I live in a liberal neighborhood replete with Ukrainian flags, and wonder if the display is a sort of unconscious projection?

Liberals have been taught their whole lives that the Holocaust was the greatest crime ever and were instructed to always oppose evil and to never let genocide happen again. Yet Israel has been carrying out a live-streamed rape, torture, starvation and mass murder campaign for the last 18 months. The Gaza genocide is jarring, isn’t it liberals? You have been raised from birth to be hyper-sensitive to everyone’s feelings, with DEI taking it to a whole new level of “woke.” Every oppression of a “person of color,” every attack on a vulnerable minority, was seen as the gravest of social ills—until October 7th. Then, everything changed. In Gaza, the “people of color” are now terrorists, or terrorist sympathizers, or supporters of terrorism, and thus need to be shot, bombed, burned, starved and otherwise destroyed by the righteous Israeli Jews.

Liberals are projecting the horror of the Israeli genocide in Gaza onto Russia, largely because Russia is depicted as the enemy while Israel is endlessly described as the “only democracy in the Middle East”, and our closest ally.

The cognitive dissonance must be deafening.

Thanks to the amazingly effective propaganda media psy-op, liberals can’t condemn the psychopathological Israeli genocide in Gaza, and can’t acknowledge the US/NATO proxy-war against Russia, and the largely Nazi composition of the Ukraine regime, while any criticism of the Israeli genocide in Gaza will get you labeled as an anti-Semite. The corporate media keeps the Gaza genocide outrage on the down-low, while amplifying the outrage against Russia.

What Israel is doing on a daily basis is a horror, and sometimes I wish I could take every New York Times, reading liberal and go all Clockwork Orange on them, strapping them into a chair and forcing them to witness the carnage in Gaza.

We have known for some time, as repeatedly reported by the Israeli media, that the Israeli military has created undeclared “kill zones”, where anything that moves is shot — even children, aid workers and emergency crews. As has also been evident for most of the past 18 months, Israel is implementing a policy to destroy Gaza’s health sector, including its hospitals and ambulances, and killing or kidnapping medical staff —on top of wrecking the rest of the enclave’s infrastructure. The goal is to force the Palestinian population out of Gaza, driving them into the adjoining Egyptian territory of Sinai.

Just imagine how this story would have been reported were all of this happening in Ukraine and the soldiers responsible Russian? Not like this, I’m positive. The corporate media has become a good imitation of George Orwell’s 1984 complete with their dystopian versions of New-Think and the 2 Minute Hate.

Of course, the neocons that comprise Trump’s foreign policy claque are worse, and many of them maintain dual US/Israeli citizenship. Trump Administration has basically criminalized support for the Palestinians. The “crime” of anti-Semitism is the only thing that the Justice Department seems to think is worth addressing, to the point where people who have done nothing beyond protesting what is going on in Gaza are being arrested without any charges being filed and detained while being processed for deportation. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has publicly announced that he has authorized the arrest and deportation of 300 students for their criticism of Israel.

The Republican majority US House of Representatives has obligingly passed a measure equating criticism of the racist, Jewish supremacist ideology of Zionism with what they describe as the hate crime “anti-Semitism.” Then there’s the fact that the US is complicit in the arming of Israel and the killing and actually condones it even though a majority of American voters do not support the Jewish state.

But, as I’ve repeatedly argued here, the evil is bi-partisan and there is no way in which to absolve liberal complicity by claiming that the Biden Administration was better. Former Israeli ambassador to the United States Mike Herzog  acknowledged on Israeli media on Sunday that the Biden administration never at any time pressured Israel for a ceasefire in Gaza. “God did the State of Israel a favor that Biden was the president during this period, because it could have been much worse,” Herzog said. “We fought [in Gaza] for over a year and the administration never came to us and said, ‘ceasefire now.’ It never did.”

So all the officials and talking heads who said the Biden administration was working for a ceasefire lied. They lied the entire time. They committed genocide and lied about it, and then they said you were crazy and irresponsible if you didn’t support Kamala for president.

Decades in the future the question will be asked–what were you doing while Israel destroyed Gaza and genocided the Palestinians living their? And yet America, and especially liberals, says nothing. Mass murder and genocide before our eyes, and…nothing. 

Update: Veteran journalist, Chris Hedges well describes our liberal class. “Fascism is birthed by a bankrupt liberalism that has surrendered its traditional role in a capitalist democracy. It no longer ameliorates the worst excesses of the ruling class and the empire by instituting incremental and piecemeal reforms. It scolds and moralizes the disenfranchised workers it betrayed.”