Part 2. Elite interest quickly dissolves elite integrity.

That sordid reality mentioned at the end of Part 1, is the fact that elite, self-interested commitment to having a share in the available and potential profitable resources of the globe is placed higher, much higher, than the interests of humanity. Calling for and achieving a short pause would only allow a trickle of aid to enter Gaza, and give the appearance of humanitarian concern, before the continual crimes against humanity would be allowed to start up again. Everybody not willing to delude themselves about peaceful outcomes know this. Thus the prime concern that the middle eastern profitable resources are kept within the western sphere of influence by the presence of a militarily strong Israel will be pursued.

Such negotiated pauses, past, present and future are not intended to allow a solution for Palestinians. They are tacit acknowledgements that brief intervals before the Israeli national elite continue what they have started do have some PR value. What it had re-started in early October 2023, has been revealed not only as reflex tactic of terrible revenge, but as a renewal of the final stages in the long drawn out solution to what the Zionist Jews consider to be their Arab problem. European and Western elites support this strategy by Israel because, as previously noted, it counters any threats to their profit sources from changes to the middle eastern autocracies they have heavily invested in.

This latest episode in the Zionist program of being a base for protecting US, UK and European based capital from competitors, is also one of a privileged section of the human species (the Israeli elites) removing another less privileged section of the human species (the Palestinian elites) from life itself and from the land of Palestine. The means employed is courtesy of the latest batch of advanced armaments profitably supplied by Israel’s elite friends in US, UK and Europe. Nevertheless, destroying most of the remaining Palestinians and all they possess by a massive bombing and shelling campaign within the territory of Gaza and the West Bank has introduced a new generation of global citizens to the practice of settler colonisation and the horrors of ‘total war’.

Total war is when people are killed by every means possible, not just by guns, bombs and missiles. Total war includes systematically depriving the enemies non-combattants of food, water, shelter and medical attention. Using disease outbreaks  as a biological weapon of mass destruction therefore kills those that have dodged the guns and bombs. Despite the daily visual horror of this mass destruction of human life and buildings this spectre is still not outrageous enough to alter the unwillingness of any other national elites singly or collectively to openly condemn it or seriously attempt to reign it in. This is because this massacre of the innocents along with the guilty by Israel is not an outrageous global anomaly as many naive media commentators seem to think.

It is something the Israeli elites share with all elites in authority over hierarchical mass societies, and is fully in line with the past actions of all national elites. Massacres of those resisting colonisation is as old colonisation itself, but not everybody knows that. Our more recent generations of global human beings, were unborn when the U.S. military dropped over 100,000 bombs and missiles on Mosul in Iraq, Raqqa in Syria, and on other areas occupied by ISIS or Da’esh, so most will probably be unaware of regular massacres. Furthermore, some of the youth of today may also be unaware that the United States and its allies have dropped more than 350,000 bombs and missiles on 9 countries since 2001.

Likewise, the ugly history of Western and European mass killing in Indonesia, Greece, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Haiti, Turkey, the Philippines, Guatemala, El Salvador, Chile and Nicaragua, has long been kept out of (or relegated to the margins of) news media, whilst the public have been provided with a constant euphoric monologue extolling the benefits of western ‘civilisation’. All these examples of western imperialist type, gun-ship diplomacy and armed skirmishes along with Western military outposts in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, are not undertaken to provide soldiers, sailors and airmen with exotic off-duty experiences. They are there to protect profitable resources.

Moreover, in 2023 a new generation of global human beings have now, by means of the internet and alternative media, been able to witness first hand the mask of civility and humanitarian concern slip from the faces of modern hierarchical mass society elites, to reveal the underlying unmoved expressions of self interested greed. If so many global elites can show so little compassion or concern to prevent the wholesale killing and dismembering of members of their own species in Gaza, and the West Bank, etc., then it should come as no surprise why most of them show no compassion for the poverty and homelessness they create for their own lower valued citizens.

If in doubt of this assertion, just consider who gets killed most by bombs, bullets and poverty! Death by the weapons used in these latest wars between Hamas elites and Israeli elites, and Russian elites and Ukrainian elites, has been greatest among unprotected civilians. If ranks of dead babies in bombed and shelled hospitals do not move global elites to compassion and action, then people who in their elite eyes are only homeless (as a life-style choice!), queuing at food banks, or unemployed (also considered as being by their own choice!), or living next to swollen rivers, (presumed to be their own choice!) will be shown no compassion or serious action.

We should not overlook the fact that the above symptoms of global austerity and infrastructure neglect are the results of political and economic choices by national elites and  IMF  elites and that the resources expended by war armaments production will result in further austerity and high prices for those at the bottom of the hierarchical mass society system. The only thing protecting the old age pensioners in the UK and Europe from a similar severe level of callous indifference by advanced nation political elites is that fact that many pensioners continue to vote to elect the elites into positions of power, privilege and ample remuneration. In this case the elite hope by being less harsh on the old folk than the younger their chances of being voted into continued milking of the system will be better.

A further characteristic that elites in authority the world over have revealed they have in common is the their loose intellectual hold on logic. This also applies to the news media personnel that are employed to pass on the chosen narratives of the elite. The recent claim by Israel’s political elite that Israel has a right to defend itself – repeated by practically every one of the thousands of experts, politicians and officials, whether of left right or centre or United Nation persuasions – highlights this global intellectual disability. It is public knowledge that scores of UN resolutions, accepted after long heart-felt (?) discussions, have declared, time and time again that according to Internationally agreed law, Israel’s occupation of Palestine is illegal.

The logic of the Israeli elites claim to have the right to defend itself by any means, therefore, amounts to claiming the that it has the right to defend by any means, it’s illegal possession of Palestinian territory. The UN staff know the occupation is illegal as do Politicians of all tendencies in the UK, US and Europe, so when they repeatedly preface their remarks by repeating the mantra  “Israel has the right to defend itself”, they have merely publicly  contradicted themselves. There is no legal right to defend an illegal act or to defend the continued possession of stolen property. According to agreed international law Israel has no legal right to defend it’s illegal possession of Palestinian land and property stolen since 1948.

In effect, the elites in the UK, the US, European nations and assorted others are collectively endorsing an illegal act which their own representatives have previously repeatedly condemned. The parroting of this same contradictory formula of a right to defend an illegal act or actions in this illegal occupation by media pundits everywhere, exposes their own shallow grasp of knowledge and an even less firm grasp on logic. Now I am certainly not going to defend either the right of Israeli elites to order the bombing of Gaza into the stone age, and its genocidal killing of the ordinary Palestinian masses, nor am I going to defend the right of Hamas elites to fire rockets or kill Israeli civilians in other ways.

Irrespective of legal rights, or in one case their complete absence, both sets of elites (and their elite supporters elsewhere) are merely personifying the immoral policy of killing innocents as part of their political agendas to gain absolute control over terrirory and resources, in this case the territory of former Ottoman Palestine.  Both elites (and their supporters)  should therefore be openly condemned as crimes against humanity.  Moreover, by such self-contradictory convenient distortions, all such elites, established ones or ones wishing to replace them, are overwhelmingly trapped by the socio-economic logic of elite controlled, hierarchical mass society dynamics. Under hierarchical elite systems, economics determines politics. Thus elite self interest, continually corrodes elite integrity.

Roy Ratcliffe (November 2023.)