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The Partial Observer by Wriley Nelson

Israel's Grip on the U.S. is the End of International Law

"The picture of the world’s greatest superpower killing or seriously injuring 1,000 noncombatants a week, while trying to pound a tiny, backward nation into submission on an issue whose merits are hotly disputed, is not a pretty one.”

—U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, 1967

The United States has now spent two entire years paying for an apartheid state on the other side of the world to murder a city of two million. Israel, a race-based state the size of the Hudson Valley that bans interfaith marriages and provides its citizens with universal healthcare and free college on the American taxpayer’s dime, has now killed at least 60,000 civilians, at least half of whom are children. This low figure only includes bodies that were found and positively identified, a tall order in a Stalingrad-esque ex-city moonscape where childrens’ flesh is daily scraped off walls and where the world learned the acronym “WCNSF”: “wounded child, no surviving family.” Military and medical journals, as well as back-of-the-envelope calculations based on previous urban terror bombing campaigns, put the number well north of 200,000.

Despite this slaughter, the much-vaunted IDF supersoldiers have somehow failed to drive the tactical equivalent of 13-18,000 starving Viet Cong guerillas from a single city that they have besieged since 2007 and entirely cut off from the world since March. “We” aren’t even winning the “war.” Every single day, another Israeli tank crew gets their skin burned off, another Israeli business goes under, another Israeli reservist dodges the draft, another “Israeli” illegal American settler packs up to head home, and another Israeli war criminal puts a gun in his mouth to forget the women and children he butchered. Our country has bet on the wrong horse. We are fettered to a corpse.