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Do Palestinian lives matter?

Femi Fani-Kayode
April 11, 2024
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THITY-FIVE thousand innocent and defenceless Palestinians, including 15000 children, have been targetted and killed in Gaza by Israel over the last 6 months yet it was only after seven western aid workers of the World Central Kitchen were tragically and callously targeted and murdered in cold blood by the Israeli Defence Force last week that western Governments and the Western media are beginning to recognise the fact that the Jewish state has turned into a monstrous and uncontrollable beast.  This begs the following questions.  Does blood not flow through the veins of Arabs and Muslims in the same way that it flows through the veins of westerners and Christians?  Is the blood of westerners redder  than the blood of Arabs? Do Palestinian lives not matter? Are American, British, Australian and French lives more precious than the lives of Palestinian men, women and children?  How can one explain or wish away this glaring display of emotional selectivity, hypocrisy and double standards? Is it not racism in its most glaring and ugly form?  Is this not a case of psychological apartheid in motion and have the leaders of the West not developed a classic sociopathic and psychopathic disposition when it comes to the suffering of the Palestinians.

Even after 75 years of barbarous servitude and occupation followed by the mass murder and genocide that we are witnessing in Gaza today few notable western leaders give a damn and most of them have not only turned a blind eye to it but are also willing partners and complicit in the most graphic and barbaric expression of man’s inhumanity to man and sheer wickedness since the Nazi holocaust of World War 11.  Given this all-embracing endorsement and unconditional support that they enjoy is it any wonder that the Zionists believe that they have the divine right to give life and take it at will and at their pleasure? Is it any wonder that the Jewish state believes that it can get away with mass murder and ethnic cleansing? Is it any wonder that the Zionists believe that they are divine beings with a divine purpose, the master race, God’s chosen people?  Is it any wonder that they believe that they are totally and completely above the law and untouchable given the unconditional support and tacit approval that they enjoy from NATO and the powers that be in the west?

Over the last six months western leaders have applauded Israel for slaughtering the Palestinians and destroying all their infrastructures yet they only started questioning their devilish collusion with what can only be decribed as unadulterated evil when seven of their own citizens who were doing charity work and helping to feed the starved and beleaguered children of Gaza were also butchered in a hail of precision rockets that brutally cut them down one after the other. These same people did not shed a tear or say a word when Israeli jets mowed down hundreds of Palestinian civilians as they tried to grab food from aid trucks that came in from Egypt.  To them, that did not matter and neither did they view it as an atrocity or describe it as a war crime or a crime against humanity because those that were murdered were “mainly Muslims and only Arabs”. Is this fair? Can it be justified or defended?  Is it not a perfidious display of double speak, double standards and devilry? Is it not a gratuitous insult to our collective humanity and a monumental shame?  Are Arabs, Africans, Asians and the people of the “global South” not human beings too?

Again for the last few months western leaders stuck to their oars and stubbornly refused to acknowledge the fact that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cannot be controlled and that no longer listens to its master. They refused to accept the fact that he had become the proverbial falcon that was no longer prepared to listen to the falconer. They refused to recognise the fact that the genocide in Gaza was not about religion but rather about the implementation of an insidious, sinister, religious and racist agenda and an unconciable attempt by a horrendous and deluded horde of callous, bitter and vengeful Zionist barbarians to decimate, displace and exterminate the Palestinian people and steal their land.  So drunk are Netanyahu and those around him on the blood of Palestinian children that not even American President Joe Biden, their biggest and greatest friend and ally, can control them. Will the Zionists ever accept the fact that killing women, children, refugees, journalists, clerics, doctors, nurses, hospital workers, United Nations staff, the elderly, the disabled, the mentally challenged, the weak and other innocent and defenceless civilians in the name of world Jewry and the Israeli state is not only unacceptable but also an abomination and an affront to our collective humanity.  They say when a dog loses its mind and not only refuses to listen to its master but also turns on him and attempts to bite him one is constrained to put a bullet in its head and put it out of its misery.

Calling out Israel for the atrocities they are committing in Gaza and  insisting on an immediate and unconditional ceasefire makes me anti-semitic then so be it.  As a matter of fact it is a badge and label that I would wear proudly. I do not believe that it is acceptable for the Jewish state to consistently break international humanitarian law and commit war crimes. If that makes me anti semitic then so be it. I do not believe that aid workers and journalists should be targetted and killed. If that makes me anti-Semitic then so be it. I do not believe that it is right for Bibi Netanyahu to smirk and grin on national television as he tells the world how the seven western aid workers were targetted and murdered in Gaza by his army. If that makes me anti semitic then so be it. I do not believe that it is right and proper for the Iranian Embassy in Damascus to be targetted and bombed by the Israeli Defence Force or that senior Iranian military commanders that were staying there should be murdered in cold blood. If that makes me anti-Semitic then so be it.nI do not think it is acceptable for Israel to bomb the city of Allepo in Syria and kill 42 people including defenceless civilians. If that makes me anti semitic then so be it.

I do not believe that the Jews have a licence from God to kill innocent and defenceless civilians. If that makes me anti-semitic then so be it.  I do not believe that it is right for the western nations to continue to supply arms to Israel and to be complicit in and an enabler of genocide. If that makes me anti semitic then so be it. I do not believe that the Jews are the master race that have been specially chosen above others by God. If that makes me anti-semitic then so be it.

  • Fani-Kayode, a former Minister of Aviation, writes in via [email protected]

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