Israel is continuing with its massive bombardment in the Palestinian city of Gaza.
The victims are basically innocent and unarmed civilians, comprising women, youth and children who were targeted in their residential areas.
The reasoning for this massacre is the lie by the Zionist apartheid regime of citing the International law principle of self-defence as a basis and validation of the assaults.
Self-defence is not reckless and disproportionate as we can see in the climbing death toll and destruction in Gaza, including the latest Israeli bombing of an international media location that hosted Al Jazeera and the Associated Press.
Again, how could it be termed an exercise in self-defence when in fact the initial provocation of the current escalation came from Israel through repeated violent obstructions and desecration to the sacrosanct Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem during the holy month of Ramadhan. Or don't Palestinians have a right to defend themselves against aggression?
It is said this Israeli propaganda melody of self-defence is encouraged by some countries like the United States, which is the main and persistent military and economic underwriter of Israel, with an annual aid package of nearly $4 billion.
I wonder what ordinary Americans would feel knowing that their taxes are used to fund Israeli war crimes against Palestinians.
The United Nations as well as 190 Middle Eastern and international human rights organisations, including the Human Rights Watch, have pointed out the inhuman condition that Palestinians are put through.
Another far better way, to understand the ongoing crisis is by going back to the history of where it all began.
Thousands of Palestinians were forced out and brutalised to pave way for the creation of Israel as a Homeland of Jews in 1948.
That Palestinian tragedy created by colonial Britain's Balfour declaration is known as Al-Nakba, and it is continuing unabated intending to erase the very rightful presence and history of Palestinians in that land.
Why was colonial Britain so eager to give Palestine to Israel? And why is America so staunchly blanket about defending and supporting Israel today? I guess that this is mainly Christian Zionism at play.
This type of Zionism is said to be much older and more entrenched in the United States and Britain than Jewish Zionism itself.
That is why the Bible continues to strongly justify the intimate friendships these countries have with Israel.
The compound effect of this partiality is that we currently have a brazen situation there where there is the use of force and huge imbalance of power that gives Israel the upper hand of continuing to violently take the Palestinian lands while pretending to be negotiating about it under international law.
Describing the pain and suffering inflicted on Palestinian and how the story of their resistance is flipped against them, the distinguished American public intellectual and professor of linguistics at MIT Noam Chomsky once said:
“You take my water, burn my olive trees, destroy my house, take my job, steal my land, imprison my father, kill my mother, bombard my country, starve us all, humiliate us all but I am to blame: I shot a rocket back.”
Despite the gloom, I am happy that more people are getting aware of the false narratives that have long helped and maintained Israel's oppressive and Zionist apartheid rule; one of it being the talk of self-defence which doesn't make sense since it is clearly a Goliath in the conflict with the Palestinian Davids.
Sociopolitical commentator in Garissa
