For a shamefully bloody example of how little single issue
identity politics can mean, check out the unity of supporters and opponents of
same sex marriage, supporters and opponents of abortion, and supporters and
opponents of every other divisive issue clouding the minds of a population kept
from acting as a democratic majority, we need look no further than the disgrace
of this government’s congress voting to approve and finance
the current Israeli slaughter in Gaza.
Note that all our taxes, without exception for straight,
gay, people of color, people of no color, Catholics, jews, Mormons, Baptists,
agnostics, atheists and those somehow in between are used to finance the
apartheid state that continues to murder with impunity while congress applauds
its massacres as “defense” against a menace presented by people fighting for a
homeland stolen from them by invaders.
Note also that alleged liberals, alleged conservatives and
alleged moderates unite as one. The Tea Party conservative right to the right
of the republican conservative right? Viva Israel! The progressive pseudo left
of the Democratic Party, left of the liberal left of that party? Viva Israel !
The black, women’s, Latino and assorted other alleged group/caucus’s divided by
their employers and financers to maintain minority rule by the rich? Vive
Israel! It should make us all so proud of our democracy, especially those among
us who will march off to the polls and vote for what they think represents a
difference at the next opportunity to rubber stamp what corporate capital and
individual wealth dictate are our choices.
And while this farce continues, massacres go on all over the
world to perpetuate a debased system of political economics that threatens the
entire planet, but nowhere with the bloody malignancy displayed in what was
once Palestine and became Israel. And the horror of that reality would stop in
a microsecond if the USA were to make it so by ending its racist support for a
regime that follows neatly in the footsteps of our own origins in nearly
destroying a native population to create our own.
We got away with it hundreds of years ago, but with an
arrogance to redefine chutzpah, Israel has attempted it in modern times and
succeeded against all moral, intellectual and political standards, simply by
killing, ethnically cleansing, and stealing land, all with the passionate
support of the USA’s political class, financed by American dollars that buy
continued support for Israel the way a john’s dollars buy the compliance of a
sex worker. This political pimping and whoring cannot and will not go on
forever, but how much more can the people of a nation with absolutely no
connection to the nazi assault on european jews suffer before that part of the
world not purchased by blood money, or ignorant due to its own suffering says:
enough, already!
More than a thousand Gaza citizens have been murdered as
this is written, with only a relative handful being armed opponents of the
regime. And still, major media and politicians are either silent or
boisterously waving the Israeli flag as if it were their own. They would be
more honest to wave their bankbooks and political paychecks for performance
that would be judged as treason if it were exercised for any other foreign
country.
And all this goes on while the same media and politicians
rave on about the alleged guilt of Putin, Russia and the evil empire that was
once communist and now is capitalist but still operates as an inducer of
military spending in the trillions while thousands of americans live in the
streets and millions pay taxes for the warfare state that benefits so few at
such cost for so many. How long can this continue?
Not much longer, and the growth in criticism for the
anti-human horror has expanded all over the world and may yet act as a catalyst
in a global demand for democracy that will end injustice and economic slavery
for all and not just some. But there has to be a beginning to that global
turnaround and it had better be that we face the ugly reality of Palestine
before that ugliness unleashes further horrors not only in Gaza, the West Bank
and all of Palestine – which is the real occupied territory – but that will
bring them home to us in a fashion to make the 911 attacks seem almost benign
by comparison.
Lets not wait for someone to be driven over the edge and
walk into a large place with a small nuke in a satchel, or aim a nuclear weapon
armed drone at us the way we aim drones at others, or some other act of
perverse sadism that will be provoked by the politics of mass murder currently
still accepted by too many us as simple geopolitics and state craft.
Our system is in a state of slow but steady breakdown and
the pace is speeding up. Some will continue to profit and acquire more billions
and there will remain a trickle down to professionals and others serving them.
But it cannot last. The rich are growing richer and smaller in number while the
upper middle class is often struggling to remain so, and what was the middle is
expanding its debt to merely survive. More important the greater population and
environment are sinking fast under the same short sighted policies that destroy
long term life supports for short term profits. That is the same system that is
murdering Palestinians at temporary profit for some Israelis and Americans, but
to all our ultimate loss and potential doom. Wake up, act up and end this
brutality and maybe move closer to ending all brutality provoked by the economy
of profit for only some and loss, ever greater, for almost all.
