Why do so many Westerners support Israel s genocidal campaign in Gaza ?
Israel is not the only entity carrying out the ongoing genocidal war against the Palestinian populace.
It is a genocide executed by the United States, United Kingdom, France , Germany, and other European Union and NATO nations.
We all know that the West established Israel as an imperial outpost to exploit and rule the Arab world. A lot of people don't understand why the West is so behind the Israeli genocide; they think the West started attacking Palestinians after October 7.
The military and political effort to establish Israel as a Western military outpost commenced in 1917 with Britain's issuance of the Balfour Declaration, supported by other colonial and imperial powers.
Since then, the imperialist and racist war by the West on the Palestinian people has persisted.
In the Arab world, the majority of anti-imperialist thinkers have consistently perceived Israel as a Western imperialist outpost situated in the heart of the region.
In contrast, the pro-imperialist Arab elites and the Arab technocracy managing locally sponsored Western non-governmental organizations perceive Israel as distinct from, if related to, the West. They assert that their lobby wields excessive influence in Western capitals, which it is believed to have infiltrated.
These elites have expressed astonishment at the recent Western backing of Israel's genocide, as they believe the West upheld "human rights."
By emulating Western liberal propaganda, they frequently distort the Western dedication to human rights, portraying it as "universal" rather than confined to white Europeans and Americans alone.
The exceptions for non-white populations are those classified as victims of western-declared "enemies." They merit the sympathy of white European and American liberals solely when it aligns with Western interests, after which they are likely to be abandoned and forgotten, like the populations of Iraq, Syria, and Libya, among others.
For over seventy years, the West has endorsed the massacre of Palestinians because they do not meet its racist and imperial standards.
Since 1948, it has consistently supplied Israel with the essential weaponry to eradicate the Palestinians, steal and colonize their lands, ethnically cleanse them, and oppress the surviving populace through state-administered apartheid and pogroms entrusted to Jewish colonists.
The West has concurrently offered legal and diplomatic protection to safeguard Israel from international condemnation, especially from non-Western nations.
Since its establishment in 1948, the United States, Britain, and France have tasked Israel with protecting the Suez Canal and the Middle East oil.
Proposals to establish a Zionist Jewish state in Palestine to further imperial interests originated as early as 1859, coinciding with the commencement of the Suez Canal construction. Christian and Jewish Zionists, along with imperial officials from Britain and France, regarded it as a permanent imperial outpost to safeguard the trade route from potential local resistance to their authority or threats from competing empires.
Moses Hess, a Franco-German Jewish proto-Zionist, posited this argument in his 1862 work, Rome and Jerusalem:
"Do you still doubt that France will help the Jews to found colonies which may extend from Suez to Jerusalem and from the banks of the Jordan to the coast of the Mediterranean?"
Theodor Herzl, the founder of the Zionist Organization, presented the same pitch during his 1903 visit to Egypt to negotiate with Lord Cromer over the Jewish colonization of the region between the Nile and the Suez Canal.
Over a decade later, British Prime Minister David Lloyd George emphasized that British governance of Palestine was strategically essential for the protection of the Suez Canal. Joseph Chamberlain, the Christian Zionist British colonial secretary, had previously emphasized to Herzl his proposal for Jewish colonization of the Sinai and el-Arish.
The British facilitated Palestine's colonization, while the western-controlled League of Nations assigned this detrimental job to Britain in 1922.
The League's formal successor, the United Nations, sanctioned the theft of Palestinian land by Jewish colonists in the November 1947 partition resolution and recognized the Israeli settler colony upon its establishment.
In 1956, Israel invaded Egypt to assist the British and French military seizure of the canal following Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser's nationalization of it.
In 1967, when Israel became a de facto territorial extension of the US, the US tasked it with protecting the oil and the thrones of all Arab client regimes it had established or supported.
Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the events of September 11, Israel continued to serve as a significant imperial outpost, emerging as a prominent ally in a novel coalition between the Arab client states and the United States. The US empire assigned it, along with its junior Arab partners, the responsibility of deterring any new adversaries it forged in the region and worldwide.
The world has been witnessing a live-streamed genocide against the Palestinian people since October, which has compelled western governments to openly support the genocide with military and financial backing, as well as through official propaganda that the racist and pro-imperialist western mainstream media disseminates.
To support Israel's efforts, Western countries have implemented severe oppressive measures against their own people who express solidarity with the Palestinians.
The British, historically culpable in the dispossession of Palestinians, hastily deployed weapons and troops on 8 October to support the settler-colony they founded and dedicated their military bases in the region to the defense of Israel.
They have subsequently voted to protect Israel from UN condemnation, exerted pressure on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to refrain from indicting Israeli leaders for their war crimes, opposed the International Court of Justice (ICJ) investigation into the Israeli occupation and genocide, deployed their law enforcement agencies to intimidate British activists advocating for Palestinians, and initiated a substantial propaganda campaign, aided by the BBC, in support of Israeli crimes. British universities facilitated this pro-genocide initiative by implementing oppressive measures against their own students.
In the past two decades, France has exhibited significant state-sanctioned racism against Arabs and Muslims, while simultaneously providing ships, munitions, and personnel to support Israel in its genocidal war and directing French military bases in the region to defend Israel.
It has protected Israel at the UN, defended Israeli occupation before the ICJ, and propagated pro-Israeli propaganda by categorizing opposition to Israel's ongoing genocide as antisemitism, which paradoxically incited substantial demonstrations in France, not against the actions but against the alleged antisemitism, while banning all pro-Palestinian protests.
