The scale of deliberate Israeli cruelty against the Gazan people over the past five months is still difficult for Australians to absorb. But internationally, a key political fact has clearly emerged: that Israel, the US and their supportive Western allies (like Australia, to our nation’s shame) have now shredded any moral standing on the issue of the war in Gaza.

It has become clear to millions of voters in the West that Israel’s government under Netanyahu, sustained in a rabid pro-war coalition by extremist Zionists whose ideology can fairly be described as Zio-Nazi, behaves in practice as a ruthless anti-Palestinian cult determined to expand Israel’s lands and with zero concern for human rights of Palestinians whom they regard as sub-humans. The test is in Israel’s deeds, not her endlessly inventive false words.

Biden has clearly emerged as Netanyahu’s ineffectual puppet, wholly ideologically captured years ago by Zionist Israel, and in any case financially dependent on wealthy single-issue US Zionist billionaires for any hopes (fast diminishing) of his defeating Trump in November.

Netanyahu still has not entirely given up on his genocidal dream of forcing a panic-stricken Gadarene rush of nearly 2 million starving Gazans from desperately overcrowded Rafah in the far south of Gaza across the border to permanently encamped exile in the Egyptian Sinai desert, in another phase of the Nakba (catastrophe) for the Palestinian people which began in 1946.

But this seems a little less likely now than a few weeks ago. The rate of deaths by Israeli fire on civilians in Gaza seems to have declined, but the deaths by starvation, infectious disease, and closure of all hospitals in Gaza are climbing. Miraculously, and as a result of the world witnessing sustained incredible courage by the grief-stricken but stoically defiant Gazan people, international political counter-pressure is building on the Zionist Democrats and........

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