Why are we letting a war criminal visit the white house? Benjamin Netanyahu has accrued a lot of blood on his hands over 18 years of prime ministership.
Repeatedly closing off pathways to peace, his administration continued the blockade of Gaza to the point of war. To this day, his settlers continuously encroach upon the people of the West Bank, harassing and killing Palestinians for their land and building walled fortifications to keep the land for themselves.
I am not sure how Bibi can still smile and joke in front of a crowd. Is ordering killings that easy for him? Does the weight of his blood lust simply slide off, like droplets of rain off a tarp? He doesn’t seem to feel anything at all. He appears in public always smiling wryly, smirking over his detractors as if he is untouchable. His moments of solemnity are overdone, as if he learned how to mimic expressions of grief from old Hollywood movies.
The pursuit of a Jewish state (Israel: a place where one’s Jewish bloodline grants them rights over non-Jews) has lead to mass death. These people of the Jewish faith, once victims of brutal fascism under the Nazis, now revive the old doctrine of war to carry out their own deadly crusade in the middle east. Though for many this is a new conflict of the recent decade, the seed of violence first took root in 1948 when a group of Zionist Jews, only a few years within the wake of the Holocaust, decided it was worth picking up arms again and killing for a piece of land in what was then called Palestine. The killing started in 1948 and never stopped. As Israel continued to find reasons to go to war with its neighbors, its territory expanded. In that way, the legacy of death that Hitler began in the 20th century was allowed to propagate and flower anew into the 21st.
Thank you, Netanyahu! You have given us the gift of a war-blighted world.
