Imagine the possibility of a madman getting elected President of the United States of America.
The first thing the madman does in his capacity as
commander-in-chief of the armed forces, is order the immediate cessation of the
American and NATO assistance extended to the Ukrainian side in the ongoing war
that the country is having with Russia.
This done, the mad American President starts a campaign
aimed at effectuating a complete reversal of the policy thus far pursued by
America towards the Russo-Ukrainian War. To that end, he pressures the NATO
allies and the rest of the world to stop aiding Ukraine and start aiding Russia
morally, financially, diplomatically and when possible, militarily.
Seeing that America has closed every door that could be
used to resolve the nightmarish conflict through which its people are living, Ukraine
decides to turn to the International Criminal Court to look into the case and adjudicate
it one way or the other. A panicked Russia responds by asking the mad American
President to intervene, and he orders the State Department to issue a statement
to the effect that Ukraine’s move to seek justice the most peaceful of ways and
most respectful of the rule of law, is counter-productive because it will damage
the atmosphere with Russia. In other words, America’s position is this: Screw
peace and screw the rule of law.
If you, my dear reader, believe that American madness has
reached its limit with that kind of attitude, I urge you to think again because
this supposed hypothetical situation is actually playing out in real life, and
showing even more horrendous applications. The thing is that the names of the
protagonists have been changed. You will come to see the real situation as it
is currently unfolding on the ground by replacing the name Russia with Israel,
and replacing the name Ukraine with Palestine.
When you have done this, you will immediately realize
that not only is America aiding and abetting the Israeli genocide of Palestinians,
America is participating in, financing and encouraging the genocide.
You consider Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians under
occupation, such as jailing the children, blowing up the homes of Palestinians,
allowing them to leave the country but not returning to it, contracting mentally
retarded prominent American politicians to declare in the name of America that
the Palestinians are not a people — and you realize that America
is complicit in violating at least three articles (2,8 and 9) of the United
Nations’ Convention
on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. The following is an
abbreviated reproduction of the three articles:
Article 2: Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to
destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical or racial group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to
members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of
life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part. Article
8: Any Contracting Party may call upon the competent organs of the United
Nations to take such action under the Charter of the United Nations as they
consider appropriate for the prevention and suppression of acts of genocide. Article
9: Disputes between the Contracting Parties relating to the interpretation,
application or fulfilment of the present Convention, shall be submitted to the
International Court of Justice at the request of any of the parties to the
dispute.
Fully realizing the enormity of the crimes that America
has been inflicting for decades on the people of Palestine, the editors of the
New York Daily News were so shaken by a pronouncement that the American President
Joe Biden made recently with regard to Russia’s activities in occupied Ukraine —
those editors came up with an editorial which they hope will diminish the seriousness
of what Russia is committing in Ukraine, thus also diminish the seriousness of
its analog in the Israeli-Palestinian situation.
What those editors did was write a piece under the title:
“A most serious charge,” and the subtitle: “Genocide is a horror that must not
be invoked lightly.” And they published the piece as an editorial on April 14,
2022 in their newspaper.
The following is a condensed version of what the New York
Daily News editors are saying:
“President Biden described
Russian actions in Ukraine, telling reporters that he called them genocide
because it’s become clearer and clearer that Putin is trying to wipe out even
the idea of being Ukrainian. Biden is right
that what he’s describing would qualify as genocide under the definition in the
UN Convention on the subject. The trouble is, it’s far from clear at this point
that Putin’s invasion and war crimes, rise to this bar. Russia’s moves have
some nexus to long-standing impulses to wipe out a separate and defined
Ukrainian identity, but this being the reality on the ground is a leap that has
not yet been proven. This has very consequential
implications. Genocide is the most hideous of all crimes and carries with it a
moral and legal obligation to act”.
The
American Department of State violated the rule of human decency by saying in
effect: Screw peace and screw the rule of law.