World leaders must believe Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli leaders without hesitation and benefit from the established method that provides the international community with extraordinary experience in how to act. One of the benefits of what is happening is that Netanyahu, the pillars of his government and his war leaders have removed useless burdens from the leaders of countries and armies, such as the need to adhere to international law, or comply with human rights, which the “friends of Israel” are not mentioning today. When any army wants to carry out the mission of crushing civilians, it is now able to divert attention from these useless obligations and principles using some easy propaganda efforts, and gain the sympathy of its allies as well, just as Netanyahu and his military leaders do.
The leaders of countries, governments and armies around the world have a definite self-interest in believing what Netanyahu and his war leaders are saying these days. This innovative Israeli method provides world leaders with ideal options in justifying all their wild desires during the management of conflicts, and to skilfully avoid the slightest responsibility for it, as well as not being scolded for it the next day. There is no need to adhere to the outdated rules and red lines that the international community imposed in vain after the end of the two world wars, because the method of blaming the victim takes care of what is needed. If any army in the world is interested in overcoming the outdated legal and moral restrictions that prevent it from committing mass massacres, for example, all it needs to do is listen carefully to what Netanyahu and his war team are saying these days and repeat it where needed.
Why would they need to spare hospitals, schools, kindergartens, United Nations facilities and humanitarian organisations from the scope of bombing if they can hold the victims responsible for their tragedy, as long as the leaders of democratic countries and the editors of reputable media outlets do not hesitate to adopt narratives intended for those with limited intelligence? There is no problem at all, even if children and their mothers were killed, wounded and maimed in large numbers in a desired bombing, because it is enough to fabricate a narrative before this mass killing begins, such as that “human animals committed a heinous massacre in which infants were beheaded,” making sure to give a specific number to suggest accuracy, and generating images with artificial intelligence. This would make any atrocity committed by any army merely a reaction to a shocking narrative designed to shed tears.
Netanyahu proposes to the leaders of states and armies a flood of ideal plots that are renewed every day, so that no one has time to scrutinise any of them. These are plots designed to justify military invasions, forced occupation, ethnic cleansing and acts of genocide, because the people under occupation are the attackers of the occupying authority, and everything that the army does, including crushing densely populated areas with tonnes of lethal munitions, does not go beyond exercising its “right to self-defence”, which world leaders tirelessly claim Israel has the right to do day and night. Who among the leaders of democracies are saying that the people under occupation, whose land and homes were stolen, have any rights at all, other than continuing to enjoy the benefits of living inside refugee ghettos surrounded by high walls and strict control systems for water, food, medicine, electricity, fuel and crossings? Instead of all this anger and rebellion against the fortified walls and settlements built on their occupied land, the Palestinian people should be expressing their overwhelming joy with this occupation, which represents “the forces of civilisation in the face of the forces of savagery,” and the generations of Palestinian refugees should have sent bouquets of roses and greeting cards to the armed soldiers and settlers that are suffocating all of their lifelines.
Source : MEMO