WESTERN EXCEPTIONALISM

THOMAS FAZI—“Experts say that even a conservative reading of the casualty figures reported from Gaza show that the pace of death during Israel’s campaign has few precedents in this century. Researchers say the pace of deaths reported in Gaza during the Israeli bombardment has been exceptionally high. People are being killed in Gaza more quickly, they say, than in even the deadliest moments of US-led attacks in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, which were themselves widely criticized by human rights groups.

An overview of the current situation with the Blowback roundtable crew, co-hosted by Ben Toth,

BEN NORTON—The United Nations has referred to Gaza as a “graveyard for children”. More than 4,000 children have been killed. About 40% of the casualties are children.
And the United States has continued to support Israel, not only diplomatically and politically, not only by, for instance, vetoing resolutions in the U.N. Security Council that call for a ceasefire, but furthermore, the U.S. has been sending billions of dollars to Israel. Not only the $3.8 billion that the U.S. always gives to Israel every year in military aid, but additionally, tens of billions of dollars more. So I am wondering if you could provide your analysis of why you think the U.S. is investing so many resources in supporting Israel while it is clearly committing war crimes.

MICHAEL HUDSON: Well, certainly it is supporting Israel, but it’s not supporting Israel because this is an altruistic act. To the United States, Israel is its landed aircraft carrier in the Near East. Israel is the takeoff point for America to control the Near East.

FIORELLA ISABEL—They’re already doing it so tell us something we don’t know.

Israel is perhaps the only country that’s told the world they would commit a mass genocide, did it , & then threatened world governments to continue to fund or support them.

JAMES KAVANAGH—The purpose of these “Do you condemn Nat Turner?” interrogations is not to engage in a good-faith discussion of the ethics of anti-slavery/colonialism vs. slaveholding/colonialist violence, but to get people first and foremost to renounce the anti-slavery/colonial fight—i.e., to defend and reinforce the framework of the slave/colonial system. As we all understand in the context of American history, but many pretend they don’t see in the context of Zionist colonialism.