My Take | US exchanges credibility for criminal complicity in Palestine
- American elites are squandering the country’s global standing and political capital defending the indefensible with Israel’s genocidal war
When you not only defend but actively enable genocide and the mass murder of children, all norms and standards in human decency go out the window. That’s what’s happening to the ruling and media elites in the United States and allied Western powers such as Germany as they are now fully complicit in Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza and murderous repression in the West Bank.
The US has dug such a big hole for itself it’s turning into a moral abyss. Not only has it supplied essential weapons, intelligence and funding without which Israel could not continue its merciless assault on the very existence of the Palestinian people, it is pretending that doing so is both just and necessary.
That’s why you have increasingly ludicrous statements and actions from its elites, who are offering live-TV lessons on how genocides became possible in the modern world.
Former chairman of the US Joint Chiefs Mark Milley was last week admitting major atrocities the American military had committed at a Washington forum for lawmakers and military contractors.
But if you think it was a rare moment of moral self-reflection, you would be disappointed.
“We shouldn’t forget that we [the] United States killed a lot of innocent people in Mosul, in Raqqa, that we the United States killed 12,000 innocent French civilians. And here we are on the 80th anniversary of Normandy, on the prep fires for Normandy. We destroyed 69 Japanese cities, not including Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We slaughtered people in massive numbers, innocent people who had nothing to do with their government, men, women and children.”
A mea culpa from a career soldier? Not quite. What he meant was that Americans have done the same, so “we” (the Americans) are in no position to criticise Israel, except to let it finish the job.
