The West has lost the battle against Russia, but refuses to learn or adapt.
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The West’s foreign policy behaviours are ideologically driven, not rational or moral. The compulsive, self-sabotaging nature of western support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza is no different – though far grosser – than the self-sabotaging nature of its actions in Ukraine.
The West has lost the battle against Russia, but refuses to learn or adapt.
And it has spent whatever moral legitimacy it still had left propping up an Israeli military occupier bent on starving millions of people to death, if they cannot first be ethnically cleansed into Egypt.
Netanyahu has not been the easy-to-sell, cuddly military mascot that Zelensky proved to be in Ukraine.
Support for Kyiv could at least be presented as taking the right side in a clash of civilisations with a barbarous Russia. Support for Israel simply exposes the West’s hypocrisy, its worship of power for its own sake, and its psychopathic instincts.
Support for Israel’s genocide has hollowed out the West’s claim to moral superiority for all but its most deluded devotees. Sadly, those still include most of the western political and media establishments, whose only rationale is to evangelise for the belief system over which they preside, claiming it to be the worthiest in history.
Some, like Keir Starmer, are trying to moderate their rhetoric in a desperate attempt to protect the morally bankrupt system that has invested them with power.
Others, like Kemi Badenoch, are still so enthralled by the cult of a superior West that they are blind to how preposterous their rantings sound to anyone no longer rapt in devotion. Rather than distance herself from Israel’s atrocities, she is happy to place herself – and the UK – at the crime scene by talking of Israel conducting a "proxy war" on the UK's behalf.
The scales have fallen from the western public’s eyes. Now is the time to hold our leaders fully to account.
This is an extract from my latest article Badenoch blurts out the truth: Britain is at the heart of Gaza 'proxy war'. More here: middleeasteye.net/opinion/uk-bad
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