Massacres – Letter One to Netanyahu

by George Thomas Clark

 Dear Prime Minister Netanyahu,

Unholy congratulations. You continue to be the most treacherous and bloodthirsty leader in the world this century. In fact, you expanded your lead in the race to infamy by attacking Lebanon the day after a regional ceasefire was announced and slaughtered hundreds people, and two thousand in less than a week, most of them civilians. Don’t bother lying that you thought they were all Hezbollah. You knew they were simply citizens living in southern Lebanon and you want to remove them and keep expanding the Israeli Empire.

Most informed adults know you’re delighted the U.S.-Iran talks in Islamabad failed and that your not-so-secret agents Kushner and Witkoff, by still undisclosed means, undetermined efforts to save lives and sustain the world’s economy. You don’t want peace. You want war in Lebanon and you want the United States, at your behest, to resume killing Iranians and demolishing their infrastructure and you know you can more readily manipulate unstable Donald Trump during a war. Unlike you, he has spent his life in business battles rather than shooting wars and is less manic when involved in the former.

You, on the other hand, revel in mass murdering your neighbors. Israelis certainly had the right and the obligation to counterattack Hamas after it invaded Israel on October seventh, 2023, but you and your increasingly-fascistic colleagues soon stopped concentrating on tough Hamas fighters and targeted women and children and male civilians and established the now dreaded Israeli style of warfare – destroying apartment buildings, flattening hospitals, shattering schools, blasting everything you could in Gaza. And you presumed that widespread destruction and the resulting starvation and illness and death would lead to strategic victory. Now you know otherwise. If you want to destroy Hamas, you can’t do it with bombs. You’re going to have to go into their hundreds of miles of tunnels and win firefights and handle-to-hand battles to the death in places they know well and you don’t. You’re going to have to win it, or perhaps lose it, like the Germans captured Stalingrad before being encircled and annihilated.

Your plans for the West Bank are similar to those in Gaza. You’re making them miserable by stealing their land and shooting them and when you can you’ll start bombing them from the great warplanes supplied directly or indirectly by the United States. You want to annex the West Bank and Gaza and southern Lebanon, and perhaps more, and that probably can’t happen until the United States cripples Iran and removes the Islamic Republic. But that doesn’t look like a guarantee, does it? You may have to fight all your neighbors alone. You know Lebanon and Hezbollah, backed by Iran, aren’t going to hand you southern Lebanon up to the Litani River. And someone, perhaps Russia, will confront you about your airstrikes in Syria. You’ve occupied the Golan Heights since the Six Day War in 1967, and you and your eternal U.S. allies, flush with cash from the Israel Lobby, claim the Heights is legally yours forever. Most of the rest of the world and the United Nations disagree.

People are talking about Israeli nuclear weapons, you are doubtless aware. You don’t need Mossad to whisper that in private. You also know citizens around the world are asking, would Israel strike Iran with nuclear weapons if, as in the current war, Iran keeps hitting you back with conventional weapons? In the United States, many want to know how long their country is going to be deceived and dragged into wars in the Middle East by Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israel Lobby and their lapdogs in the U.S. Congress. With increasing frequency Americans are saying, “We’re tired of foreign wars. Israel’s got to learn to get along with its neighbors.”

But peace is impossible as long as you are in charge of Israel. And peace is also unlikely as long as Donald Trump resides in the White House. So, what is next? I don’t have a precise answer. I do, however, have a general guarantee: you and Israel are going to have to dramatically improve your behavior.

Sincerely,

George Thomas Clark

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