It’s Washington’s war too

US support for genocide is laid bare

By vetoing Russia’s attempt to add a demand for an immediate cease-fire to Friday’s UN Security Council resolution, the US demonstrated its direct support for the Israeli war of extermination against the Gaza Strip which has so far caused more than 20,000 deaths and 55,000 injuries, destroyed 70% of the buildings, and displaced at least 1.5 million inhabitants.

The resolution called for an increase in humanitarian aid to Gaza, but it was stripped of substance. It did not condemn or criticise the Israeli authorities for blocking food and medical aid, cutting off water and electricity, or bombing hospitals and throwing patients and new-born babies and their families out onto the streets in a manner unseen in any previous war.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who has been subject to a vicious Zionist defamation campaign, noted after the watered-down resolution was passed that “the real problem is that the way Israel is conducting this offensive is creating massive obstacles to the distribution of humanitarian aid.” He stressed that the only way to end the ongoing nightmare for the Gaza Strip’s inhabitants is an immediate ceasefire.

But the US wants this war to continue, and is providing international cover for Israel to continue slaughtering and starving those inhabitants. Its representative at the UN had the audacity to denounce the toothless resolution for failing to focus on the Israeli captives held in the Gaza Strip. These 150-odd people should be given precedence over the 2.2 million inhabitants, even though by all accounts — including those of released captives — they have been treated well by their captors. The only ones to have died have been killed by Israeli bombing.

It is unsurprising that Israeli leaders should be thanking the US for blocking a UN-mandated ceasefire, supporting Israel’s campaign of annihilation and ethnic cleansing, and sending thousands of tons of munitions and billions of dollars to help sustain it.

But it is good for the rest of the world to see the US exposed for what it is: the leader of the ‘free world’ and self-styled champion of human rights participating in the slaughter of thousands of children and encouraging the Israeli army to continue massacring and starving people.

Israel, which has disregarded and dismissed more than 65 UN Security Council and General Assembly resolutions, will certainly not heed this latest one, meek as it is. It will try to kill as many people as possible within the timeframe set by Joe Biden for it to achieve its aims, namely the recovery of the captives and the destruction of Hamas and the other resistance groups.

But these aims have not been achieved after 80 days of aggression, and will not be achieved even after 80 months. The heavy losses sustained by the Israeli army so far make this clear.

The collapse of the expansionist and racist Zionist project began on 7 October. It will not cease despite the enormity of the death and destruction unleashed since then. And the US — which failed to sustain similar schemes in Iraq, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Vietnam — will not be able to prevent it.

It’s Washington’s war too