The Palestine Chronicle (5 December 2026)

Jeremy SALT

Palestine connects with all of them. The human cost does not matter and never has mattered. This is the answer to the question ‘why don’t they do something?’

The cry went up around the world for two years: “Why aren’t they doing something to stop it?” The ‘they’ is the governments of the ‘civilized’ west. The ‘it’ is the Gaza genocide, committed openly, flagrantly, and defiantly before all our eyes.

Surely nothing could be more civilized than for the ‘civilized’ west to stop genocide, instead of indulging it, enabling it, arming it, and receiving its architects as honoured guests in its capitals.

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The crime is extreme, but the indifference of governments to the mass of victims, not out of place in western history. Gaza stands as further evidence that behind the mask of civilization, when its interests are involved, and the victims have black or brown skin, the ‘west’, as represented by its governments, is not so civilized after all.

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