Israel plumbing the depths of dictionary terminology as its depravity knows no end

Alameen Templeton

I am at a loss when trying to decide what to write about Gaza and its unbelievable but very real genocide.
Abdel Jawwad is unlike me and dares to hope even though the darkness in Gaza is at its darkest. His wife, Ihsan, has just given birth to a baby girl who they have named Elias.
Abdel is praying from the depth of his heart for a miracle that will transform their misery into a brighter future.
Maybe, he has no other choice, but to bet on a miracle; little else has a hope in Gaza.
If the Lawnmowers end their murder today (which they won’t), with the Gaza Health Ministry’s official death toll at 45 338 after 444 days of unrelenting genocide, the minimum projected death toll using standard demographic modelling using a minimum multiple of three, the final toll is likely to be at least 136 000.
A maximum figure uses a multiple of 15 which throws up a horrifying figure of 680 000.
And the West’s “human rights experts” are arguing Israel is not guilty of genocide, but of genocidal acts and disparate war crimes. They argue the crime of genocide needs an order by a centralised authority calling for extermination of a people. Without such a call as part of official state policy, well, it darned well can’t be a genocide.
Allright, Israeli politicians and cabinet ministers have called for the Palestinians to be wiped out, for Gaza and the West Bank to be ethnically cleansed, and they’ve targeted essential life infrastructure like water purification plants and power plants. Okay, they’ve destroyed hospitals and the entire health infrastructure while targeting civilians in plastic tents. hey’ve used dehumanising language and have celebrated their crimes gleefully on social media. But, it’s not genocide.
You won’t find them saying Hitler’s holocaust wasn’t a genocide, even though the Nazis also didn’t have a central, written policy of extermination on the statute books. Holocaust remembrance and genocide studies are there simply to raise Israel’s status as a special victim; they’re not there, apparently, to prevent the same from happening again. Especially, apparently, if Israel is doing it.
And the brutal murder executed with such gloating amid promises of more continues in nauseating fashion while Americans and Europeans celebrate and provide more arms to the maelstrom.
I saw a bird in the garden the other day, brightly coloured, and I wondered what it was called. So, I searched for my Robert Book of Birds, but couldn’t locate it as I tried to keep a picture of the bird in my mind’s eye. My distress was climbing when I suddenly realised knowing the name of the bird would make no difference to the bird itself or its beautiful colours.
And, just as importantly, the bird didn’t give a damn for what humans call it; it sang and beautified the world because that is what it does.
And the same goes for Israel. It will continue doing what it does for as long as humanity allows it, irrespective of what we call it or what name we give to its national crime of which every single Israeli is guilty.