It’s surely been impossible not to notice - and be utterly shocked and disgusted - at the total contradiction between western leaders’ across-the-board condemnation of Putin’s war on Ukraine, their arming of Zelensky against his invading army, and their support for the invading army of Netanyahu - who they also helped to arm - against a weak and poverty-stricken Gazan population.  That is, up to now...

    Because today, when it’s too late, when more than 61,700 mainly civilians have been killed (including those lost under the rubble of bombed buildings) and when thousands of kids have had their limbs amputated due to “life-changing” injuries, and when famine threatens, yes today, suddenly they decide a few words of “caution” towards the Israeli terror state are in order!

    So they write a letter.  They threaten to stop sending weapons.  They now say Netanyahu and his self-proclaimed “fascist” war cabinet have gone a bit too far: they are preventing humanitarian aid reaching the population...

    But Netanyahu was ready for them; first to claim that no, he and his government are feeding the starving Palestinians of Gaza and what’s more it is these Western politicians’ fault - not his - that Jewish people are now a target for revenge killings  in the name of a “free Palestine”.

    His first attempt to supply “food aid” to Gaza, via a US-funded private organisation ended up in more terror for the Palestinians - several killed by Israeli soldiers and many hurt, when a huge mass of people rushed desperately to get a box of food.

    One might wonder why it is that the victims of this invasion and relentless war are not the ones who are supported by western governments, as is the case in Ukraine - including “even” the “Hamas” authority which has been running the Strip since 2007 and is thus a Palestinian equivalent of Zelensky’s Ukrainian administration.  And why not even, the threat of “boots on (Gaza’s) ground”..?

    Of course it’s not just abject hypocrisy.  The real war being conducted is the war of the rich against the poor - imperialist force against those who must be kept in their place for the maintenance of imperialist order.  Netanyahu and his government, no matter how murderous and corrupt, are agents of this order, just as Zelensky is.  No “morals” are involved.  The best that can come out of this for the workers and the poor of this world is the realisation that these wars can only end when the rule of this imperialist system is ended.  And that they are the only ones who can make that happen.