Israel supported Hamas for many years in order to defeat the PLO and any possibility of a two-state solution. Israel’s goal has always been to take the West Bank and Gaza for its own. All Israel’s policies--even the “hymns” their children sing--extol the complete extermination of people they refer to as “human animals” and “beasts.” Israel craves the enormous oil field, worth $500 billions, that lies under Gazan sands and offshore, intending to replace Russia as the world’s leading supplier of oil. And the USA fully intends to buy as much of it as possible, at a greatly reduced price. (Surely Israel will eventually turn tail to tell the US to “pound sand.”) In their cultish belief in their supreme entitlement, Israel has created a nation state of liars contaminated by their own fictions. (We suffer similar self-delusions in the US, with our cozy “history” relating no genocides here but valorous Texas Rangers and colonizing settlers, despite the near extinction of all Indigenous tribes, the kidnapping of some 6 million Africans into slavery, the continuing institutionalized trauma of racism and murders committed by police--our alleged “protectors”--and more deaths from guns since 1968 than in all our wars--combined.)

The world is witnessing the deep trauma inflicted by the Holocaust repeating, with its victims now become eager perpetrators. A further irony is, while Israel accuses those who protest as anti-Semites, the actual Semites are the Palestinians; most Israelis --and most Zionists--are of European and Anglo ancestry. Thus does humanity eat its own.