On Monday last week a temporary, misplaced euphoria greeted the UN Security Council chambers in New York and probably some parts of the world after the much-belated passage of a resolution demanding a ceasefire during Ramadhan and after by Israel on its ongoing genocidal in the Gaza Strip now in its 175 day with 32,337 dead civilians. Many have died for no fault of their own expect being in Gaza. The resolution, desirable as is, comes too late, too little and a lullaby to the world that US and its western allies care. Never-the-less, China and Russia with veto powers at the security council must continue to build new frontiers don’t reward impunity. Israel and its allies must increasingly feel isolated until they relent like the US and Europe did on colonialism and apartheid South Africa even when they were at their strongest points in history.
Going by past record, there is no reason to believe the latest resolution will be implemented, after-all Israel as a rebuke has already scoffed and invaded Rafah, the southern Gaza city hosting 1.7 million displaced Palestinians. This war, Syria and Ukraine all serving US international geo-strategy of domination have left the world in slumber over Afghanistan, where two decades of US mischief is now almost forgotten as millions starve to death from military destruction, economic sanctions and diplomatic isolation for US’s convenience.
The resolution, passed for the first time ever, courtesy of US abstention also demanded Hamas releases all hostages it took during 7 October 2023 raid, none of whom has been rescued through Israel military force even when it brags of might and sophistication. After 175 days of ground, sea and aerial indiscriminate bombardment and global propaganda actively aided by the US and UK which has left Gaza in ruin, Israel Defence Forces (IDF), Mossad and Shin Beth have nothing substantial to show the world that the civilian facilities they destroyed had any concrete linkages to 7 October 2023.
Meanwhile, the terrorist attack in The Crocus city outside Moscow that left over 137 dead at a concert has left western media dripping with visible glee of self-validation that it’s all to President Vladimir Putin’s fault and humiliation. Reading columns in major western media, one concludes that many seem to suggest that Russians deserved to be punished for having Putin as president. Some even brag that Putin is weakened yet wouldn’t say the same on either US or Israel after 9/11/2001 and 7th October 2023 terrorist events respectively.
The western media and political propagandists seem unable to know that the world now knows how brutal, incompetent, delusional and isolated the recent calamities of Iraq, Syria, Libya and Afghanistan have added to the miser, weakness and vulnerability of the US whose might and invincibility no longer as much.
None ever suggested that because George W Bush or Netanyahu were the head of state and overall chief of their security services bore the ultimate responsibility when terrorists struck, and by all means catastrophic failures should resign. In Putin’s case they claim that his dictatorship has eviscerated checks and balances within Russian unlike in western democracies where there is ‘independent’ scrutiny. Yet in both ‘democracy’ and ‘dictatorship’ the blood on the street in New York, Israel and Moscow hasn’t brought the bubble-burst on politicians, Bush even got a bumper at the elections after 2001, while Netanyahu still hangs on.
And well pundit think that great power politics from slavery, imperialism, colonialism and today’s blatant unipolar US jingoism, the mask of invincibility continues to slip as big powers messed up in Iraq, Syria, Libya, Palestine and Afghanistan where they cut their losses and ran away in humiliation.
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