Suddenly, certain Western media outlets are noticing the catastrophe enveloping Gaza. The phrase “war crimes” is even creeping into BBC headlines.
There is an obvious explanation for this ‘Great Noticing’: the Israeli-manufactured mass starvation will be impossible to hide, and those complicit in this abomination know that their criminal role will be exposed.
Well, we warned you what would happen from the start. Below, I’m posting what I wrote and said in the first days and weeks of the genocide. This isn’t an exercise in “I told you so”.
It was obvious – screamingly, hideously obvious – that a heinous crime of historic proportions would be perpetrated by Israel against the Palestinian people, facilitated by its Western allies. You didn’t need to be a prophet, a scholar, a genius, or a radical. You just had to treat Palestinian life as having equal worth, take literally what Israeli leaders and officials said, and not close your eyes to the crimes committed from the start. ….more
