Written by Julian Macfarlane, Tokyo based investigative journalist, writer, author, geopolitical and military analyst
The moral vacuity of the collective West
A successful politician in a liberal democracy requires certain gifts. A lack of conscience is one, glib deception is another, hypocrisy, still another.
Political policy is for the benefit of the politician who makes it – not for the people who think he represents them. A politician has a constituency of one – himself.
Fortunately for politicians, there are many kindred spirits in the media whose interest is not the truth, but their own advancement. Western politicians and the media have a symbiotic relationship like sharks in the symbiotic the Remora fish that attach themselves to scavenge scraps.
And ordinary people?
They are prey.
Some see the contradictions between what the teachers taught them about the political process in their country in high school – and what it really is. But it is hard for them to stir from their Comfort Zone. And if they really wanted to change things – that would mean a revolution – which would mean their world would get worse before it got better.
Ordinary people just shrug. They do not completely lack conscience as politicians do. But their conscience is atrophied from lack of exercise. They remain within that narrow circle of awareness.
As a result, there are no real democracies in the Collective West. Not one.
This is what is really behind the current decline of the Collective West —a moral blindness which distorts reality—and staggering hypocrisy.
The suspension of UNRWA is genocide
The hypocritical attacks on UNRWA are a good example.
The ICJ ruled that: Israel must take immediate and effective measures to enable the provision of urgently needed basic services and humanitarian assistance to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
UNRWA is the only agency currently capable of providing the “basic services and humanitarian assistance” to Gaza and the Palestinians that they require— immediately. With the suspension of promised aid, however, UNRWA may have to cease operation in Gaza by the end of February.
By the time that other UN agencies finally get involved, much of the population of Gaza will be dead. UNRWA provides a variety of services in cooperation with the local elected government which is of course Hamas. That means schools, medical services, and food aid. So, getting rid of UNRWA means destroying Gazan society and the community and the means by which it survives—the “group conditions of life”.
It’s genocide within the usual definitions of the term.
Genocide is an internationally recognized crime where acts are committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. These acts fall into five categories:
- Killing members of the group
- Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group
- Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part
- Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group
- Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group
There are a number of other serious, violent crimes that do not fall under the specific definition of genocide. They include crimes against humanity, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and mass killing.
Interfering with UNRWA’s efforts is clearly #3.
Ipso facto that makes states suspending agreed-upon aid to UNRWA as guilty of genocide as the Israelis themselves
Defunding UNRWA is another heinous act of genocide.
Let us keep in mind that defunding UNRWA vitiates the legitimacy of the United Nations which will become a pale shadow of the League of Nations.
Accusation in a mirror
Accuse the other of that you are guilty. Joseph Goebbels.
Goebbels must be looking at the Zionists in admiration, happy that he will soon have a lot of company in Hell.
Israel’s allegations are just that— allegations—unproven.
Despite that, UNRWA reacted immediately to those accusations, dismissing nine of its local Palestinian employees who may or may not have been also members of Hamas—but were probably as sympathetic as the rest of the Gazan population.
Those nine employees represent 0.0003 % of the agency’s total workforce or 0.00075 in Gaza.
Let us also keep in mind that the Israelis now have an established history of making wild claims and accusations later proven to be false —HAMAS’s massacres of civilians— actually committed by the IDF—rapes and mutilations that did not occu—baby killings and the like.
Oh, and the “incitement of hatred’ in schools – quite unlike the peace and love advocated by Netanyahu—and designed to justify the killing of children.
Despite the unique challenges Israel faces in its war against Hamas, it has implemented more measures to prevent civilian casualties than any other military in history. Newsweek
According to parasitic media like Newsweek we can discount genocidal bombing the numerous documented war crimes, including execution of civilians, and all sorts of atrocities.
Hypocrisy generates a kind of sick logic.
To read the conclusion of the article please click here to go to Substack page.
