“No one will stop us, not The Hague, not the axis of evil and not anyone else.”
The words uttered by Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu in an address coinciding with 100 days of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza after the Hamas attacks of the 7th of October, 2023.
If a scriptwriter had written these lines, they would have been sent back, because of how cartoonishly villainous they sound. Yet, they have been uttered quite openly, and amplified by the Zionist state’s PR machine the world over.
It is not just those shameful words that have been broadcast giddily. Scores of statements made by politicians, military leaders and videos of troops going into ‘battle’ in Gaza, have not just been circulated worldwide, but also used by South Africa in its case in the International Court of Justice against Israel.
If there is one thing that remains true from day one to day one hundred, it is that Israel does not have even the semblance of adherence to international law when it comes to its current onslaught.
The Occupation has dropped 65,000 tonnes of explosives on an open air prison that is 41 kilometres long and 12 kilometres wide. It has killed 24,000 human beings, many of them children, including ones in hospital.
Though the passage of a hundred days may be symbolic, the onslaught does not seem to show any signs of slowing down. It is an expensive campaign, with the Occupation spending not just money and human resources but also considerable political capital, with many of the fence-sitters coming round to not just asking for a ceasefire but viewing the entire issue in a different light to begin with.
So why does the Zionist state keep at it? If we were to discount the false flag conspiracy theory, then it should be kept in mind that the attacks were quite emasculating for such a security state. The much fawned over Iron Dome was breached and kids, basically, conducted a complex set of operations whose chatter, as it were, was not picked up by Mossad.
It needs big targets, to convey to its people a sense of closure, an achievement. But there is nothing, really, that can do the trick. How many more childrens’ hospitals can it bomb?
It has gotten berserk. There is no greater comment on the myth of the ‘international community’ than what is happening in Palestine right now.
