Humanity Uniting for Peace

As I type these words the boats of the Global Sumud Flotilla are being illegally intercepted by Israel in Palestinian waters.

I’ve been watching it unfold on the livestream, which has just gone down.

They’ve been subjected to water canons, repeatedly.

Now they are probably being boarded and illegally detained by a rogue terror state that is actively engaged in genocide.

It’s pretty obvious that all platforms of the big tech pros are shadow banning their posts and thereby assisting that rogue terror state in covering up evidence of what will be harsh, unreasonable and illegal treatment of citizens of the world seeking to bring humanitarian assistance to a people being subjected to genocide.

I ask you to reflect on the implications of what you’ve just read.

Equally worthy of reflection is the fact that when push came to shove every single nation represented on those little boats has abandoned and betrayed their own citizens.

I’m not a fan of military intervention. If you are a regular reader of my posts you will know this.

However, I now fully support the president of Columbia in his call for the general assembly to enact a “Uniting for Peace” proposal and thereby mobilize the Global majority into civil, political, economic and military action.

And I will try to explain why.

It’s not because I want Israeli people to suffer, I don’t. Anymore than I want Palestinian people to suffer.

It’s not because I desire to see some form of violent vengeance inflicted on the people of Israel.

It’s quite simply because I think it’s well past time for this flagrant disregard for the rights of indigenous people to come to an end.

What Israel represents is the continuation of a long history of such abuse of indigenous people by colonial powers.

And I don’t think it’s right.

I don’t think the way the indigenous people of my ancestral land, Ireland, were brutally oppressed and starved and forced to seek hope of a life elsewhere was right.

I don’t think the land clearances of Scotland were right either.

I don’t think the way the indigenous people of the america’s were systematically genocided was right, nor those of Australia.

I don’t think the subjugation and subsequent partition of the Indian sub-continent was right.

I don’t think the ruthless exploitation and dehumanizing of the entire African continent by European colonialists from both sides of the pond was right.

I don’t think the way Anglo-French agreements with oil extraction companies carved up the middle east was right.

I don’t think the illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003 was right and neither was the illegal invasion of Lybia a few years later.

The creation of Israel was an injustice against the indigenous people of Palestine from the start.

I don’t give a toss what the Bible says about it. That’s irrelevant to anyone whose head is not filled with tapioca.

Empire is cruel, ruthless, brutal and uncompromising.

And we are witnessing the uncompromising nature of empire and its brutal extermination of indigenous people right now, in our time.

And when I was watching the livestream of those brave souls trying to do something about it and at the gritty end of their journey I saw that I was one of 622 people across this world bothering to watch.

That’s also a cause for some reflection, although i dont trust the number because its supplied by youtube, who are also enablers and beneficiary of the empire.

So yeah. I’m behind Gustavo Petro’s proposal.

Because if humanity cannot unite behind the “red and black flag” of resistance to empire, if we cannot effectively unite to stop genocide, then humanity is fucked.

It’s over.

We are all doomed to be footnotes in the history of the cosmos as empire continues to consume everyone and everything of beauty in this world just to further its self in its infantile ambition to become masters of the universe.

And if I was an extraterrestrial observer right now i’d be doubling down on making sure we NEVER are allowed to extend ourselves beyond this heliosphere.

And we can fizzle out and die here after we’ve well and truly poisoned and consumed everything.

Link to live stream is here https://globalsumudflotilla.org/live/

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