Dispatch #163White Lesbian Age 72 Considers Israel’s Infinite License to Execute its Final Solution on Palestinians Guaranteed by US and Complicit EU

April 10th 2025   

Day 81 White Supremacist Misogynist Christian Nationalist Regime

1029 Days Since SCOTUS Ruled American Women Don’t Have Human Rights

560 Days Since Israel Began Genocidal Campaign on Palestinians in Gaza

While the servile quislings of America’s White Supremacist Misogynist Christian Nationalist Regime terrorize girls and women across the country, and the false trappings of America’s self-styled democracy are revealed, Israel’s 18-month-long campaign of torture, carnage, pillage, dismembering and burning children alive, starvation, butchery, savagery, and scorched earth destruction in Gaza is normalized and reported live on social media. 

Faithful Dispatches readers, at this time as Israel and the US can unapologetically and with impunity murder a society of human beings, then our attention and our witness are required. We must continue to condemn with outrage the systematic destruction of housing, infrastructure, hospitals, universities, schools, places of worship, museums, and other sites of collective memory and identity.

Israel’s latest vision for Gaza has a name: Concentration camp. Unable to immediately expel Gazans en masse, Israel seems intent on forcing them into a confined zone — and letting starvation and desperation do the rest. by Meron Rapoport +972 Magazine 1 April 2025  https://www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-concentration-camp-expulsion/

‘They’ll kill us all’: Gazans plead for intervention as Israeli attacks intensify.

Israel’s army is pummeling Gaza with an intensity that parallels the deadliest phase of the war, displacing civilians en masse from Rafah and Gaza City. by Ruwaida Amer and Ahmed Ahmed +972 Magazine 7 April 2025  https://www.972mag.com/rafah-gaza-city-displacement-intense-bombing/  

Israeli ‘massacre’ in Gaza’s Shujayea as residential tower targeted with at least 35 killed, 60 injured and dozens missing. Aljazeera 9 April 2025. www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/4/9/israeli-massacre-in-gazas-shujayea-as-residential-tower-targeted  www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/9/desperate-rescue-effort-after-major-israeli-strike-on-gaza-apartment-block

Israel continues to ‘explore’ whether its genocide campaign against the Palestinians has any limits.  BTW the New York Times, reliable purveyor of Israeli-Zionist propaganda, routinely describes these circumstances as ‘Middle East Tensions’ – uh-huh, like ‘Marital Tensions’ when an angry husband beats his wife to death.

Gaza paramedics shot in upper body ‘with intent to kill’, Red Crescent say.  PRCS calls for international investigation after postmortem results add to evidence contradicting Israel’s account. The Guardian 7 April 2025.  www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/07/gaza-paramedics-shot-in-upper-body-with-intent-to-kill-red-crescent-says

“Point-Blank”: Israeli Soldiers Execute 15 Gaza Medics & Rescue Workers, Bury in Unmarked Mass Grave | Democracy Now! 7 April 2025. Diana Buttu, longtime Palestinian human rights attorney and former adviser to the negotiating team of the Palestine Liberation Organization, spoke with Host Amy Goodman about what happened:

Well, what we know, Amy, is that the Israeli army attacked an area in Rafah, a neighborhood in Rafah, Tel al-Sultan. And as has been the case over the course of the past year and a half — today marks a year and a half of this genocide — paramedics, Palestinian paramedics, went out to try to rescue people who were there, as well as to try to give them some medical services. As has been the case from the beginning, the paramedics notified and gave word [to IDF] that they were heading out. They had their lights on as they’ve always had their lights on. And nonetheless, what we do know is that the Israeli army then attacked the ambulances that were going there — not just attacked these ambulances, but then shot at these individuals point-blank range. Many of them were actually found with their hands and their feet bound. And several of them were found with more than 20 gunshot wounds to the head and to the chest. www.democracynow.org/2025/4/7/gaza_massacre

Israeli soldiers murdered in cold blood 15 Red Crescent paramedics who arrived sequentially in 3 ambulances with red lights flashing on a mission to rescue injured people. Soldiers then bulldozed/buried their bodies under their crushed vehicles. Israel pled ignorance until by chance irrefutable evidence of this horrific crime emerged. Israel then claimed 8 Hamas operatives were targeted - no evidence offered or required. When the presence of Hamas is alleged, Israel enjoys total impunity.

‘Infinite License’ by Omer Bartov New York Review of Books 24 April 2025 Issue.

The memory of the Holocaust has, perversely, been enlisted to justify both the eradication of Gaza and the extraordinary silence with which that violence has been met.

www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/04/24/infinite-license-the-world-after-gaza/

Omer Bartov reviews 11 recently published books in pursuit of an answer to this question: How was it possible, well into the twenty-first century, eighty years after the end of the Holocaust and the creation of an international legal regime meant to prevent such crimes from ever happening again, that the state of Israel—seen and self-described as the answer to the genocide of the Jews—could have carried out a genocide of Palestinians with near-total impunity? How do we face up to the fact that Israel has invoked the Holocaust to shatter the legal order put into place to prevent a repetition of this “crime of crimes”? 

Another compelling excerpt:

In his book In Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza, a moving account of his transformation from a strong supporter of Israel into a staunch critic of Zionism, Peter Beinart suggests that in the aftermath of the Holocaust a sense of “false innocence” came to suffuse “contemporary Jewish life, camouflag[ing] domination as self-defense.” For remembering must have consequences, especially when it comes with an absolute commitment to “never again” allow a Holocaust to happen. And when “never again” becomes not just a slogan but part of a state ideology, when it becomes the prism transforming every threat, every security issue, every challenge to the state’s legitimacy or righteousness into an existential peril, then no holds must be barred to defend those who have already faced annihilation. It is a worldview, Beinart writes, that “offers infinite license to fallible human beings.”

Once Hamas militants are seen as modern-day Nazis, Israel can be imagined as an avenging angel, uprooting its enemies with fire and sword. During my childhood and youth in Israel, the Holocaust was a symbol of shame and denial, an event in which Jews went like sheep to the slaughter. Over the years, as I have grown older, it has become something else entirely: a story of solidarity, pride, and Jewish heroism. It is this sense of “never again” that permits most Jewish Israeli citizens to see themselves as occupying the moral high ground even as they, their army, their sons and daughters, and their grandchildren pulverize every inch of the Gaza Strip. The memory of the Holocaust has, perversely, been enlisted to justify both the eradication of Gaza and the extraordinary silence with which that violence has been met. www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/04/24/infinite-license-the-world-after-gaza/

The consequences of endemic Western anti-semitism (US+Europe) and legacy of colonial imperialism are now visited upon the Palestinians – Imperial Britain giving Palestinian land/country to unwanted Jewish refugees. Yes, we are living in the 21st Century and witnessing a brutal and savage genocide that Israel will complete on the Palestinians.  We humans are all complicit, we all see that human beings can be declared animals and eradicated at the whim of biggest bully. 

If we take into account the killed, the wounded, the thousands buried under the rubble, the thousands of “indirect” deaths due to the destruction of most medical facilities, the thousands of children who will never fully recover from the long-term effects of starvation and trauma, we can undoubtedly conclude that Israel has deliberately subjected the Palestinian people in Gaza, most of whom are refugees from the partition of Palestine in 1948 or their descendants, to “conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part,” as stated in Article II(c) of the 1948 UN Genocide Convention. The rest of the world, especially Israel’s Western allies and Jewish communities in Europe and the United States, will have to grapple with this reality for many years. www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/04/24/infinite-license-the-world-after-gaza/

How indeed will Bartov’s question be answered?