Dear friends and colleagues, I take no pride in the title of this Op-Ed, however, the facts are that Israel is a terrorist state that is committing acts of terror against a population, using any and all means necessary to bring about the extinction of all Palestinians in whole and in part.  The United States (US) are the biggest sponsor of this terrorism, therefore the US is a state-sponsor of terrorism, while countries like the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) have been accused of this by the US and Israel, perhaps they should fix things in their own back yard before throwing stones.

Historically, the Holocaust, which was a tragic event that was one of the worst crimes in history, targeted not ONLY Jews but also Muslims, Catholics and Christians alike, it just so happened that the majority killed were Jewish. Ironically, today we are seeing the descendants of the victims of the holocaust, committing the very acts that their grandparents either died or survived.

We can liken Israel to Germany, therefore America is Italy and Biden is the new Mussolini, only the positions are reversed. The Germans installed Mussolini as the head of a puppet government based in the northern Italian town of Salò. With the formal approval of the Salò government and the help of Fascist authorities and militia, the Germans rounded up and incarcerated thousands of Jews. Now in the 21st century between Israel and the US, just who is whose puppet? Who is pulling whos’ strings?

Both the US and Israel have killed more people in history combined than any other nation, even more than Germany and the holocaust. Let us look at the figures, I will be using Open sources and academic scholarly reports, these will only be the most reported on kills, murders and slaughters:

A Potential Death Toll of 4.5 Million From U.S. Wars After 9/11 (Brown University, 2023)

Post-9/11 wars have contributed to some 4.5 million deaths, report suggests (Washington Post, 5-15-23)

‘Death Outlives War’: Analysis Estimates Post-9/11 ​US Conflicts Killed Over 4.5 Million (Common Dreams, 5-15-23)

Report on the Body Count of the War on Terror (Physicians For Social Responsibility NGO, 2015) (PDF)

Marcetic, B., Marcetic, B., Harper, T. A., Jared Abbott: Fred DeVeaux, Abbott, J., DeVeaux, F., Bush, C., Fain, S., Abu-Manneh, B. and Finn, D. (no date) Israel’s Assault on Gaza Is Unlike Any War in Recent Memory, Jacobin. Available at: https://jacobin.com/2023/12/israel-defense-forces-gaza-palestine-civilian-death-casualties-women-children-journalists-war (Accessed: 27 May 2024).

Shurafa, W. and Magdy, S. (2024) More than 29,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel-Hamas war, Gaza Health Ministry says, AP News. AP News. Available at: https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-02-19-2024-81c2d362340b611a98e4b929b4b5d0a4 (Accessed: 27 May 2024).

Numbers
Killed since 1945 – 2024
Country/town of dead
Main religion

America
130,000

226,000

243,000

70,000

1.2 Million

3.4 Million

3.8 Million

700,000
Hiroshima

Nagasaki

Afghanistan

Pakistan

Iraq 1+ 2

Korea

Vietnam

Cambodia
Shinto/Buddist

Shinto/Buddist

Islam

Islam

Islam

Chandoism

Taoism

Buddist

Israel: Date

1948

1949-67

Qibya

Karameh

1973

1978

1982

1st intifada

2nd intifada

2008-9

2012 March

2012 Nov.

2014

2021

2022

2023

2023-Oct-

Present day
total dead

13,000

5,000

42

156

100+

2,000

8,000

3000

4,791

1,417

21

277

2,310

349

191

277

36,000 +

10,000 U.R.

Ethnicity

Palestinian

Palestinian

Palestinian

Palestinian

Palest/Leb

Palest/Leb

Palest/Leb

Palestinian

Palestinian

Palestinian

Palestinian

Palestinian

Palestinian

Palestinian

Palestinian

Palestinian

Palestinian

Palestinian
Main religion

Islam

Islam

Islam

Islam

Islam

Islam

Islam

Islam

Islam

Islam

Islam

Islam

Islam

Islam

Islam

Islam

Islam

Islam

The Total deaths caused by the USA = 9,784,000 (9 Million, seven hundred and eighty-four thousand)

The Total deaths caused by Israel = 86,931 (Eighty-six thousand, nine hundred and thirty-one).

Total combined = 9,870,931 million. Over three million more than in the Holocaust.

The United States and Israel are committing War crimes in the 21st century and it is about time they were held accountable for such disgusting crimes.

The crimes committed by Israel and the US are nearly identical to those listed for the Nuremberg trials:

(1) crimes against peace (i.e., the planning, initiating, and waging of wars of aggression in violation of international treaties and agreements)

(2) crimes against humanity (i.e., exterminations, deportations, and genocide)

(3) war crimes (i.e., violations of the laws of war)

(4) “a common plan or conspiracy to commit” the criminal acts listed in the first three counts.

Israeli war crimes are the violations of international criminal law, including war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of genocide, which the Israel Defense Forces, the military branch of the state of Israel, has been accused of committing since the founding of Israel in 1948. These have included murder, intentional targeting of civilians, killing prisoners of war and surrendered combatants, indiscriminate attacks, collective punishment, starvation, the use of human shields, sexual violence and rape, torture, pillage, forced transfer, breach of medical neutrality, targeting journalists, attacking civilian and protected objects, wanton destruction, incitement to genocide, and genocide.

