With the world economy in a slump, a good war helps boost the arms industry of Israel’s American sponsor, while diverting attention from its debacle in Ukraine.
Even if the story of the 40 Israeli babies beheaded by Hamas has been retracted, it has sent the world into such a frenzy that it justifies every conceivable action against the Palestinian population in Gaza. As for the dozens of premature Palestinian babies who died in the Al-Shifa hospital after Israel stormed it and deliberately cut off the electricity needed to run their incubators, they cannot hope to arouse even a fraction of the worldwide pro-Israeli indignation following October 7. Given the current exchange rate between Israeli and Palestinian lives, this would be proof of an unprecedented contempt for the value of human lives (the ones that count, that is).
Proof that Palestinians lack common sense is that they are prepared to sacrifice themselves, their families and all their possessions for their cause, and to remain in refugee camps in neighboring countries for decades, generation after generation, instead of turning the page on the Nakba (1948) and the Naksa (1967), integrating into their host countries and rebuilding their lives there. The progress of civilization cannot accommodate such a backward-looking anchorage, any more than it accommodated the bronze axe and Amerindian teepees. For their part, Israelis live with the times: those who can, fly to Europe or America as soon as hostilities break out, while those who stay and are displaced within Israel demand to be accommodated in star-rated hotels and not to be bothered too much by the war. But they are well aware that this is a necessary evil for humanity’s advance from the darkness of archaism and ignorance towards the light of progress and modernity.
Some small-minded people exaggerate the injustice done to Palestinian women, children and babies, who are indeed dying in their thousands (soon 20,000 dead and missing): if their life in Gaza, a huge concentration camp, is destined to be miserable in any case, and none of the 57 Arab-Muslim countries wants to welcome them or even lift a finger to help them (with the notable exceptions of Lebanon and Yemen, other candidates for annihilation), it is a proof that this people is cursed and hated even by its own people. Thus, shortening their existence through massive, indiscriminate bombing is not an act of barbarism but an act of mercy and pity, qualities exemplified by Netanyahu and his fascist government, as well as by the finest Western leaders (Biden, Trudeau, Shunak, Macron).


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