The Wild Reed: “This Is a Genocidal Project”

. . . [one] that extends from Tel Aviv to London
to Washington to Paris to Rome

The world is watching a genocide being systematically and brutally unleashed on the Palestinian population in Gaza.

British Palestinian surgeon Ghassan Abu-Sittah (right) reminds us that the perpetrators and enablers of this atrocity are not just within the Israeli government but also in Western governments and media organizations.

Last Monday Dr. Abu-Sittah was interviewed by Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman. In this interview, Dr. Abu-Sittah provides one of the most harrowing yet essential witness accounts and analysis of the situation in Gaza.

[F]rom the very beginning, this [has] been a war Israel declared on Palestinian children. . . . Israel wants to wipe out Palestinian children, because Palestinian children represent the Palestinian tomorrow that is incompatible with the Zionist settler-colonial project. Zionists cannot envision a Palestinian tomorrow and [are] targeting Palestinian children. . . . [S]uch is the aim of the settler-colonialist genocidal war, to dehumanize these children, that my colleagues and I wanted to maintain their dignity and wanted to not just bear witness but to hold on to anything that makes us and them human in the face of this dehumanizing war machine. And so we insisted that whenever there was a limb that was amputated, that it gets the right burial and that this child’s name is on that amputated limb and that we maintain the dignity of our patient to the extent that we can.

Following is Democracy Now!’s complete 35-minute interview with Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah.

[O]ne of the things you do realize when you leave this death world in Gaza and you come out to the outside world is that you come to realize that Israel is just the tip of genocidal iceberg, that the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, all of these NATO countries represent the remainder of the genocidal project. And these countries are not just supporting Israel. They are supporting Israel’s genocidal project, because, as the Colombian president said, they want to send the message to any other troublesome Native who considers changing the rules of the global game by rebelling.

And so, when we talk about the genocide, we should not just talk about the Israelis as the perpetrators of the genocide. We should talk about the “Axis of Genocide,” these countries, these governments that are perpetuating this genocide. And we know just not just this article. There’s also been another article showing how much intelligence information has been passed on to the Israelis that ensured the Israelis are able to carry out these massacres. And so, when we talk about the genocide, it’s an American, British, French, European genocide against the Palestinian people, of which Israel is the spearhead but not just the sole perpetrator.

. . . [T]his is a genocidal project that extends from Tel Aviv to London to Washington to Paris to Rome – to all of these countries. These are genocidal partners, complicit in an attempt to wipe out the Palestinian people. The 200,000, hundreds of thousands of people who are coming out every weekend, be it in Europe or North America, are basically saying, “Not in our name.” They will not be complicit in the acts of genocide that their governments are perpetrating. These people want to absolve themselves from what their governments are doing, by refusing to be part of a genocidal war in the 21st century.

– Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah
April 1, 2024

Above: A bloodied Palestinian child standing in the aftermath of an Israeli bombardment – Gaza, Palestine, October 25, 2023. (AA Photo)

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“This Is a Genocidal Project”

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