HYPOCRISY ON STEROIDS, about the Gaza genocide:

U.S.&-allied Governments supply Israel the weapons to exterminate Gazans, but many of them demand the war in Gaza ‘must end now’.

22 July 2025, by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)

The U.S. supplies 69% of the weapons, Germany supplies 30%, for Israel’s extermination of the Gazans, but on July 21st, America’s AP headlined “UK, Canada and 26 other countries say the war in Gaza ‘must end now’”, and reported that, “Twenty-eight countries including Britain, Japan and a host of European nations issued a joint statement Monday saying the war in Gaza ‘must end now’ — the latest sign of allies' sharpening language as Israel's isolation deepens.” America’s AP did not headline “Israel-allied countries support but also condemn the genocide against Gazans” — which would have been the full basic truth — they instead reported only that these countries (which the AP didn’t even completely list) were, in this “joint statement” (to which the AP provided no link, so that the actual document — which they were allegedly reporting about, was instead being actually hidden by the AP — censored-out by them) was “saying the war in Gaza ‘must end now’” INSTEAD OF that Israel and America and Germany must cease their perpetrating this genocide. The AP was saying that “the war in Gaza ‘must end now’” — as-if this ‘war’ ISN’T instead an extermination of Gazans, but just a war between Gazans and Israel, which latter Government is actually leading this Israel-U.S.-German-perpetrated genocide to get rid of Gazans. Israel is leading this extermination-campaign, just as Germany had led the one against Jews; and, just as Germany’s Government had participating foreign Governments helping them, so too does Israel’s.

During the German-led Holocaust by Christians (and 94% of Germans during the time of the Holocaust were Christians — and almost all of Europe were) against Jews, the Christian-majority countries on the side of the Allies rejected Jewish refugees but verbally condemned the genocide against Jews. Now they are doing the same thing when Israel, America, and Germany, perpetrate their genocide against Palestinians, and their ethnic cleansing of the West Bank Palestinians.

Back on 9 January 2024, Jonathan Cook had headlined “The West Will Stand in the Dock Alongside Israel at the Genocide Court”, but on 20 July 2025 the political scientist Karim Bettache headlined “Time to Admit It — This Is a Global Genocide Against the Palestinians: The true horror of Gaza lies not only in Israeli crimes, but in how the entire world has united in enabling and legitimizing genocide.” He wrote:

The machinery of this genocide operates through countless channels.

Turkey, despite Erdogan’s theatrical denunciations, continues to pump oil through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, feeding Israel’s war machine. China, proclaimed leader of the Global South, remains Israel’s largest Asian trading partner and third largest globally, providing the economic lifeline that sustains the siege. In March this year, China’s ambassador to Israel, Xiao Junzheng, stated that “The war is not the theme of Israel-China bilateral relations.” Indeed, China has been careful to call the genocide either a ‘war’ or ‘humanitarian crisis’, systematically avoiding any reference to genocide. India, once a beacon of non-alignment and itself brutally colonized by European powers, now supplies military technology and maintains robust defense cooperation with the occupying power. Most shamefully, Indian nationals have joined Israeli forces as foreign fighters, participating in the very crimes that their own ancestors suffered under colonial rule.

The Western imperial core performs its expected role with ruthless efficiency. The United States provides shiploads of military aid while wielding its UN Security Council veto to shield Israel from accountability. Germany, forever haunted by its genocidal past, now enables a new genocide through weapons sales and diplomatic protection. France supplies military equipment while President Macron speaks of Israel’s “right to defend itself” against children and civilians. Britain provides intelligence sharing and military components while maintaining its historic role as the architect of Palestinian dispossession.

Even nations that position themselves as neutral reveal their complicity. Ireland, which claims solidarity with Palestinian struggle, allows its airspace and Shannon Airport to serve as a transit hub for American weapons shipments destined for Israel. The Netherlands, seat of the International Court of Justice and International Criminal Court, simultaneously provides critical weapons components and NATO cover for the very crimes its courts are meant to adjudicate. Switzerland, eternal neutral, reveals the hollowness of its proclaimed neutrality by purchasing Israeli drones bombing Gaza while cutting UNRWA funding during the genocide—transforming the supposed guardian of international law into an active participant in Palestinian extermination. …

Brazil under Lula offers symbolic criticism while maintaining trade relations with Israel and simultaneously keeping socialist, anti-imperialist Venezuela out of BRICS. South Africa, birthplace of the anti-apartheid struggle, brings cases against Israel to international courts while continuing economic partnerships with the occupying power. Russia, proclaimed leader of the emerging multi-polar order, maintains military cooperation with Israel and praises it effusively, even as it positions itself as America’s great rival while Israel actively supports Ukraine’s war against Russia.

The Curse of Gaza will Haunt the Whole World

What we are witnessing is the complete collapse of the anti-colonial movement that once offered hope to the world’s oppressed. …

There is no communist pushback as there once was when the Soviet Union, despite its own contradictions, provided material support to liberation movements worldwide. There is no robust Third World solidarity of the kind that once isolated apartheid South Africa and supported Vietnamese resistance.

The promised “multi-polar world” reveals itself as merely a reshuffling of imperial hierarchies rather than their abolition.

