Hermann Bellinghausen: No Eyes on Gaza

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or there is enough time to Processing information every day, all the time. The dominant television networks and press play a game of lying, concealing, and twisting in favor of Israel. The Mexican government complies by failing to comply with vox populi and condemning the (pariah, but luxurious) State of Israel; it is fatally threatened by the blackmailers from the north, sponsors and at the same time subordinates of the modern prophets of destruction who head the Israeli military theocracy. One cannot think about Gaza; it is unthinkable. Nor can one stop thinking about Gaza, at the risk of succumbing to indifference or indigestion from the Hasbara lie and its practical applications.

Caught up in the "issue," the brain becomes desperate, revolted, stunned, and indignant, powerless. It is overwhelmed by data, revelations, and reports. The heart aches, not only figuratively but also as a physical symptom. It affects sleep, absorbs blood-soaked conversations between friends, colleagues, and loved ones.

What's left? To repeat with information the last words of Netanyahu or any of the intellectual assassins at his command, or of the generals and magnates who command them? To watch the disgusting celebratory videos of Israel's defense troops (yes, it says "Defense"), as well as the jubilation of the blond "settlers" applauding the missiles over Palestine to "share" it on TikTok? Many Israelis revive the war tourism of the First World War when they watch from the hills the bombing of the land they were promised.

Record the latest, most up-to-date data: 61,000 dead, 94 percent of the Strip's hospitals destroyed or damaged, thousands of people are animalized and displayed in their mortal struggle for food, more than 1,700 have been freed from their torment by God's obedient bullets. Endure the orange master as he hurls insults and self-praises before the inert, empty faces of the leaders of the European Union, naked like the king in the fairy tale?

Every day, every newscast, every sad Instagram feed. 269 Palestinian journalists have been murdered, most of them intentionally—that is, executed. Did you know that there are 10,800 Palestinians in Israeli prisons and that 76 have died since October 2023? The videos and live streams from Gaza are unbearable for anyone still watching.

We know we're being deceived, spied on, and threatened. It's a global war, localized in Gaza, but with profound cultural repercussions around the world. In the West, sympathy for Palestine, the mere rejection of famine and genocide, leads to reprisals, dismissals, and even imprisonment in universities, businesses of all kinds, television stations, and bureaucracies.

Human rights were created for the Jews when they were victims, but they didn't create them. They were never interested in them. Like the savage biblical judges, their principles are conquest and revenge, incompatible with the rights of others. Children, women, journalists, doctors, nurses, teachers, poets, mothers, and shoeless shoemakers are mutilated and erased daily in Palestine. We are as sick of the lies as we are horrified by the truth they fail to hide. Never has a greater mass of starving humans been seen. They starve an entire country, and the survivors want to be sent to Sinai or Sudan, because they only deserve another hell.

The mowing down of Al Jazeera in Gaza is yet another. They annihilated the only global media outlet covering the devastated territory. There are no limits or checks and balances. Only a stench of death that spills into everyone's future and is already unbearable. The self-interested cowardice of rich countries reigns. And as a side dish, the fateful evil of local powers in Africa (Sudan, Rwanda) and Latin America (Argentina, El Salvador, Ecuador), subservient to Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the British crown. In the war market, Israeli mercenaries prevail in Africa, with weapons made in Israel and European and American weapons tested in Gaza, available everywhere , within reach of the fascists advancing rapidly in the West.

Under international investigation for crimes and corruption, prosecuted for heinous offenses in their own countries, the masters of war want the Nobel Peace Prize. Nothing is unheard of anymore: that they believe they deserve it, that it will be awarded to them. If they buy World Cups and Olympics, pontificates and countries, they can easily reward themselves amid discredit by advertising resorts and casinos on the ruins and bones of Gaza.

Tel Aviv militarily dominates its entire population; the majority applauds. The White House invades its own country from within, state by state, city by city. It gerrymanderesses electoral districts to oust its opponents in future elections, which it won't honor if it loses. Two dictatorial coup governments. They know what they're doing, they celebrate what they are and how much they earn. They share the trophies of their cruelty with their subjects in the media Coliseum.

We have no escape, trapped in the truth of that lie. Die with Gaza. Or lose my eyes in Gaza, what do I want them for?