against the principles of humanity of which they have been victims in the past and isolate those who risk discrediting them in the eyes of the world.
