Dispatch #167 White Lesbian Age 73 Considers “One Day, When It’s Safe and It’s Too Late to Hold Anyone Accountable, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This.”

July 20th 2025 Day 183 White Supremacist Misogynist Christian Nationalist Regime

 

1126 Days Since SCOTUS Ruled American Women Don’t Have Human Rights

634 Days Since Israel Began Genocidal Campaign on Palestinians in Gaza

The image of eight-month-old Saeed Samer al-Laqqa’s decapitated and severely malnourished body was widely shared on social media 9 July 2025.  Israel killed him and his entire family when an Israeli airstrike targeted their apartment in a residential building. 

Why Israel wants to kill the children of Gaza. The absence of their brutal deaths from western news is part of the institutional silence that has sustained Israel's genocidal project for more than 21 months. | Middle East Eye 17 July 2025.  

Missiles and shrapnel rip through the fragile bodies of children in open marketplaces, at water collection points, at aid distribution sites, and while waiting in line for nutritional supplements. Children are bombed inside displacement tents, burned alive in school shelters and buried beneath the rubble of their homes.

How does one begin to explain, let alone comprehend, Israel's disproportionate and deliberate targeting of children? With its advanced weaponry, surveillance and control over the population registry, these killings are not accidental - they are codified into policy.

In a society with one of the highest literacy rates in the region, despite decades of siege and bombardment, educated youth are not only symbols of survival; they are agents of liberation.  To a violent colonising power, a child with a book, a dream, or a memory is more dangerous than any weapon.

Targeting children, then, is not collateral damage. It is strategy. It is part of a broader campaign to destroy hope, overwrite the future, and maintain the machinery of occupation through fear and erasure.  www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/why-israel-wants-kill-palestinian-children-gaza

A "Humanitarian City" of Ruins: The Final Displacement of Gaza | Informed Comment 17 July 2025. 

What Israel offers today is not safety. It is not peace. It is not even exile. It is something far more cruel: an illusion of refuge atop the ruins of history, enforced by those who themselves arose from the ashes of genocide in Europe. That a state born from such horror now engineers another people’s erasure is a moral collapse too vast to comprehend.  www.juancole.com/2025/07/humanitarian-ruins-displacement.html 

On 24 October 2023, two and a half weeks after Hamas’ attack on Israel, Gaza’s Health Ministry reported Israel’s bombardment killed 704 Palestinians in the previous 24 hours. The next day, Egyptian-Canadian writer Omar El Akkad posted a now famous sentence on X: “One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.”     

The Western liberal’s moral collapse in Gaza. The title of Omar El Akkad’s new book is One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This.  | +972 7 July 2025.  

El Akkad’s essays explore why the West only venerates resistance in hindsight, the failure and hypocrisy of Western liberalism, and how we might reconstruct humanity from the ashes of genocide. www.972mag.com/omar-el-akkad-gaza-genocide-book-review/   

The West made us pay for its guilt - and now watches as Israel delivers the final Nakba. Palestinians have long suffered for the West's unresolved history with its Jewish population. As Israel carries out its final ethnic cleansing, the world still refuses to act. | Middle East Eye 19 May 2025.  www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/west-pay-guilt-now-watch-israel-delivers-final-nakba

The Jewish supremacy at the heart of the Zionist project –Ideas of Jewish supremacy have been central to the Zionist movement from its beginning. Just as we call out white supremacy in the United States, we must call out Jewish supremacy in occupied Palestine. | Mondoweiss 20 June 2025.

            …the creation of political Zionism can be traced back to the thinking of several late 19th-century Jewish thinkers, most notably Theodore Herzl, an Austro-Hungarian journalist…Herzl began imagining a Jewish supremacist state around the time of the first Zionist Congress of 1897. Despite its mythology, Israel was not created because of the Holocaust. Even so, early European Zionists like Herzl were developing plans for a Jewish state against the backdrop of Europe’s “Jewish Question.” …This “Jewish question” in Europe led middle-class and wealthy Jewish people like Herzl to develop a political form of Zionism that could borrow the logics of white supremacy (that Jews in 19th-century Europe were excluded from) and develop something entirely their own – a Jewish supremacist state. 

