In order to hide the shame of complicity in Israel’s destruction of Gaza, the killing and starvation of the Palestinian people, and to save face in front of the world, airdrops have been used to parachute humanitarian aid into the Palestinian enclave. Jordan’s King Abdullah II started this as a means to show-off and wear his military uniform, and wash away the shame of the shipments of fruit and vegetables that he sends across the border daily to the Zionist enemy, while his Palestinians relatives die of hunger. When Jordanian citizens formed a human chain to prevent lorries of goods from crossing the border, the protest was dispersed forcibly by the Jordanian authorities, and some protesters were arrested. The subsequent airdrops by the Royal Jordanian Air Force over Gaza went ahead by arrangement with the Zionist state, which pointed out repeatedly that it gave permission for them.

This is a world without conscience and humanity

Claims about being civilised and law-abiding ring hollow as the West promotes its unjust leadership to the world. The Israeli military offensive against the Palestinians in Gaza has exposed their ugly racist face. Yet again, we only have to compare the response to what happened in Gaza last Thursday — the Israeli attack on starving people as they tried to get desperately-needed humanitarian aid — with the Western response to events in Ukraine, and the hateful racism is highlighted even more. If Russia had done what Israel did last week, we would have seen more Security Council resolution and sanctions on Moscow in the blink of an eye.