A report released this week by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has documented that the Israeli army has killed more than 40,000 Palestinians in the 10 months it has been unleashing its artillery against the Gaza Strip, a territory that has been virtually demolished inch by inch with a cruelty never seen in times of peace.
“On average, approximately 130 people have been killed every day in Gaza over the past 10 months. The scale of the destruction of homes, hospitals, schools and shelters by the Israeli military is deeply shocking. It marks a grim milestone for the entire world,” the report said.
“This unimaginable situation is largely due to the Israeli defence forces’ repeated failures to comply with the rules of war,” he said.
This gloomy story is passed off in the international community as a festival of banalities that two really important news headlines bury without fail, because it makes no sense to devote time to the insubstantial.
But that is not it. It is an almost biblical massacre; it is like Israel unleashing vengeance on the guilty but not guilty of the genocide suffered by the Jews in the concentration camps of the Third Reich during the Second World War.
It is a constant hammering on a territory where its people have been imprisoned with no possible escape, and where there now exists an immense cemetery of 42 square kilometers full of rubble and ruins. And while the world whistles without a soul.
Any other state that had carried out the massacres that Israel has carried out would have already created an international coalition to bring it to its senses. But it is Israel.
Following the destructive bombings carried out by the ineffable NATO in the 1990s, in the midst of conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, the then president of Serbia, Slobodan Milosevic, was tried and convicted in the International Criminal Court for crimes against civilian populations that produced thousands of victims.
There is no difference between the atrocities of Milosevic—and before him Pol Pot in Cambodia—and those of Netanyahu in Gaza, but this new butcher is allowed to defy everyone.
And part of this hypocritical world prefers to worry about an electoral conflict in Venezuela. It is unheard of!