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/06/the-jewish-supremacy-at-the-heart-of-the-zionist-project/

Israeli Minister: 'Gaza must be in Ruins for Decades,' as Airstrike Kills Children seeking Water | Informed Comment 14 July 2025. www.juancole.com/2025/07/minister-airstrike-children.html 

‘Like a video game’: Israel enforcing Gaza evacuations with grenade-firing drones. The Israeli army is weaponizing Chinese-made drones to police expulsion orders across Gaza, with soldiers saying they deliberately target civilians so others will ‘learn’ not to return, an investigation reveals. | +972 10 July 2025.

Soldiers testified that these drone strikes are often carried out against anyone entering an area the army has determined is off-limits to Palestinians — a designation that is never demarcated on the ground. Two sources used variations of the phrase “learning through blood” to describe the army’s expectation that Palestinians will come to understand these arbitrary boundaries after civilians are killed upon entering the area. www.972mag.com/drones-grenades-gaza-chinese-autel/ 

Israel’s Decimation of Transportation Is Adding to Gaza’s Death Toll.  When movement is restricted and ambulances are scarce, the smallest wound can become a death sentence in Gaza. | truthout 14 July 2025.  https://truthout.org/articles/israels-decimation-of-transportation-is-adding-to-gazas-death-toll/ 

Indiscriminately bombing/killing civilians and destroying urban neighborhoods across Gaza, the West Bank, Yemen and Lebanon with impunity courtesy of the US, Israel now turns to attacking Syria.  Asserting patently false claims about protecting the Druze in southern Syria, and acting contrary to ongoing US efforts to reestablish diplomatic ties with new Syrian regime, Israel bombs civilian infrastructure in Damascus and wields its scorched earth terrorism on Syrians in the Golan Heights.

World reacts to Israeli attacks on Syria’s Damascus. A roundup of key international reactions after Israeli air strikes near the Defence Ministry and presidential palace in Syria’s capital. | Al Jazeera 16 July 2025.

 The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) – comprising Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates – condemned the attacks in the “strongest terms”.

In a statement, GCC Secretary-General Jasem Mohamed Albudaiwi said the Israeli attacks were a “flagrant violation” of Syria’s sovereignty, “a breach of international laws and norms, and a serious threat to regional security and stability”.  Albudaiwi reiterated the GCC’s support for Syria’s territorial integrity, adding that the continuation of Israeli attacks constituted an “irresponsible escalation” and disregarded international efforts to achieve stability in Syria and the region. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/16/world-reacts-to-israeli-attacks-on-syrias-damascus

VIDEO REPORT: Israel Imposes No-Build Zone in Southern Lebanon, Terrorizing Locals With Surveillance and Shelling. | Drop Site News 18 July 2025.

Since a ceasefire with Lebanon was declared last November, Israel has violated it over 3,000 times. As part of that agreement, Israeli forces withdrew from Aita al Shaab—a southern border village in Nabatiyeh governorate, just 1,000 meters from multiple Israeli military outposts. But before it did, Israel systematically detonated nearly every home and building in the town. Since the withdrawal, a de facto “no rebuild” policy has taken hold: residents attempting to repair roofs or clear rubble are targeted. Drone surveillance, sniper fire, artillery shelling, and air to ground missile strikes have all been used to enforce this policy. Today, the town is littered with Hezbollah flags and posters of fighters killed while attempting to defend it. Aita al Shaab is one of dozens of villages across the south that have faced near-total destruction at the hands of Israeli forces. https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/video-report-israel-imposes-no-build-zone-southern-lebanon

Israel says it launched ‘special, targeted operations’ in southern Lebanon | Al Jazeera 9 July 225.  www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/9/israel-launches-special-targeted-operations-in-southern-lebanon 

Israel’s Bombs Have Stopped Falling, But Iranians [All People Living in the Middle East] Still Face an Uncertain Future | truthout 2 July 2025.      

The long-term effects of the war on Iranian society will continue to take shape over time. They will also be tied to the war’s global effects. Israel and the U.S.’s assault on Iran has established a terrifying new precedent: unprovoked wars as an acceptable form of geopolitics. This, on top of Israel’s U.S.-backed genocide in Gaza, will undoubtedly reshape our world order. Indeed, the lack of accountability for Israel’s war crimes was no doubt part of the reason why Israel felt it could expand the war to Iran without suffering any consequences. https://truthout.org/articles/israels-bombs-have-stopped-falling-but-iranians-still-face-an-uncertain-future/

That Israel, a state born from the ashes of genocide in Europe, now engineers the genocide of Palestinians while the world watches, represents an international moral collapse too vast to comprehend. 

One day, when it’s safe and it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.  But not yet….not yet.