FM: John Whitbeck
After today's Israeli bombing of a major Gaza hospital that
killed over 500 Palestinian civilians and as the capitals of
Arab capitals are filled with enraged people demanding strong
action against Israel and America, King Abdullah of Jordan has
just cancelled tomorrow's planned "summit" with the American,
Egyptian and Palestinian presidents.
As I write, President Biden has not yet boarded his plane to
fly to Israel. He should not do so.
If Biden flies to Israel and, as has been planned, renews his
passionate public embrace of evil, he will earn for himself
and his country the condemnation and contempt of all decent
people in the world.
German Chancellor Olav Scholz, who was in Israel today to
"express solidarity with Israel", British Prime Minister Rishi
Sunak, French President Emanuel Macron and other Western
leaders who have been expressing unconditional support for
occupation, apartheid and genocide should also rapidly
radically revise and reverse their own advocacy of evil.
If they do not, the isolation of the Global West from the
Global Majority, evident during NATO's proxy war against
Russia, is destined to be accentuated and become irreversible
-- and rightly so.
NOTE: Major Hamas leader Osama Hamdan has just
announced in an interview on AL JAZEERA that Hamas is willing
to release all of its civilian hostages without conditions
and, subsequently, to release its military prisoners in return
for Israel's release of Israel's Palestinian political
prisoners, administrative detainees and recently rounded up
West Bank counter-hostages.