Thread by @Rrrrnessa

Can I say something, possibly controversial?

I strongly believe, based on conversation I have had off the record with certain people, that in the US and UK (possibly throughout Europe) everyone is aware that Israel is committing genocide and they will let them do it….

Because nobody, no country especially, wants to be the one to threaten a Jewish state and certainly no country wants to be the one to bombs Jew throughout intervention in this genocide. An act they would certainly do eventually if it was a different state committing genocide.

I think WWII has forever changed the narrative, the approach, and the diplomatic relationship towards Israel. They are viewed as a Jewish state, a narrative they worked overtime to craft. Attacking Israel means attacking Jews. Hence why so few countries are willing to even do it.

It is not the case that the US or Europe truly believe Israel and that Israel is defending itself. No. It is not the case that Israel is magically controlling the US or any country at that. It is simply fear rooted in WWII and the horrors Jewish people endured during Holocaust.

I think it is easy to conclude that instead of learning the lesson of the Holocaust to be “never again, to anyone, anywhere” the Western world has learned it as “never again to Jewish people” which in turn gives Israel the green light to commit genocide.

All while people conflate the state of Israel with the Jewish people, I strongly believe that there will be no repercussions or consequences for Israel’s genocidal actions. They have grown emboldened, look at their actions in the West Bank.

It is both sad and scary. Instead of working to prevent and stop genocide of any peoples, the Intl Community has simply allowed Israel (since WWII) to do as it pleases to the Palestinians b/c they suffered during WWII.

No European country and certainly not the States, wants to intervene in the genocide of the Palestinian people because they do not wish to create any sort of conditions that would, in any way, threaten the Jewish people b/c again the conflation of the State of Israel with Jews.

Whether it’s at the UNSC, whether it’s through an arms embargo, whether it’s through sanctions and boycotts or divestment, and especially whether it’s through actual use or threats of force…they will not do it. B/c of their actions or lack of actions during WWII.

The world knows that Israel is committing genocide. There is not a single person on this planet that can avoid accepting the fact that Israel is committing genocide based on all the evidence we have. They will still do nothing.

We have created a world in which if you are the right kind of a victim, you will be allowed to perpetrate all sorts of atrocities and horrors against the innocent because after all you once suffered.

The image of the victim has been carefully curated and cultivated by Israel.

Despite the fact that it was Jewish people that suffered during the Holocaust and not The State of Israel. It was Jewish peoples throughout Europe that suffered, not the Israeli state. It does not matter anymore. They are now conflated and thought of as one.

When the Palestinians are gone, then what? What is next. Lebanon? Syria? Jordan? Egypt?

After that?

Israel is a colonial power and is behaving in accordance with that. It will not suddenly stop when they exterminate all the Palestinians. How long will the IC stay silent?

What infuriates me is not the fact they are not doing anything to stop it but the fact that they are behaving as if Israel has the right to commit genocide? What sort of precedent will that set for IHRL? This will not end quickly.