Congress Honours Chief of Gaza Genocide, as Atrocities Are Now Civilised in the West

“This is not a clash of civilisations. It’s a clash between barbarism and civilisation,” were the inexplicable words emerging from the mouth of Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, as he addressed US congress on 24 July. “It’s a clash between those who glorify death and those who sanctify life.”

The reason these were so baffling is those gathered, and those watching around the globe understood that the adjective “barbarism” was meant to represent the Palestinians of Gaza, when, in fact, Israel has been and is continuing to perpetrate the most barbaric act since the Holocaust.

Netanyahu is the chief barbarian on the planet right now. And all those congresspeople who rose to their feet at speech end were a flock of savages in suits applauding a genocide that, due to their wealth, they’d simply bankrolled, whilst paying not a thought to the tens of thousands of dead.

In his US drawl, Netanyahu continued on to thank long-term friend US president Joe Biden, calling him a proud “American Zionist”, which means he follows the colonial doctrine of Zionism that seeks to establish Israel on the land of Indigenous Palestinians, which is predicated on their extermination.

And these people gathered in this “citadel of democracy” are the very same barbarians that the Albanese government has hitched our nation to, in much the same way as the Coalition does, but more desperately at present, which has only served to heighten our awareness of our own barbarity.

New Labor’s civilising mission

As the old saying goes, power corrupts. And nowhere has that been more on display over recent months than PM Anthony Albanese and foreign minister Penny Wong’s complete betrayal of the Palestinians, after having firmly placed themselves on the side of the occupied.

Of course, Albanese had always been a little less committed to the cause. And after two years of governance, no one is surprised about the shallowness of his convictions, but as for Wong, she’d really put recognition of Palestine on the Labor agenda, and her betrayal was likely not a quickstep.

But this is new Labor for you. The new barbarians willing to be one of the first nations to cut funding to the main aid line, UNRWA, into a coordinated mass starvation and slaughter site, based on Israeli hearsay and the need to deflect from the International Court of Justice’s plausible genocide ruling.

New Labor further turfed out Senator Fatima Payman, a Muslim woman, who wasn’t able to keep quiet about the genocide Netanyahu has been carrying out since last October, which the US congresspeople were giving him a standing ovation over continuing to commit yesterday.

And after not being able to comprehend why Payman didn’t just keep quiet about acts perpetrated by the civilised West, he punished the politician of conscience to the point of her quitting new Labor, so he then tossed around fears of a Muslim takeover, a tactic straight out of the Morrison playbook.

Adolf’s brother from another mother

Meanwhile, back at the genocide celebratory speech taking place in the US congress, Netanyahu charged anti-Israeli protesters, meaning those who oppose genocide and support Palestinian self-determination as “evil”. And just like Albanese did, he charged them with being ignorant of history.

“They call Israel a colonialist state,” Netanyahu told the congressional sycophants. Then he asked, “Don’t they know that the land of Israel is where Abraham, Isaac and Jacob prayed, where Isaiah and Jeremiah preached and where David and Solomon ruled?”

But in saying this besides basing modern property law on some old publications, Netanyahu also appears to have been positing that the Torah recommends settler colonial takeovers of Indigenous people’s lands, to the point of sanctioning mass slaughters and starving entire populations.

“Antisemitism is the world’s oldest hatred,” the all-knowing mass murdered asserted. “For centuries, the massacre of Jews was always preceded by wild accusations…. These preposterous antisemitic lies led to persecution, mass murder and ultimately to history’s worst genocide: the Holocaust.”

The irony in the chamber must have been palpable at this point, as a man who is in charge of the worst atrocity crime of the century, involving the mass slaughter of Palestinians, spoke of past mass murders of Jewish people, as if the current catastrophe in Gaza wasn’t even taking place.

Netanyahu then set about accusing the International Criminal Court of concocting the notion that Gaza is in famine, he slammed the court’s accusation that Israel has been targeting civilians, and he underscored that the Israeli military has been trying to save people by dropping evacuation flyers.

“For Israel, every civilian death is a tragedy,” Netanyahu continued his barbaric rant. “For Hamas, it’s a strategy. They actually want Palestinian civilians to die, so that Israel will be smeared in the international media and be pressured to end the war before it’s won.”

That this disinformation can be liberally propagated as truth in the “citadel of democracy”, while a great mass of the populace is aware that the complete opposite is the truth, shows the growing disconnect between the Global North political class and the people is increasing exponentially.

The whited sepulchre

The western citadels of democracy have always propagated lies and half-truths in support of government agendas, especially colonial expansionism, but this political theatre was something akin to Hitler being applauded by US congress after a prolonged time of exterminating Jewish people.

In the lead up to the onset of the Gaza genocide in October, and further on into the months of the wholesale massacre that Albanese and Co have been asserting as Israel’s right to self-defence, new Labor has heightened our alliance to the declining US empire, which now stands naked before the entire planet.

Indeed, this enhanced relationship with the US was first brokered by then PM Scott Morrison in 2021, which involved launching AUKUS, and all this was around the same time he secretly installed himself as a second minister in relation to five other portfolios.

And now the deal is turning out to be a con job where Australia contributes US$3 billion to the US submarine industry regardless of whether it sells us some second-hand nuclear-propelled submarines in a decade from now.

In the month prior to the Gaza genocide breaking out, Albanese was attempting to unite the usurped First Peoples of this continent with the settler communities, through a shoddy process known as the Voice.

Yet, at the same time that the nation voted against an apparent attempt to increase the say that Indigenous peoples have in their own affairs, Albanese was immediately asserting that Netanyahu had the right to mass slaughter Palestinians on a scale not imagined before.

So, it’s no wonder Albanese is losing popularity in the latest Newspoll, but opposition Liberal leader Peter Dutton is hardly garnering any more support himself.

Although there is the potential that we may soon be staring down the barrel of a Trump-Dutton Indo Pacific leadership, which is definitely an end of days kind of scenario.

Symbolism is often given little credit by the commentariat but that involved in the celebration of this mass colonial slaughter in the seat of US government, which allowed the chief genocider to spin his barbarity into a virtuous quest, is further evidence of an empire in a state of accelerating  decline.