PALESTINE Those NGOs, media and institutions that accuse the State of Israel and its American sponsors

Press review

Despite two months of intense official propaganda, it is now difficult to hide the reality of the genocide of the Palestinian people. Many NGOs, media and institutions – some of them traditionally pro-Israel – are now being forced to acknowledge the reality, and to accuse the State of Israel and its American sponsors. 

Leo Cans, head of mission in Gaza for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF; “Doctors Without Borders”), asserts: « We are bombing a civilian population in a disproportionate and indiscriminate manner. We can see this in the nature of the injuries sustained by the patients arriving at our hospitals, more than half of whom are women and children (…). We are currently working in two hospitals in Gaza: in the last twenty-four hours, at the Al-Aqsa hospital, we have received more dead than wounded. And every day we descend a little further into horror, into nightmare » (France Inter radio channel, December 8). 

For Avril Benoît, Executive Director of MSF, the main culprit is the United States, which, by continuing « to provide political and financial support to Israel, which is continuing its military operations despite heavy civilian casualties« , is « complicit in the massacre » (December 9). 

The same observation, made this time by an eminent diplomat from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Yves Aubin de La Messuzière: « Joe Biden runs the risk of being associated with a genocidal policy » (newspaper L’Humanité, December 10). 

« Genocidal« : how could it be otherwise when the UN World Food Program acknowledges that « nine out of ten households in Gaza go days and nights without food, some for ten days last month. And 97 % don’t have enough food« , reports France Info (December 11), which re lays the cry of alarm from Bisan Owda, a young journalist from Gaza: « We’re going to die here because of hunger. They won’t kill us, they won’t even pay for the bombs that will kill us: we’ll die on our own! » 

Even more unusual is this editorial in French newspaper Le Monde (December 9), which directly attacks the State of Israel and the United States. By its veto at the Security Council, « the Uni ted States, isolated, has ensured that the punishment inflicted by Israel on an entire population will continue. Their humanity will have to wait.” As for the State of Israel, Le Monde points out: « The right to defend oneself has become the right to destroy everything. The balance sheet (…) is there for all to see: death everywhere, hospitals in agony, destitution and the wandering of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians driven like cattle by Israeli injunctions from one part of Gaza to another, then to a third. »

Le Monde, that « institution » of the world order, concludes: « That Israel is losing itself in this war is, alas, no surprise, so much so that it is the reflection of its own deviation (…). While the bombs it supplies to Israel continue to plough Gaza without sparing civilians, can Washington believe that this sowing of iron can produce anything in this bloody land other than inextinguishable hatred?” ■