Suddenly, as Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched his “Operation Gideon’s Chariots” in Gaza — the final military campaign to create Donald Trump’s “freedom zone” — some Western elites became anxious.

After saying and doing nothing when Netanyahu unilaterally broke the ceasefire in Gaza in early March, and having been indifferent when Israel restarted its murderous criminal campaign against civilians sheltering in hospitals, schools and tent camps, and after Israel’s starvation doctrine had been waged for nearly three months, suddenly leaders in Paris, London and the European Union felt scared that they could face some kind of reckoning.

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Brazilian journalist Pepe Escobar recently noted that the apex of the “post-modernist disease” of neoliberalism “has led to the normalisation of genocide, and this is the real face of the collective West”, now openly on display worldwide.

“Defending their genocidal aircraft carrier in West Asia is increasing revulsion globally and a backlash is going to be really historic.”

Prime Minister Anthony........

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