The United States has taken nearly 6 months, and the deaths of around 35,000 people, to finally lift its veto for the first time against international attempts at the UN to stop the Zionist slaughter of the Palestinians in Gaza. In all that time it has provided the intelligence, missiles and moral/diplomatic cover to facilitate the continuation of the mass killing.

Without this assistance what Israel has been doing is impossible.

It now sees that the US’s stance, shoulder to shoulder with the perpetrators of a clear and open attempt at mass ethnic cleansing and genocide, is seriously eroding the moral standing of not only itself, but the West in general. Western governments are in a state of panic about their populations’ horror at the suffering of women and children, and are moving to distance themselves from the slaughter.

The US is attempting damage limitation, pleading with Israel to minimise its overt slaughter of the innocent and trying to send signals, in the nicest possible way, that its patience is not inexhaustable. But even as the US veto is lifted for the first time at the UN it is put about by Washington’s Ambassador there that its actions are non-binding i.e. should not be seen as of any consequence.

Furthermore on March 30 the Washington Post reported:

“The Biden administration in recent days quietly authorised the transfer of billions of dollars in bombs and fighter jets to Israel despite Washington’s concerns about an anticipated military offensive in southern Gaza that could threaten the lives of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians. The new arms packages include more than 1,800 MK84 2,000-pound bombs and 500 MK82 500-pound bombs, according to Pentagon and State Department officials familiar with the matter. The 2,000-pound bombs have been linked to previous mass-casualty events throughout Israel’s military campaign in Gaza. These officials, like some others, spoke to The Washington Post on the condition of anonymity because recent authorizations have not been disclosed publicly.”

Washington is, of course, conscious that its failure to get the Zionists to think again is placing the West in the position of being collaborators and facilitators of open genocide. Framing the narrative is its thing, but in this case no narrative can deny the facts, despite the best balance of the BBC and others.

Secretary of State Blinken was publicly humilitated by the Israelis in his public pleading with them. As a result of its public humilitation by Israel Washington is being made to look weak and powerless. The failure of the Ukrainian counter-offensive has already drawn attention to the fact it has refused to give Kyiv the required backing for it to defeat Russia and Putin is winning, as a result.

How can it be so, if the United States is so great, so powerful, such a champion of all that is decent in the World? How can it be that the US is prepared to sacrifice the entire international legal framework and rules based World Order to defend a genocidal, apartheid state?

We can only conclude that the events of October 7 have exposed the nature of the beasts – as Hamas most likely calculated they would.

It is peculiar that no one has pointed out that a different chain of events was possible after October 7. Perhaps it is only insignificant nobodies who can point that out.

It is certainly arguable that Israel could have reacted differently to the Hamas attack of October 7. It had the intelligence services, technology and military capacity to conduct surgical anti-terrorist operations against the Hamas leadership and known members. It would have, in doing so, inflicted civilian casualties on the general Palestinian population and would have been condemned for doing so. However, it would undoubtedly have been given a pass in the West in this, and indeed in much of the rest of the World, for such a restrained response.

In fact, Israel would have been credited for such a thing – considering it was widely feared that it would react with extravagant vengance against such a humilitation. If it had taken a different approach the issue would certainly have been framed as a valid and understandable response to terrorism, no matter what the historical record said, and Israel would have been backed, or at least quietly supported or acquiesced to, by nearly everyone outside of Iran, Syria and parts of Lebanon.

Israel would also have gained the moral high ground that would keep it armed, supplied with intelligence by the West, and supported unreservedly and relentlessly for decades to come. Its narrative would have been validated and re-inforced across most of the World. It is probable that Arab states would have queued up to make peace with it and engaged in co-operation with it to repress the Palestinian cause and its activists.

However, Israel decided upon another course – the course that Hamas expected it to – which involved the attempted extirpation/annihilation of the Palestinian population under the cover of a war of destruction against Hamas. It refused the opportunity of safeguarding its own future by constructing a powerful international coalition in its defence, preferring to kill and drive the Palestinians from the Biblical lands of Israel. In this it revealed its priorities.

When Washington saw what Israel was attempting it also had an unprecedented opportunity. It could have warned Israel, first in private, and then in public, about the lack of wisdom it was showing, and danger that it was creating, not only to itself, but to the United States and the West in general. It could have been told how it was endangering Ukraine by what it was intent on doing. The West had made a cause celebre of Ukraine, against the Russian enemy, and Israel by its actions would trash that cause if it implicated the West in doing something that was much worse than the Kremlin ever did and which would make Putin look like a snowflake in comparison to the evils Zionism was capable of.

Two generations ago President Eisenhower had thrown down the gauntlet to Israel over Suez and brought it to heel. Eisenhower was a real President who looked after US interests in the World. Today a warning of sanctions and an end to military supplies would have probably forced a change in policy or government in Israel in short order. If there was no change there was always the option of bombing Israel’s military installations and civilian infrastructure and demanding its leaders be handed over to the Hague. Is that not the standard practice of Washington in dealing with genocides? One cannot pick and choose one’s genocides, surely?

The United States would probably have recovered its hegemony in the World if it had shown its steel against Zionism in this matter. Certainly the Arab world would have been eating from its hand. Turkiye could have been embraced back into the West, and the war in Ukraine would have received a great moral boost by the West showing it really stood for the fine principles it proclaimed – and meant them – demonstrated by standing up against allies in the cause of Humanity.

This would all have been very bad news for Russia, Iran and China. But Washington flunked it.

As a result, both Israel and the West have been exposed to the World for what they are, rather than what they claim to be.

One of the first acts of the Biden administration was to accuse the Ottoman Turks, and by inference the Turkish State, of Genocide during the Great War of 1914. That tragic event, in 1915, came about as a result of a military operation conducted against Armenian guerillas fighting behind the Ottoman lines, who captured the city of Van, massacred the Muslim population and presented the city to the Russian invaders.

The Ottomans with the greatest of reluctance responded with the standard military response of the day – a forced re-location – which had been urged on them for years by the efficient Germans. This had been pioneered by the United States’ military a decade or so before in the Phillipines and had been practiced by the most civilised Power of the day, the British, to defeat the Boers in South Africa.

The United States is, of course, a state that was built on a genocide of the existing inhabitants of the territory it desired for expansionist settlers in the name of the Christian Bible and progress.

These lost opportunities for statesmanship clearly indicate that it was no accident that the United States failed to restrain their Israeli protégé. After all, the Israelis are seeking to emulate in Palestine what the United States achieved in North America.