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Gibson Nyikadzino-Correspondent
There are lies that have been pushed by western media about Palestinian resistance fighters which is highly misleading.
The people who are fighting a legitimate resistance against occupying forces that displaced them from their land can never be terrorists.
The categorisation of Palestinian fighters as terrorists has thus desensitised many victims of western liberal ideology that is committing lies at an industrial global scale.
Mainstream western media in the past week, without proof, said there were 40 Israeli babies that had been beheaded by Palestinian freedom fighters resisting Israeli occupation of their land of birth right.
The false claim was made by pro-Israeli journalist Nicole Zedeck who later confessed that she had not seen the bodies of beheaded children, but was told by members of the Israeli Defence Forces who believed something of that nature had occurred.
Building on this lie and disinformation, mainstream media in western Europe and the US generated through Artificial Intelligence (AI) images purporting to be of burnt and beheaded babies.
Among other false claims have been suggestions that Palestinian freedom fighters raped Israeli women and killed 250 people at a concert, and no evidence and images have been shown to support those claims.
In media interviews conducted on Israeli citizens, they claimed the contrary, saying the Palestinian resistance fighters had been kind to them and had never shown any intention of harming them.
These lies are known as atrocity propaganda done to incite emotions, hatred and violence.
The western backed Israeli government is the one planning to commit the violent atrocities and yet to do this they need to convince the people that Palestinians are “barbaric animals” that rape, torture and behead babies.
This explains why White House official John Kirby was theatrical on CNN when he shed tears on camera while speaking about the “atrocities” by Palestinian resistance fighters.
The other justification of these false claims have led to the upholding and tightening of the blockade against Palestinians leading to the cutting of fuel, food, water and electricity supplies to the Gaza Strip.
When Russia in October last year indicated that it was cutting gas and fuel supplies to Ukraine and the European Union, there were claims from the EU that doing so amounted to terror and crimes against humanity.
The same now being done on Palestine, the EU find this as not constituting war crimes and terror.
Other genocidal demands built on the atrocity propaganda include elements by the Israeli army ordering that at least 1,1 million of the Palestinians to relocate from the north of the Gaza Strip to the southern part in a day.
This operation is neither logistical nor logical.
Israel, with the support of the West, is resurrecting the Nazi ideology that Adolf Hitler used against them, according to history.
Of course, with impunity, the Zionist regime has been supported by the West, mainly the US which is enabling the killing of Palestinians by supplying Israel with ammunition, intelligence and financial backing.
The ongoing support for the mass annihilation or unfolding killing of the Palestinians by Israel through the support of the West indicates the need to reform bodies like the United Nations, for it is no longer useful, in its current form, to address the challenges facing the world today.
It is no longer a representative body that can guarantee world peace, but only advancing the interests of the West.
Since 1950, the USA has vetoed over 53 UN Security Council resolutions against Israel pertaining the situation in that geographical area since the 1948 occupation of Palestine.
The UN leaders have issued lukewarm statements about the ongoing atrocities against the people in Gaza, and in equal measure have failed to condemn Israeli occupation as they did on Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine.
This Israeli aggression on Palestinians can also be framed as the new western onslaught and the continuation of the West’s policy of “war against terror” to which the application of strategies being used against the Palestinians amount to Islamophobia, ethnic cleansing and commission of war crimes.
International law, the law of armed conflict and international humanitarian law have all been breached and contravened.
International has been contravened by the failure to recognise the existence of the State of Palestine despite meeting all the criterion of statehood provided in the Montevideo Convention.
Of late, the Israel Defence Force (IDF) has been using white phosphorus against Palestinians in Gaza, an act that is prohibited under the law of armed conflict.
The Israel government is authorising the use of prohibited weaponry and targeting civilians, women, the elderly and children.
Humanitarian workers and journalists have been killed by the IDF.
The breaches to these laws are one-sided and now take racialised interpretations because the victims of these atrocities by the Israeli government are neither west European nor Caucasian, but Muslim.
Imagine how western countries would react and act if Jewish people were the ones residing in the Gaza Strip and under the occupation of a Muslim country?
The whole world would be bandwagoned to condemn the occupying Muslim country.
This best explains the western world’s view on the hierarchy of grief. Those who are worthy the tears of the West are people who are racially connected to the West, among them Ukrainians and the Israelites.
Some deterrent measures have already been deployed in the Middle East, not to contain the escalation, but to make geopolitical manoeuvres that advance the thesis of the West that Israel is a victim of the ongoing war.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to Saudi Arabia and the provocative and inflammatory language he made against Iran, Lebanon and the Hezbollah only makes the situation more volatile.
Cooperation with the West to protect Israel is a form of alliance that should be condemned. The Palestinian people are fighting for their freedom and the right to live in their rightful land.
Today, the ongoing war has to be remembered and imprinted on the minds of people so that when historical reflections are made, those that committed crimes against humanity in Palestine are brought to account.
It is not a military victory when targets are civilians, women and children and in nowhere, no place, no era and especially in the 21st century should genocide be justified as self-defence.
Gibson Nyikadzino is a Media and Politics researcher. He holds a MSc in Politics and International Relations.
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