Why is the West Carrying out a Genocide of the Palestinians with Israel and the Arab World as Sup-Contractors?
Hatem Bazian
Executive Director, Islamophobia Studies Center. Professor, Zaytuna College, Lecturer in Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures & Asian American Studies, UC Berkeley, Editor, Islamophobia Journal, President, IISRA
This question, more than any of the daily details, the open lies from the State Department and White House Spokespeople, the double-speak, the empty UN Security Council meetings, the racism, indifference, and insults, is the one that needs to be answered. Why, why, and almost 300,000 Palestinians murdered by the Israeli military in cold blood asking why?
You see, the West has two critical stimuli; more do exist, but these two are the driving force behind their action related to Palestine and the co-production of the genocide in Gaza. 1. The affirmation of Western exceptionalism through a modern crusading epistemology or framework that seeks to arrive at the universal singularity of "civilization," which can only be Western in the form and content that it appears today since history for this view unfolds within a progressive trajectory.
To assert and actualize this idea, the conquest of Palestine (the Hold Land) is part of a deeply held irredentism and a sense of territorial and spiritual emptiness due to the birth land of Christianity, a foundational self-produced belief of Western exceptionalism, being in the hand of Muslims and the population itself converted to Islam. Sponsoring Zionism and co-producing the Genocide is intended to bring about the Second Coming of Jesus, which would be the affirmation of Western exceptionalism writ large.
It is precisely this point that makes the Western elite suckle on this idea of exceptionalism for generations and awaits the affirmation of the progressive lived history to unfold. If the Palestinians need to be committed to genocide for this future to unfold, then it is "worth it," and history will be vindicated.
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2. The second stimulus is economics and also the affirmation of Western exceptionalism through capitalism, market economy and all the elements that come with it. Western power and domination were arrived utilizing massive use of military power so as to capture markets, take hold of natural resources and create dependent "states" across the Global South. The past five hundred years that created this modern Western-dominated world was achieved through the utilization of massive violence and committing multiple genocides to keep it going at any price.
The region we call "Middle East" is home to huge oil and natural gas resources, the foundation of the modern economy, as well as sitting on the key strategic waterways for movements of trade across the world. Israel, Zionism and Arab elites, including the religious cadre that is not rotten in jails, are all sub-contractors in maintaining and extending this global economic order that is protected by massive military force or the threat of using massive military force. From the point of view of Western elites and their regional sub-contractors, the Palestinians have not read or accepted this assigned role and continue to challenge this existing order on the one hand and have demonstrated the ability to inspire a globla counter-decolonial epistemic.
For these two reasons, the genocide is allowed to continue with massive support from all the major Western powers, who seek to affirm the false premise of the modern colonial Western order.
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3 周There is no genocide. It's time to jettison this scam cause called Palestine and start worrying about the issues that matter to us. There has never existed a sovereign state called Palestine. It is a fabrication that came up in the 1960s, thanks to that Egyptian Arab terrorist Yasser Arafat and the KGB.