Who knew?
Our post–7 October world.
Who knew—not I, did you?—the beauty of a dandelion, gone to seed, clothed in morning dew.
—C. M.
11 MAY—Who Knew? Who knew on 6 October of 2023 that 7 October would forever change the world?
Who knew Israel would use the Hamas attack—a long-overdue breakout from the world’s largest concentration camp—to implement a genocide?
Who knew Israel’s much vaunted “right to defend itself” extended to illegally occupied territory and justified the mass slaughter of civilians? And who knew so many Western leaders—and, it must be said, ordinary people—would accept and even insist upon this depraved and immoral premise?
Who knew most of the world, with the admirable exception of South Africa, would remain silent?
And worse.
Who knew the United States would, in the first two years after 7 October, give Israel nearly $28 billion in military aid and weaponry to sustain Israel’s genocidal assault in Gaza?
Who knew the United Sates would willingly corrupt its Constitution, shred it’s Bill of Rights, overthrow academic freedom, and destroy any international legitimacy it may have had in behalf of Zionist Israel?
Who knew that countries—including all of the BRICs nations—would continue doing business with Israel—in energy, technology, and security? All areas that support a genocide. Who knew economic relationships and advantages outweighed international law and basic human decency?
Who knew that Yemen would be the only country to fulfill its legal obligations under Article 1 of the 1948 Genocide Convention, which obligates signatories to prevent genocide?
Who knew the depths of Jewish Israeli sadism?
Who knew the genocide would still be under way as of today, as of the day you’re reading this?
Who knew that on 28 February the U.S. and Israel would begin carpet-bombing Iran, targeting schools, hospitals, apartments buildings, civilian infrastructure and industry, journalists, and aid workers?
Who knew Israel would use the cover of a fictitious ceasefire to turn southern Lebanon into a pile of rubble like Gaza and one million Lebanese into refugees?
Who knew a vast majority of Israeli Jews would support ethnic-cleansing and genocide? And who could have guessed I.D.F. soldiers would film themselves celebrating their depravity?
Indeed, who knew the depravity of Zionists or the cruelty of Jewish Israelis or the barbarity and madness the U.S. empire, in its decline, would unleash upon the world?
Who knew that we—we, all of us—would each day teeter on the edge of nuclear war?
All of that and also this:
The beauty of a dandelion, gone to seed, clothed in morning dew.
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I so loved reading this. So sadly true - and well said.
I think Yawah Sinwar had some idea, at least to the viciousness of the Israeli response. The decision of his life was to revolt, knowing the wanton depravity of the Israelis would claim countless Palestinian lives, or do nothing, to allow his people to live not much more than biological existences, with no life prospects, all at the hands of the Israelis, basically to live living deaths, while the world at large continued blithely along its way, unaware of the stark, horrid, hasbara-stoked reality of Israel. Of course in this I speculate, but I don’t think I’m far off, fractionally imagining myself in his shoes, after his imprisonment and other abuses and indignities and inhumanities by the Israelis.
I also think he had some expectation that the world would awaken, would do something to put an end to the barbarity. It was a bitter awakening for him that instead of ceasing military aid to Israel, this country sent more munitions with which to kill his people.
It remains to be seen what the import of Oct. 7th will be, whether after incalculable, unfathomable death and inhumanity the stain upon the human record of the Zionist project will finally be historically, temporally limited yet still forever indelible; or whether the malignity of it, encompassing this and other countries’ complicity, will be a triumphant Zionist legacy of nihilism for the world, that fundamentally nothing matters in this cosmic phenomenon of human existence.