With the full support of the Biden administration, Israel is waging a merciless war of extermination against the 400,000 Palestinians remaining in the northern Gaza Strip as the government of Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly considering a plan to annex the territory.
No food, water, or medicine have entered the north since October 1 as Israeli forces have conducted a campaign of intense airstrikes and ground forces have invaded and encircled much of the area.
As it orders residents to flee the north, Israel has intensified its attacks on Deir Al-Balah, a city in central Gaza that has not suffered the vast scale of destruction unleashed by Israel in other parts of the Strip.
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have fled to the city in recent months. In the early morning hours of Monday, Israel bombed a crowded tent encampment for displaced people on the grounds of Al Aqsa hospital, engulfing civilians in a massive ring of fire.
Video from the scene showed patients—some of whom appeared to be in beds attached to IV cords—being burned alive as others in the encampment tried desperately to extinguish the fires with small buckets of water.
Historically and globally, liberalism is the dominant political ideology of capitalism. It supports capitalism against all other economic systems, whether that is feudalism or socialism. While it has framed itself as liberatory and egalitarian, and is arguably so in Europe for Europeans when compared to the feudalism it displaced, it has also always been in the context of colonialism, slavery, genocide, and imperial war, so it is not exactly inherently progressive or the “good guys”.
Both the Democrats and GOP are liberal parties. They explicitly support capitalism. Liberalism established the race rules that both the GOP and Democrats internalize and propagate, of course the the GOP being more openly racist and Democrats hiding behind euphemisms and forms of oppression that they normalize, e.g. funding the shit out of cops and going all-in on nationalism. They are just different flavors of the same dominant ideology and they gladly join hands to crush the left when it threatens to gain political power by any means.
Thank you for actually explaining it. You are a stronger leftist than I, but even I know that’s a hard truth to digest for a modern US liberal.
Of course! I enjoy explaining things. It helps internalize them and to make sure whether I really know something or just remember the key takeaways. Sometimes I have to say, “I don’t know” and go re-read some books…
Let’s keep fighting the good fight!