As we go to press, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is concluding his business in the United States and flying back to his homeland with a package in his hands.
Netanyahu, who has never lost sight of his goal to completely wipe out the Arabs out of Gaza and the West Bank, found himself at odds with world opinion. The International Criminal Court of Justice (ICC) is seeking a warrant for his arrest.
As many as 180 000 Arabs have died in the last 10 months, either directly through bombing or through starvation. All this matters little as long as the US stays loyal to its master, supplies all his needs, and if need be, joins him against his neighbors if something goes wrong.
That was his mission to the US-to assure himself that the Congress, which is bought and paid for, is reminded of who calls the shots. I had been assured that Netanyahu, in a 50-minute speech to his acolytes in Congress would receive 50 ovations, one per minute.
Netanyahu controls Congress through campaign contributions for congressional races made by the Jewish lobby.
I was wrong. The congressional acolytes managed to squeeze four more cheers and standing ovations, thus achieving the highest number of ovations in US Congressional history.
His great victories in the slaughter of Arabs even in the first month of genocidal war in October 2023 are recorded as follows: “On October 17, there was an estimated 500 fatalities following an airstrike at Al Ahli Hospital…The Ministry of Health confirmed that a further 3 000 have already been killed, including 1 300 children and hundreds of family units (destroyed) in more than 11 days more than 12, 500 people have been injured, one million Palestinians dis[laced, and thousands of homes destroyed, with 1 200 missing people believed to be trapped under the rubble.” (Center for Constitutional Rights 10/18/2023 para 3)
After ten months of such slaughter, Netanyahu felt that US President Joe Biden, who had suffered a pinch of conscience, and delayed a consignment of 20 000 bombs was disloyal.
Similarly, Vice president Kamala Harris was merely “acting out” and pretended to have a pinch of conscience, there was no intention of delaying the export of 2 000 pound bunk busting bombs to Israel.
Harris expressed concern at the “scale of human suffering…dire humanitarian suffering…I cannot be silent” she said.
Netanyahu, ignoring Margaret Thatcher’s wisdom that power is best exercised indirectly could not resist showing off. Biden and Vice President Harris did not attend the congressional pow wow and were humiliated.
Their meeting was cold. There were no hugs. Then Netanyahu went to Mar-a-Largo, the home of former president Donald J. Trump where he was warmly welcomed.
Trump is a presidential opponent of Kamala. Netanyahu wished Trump “total victory.”
Further, Netanyahu met three war mongers, Senators Josh Holley, Tom Cotton and Kindsey Graham.
In the event that Trump wins the presidential election, Netanyahu will have total support in the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
Unpredictable
The relationship between Israel and the US has embarrassed everybody concerned except Trump who has no moral qualms about anything.
The Democrats, though in Israel’s pockets, begged Israel to accept a ceasefire in Gaza at least until the presidential election in November. In this way, Biden and Kamala would gain the Muslim electorate in Michigan and Minnesota and win the election.
After the election the Muslims will be betrayed and support for Israel’s slaughter of Arabs would resume.
Secondly, the US has begged Israel to keep a cool temperature in the Middle East. The US is facing opposition on four fronts there. The Iraqi parliament voted for the expulsion of US occupation troops on its soil. Recently, seven US troops were killed in a skirmish.
The US is occupying a Syrian oilfield against the wishes of that country. Now, Israel has started war with Lebanon and Iran by murdering Hamas leaders resident in those countries.
The murder of Ismail Haniye, the Hamas negotiator while he was attending a presidential inauguration in Iran created maximum embarrassment.
On the home front, almost all comprehensive American opinion polls show that the schooled generation realise that the perpetual wars have served to enrich the weapons manufacturers at the expense of the general population.
College education has further revealed that with 900 military bases abroad, the US is over extended.
While their military industries have been expanding, their manufacturing base for necessities, including medicines and automobile machinery is being challenged by China and India.
It is this feeling of betrayal, serving foreign interests abroad and a small clique of armaments investors at home while closing vast manufacturing plants that has driven the generality towards the rebel politician Donald J. Trump.
War against nature
Historian Edward Gibbon has argued that a major cause for the decline of Rome was its abandonment of its stoic religious foundations.
Billionaire Elon Musk’s story will make one cry. He says that he was tricked into losing his son, Xavier, 11 years old at the time by signing a paper allowing sex change. Biden and the Democrats embrace this new religion called trans-genderism.
Musk says that he was told if he did not agree, his son would commit suicide, only to find that the procedures and drugs given to the child could not be reversed.
The basket ball player, Magic Johnson, had a similar experience. Children going through puberty undergo violent physical changes. The elites have proposed puberty blocking medicines.
During my stay among the Masai of Kenya, I saw the elders take young boys into the forest to fight lions and leopards, an exercise which caused a cooling down of their tempestuous libidos.
I am witnessing a society in the grip of unknown destructive internecine forces.
*Ken Mufuka is a Zimbabwean patriot. He writes from the US. He can be reached at mufukaken@gmail.com