Israel’s slaughter of aid workers is a tragedy. But it is also a story of western racism

In approaching six months of genocidal horror in Gaza, the Israeli army has slaughtered more than 32,000 Palestinians, with thousands more bodies decomposing under the Gaza rubble. More than 70,000 are wounded, many maimed for life.

Among the dead are at least 90 Palestinian journalists and media workers, and nearly 200 aid workers. Some 13,000 children and 9,000 women have been killed by Israel.

And that’s not to speak of the systematic destruction of schools and hospitals, the displacement of 85 percent of Gaza’s 2.3 million population, nor the deepening famine.

The same attrition rate in the UK would have seen at least one million Britons dead, including approximately 400,000 children.

Until yesterday, politicians of the two main British political parties, Conservative and Labour, along with the mainstream media, have been relaxed about all this. They supported the slaughter and protected the killers…..more