{"id":37184,"date":"2024-10-21T21:38:28","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T04:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=37184"},"modified":"2024-10-21T21:38:29","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T04:38:29","slug":"israels-burning-alive-of-shaaban-al-dalou-also-incinerated-the-western-led-global-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/10\/21\/israels-burning-alive-of-shaaban-al-dalou-also-incinerated-the-western-led-global-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel’s burning alive of Shaaban al-Dalou also incinerated the western-led global order"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The old world is dying once again, but the US-Israel axis is wrong to suggest it is slaying monsters. It is the monster<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a>JONATHAN COOK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

OCT 21, 2024 (jonathancook.substack.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[First published by\u00a0Middle East Eye<\/a><\/em>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The horrifying images<\/a> from Gaza last week of fire consuming a Palestinian teenager confined to his hospital bed with an intravenous drip may come to define Israel\u2019s genocide as completely as earlier images of human depravity have defined the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Naked, skin-and-bone corpses thrown into mass graves in the death camps of the Nazi Holocaust. Radioactive fields of rubble, interrupted only by charred, skeletal trees, after the atomic levelling of Hiroshima<\/a> by the United States. A naked Vietnamese girl, her burned skin peeling off, fleeing in terror from a napalm attack<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The flames that burned alive 19-year-old Shaaban al-Dalou, along with his mother and two others, in a tent<\/a> on the grounds of al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah last week were almost certainly unleashed<\/a> by US- or German-supplied missiles, fired by Israeli pilots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dalou was in the tent recovering<\/a> from an Israeli air strike a week earlier on Deir al-Balah that had killed 26 people. He was already malnourished and immunocompromised from many months of an Israeli blockade, which has denied the entry of food and aid into Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dalou\u2019s two sisters, father and younger brother all sustained severe burns from the fire caused by the strike. His 10-year-old brother succumbed to his wounds days later. The victims in Deir al-Balah were charred into oblivion \u2013 and with them the \u201crules-based international order\u201d the West helped establish to prevent a repeat of the horrors of the Second World War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The year-long genocide in Gaza is entirely a western co-production. The US and Europe send the weapons, provide the diplomatic cover, orchestrate support from their pliant state- and billionaire-owned media, and stifle all domestic dissent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The modern era of international humanitarian law that the West proclaimed, as well as the institutions the West championed to uphold it, are going up in flames. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The parties unravelling \u2013 week after week, month after month \u2013 the rules that kept in check the dangers of a third world war are not the so-called \u201cterrorists\u201d. It\u2019s not Hamas, Hezbollah, al-Qaeda or the Islamic State. It\u2019s not even Iran, Russia or China. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is the West. It is Washington and its allies. They are the arsonists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowhere safe<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Anyone trying to give a true sense of the scale of destruction Israel has unleashed so quickly, or the indiscriminate nature of its bombing, has to grasp for decades-old comparisons, mostly from Vietnam, Korea or the Second World War. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However much western politicians and media have denounced and sanctioned Moscow, and armed Ukraine against Russia\u2019s invasion, the crimes there pale in comparison to Israel\u2019s war on Gaza \u2013 and now on Lebanon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The carnage being unleashed in the Middle East is from another, much darker era. The humanitarian catastrophe Israel has engineered in Gaza has no precedent in the modern era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel\u2019s genocide is not just pitiless, like so many other wars. It has been brazen, celebratory even, in its orgy of destruction. The bombs strike the very \u201csafe zones\u201d Israel declares. They hit hospitals, schools serving as shelters for displaced families, bakeries, mosques and churches. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is nothing secret<\/a> about Israel\u2019s long starvation of Gaza\u2019s \u201chuman animals\u201d: 2.3 million people, or however many of them are still alive after the enclave lost the capacity to count its dead months ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel is now doing to Gaza precisely what it threatened to do long before it was able to exploit the pretext of 7 October. It is pummelling<\/a> the enclave to send it \u201cback to the Stone Age\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is not Hamas that is being eliminated in Gaza. It is the fundamentals of humanitarian law: the principle of \u201cdistinction\u201d between combatants and non-combatants, and the principle of \u201cproportionality\u201d in weighing military advantage against the endangerment of civilians. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of this is happening out in the open, concealed only by the refusal of western politicians and media to admit what everyone else can see. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel is not \u201cremaking the Middle East<\/a>\u201d. It is destroying the world as we have known it for generations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Israel has made clear, supported by western capitals, is that there is no safe place, not even for those recovering in a hospital bed from Israel\u2019s earlier atrocities. There are no \u201cnon-combatants\u201d, no civilians. There are no rules. Everyone is a target. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And now that includes not just the peoples of Gaza, the occupied West Bank and Lebanon, but the very body supposed to serve as the guardian of the humanitarian codes of law created after the Second World War and the Holocaust: the United Nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Attacking peacekeepers<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Israel\u2019s repeated attacks on UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon \u2013 and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s \u201corder\u201d that they leave their posts or\u00a0face the consequences<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 are being normalised by western capitals as surely as Israel\u2019s earlier, systematic attacks on Gaza\u2019s hospitals were.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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