I have a lot of respect for Craig Murray.
He’s a contributor to Consortium News, and his last post puts Israel’s genocide of Gaza into a whole new light.
He has extensive international diplomatic experience, and you can click this link learn about it. His familiarity with international politics gives him a deep understanding of the intricacies of how it functions.
I hope you’ll give his latest article a read. In case you thought things couldn’t be any worse than they appear to be now, here’s something he pointed out:
There are mechanisms in all states that consider policy decisions, weigh them up, involve the various departments of the state whose activities are affected by that decision, and arrive at a conclusion, though not necessarily a good one.
The decision to stop aid funding to UNRWA, the specialized U.N. refugee agency for Palestinians, was not taken by numerous Western states in a single day.
In the U.K., several different government ministries had to coordinate.
Even within only a single ministry, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO,), views would have to be coordinated through written submissions and interdepartmental meetings between the departments dealing with the Middle East, with the United Nations, with the United States, with Europe and then of course between the diplomatic and development wings of the ministry.
That process would include seeking the views of British ambassadors to Tel Aviv, Doha, Cairo, Riyadh, Istanbul and Washington and to the United Nations in Geneva and in New York.
It is not necessarily a lengthy process but it is not a day’s work, and nor would it need to be. There was no practical impact to making the announcement of cutting UNRWA funding a day sooner or a day later.
Consider that the parallel process had to be completed in the United States, in Canada, in Germany, in Australia and in all the other Western powers that contributed to starvation in Gaza by cutting aid to UNRWA.
All of these countries had to go through their procedures, and it could only be by prior coordination – weeks in advance – between these states that they announced all on the same day the destruction of the life support system for Palestinians, then in absolute need.
And then consider that we now know for certain that the Israelis had produced no evidence whatsoever of UNRWA complicity in Hamas resistance, on which these decisions in all those states were allegedly based.
I have no doubt at all that the Western political elite, paid tools of the zionist machine, are complicit in the genocide of Palestinians and ethnic cleansing of Gaza at a much deeper level than the people have yet understood.
It’s occurred to me that there is a group of people in the world who are well aware of the unjust killing that has gone on over centuries, while the rest of us were led to believe this killing was morally justified. To these people, some lives are expendable in order to justify control of resources, power or money. These slaughters are usually framed by mainstream media as bringing democracy or human rights or something to that effect.
With social media, many of us have learned to understand this formula. And there are countries and citizens who are rebelling, although there are some of both clinging to the illusion of western greatness.
Pondering this new information, I wonder about a number of things.
Why have all western countries decided to conflate protesting an ongoing genocide with anti-semitism, for example. It’s preposterous, but when enough countries do it, the idea gains credibility.
Why are all mainstream media reporting on similar things, and not reporting on others? A few days ago there were two mass graves found outside of two hospitals in Gaza. They included bodies of children, some executed. Some bodies found appeared to have been tortured, and some buried alive.
Most mainstream media outlets did not report on these war crimes. Instead they reported on the camps set up on American university grounds in protest of the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
What does this all mean, and what is the end game, if so many countries had to coordinate their response weeks in advance?
Is Israel’s genocide of Gaza and the west’s support of it actually a class war?
Should we expect an elaborate false flag operation sometime soon?
What can we do about all this?
And, my biggest question is where do we throw the monkey wrench?
The term “antisemitism” is used as bad faith bigotry accusation to silence dissent. The same way anyone who criticized Obama was called a racist or anyone who dared to mention Hilary’s war mongering was called misogynist. It’s the sign of not having an intelligent return argument.
I can’t count how many times my publications have responses calling me a “Russian agent” a “Putin puppet” or an an antisemite. The antisemite rubric only lasts until until I reveal that I am Jewish. Then I get called a “a self-hating Jew. I’ve started to wear these terms as badge of honor.
I think some of us have been aware of this kind of situation for years. It is basically capitalism. Zionism has been a big boon to those who want to maintain power and control. They think it makes it look as if they are saving an ostracized people by giving them their own country. One problem is that the country was not theirs to give. What can we do? Keep resisting however we are best able to resist.