The definition of genocide — as well as the crimes that are associated with genocide — in the 1948 UN Genocide Convention is: “In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Article III continues:

“The following acts shall be punishable: (a) Genocide; (b) Conspiracy to commit genocide; (c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide; (d) Attempt to commit genocide; (e) Complicity in genocide.

These are clear-cut definitions backed by ample evidence, such as testimony, video testimony, international observer testimony, and forensic evidence. Given the vast amounts of evidence available on the Israeli regime’s extermination of the Palestinian people, doubting Israeli actions and intentions toward the civilian population in Gaza increasingly indicates complicity rather than ignorance. Some argue that while genocidal intent is certainly present due to the continuous hateful rhetoric from several high-ranking Israeli state officials on public platforms — wherein the intent to ‘flatten’ Gaza has been made — this alone cannot legally prove genocide. However, conspiracy or incitement to commit genocide is a crime in itself, and the Genocide Conventions include the obligation of signatories also to prevent genocide. The events unfolding on an hourly basis are testimony to both the lack of prevention and, indeed, the act of genocide itself (UNHRC 2024).

Civilians are considered Protected Persons under all four Geneva Conventions and through customary law. Specifically, the following persons are protected by international humanitarian law: “wounded, sick and shipwrecked members of the armed forces who have ceased to take part in the hostilities; prisoners of war; civilian persons who because of a conflict or occupation are in the power of a Party whose nationality they do not possess; medical and religious personnel; Parliamentarians; civil defence personnel; personnel assigned to the protection of cultural property.” These categories are all specified amongst GC I, Art. 13, GC II, Art. 13, GC III, Art. 4, and GC IV, Art. 4.

While journalists are not listed as protected persons, they are technically considered civilians, the modern world has come to understand it as a protected profession. Israel has killed at least 106 Palestinian journalists and employed collective punishment in the targeting and killing of their families. It has also killed at least 300 health workers, 136 UN employees, and 40 civil defense members.

Not only have they breached the Geneva Conventions but a series of customary laws, for example, ‘Rule 11. Indiscriminate Attacks’ and ‘Rule 16. Target Verification.’

 

Furthermore, medical, religious, and civil defense personnel have not been simply part of these casualties but were actively targeted. Evidence of testimony from staff at different medical facilities highlights massacres on both human life and medical facilities, including al-Shifa Medical Complex, the Indonesian Hospital, and al-Ahli Hospital. Human Rights Watch and other organizations have called for this to be investigated as a war crime. (Sayegh 2023).

It is about time that those who are responsible for Genocide are held accountable, whether it is a ‘superpower’ nation or a ‘Puppet’ whether it’s a ‘Democratic or Authoritarian’ state. The US has ruined its reputation as the leading global nation, with its unprecedented unconditional support for the bloodthirsty genocidal state of Israel, America will fall and China will rise, US blinded support for Israel was Biden’s call, now down will come the US and Democracy for all.

Terrorism has many definitions, ‘one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter’ (Boaz 2010), however, terrorism at its basic elements is: to create terror and fear against a people, nation, institution, or society. ‘If terrorism is a chess game, the world would be in a perpetual stalemate, the only way to win the battle and the war is to have one unified definition of terrorism’ (Atiya 2018).

• Bruce Hoffman, the author of Inside Terrorism, suggests that terrorism is political in aim and motives. It is violence or use of violence, not just reserved for intended victims or targets, but beyond it (Hoffman 2018).
• Alex Schmid, the author of the Definition Problem, suggests terrorism is a psychological and anxiety-inspired method of repeated violence employed by states and individuals and groups for idiosyncratic, criminal, and political aims (Schmid 2004).
• David Rapaport, the author of The Four Waves of Terrorism, suggests that terrorism uses violence to provoke consciousness, evoke feelings of both sympathy and revulsion (Rapaport 1977).

The most common theme that cannot be argued is whether terrorism is an act of violence perpetrated to kill, maim and/or fracture a person, property, place, organisation or state. Furthermore, terrorism use is far-reaching and can be political, religious and ideological in motives, a psychological, physical and spiritual form of terrorism. This is what we are seeing unfold before our eyes in Gaza, where Israel is terrorising the Palestinian people in order to take over their land. Israel is slowly exterminating the Palestinian people, something I named the P.E.L.E (Palestinian Extinction Level Event). (Atiya 2023).

Therefore, Israel is a genocidal state committing acts of terrorism against the Palestinian population, and the United States of America which is supplying unconditional financial and military aid to such a nation is complicit in the genocide and, therefore are supporting and sponsoring terrorism. So, the title of this Opinion piece Fits perfectly.

 

Source

BtSelem, Haaretz, ect plus UNSC, UNHR,

Amy-Jane Gielen and Aileen van Leeuwen

ICCT Policy Brief

December 2023

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