“Who knew?”
Our post–7 October world.
Who knew—not I, did you?— the beauty of a dandelion gone to seed, clothed in morning dew. —C. M.
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—C. M.
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12 MAY—Who knew? Who knew on 6 October of 2023 that 7 October would forever change the world?
Who knew Israel would use the Hamas attack—a long-overdue breakout from the world’s largest concentration camp—to implement a genocide?
Who knew Israel’s much vaunted “right to defend itself” extended to illegally occupied territory and justified the mass slaughter of civilians? And who knew so many Western leaders—and, it must be said, ordinary people—would accept and even insist upon this depraved and immoral premise?
Who knew most of the world, with the admirable exception of South Africa, would remain silent?
And worse.
Who knew the United States would, in the first two years after 7 October, give Israel nearly $28 billion in military aid and weaponry to sustain Israel’s genocidal assault in Gaza?
Who knew the United Sates would willingly corrupt its Constitution, shred it’s Bill of Rights, overthrow academic freedom, and destroy any international legitimacy it may have had in behalf of Zionist Israel?
Who knew that countries—including all of the BRICs nations—would continue doing business with Israel—in energy, technology, and security? All areas that support a genocide. Who knew economic relationships and advantages outweighed international law and basic human decency?
Who knew that Yemen would be the only country to fulfill its legal obligations under Article 1 of the 1948 Genocide Convention, which obligates signatories to prevent genocide?
Who knew the depths of Jewish Israeli sadism?
Who knew the genocide would still be under way as of today, as of the day you’re reading this?
Who knew that on 28 February the U.S. and Israel would begin carpet-bombing Iran, targeting schools, hospitals, apartments buildings, civilian infrastructure and industry, journalists, and aid workers?
Who knew Israel would use the cover of a fictitious ceasefire to turn southern Lebanon into a pile of rubble like Gaza and one million Lebanese into refugees?
Who knew a vast majority of Israeli Jews would support ethnic-cleansing and genocide? And who could have guessed I.D.F. soldiers would film themselves celebrating their depravity?
Indeed, who knew the depravity of Zionists or the cruelty of Jewish Israelis or the barbarity and madness the U.S. empire, in its decline, would unleash upon the world?
Who knew that we—we, all of us—would each day teeter on the edge of nuclear war?
All of that and also this:
The beauty of a dandelion, gone to seed, clothed in morning dew.
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Thanks, Cara. I'll be excerpting much of this piece when I again write to my Democratic Representative and Senators here in Virginia, to once again register my absolute opposition to any further support or aid to Israel. In addition, I will point out that any aid to Israel is already prohibited by laws such as the Glenn and Symington amendments, due to Israels's secret nuclear weapons program, and also in violation of the Leahy Law due to Israel's blatant human rights violations.
I think everyone knew that the genocide of Israelis carried out by the Palestinian people would lead to blowback. Cara is only fooling herself when she tries to play the victim like this. There's a reason the world hasn't jumped in to help the Palestinians. They know the Palestinians are only getting what they deserve.