Just last Thursday, the White House approved an agreement to sell Israel a huge military package for 20 billion dollars, and now it is trying to convince us that it is working for a ceasefire in Gaza.
by Guillermo Alvarado
When the humanitarian cost in the Gaza Strip exceeds all imaginable limits and there are more than 40,000 dead, mostly women and children, as a result of the Zionist bombings and ground attacks, it is disgusting to see how those mainly responsible for this atrocity try to clean their image.
In the last few hours, the President of the United States, Joseph Biden, and his Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, have been saying to the four winds that everything is ready to start a cease-fire and that the State of Israel is doing everything possible to make it happen.
At the same time, as if in a well-orchestrated script, Benjamin Netanyahu urged the international community to "put pressure" on the Hamas organization to bring about the cease-fire, in a display of hypocrisy so brutal that it would be laughable were the timing not so tragic.
It now turns out that if the carnage continues, the responsibility lies not with Tel Aviv or Washington, but with the martyred Palestinian people, whose suffering is reaching unprecedented levels every day, whose children are dying from shrapnel, hunger and disease, and who have virtually no safe haven.
While the statements of Biden, Blinken and Netanyahu get all the attention of the Western press, few remember an event that took place last week that shows the double face of the guilty parties.
Just last Thursday, the White House approved an agreement to sell Israel a huge military package for 20 billion dollars, and now it is trying to convince us that it is working for a ceasefire in Gaza.
The content of the deal is not just anything, since it includes 50 F-15s of the most advanced version, 30 medium-range missiles, 30,000 tank warheads, 50,000 mortars, tactical vehicles, state-of-the-art electronic scanning radars, and other artifacts.
It is logical to ask whether these governments are really working for peace when they make a commercial exchange for war on such a scale, or are they simply laughing at the whole world? Sami Abouy Zohri, from the political bureau of Hamas, rightly said that we are not close to a real agreement or negotiations, but to the imposition of US dictates; meanwhile, the drama continues, there are almost no ambulances in the north of the Strip, and if there were, there is nowhere to treat the wounded or sick, while in the world there are more and more meetings and declarations that do not save a single innocent life.
