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Why Is the West Blind to the Genocide in Gaza?
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Please note that this is not the actual broadcast, which is in Farsi. The interviewer is doing a running translation from Farsi, which is why the word choice and delivery are not “broadcast quality.” It’s also the reason I speak unusually slowly, in hopes of making the translator’s job easier.
When we see these pictures from Palestine, this bloodshed, this genocide, it seems that it is a very catastrophic situation and that unfortunately international organizations are keeping silent about this matter.
The international reaction to this genocide is bifurcated. It's split between the people—the majority of people worldwide deplore this genocide—and the leadership class in the West, and in the part of the world dominated by or intimidated by the United States leadership, The leaders have been largely complicit with only pro forma protests.
And the scale of this catastrophe is beyond what has been reported. The Lancet just estimated there have likely been 186,000 or more Palestinian deaths, which credits Ralph Nader's estimate in March of something approaching 200,000 deaths.
This is just a completely unimaginable genocide. And the American empire has so far had the power to allow it to continue.
Every day we can see different attacks on different hospitals in Gaza Strip. Why can we not see any international reactions?
Well, in the United States and to some extent in Europe, the people are not seeing this. They're certainly not seeing it on mainstream news channels, except in very, very small doses. The younger people are seeing it on TikTok and social media. And that's why young people in the West are motivated to protest against this genocide. But the mainstream media in the West is dominated by Zionists. It's owned by Zionist billionaires. And it has grossly downplayed this genocide, to the point that the owners of Western mainstream media are arguably guilty of complicity in genocide. They ought to be tried, condemned, and executed.
I want to talk about Mr. Senator Vance as Vice President for Donald Trump. And when we look at the stance and political positions of Mr. Vance, it seems that this man is a supporter of Israel.
Senator Vance is a strong supporter of this genocide, and he could not have been chosen for this role if he were not. Donald Trump has reportedly been offered $100 million by Miriam Adelson, as well as presumably large sums from other Zionist billionaires, in exchange for his green-lighting the continuation of this genocide, and perhaps even the acceleration of it beyond what we're seeing now. So it is not surprising that Trump's vice presidential choice would be another ultra-genocidal Republican.
Kevin, we are witnessing Israel continuously doing satanic actions against Palestinian girls, Palestinian boys, with large numbers of Palestinians killed by the Israeli regime. At the same time, when we look at NATO's (human rights) stance in the era of Moammar Qaddafi in Libya, NATO has a strict stance against Moammar Qaddafi. But about Benjamin Netanyahu, they keep silent.
Yes, well, Qaddafi was an independent leader who was actually opposed to Zionism. And the Zionists, with their power in the West, can decide when one leader needs to be publicly executed and another leader is allowed to get away with genocide. Obviously, NATO has a grotesque double standard in terms of what it claims are criminals in leadership positions.
NATO is just a euphemism for the American oc