The Crater of Silence

Posted 9/11/2024 (9th September, 2024) - from F.B. post

The Israel occupation forces have systematically struck areas already designated as “humanitarian safe zones” during its one-year genocide in Gaza, including Al-Mawasi in Khan Younis 

At least 40 Palestinians have been killed and more than 65 others injured in Israeli airstrikes that targeted a tent encampment located in Al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza strip on Tuesday, September 10.

The heavy aerial assault also created two massive, nine-meter deep craters, which has led many to allege that Israel used US-manufactured 2,000 pound bombs in the attack.

Although Al-Mawasi area was already designated as a “humanitarian safe zone” by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF), it has been subjected to deadly attacks by Israeli warplanes more than once during the last several months. According to Anadolu News Agency, the Israeli military have committed 5 massacres in Al-Mawasi, killing at least 217 Palestinian people between May and September 2024. Palestine Solidarity Campaign, September 2024

Cease Fire in Palestine and Ukraine NOW.

Every day that goes by and the talking goes on falls into the hands of the oppressors who have made no secret of their intentions to remove Palestinians from their homeland by one means or another regardless of international law and rulings by the United Nations intend to prevent genocide and provide necessities for life and well being in Gaza and now other parts of Palestine in the West Bank and Jerusalem.

The United Kingdom has been called the most prominent Cheer Leader in support of United States Foreign policy of providing arms to others to avoid entering fights involving their own army, which by all accounts is not in any condition to succeed in overcoming forces that it has ranged against itself. The creation of enemies has been carried out by continuing foreign policy which seeks to dominate others by force while deliberately refusing to solve problems by diplomatic means. This has been achieved by creating false narratives whcih bare little or no relation to actuality. The leaders of the U.S. CIA and British MI6 appeared on television to tell how Russia was losing the war in Ukraine when it has been clear that the Ukrainian army is desperately short of fighting men and women. They continue to make a case for the Ukraine to become a member of NATO which Russia has made clear since the end of the Soviet era would be an intolerable threat to Russia's sovereignty. The United States stated this exact position in its Munroe Doctrine over 100 years ago.

Both conflicts in Palestine and Ukraine have no strategy or plan to end while in both cases people are dying at alarming rates. Two more countries are being destroyed as the United States and western backers continue to keep White colonial domination alive while Israel has seized on the opportunity of attempting to involve the United States in wide spread war threatening a nuclear confrontation. The far right Zionist administration led by Banjamin Netanyahu have shown determination to keep the "war" going until its objectives have succeeded. This includes defeating Hamas, labelled as "terrorist" by the U.S. and western governments and creating a Jewish state in greater Israel. Although this appears to be self-defeating and the means of achieving this, if not the ideal, is widely opposed by the the Israeli people themselves. Many Jewish people world wide are dismayed that Zionism is conflated with Judaism and have been prominent in world wide demonstrations in support of a cease fire and peaceful solution to the conflict.

John Tyrrell, President, Socialist Labour Party 11/9/2024