'If the roles were reversed'

Blistering attack on Israel's genocide in Gaza

- by MIKE WHITNEY

SUSAN Abulhawa's blistering speech at the Oxford Union was the most ferocious indictment of Israel in the last decade.

Author Abulhawa - who is a long-term human rights activist - summarised the iniquitous history of the Jewish state in a few succinct paragraphs while shedding light on the obscene, toxic ideology that has permeated the nation's doctrine from the very beginning.

Abulhawa ignored the fictitious claim that Israel was created to provide safety and security for the Jewish people and, instead, showed that the country's founders were maniacally focused on seizing land while expelling or exterminating the indigenous population.

Ethnic cleansing and land theft are not an unavoidable response to sporadic Palestinian violence, but the cornerstones of the pernicious dogma that animates the Zionist state. Needless to say, Abulhawa's presentation was met with riotous applause that lasted for more than three minutes as the audience expressed their appreciation for her heartfelt testimony. Here's part of what she said:

'When I was in Gaza, I saw a little boy no more than nine years whose hands - and part of his face - had been blown off from a booby trapped can of food that soldiers had left behind for starving children.

I later learned that they had also left poisoned food for people in Shujaiyya, and in the 1980s and 90s Israeli soldiers left booby trapped toys in southern Lebanon that exploded when excited children picked them up.

The harm they do is diabolical and yet they expect you to believe they are the victims.