This is not novel, given France served as the primary armaments supplier to Israel during the 1950s and until 1967 and was instrumental in the development of Israel's nuclear program.
Despite the intense competition from other European nations and the United States, Germany's anti-Palestinian policies may be the worst.
It has prohibited and suppressed all pro-Palestinian demonstrations, supplied arms, funding, and diplomatic backing, swiftly aligned with Israel at the ICJ to defend its genocidal actions as non-genocidal, criticized the ICC's prosecutor for seeking arrest warrants for Israeli war criminal leaders, and disseminated vigorous pro-Israel and anti-Palestinian propaganda to its extensively propagandized populace and even international audiences.
The Berlin government has persistently curtailed freedom of expression and silenced media critics of Germany's backing for the rogue state.
This is not novel, as Germany has been a principal arms supplier to Israel for decades, including submarines capable of carrying nuclear-tipped cruise missiles.
State leaders have endorsed Israel's right to kill the Palestinian population under the pretext of ‘’self-defense’’ against a subjugated populace.
Not to be outdone, the UN has also gone to great lengths to support Israel's slaughter. In June 2023, just months prior to the slaughter, it declined to designate Israel as a violator of children's rights.
Subsequently, it released a shoddy report regarding the fake rape allegations propagated by Israel and its Western advocates following October 7, while conceding that its team:
"was unable to establish the prevalence of sexual violence and concludes that the overall magnitude, scope, and specific attribution of these violations would require a fully-fledged investigation."
Recently, the UN appointed Sigrid Kaag, the Dutch senior humanitarian and reconstruction coordinator for Gaza, to collaborate with enemies of the Palestinian resistance, including Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, and the collaborating Palestinian Authority, on a proposal for an "international, transitional, and temporary custodianship" over Gaza, which she believes will be authorized by a UN Security Council resolution.
Kaag met with Palestinian Authority intelligence chief Majed Faraj, who cooperates with Israelis to suppress Palestinian resistance, and Israeli army Major-General Ghassan Alyan to help resolve the complexities of "Rafah and Netzarim," which she wants the UN to manage.
As the latest revelations from the Lebanese newspaper al-Akhbar showed, neither Kaag nor her UN bosses appear to be perturbed by the fact that her proposal will involve the UN and make it complicit in the Israeli occupation.
Simultaneously, the prospects for financial gain in post-genocide Gaza appear excessively alluring to disregard.
Jordanians are allegedly collaborating with Americans and the American University in Beirut on a proposed acquisition of all healthcare institutions in Gaza, whereas Egyptian firms are purportedly preparing to monopolize the supply of construction materials following the genocide.
Unlike the Jordanians, who appear focused on profitable agreements, the Algerians have proposed to send medical facilities and construct many hospitals in Gaza for free, contingent upon the border's opening to assist the Palestinians.
Furthermore, all this support for the genocidal regime is just complementary to the significant and direct military involvement of the United States in Israeli atrocities.
Although this commenced decades prior to 7 October, the US has subsequently deployed additional soldiers, armaments, submarines, and aircraft carriers to defend Israel, with an increased number of vessels and submarines sent in recent weeks.
It persists in providing Israel with one-ton bombs and further deadly weapons to annihilate the Palestinian populace, and just last month it sanctioned a $20 billion sale package of more Palestinian-killing weapons to Israel.
This is in addition to official US propaganda, augmented by vehemently anti-Palestinian American mainstream media, and extensive police repression of campus rallies, mandated by university presidents to stifle their own students for opposing the genocide.
Washington's unwavering support for Israel in the UN and international forums persists, as does its rejection of the ICJ probe into Israel's egregious crimes against the Palestinian people and its sanctioning of the ICC over arrest warrants for those perpetrating genocide.
The Americans have augmented their imperial military presence in the region to over 40,000 troops to safeguard its settler-colonial outpost from any efforts to stop its genocidal campaign.
Israel may not be exceptional in obtaining Western assistance for its wars and atrocities, since South Africa also received considerable Western backing, albeit at lower magnitudes.
However, these immense levels of support unequivocally illustrate that Israel is not merely a foreign policy or external concern for the Western imperialist nations.
It is unambiguously a domestic matter because it has consistently been an extension of the US empire and its allied European partners.
Some leftist Western critics of Israel assert that pro-Israel American Zionists are "Zionist infiltrators" or "Zionist assets," seeing them as external to the US political system rather than an integral component, thereby inverting the true nature of the relationship.
Specifically, in the international arena of imperial dominance, Israel and its proponents serve as instruments of the US empire and its European allies, rather than the reverse.
Over half a million Israeli Jews have departed from Israel since the onset of the genocide, and 40 percent of Israeli Jewish citizens —according to polls conducted prior to October 2023—considered emigration at that time, indicating a significant decline in support for the Israeli state among its own populace.
Nonetheless, the nation's imperial rulers will protect it to the death because they are safeguarding their own interests, which regard Israel as an integral component of the West.
It is essential to consider that France, Britain, Germany, and the United States have large contingents of their people residing in Israel as Jewish colonists and serving in the Israeli military.
This constitutes a Western war and a Western genocide against the Palestinian populace, executed in defense of the West rather than solely in defense of Israel.
The common values espoused by Western nations and Israel are fundamentally those of settler-colonialism, racism, white supremacy, and genocide, all of which have historically constituted elements of the imperial arsenal employed to mitigate threats to imperial interests.
Resistance to the Gaza genocide and advocacy for Palestinians are increasingly emerging as domestic concerns in US and Western European politics.
This indicates that pro-Palestinian forces in the West have recognized that the annihilation of the Palestinian populace is primarily a Western transgression rather than solely an Israeli one.