November 7, 2023—Billions of people on planet Earth are horrified by the genocide occurring before our eyes in Gaza. Thanks to modern era communications, even though electricity has been cut to minimal levels by the Israeli occupiers, stories accompanied by heart wrenching videos are circulating widely, showing children saying goodbye to their dead siblings, and other children, now orphaned, sitting in piles of rubble. It is widely admitted that the Israeli Army is dropping white phosphorus over the region by night, which burns the skin and produces sores inside children’s mouths, which they are rinsing with sea water, as no other water is available. Over 10,000 people have been killed as of this writing, over 4,000 of them are children.
Some religious zealots are trying to justify these war crimes, claiming that Israel has “right to defend itself.” This is not defense, but revenge, and worse, the attempted annihilation or forced removal of 2.3 million people, as revealed by recently disclosed Israeli government documents.
What is not being asked by President Joe Biden nor by Secretary of State Blinken, is how Israel, with the best intelligence in the world, could have been caught so unprepared for what should have been a totally predictable attack. It came literally on the 50th anniversary of the “Yom Kippur War,” where Israel had also been caught off guard.
The timing of the October 7 attack by Hamas, which killed over 1400 people and injured thousands more, was fortuitous for Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanhayu, who was likely headed for jail and who was widely reviled by members of the Israeli Defense Forces for his efforts to “reform” the judiciary, in order to stay out of jail.
The bloody attack also came at a moment of need for President Biden, who has tied himself to his long promised “Ukrainian victory over Russia,” which is not happening, which has now become obvious. How fortunate to be able to change the subject to something as intensely emotional as war in the Promised Land.
Even this horror now unfolding in the Middle East could be peacefully resolved, and the mass killing stopped, and Israel and Palestine secured as two neighboring states, if the United States would reject the neocon, neo-colonial agenda, and become again the anti-colonial revolutionary republic that Ben Franklin, John Quincy Adams, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon LaRouche understood it to be.
The glaring problem facing Americans right now is that our nation, based on a presidential system, not only does not have a functioning President, but we don’t even have a qualified opposing presidential candidate.
It had appeared that both former President Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. wanted to end the Ukraine war as quickly as possible. Kennedy had given several speeches where he accurately blamed the NATO expansion, and the 2014 overthrow of the Ukrainian government for creating the conditions for the war, and said correctly, as did Trump that it could have been entirely avoided.
