AMMAN, 27 May 2025 – “In a 72-hour period this weekend, images from two horrific attacks provide yet more evidence of the unconscionable cost of this ruthless war on children in the Gaza Strip.
“On Friday, we saw videos of the bodies of burnt, dismembered children from the al-Najjar family being pulled from the rubble of their home in Khan Younis. Of 10 siblings under 12 years old, only one reportedly survived, with critical injuries.
“Since the end of the ceasefire on 18 March, 1,309 children have reportedly been killed and 3,738 injured.
In total, more than 50,000 children have reportedly been killed or injured since October 2023. How many more dead girls and boys will it take? What level of horror must be livestreamed before the international community fully steps up, uses its influence, and takes bold, decisive action to force the end of this ruthless killing of children?
Israel being genocidal doesn’t excuse racist comments like this.
There was nothing racist about this comment. The West has provided billions of dollars of unconditional support to the racist, Islamophobic, child-killing, amoral, death-obsessed state of Israel. And I’m a Jew, in case you were considering tossing the antisemitism card.
If you need cold hard numbers, 82% of the Israeli public supports the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
The West’s behavior can of course be accurately described as colonial, neocolonial, or imperialist. Choose whatever murderous exploitative term you want, but please wake up and see the world for what it is. The West has directly supported the murder of countless people.
That doesn’t make Israel a colony of anybody’s. Is Saudi Arabia a colony of the US? Is the CAR a colony of Russia?
You should spend a few minutes learning about the history of Israel.
You should take your own advice. See my other comment.
LOL
Israel was created by the West from the British colony of Palestine. So yeah? How is that racist btw?
No, it was not. Israel was recommended by the UN, after which Arab states revolted and tried to expel Jews form the region. The latter won the war and declared the creation of Israel. That in no way makes it a colony of the UK or “the west”.
From the Oxford dictionary:
An area in another country “recommended by the UN” that is then progressively inhabited by settlers moving from other countries. Totally not a colony at all, not one bit.
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I bet you’re real fun at parties.
You could find out, if you were invited.
“Recommended by the UN” is the exact same fucking thing as “created by the west.” Who do you think holds and has historically held power at the UN besides all the same colonial powers of the west? An absurd lie to claim this distinction is a difference.
Reasons why it’s a Western colony and your accusation of racism (not antisemitism?) is absurd:
$12.5 billion in aid from the US since 7th October represents massive ongoing subsidisation as a military outpost for Western interests.
Israel is unable to sustain it’s genocide and wars without direct and continuous weapons transfers from the US and Europe.
Israel is completely dependent on Western technology transfers, investment and market access.
Military technology development is largely funded by and shared with Western allies.
Israel acts as a testing ground and laboratory for US and European weapons systems.
Israel relies on Western diplomatic cover for its survival
Domestic Israeli politics is based on the need to maintain Western support.
Many colonial settlers are European or American in origin.
Zionism’s original mission was according to Theodore Herzl as a “rampart of Europe against Asia”. This is no different to the “civilising mission” justification of Western colonialism.
Israel serves as an outpost of Western interest in preventing Arab unity. A Western objective since the end of World War 1.
As Biden famously said. “If there was no Israel, we would have to invent an Israel.”
This is true but hardly makes them a colony.
Also true, but this doesn’t make them a colony. Saudi Arabia depends on western arms too. Are they a colony?
As is the whole region (either to the west, Russia, or China)
Does this make NATO a colony?
Does this make Pakistan a Chinese colony?
Does this make Kosovo a colony?
Does this make Saudi Arabia a colony?
Phew, good thing we’re not being racist here, eh?
That makes Israel imperialist, but doesn’t make them a colony.
If this is true, why do Arab states prefer to normalize relations with Israel rather than help Palestinians? They are at least as complicit in this genocide as “the west”.
The West is a geopolitical, financial military and cultural conglomeration of the world’s richest countries, not a race.
And yes, Israel very much IS an example of Western colonialism. That’s what it’s been from the start and it’ll never not be.
It’s an apartheid ethnostate by design. Doesn’t get much more Western Colonialism than that.
Nothing in this comment is racist. Israel colonized (and continues to incrementally colonize more of) Palestine. It is also committing genocide, according to a wide range of scholars on genocide. Therefore, it is a genocidal colony.
But while there is nothing racist in that statement, you are by contrast a despicable racist. Apologetics defending the ethnic cleansing and mass murder of children - slaughtering indigenous peoples in their homeland based on ethnic background - is as racist as it gets. Your defense of white supremacy is unforgivable.
Haha what? Nice try. I literally said Israel was genocidal. My point is that it’s possible to illustrate that within being a racist. It’s the difference between saying “Somalia is a failed state” and “Somalia is a failed state because it’s inhabited by black people”.
Where did they mention race in the part of the comment you quoted?