Instead, we have a world where supposed enemies collaborate in genocide while performing antagonism for domestic consumption. Where nations that claim to champion human rights enable the systematic extermination of an entire people. Where the international legal order – the UN, the ICJ, the ICC – proves utterly impotent in the face of coordinated imperial will. …

The Palestinians have become the sacrificial offering on the altar of this global consensus. …

Every government that enables this slaughter – whether through direct military support, economic assistance, diplomatic cover, trade, or simple silence – is declaring its allegiance to a world order that views certain peoples as expendable. …

That explains the AP’s distortion and cover-up, and the deceitful document itself:

Joint statement by:

foreign ministers of Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK

EU Commissioner for Equality, Preparedness and Crisis Management
We, the signatories listed below, come together with a simple, urgent message: the war in Gaza must end now.

The suffering of civilians in Gaza has reached new depths. The Israeli government’s aid delivery model is dangerous, fuels instability and deprives Gazans of human dignity. We condemn the drip feeding of aid and the inhumane killing of civilians, including children, seeking to meet their most basic needs of water and food. It is horrifying that over 800 Palestinians have been killed while seeking aid. The Israeli Government’s denial of essential humanitarian assistance to the civilian population is unacceptable. Israel must comply with its obligations under international humanitarian law.

The hostages cruelly held captive by Hamas since 7 October 2023 continue to suffer terribly. We condemn their continued detention and call for their immediate and unconditional release. A negotiated ceasefire offers the best hope of bringing them home and ending the agony of their families.

We call on the Israeli government to immediately lift restrictions on the flow of aid and to urgently enable the UN and humanitarian NGOs to do their life saving work safely and effectively.

We call on all parties to protect civilians and uphold the obligations of international humanitarian law. Proposals to remove the Palestinian population into a “humanitarian city” are completely unacceptable. Permanent forced displacement is a violation of international humanitarian law.

We strongly oppose any steps towards territorial or demographic change in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The E1 settlement plan announced by Israel’s Civil Administration, if implemented, would divide a Palestinian state in two, marking a flagrant breach of international law and critically undermine the two-state solution. Meanwhile, settlement building across the West Bank including East Jerusalem has accelerated while settler violence against Palestinians has soared. This must stop.

We urge the parties and the international community to unite in a common effort to bring this terrible conflict to an end, through an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire. Further bloodshed serves no purpose.  We reaffirm our complete support to the efforts of the US, Qatar and Egypt to achieve this.

We are prepared to take further action to support an immediate ceasefire and a political pathway to security and peace for Israelis, Palestinians and the entire region.

This statement has been signed by:

The Foreign Ministers of Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK

The EU Commissioner for Equality, Preparedness and Crisis Management

Notice, there, that the alleged 28 signers did NOT include Brazil, China, Germany, Iran, Russia, South Africa, Venezuela, and many other countries, and that whereas Greece was listed at the opening as having been a signer, it was omitted from that same list at the end, and that even in the listing at the document’s start, the number of signers was 26, not the AP-alleged 28. Furthermore: among the signers were Australia, Canada, Iceland, and New Zealand; so, the AP’s “Twenty-eight countries including Britain, Japan and a host of European nations” was likewise false in its allegation that the unmentioned signers were merely “a host of European nations.” Europe had nothing to do with it — hypocrisy did, and hypocrisy extends outside Europe (especially in Turkey).

Furthermore, the document contains numerous euphemisms, such as “The Israeli government’s aid delivery model is dangerous.” What is actually happening is that as the extermination edges toward completion, food is being blocked from entering Gaza except by U.S.-Government-funded ‘charities’ that coordinate with Israel’s Government so as to use this food “aid” as a lure — like baiting a fish-hook — in order to get Gazans to congregate at those sites so that Israel’s snipers and bombs can then more effcieiently eliminate Gazans, by the dozens, instead of merely one-by-one. For example, here’s a 6 July 2025 report even from America’s own National Public Radio, “Knives, bullets and thieves: the quest for food in Gaza”:

Anas Baba/NPR

I have lost a third of my body weight after nearly 21 months of war in Gaza.

Months of an Israeli ban on food entering Gaza, and the current strict controls on food distribution, have fueled widespread hunger. Gaza health officials have reported scores of children who died of malnutrition [euphemism for “starvation”].

People are pale and weak. They walk on the street supporting themselves by grabbing onto walls and fences, or they walk together in groups to support each other. Women and children faint in the street.

People, some carrying aid parcels, walk along the Salah al-Din road near the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, used by food-seeking Palestinians to reach an aid distribution point set up by the privately run Gaza Humanitarian Foundation [front for the U.S. and Israeli Governments].

The coordination between the American and Israeli Governments is total. This is a joint Israeli-American genocide, and, as such, even the U.S. Government’s ‘enemies’ (nations that the U.S. Government strives yet to conquer) stay away from getting in the way of it. Even Iran isn’t getting in the way of it. The U.S. regime now terrorizes the whole world.

As regards Jonathan Cook’s optimistic “The West Will Stand in the Dock Alongside Israel at the Genocide Court”, the U.S. and Israel have always (ever since 25 July 1945) been above international law, and might be even more so after this is all over. If that turns out to be the case, then will the U.N. itself survive with any respect by the global public? And if not, what then?

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.