CALL it war, ethnic cleansing, genocide or whatever, the trouble continues in Gaza with more than 20,000 dead already, mostly children, with there being no evidence of Israel getting anywhere close to its stated target of destroying Hamas.

On their part, the Anglo-Saxon impe- rialistic Zionist, colonialist, politicians, mainstream media houses and social media platforms have all along been asking two questions; Do you condemn the Hamas massacre? Does Israel have a right to defend? They are actually meaningless questions that are discombobulated as they do not have the direct correlation that the media houses are all trying to portray.

If one contemplates over why the questions are being asked so consistently, one begins to see the pattern by the Zionist media which wants the world to focus on Hamas. However, let us focus on the full picture.

Do you condemn Hamas? We have heard this melody before. In fact, it has echoed across centuries. European settlers killed 56 million indigenous people over one hundred years in South, Central and North America. It was a genocide of native Americans, but the question was, ‘do you condemn the wild Red Indians?’ On Aug 6, 1945, a quarter of a million perished when a nuclear bomb devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the question was, ‘do you condemn Pearl Harbour?’

Ho Chi Minh fought against French and Americans for freedom, but the question was, ‘do you condemn communism?’ After three centuries of colonial rule in the continents of South America and Africa by the British, Portuguese, Spainish, French and Belgium colonisers, the question was, ‘do you condemn socialism?’

After 9/11, over four million people were killed in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Somalia, Yemen and Libya with unquestionable cost to the US taxpayers, and the question was, ‘do you condemn the 9/11 attacks? Over a million people were killed in Iraq, and the question was, ‘do you condemn the weapons of mass destruction (WMDs)?’

The list is long, but you get the full image now. You get the realistic picture, right?. One can never expect a solution from those who created this web of deceit, the Zionist web. It is like a bug asking the spider for its freedom, not realising the purpose of the web.

Does Israel have the right to defend itself? Every country has the right to defence, of course, but Israel has no right to impose 75 years of occupation on people and drop arsenal equivalent of two nuclear bombs on Gaza, which is the size of Philadelphia.

During the 1956 Hungarian revolution against occupation by the erstwhile Soviet Union, millions became refugees. Did the Soviets, as occupiers, have the right to defend against the Hungarian revolution? The West also loves to ask if Russia, today, has a right to defend the occupied territories of Crimea and parts of Donetsk, Kherson and Luhansk. If Russia does not have the right to defend occupied territories, how can we talk of Israel having a right to defend when it is an illegal entity in Palestine?

Palestinians also have the right to defend against the Zionist occupation. I condemn all violence, but one has to first condemn the apartheid regime and the genocide unleashed in the last 75 years.

While talking with zero historical awareness, it looks Israel is defending itself, but if you think harder, you will end up wondering it is defending against whom. It is against the people whose lands Israel has confiscated, water, food and fuel it has restricted, and young children it has imprisoned or killed.

After remaining a concentration camp for years, Gaza has become a death camp. It looks Israel is playing the victim, but, then again, against whom? Against 2.6 million people, who do not even have running water, and 90 per cent of the available water is polluted, unfit to drink. That is the history of 75 years of occupation documented by Israeli Nobel prize historians.

The Zionist Israel must be brought to justice for its genocide and ethnic cleansing. I have not made up this stuff. This is merely a reiteration of reality. The Zionist questions are nothing but a media war against the Palestinians. This is a propaganda that is used by Anglo-Saxon imperialist, colonialist, Zionist media.

It is sad that once the victims of Nazism are now the oppressors; the neo-Nazis. How can one justify killing thousands of children, destroying thousands of homes, restricting food, water, fuel, and medical supplies?

Mohammed Khaku
Allentown, USA

Published in Dawn, December 23rd, 2023