Gaza’s abominations: The barbarians who built the gate

go through Jeremy Salter

The tragedy in Gaza has led many people around the world, even most people, to conclude that peace with Israel is impossible. There is no one-state solution, no two-state solution, no peace solution at all. It is harsh, but this is reality.

The Middle East cannot coexist with Israel, while Israel is determined to ensure that the Middle East cannot survive without Israel. Either Israel goes its own way, or forget it. What else can this mentality lead to except disastrous consequences for everyone?

The West is actively and gradually destroying Gaza and its people. We should not be surprised by this, given the West’s long record of genocide. The West seems to have completely lost sight of the civilization it represents. Other governments, far from the scene but anxious to demonstrate their loyalty to the West, are also involved, ignoring the latest alarming news from Gaza in favor of pleasing the Zionist lobby.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has ignored a report by the medical journal The Lancet that the actual death toll from the war in Gaza so far could be as high as 186,000, ignored the Israeli bombing of schools, hospitals and UN buildings and the massacre of dozens of Palestinian men, women and children who had taken refuge there, and instead prioritised the rise of anti-Semitism in Australia.

In fact, the number of complaints has reportedly increased, as most come from Zionist lobby groups that have a vested interest in diverting public attention away from the genocide taking place in Gaza. Each complaint must be verified by neutral observers to determine how much is actual “anti-Semitism” and how much is an expression of opposition to Israel’s genocide.

Albanese, once a supporter of Palestinians, is now a supporter of those who persecute Palestinians. In parliament, he described the events of October 7 as a “horrible massacre,” but he has not since made any condemnation of the Israeli military’s larger killings. He calls for “moral clarity” in opposing Hamas, but shows none when opposing war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Israel. His stance is determined by moral weakness, not moral clarity.

Albanese’s latest distraction is the appointment of a “special envoy on anti-Semitism”, Jillian Segal, former president of the Executive Committee of Australian Jewry (ECAJ), whose real purpose appears to be to defend the Zionist state, which a growing number of Jews around the world see as a threat to their faith. The ECAJ is certainly not authorized to speak for all Australian Jews.

No worse person could have been chosen for the position than another Zionist. Despite her relatively prominent role in Australian public affairs, her vested interest in defending Israel should have disqualified her in the first place. Albanese may be unhappy that Australians know what is happening in Gaza and may even feel insulted by this appointment.

Despite the complete lack of evidence that Hamas exists, Ms. Siegel described Israel’s bombing of Shifa and other hospitals as a blood libel designed to demonize Israel. At the October 12 rally, she repeated the lies that the Israeli propaganda machine had already promulgated in large quantities. If she later discovered that they were all lies, she would not have said so. Moreover, hindsight has shown beyond a reasonable doubt that many, if not most, Israelis were killed by other Israelis, just as other Israelis destroyed their homes and cars with tanks and missiles.

In her words, “The carnage and barbarity that took place in Israel on[October 7]were indescribable.” The unparalleled carnage and barbarity committed by the Israeli government and army since then are undoubtedly “indescribable,” but Ms. Siegel has not said a word of condemnation.

Ms. Siegel describes October 7 as “the barbarians breaking down the gate,” but she fails to recognize that the Zionists were the barbarians. They were not just in the gate. They built the gate. First the closed military zone, then the fences along the border/armistice lines of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt, the five-meter-high galvanized steel and razor wire “wall” stretching 266 kilometers across the Sinai Desert bordering Israel and the Gaza Strip.

Then there is the “separation wall” that separates Palestinians from their land in the West Bank, and the numerous barriers that separate towns and villages from each other. Last but not least, there is the fence around Gaza that separates the area from the rest of Palestine and Egypt. Wherever you look, Palestinians are deliberately trapped in ghettos.

The “ghettos” of 19th century Russia and the slums of Eastern Europe are reappearing in the heart of the Middle East. The idea that otherwise disadvantaged groups can rebuild the homes they themselves have fled will interest historians, sociologists, and psychologists for a long time to come.

They have been inside the gates since Balfour claimed in 1917 that he was going to give Palestine to the Zionist barbarians. Since then, they have not missed any opportunity to prove that they are tribal, extremely violent barbarians: technological barbarians, because they are well-versed in electronics and are able to create advanced weapons of war. They are full of hatred and suspicion towards those who are not part of their tribe. They live on stolen land and will kill/have killed anyone who stands in their way.

As barbarism, Gaza is the greatest and most brutal achievement of the Zionists since 1948. Unless they are stopped, as they will not stop voluntarily, there is no doubt that worse is to come.

Please try to educate yourself, Ms. Siegel. Read some books, by Palestinian and other historians, who have long exposed the fraudulent nature of Zionist history. There are many such books. You can start with Ilan Pape’s Ethnic cleansing in PalestineIf you cannot convincingly deny the truth of what he wrote, then let that set you free. You cannot be a good Jew and a good Zionist at the same time. Which one should you be?

– Jeremy Salter has taught for many years at the University of Melbourne, Bosphorus University in Istanbul, and Bilkent University in Ankara, specializing in the modern history of the Middle East. His most recent books include The Unraveling of the Middle East. A History of the West’s Chaos in Arab Lands (University of California Press, 2008) and The Last Ottoman War. The Human Cost 1877-1923 (University of Utah Press, 2019). He wrote this article for the Palestine Chronicle.