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If we review the hard powers resisting Israel’s Gazan turkey shoot, the first thing we notice is that almost all of these have been armed by Iran or its proxies, with the major exception being the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and its derivatives, which were headquartered in the former Syrian Arab Republic, whose new rulers are literally spreading their hind cheeks to accommodate Israel’s expansionist designs. When we consider that Turkey and its Azeri client state have been the main suppliers of oil to Israel, we can recognise corporate Sunni opposition to Israel for the hypocritical paper tiger that it is.
Though we might harbour our own criticisms of Iran, Hezbollah and the Houthis, the fact is they fought and died alongside the Palestinians and, for good or ill, that cannot be taken away from them.
No such leeway can be given to the Gulf State despots or countries like Turkey that they fund. Their agenda has been to leverage Gaza as part of their wider game of wealth and power accumulation, and to hell with the Palestinians. This can be seen in the reactions of such countries as Jordan but especially Qatar, which act as honest brokers but which are home to massive American and British air force and naval bases, which have never been attacked by the Islamic jihadists Qatar and its allies bankroll.
Although there is something almost Satanic in the West’s armchair generals urging the Gazans to continue to wantonly sacrifice their lives, what is probably worse is the manipulation of Western opinion by those same dark pro-Qatari Muslim Brotherhood forces. Take, for example, the attacks by Protestant and Jewish fanatics on Catholic Masses in the Cathedrals of New York, Armagh and Dublin, as well as their attacks on Santa Claus in New York and other non-Turkish cities. Quite what those two-faced fascists wanted Santa Claus to do about Gaza is anyone’s guess but, as we will see, their attacks on Catholic masses gives their pro Qatari game away.
Gaza has had a not insignificant Latin Catholic and a much larger Orthodox congregation since the time of the Naqba and both have been under the same sort of privations as have their Sunni neighbours for all that time. When I stayed in the West Bank in 2013, I interviewed Fr Manuel Musallam, who had been the Latin parish priest of Gaza during Cast Lead, as well as his life long friend, Michel Sabbah, who had been Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem and who, along with Fr Musallam, is a nakba survivor, an actual survivor of real, as opposed to invented ethnic cleansing. I was also very friendly with the late Mgr Hilarion Capucci, the former Melkite Patriarch of Jerusalem, who was sentenced to life imprisonment by an Israeli military court after they determined he was smuggling cars full of weapons and explosives for the PFLP.
Their testimony moved me immensely, as did that of Brother Joe Loewenstein, a straight shooting Queens, New York Marist brother who had been rector of Bethlehem University after spending a short stint on the missions in Kenya where only his immediate family and friends sent any material help.
I could not pass Bethlehem without mentioning the wonderful French nuns, who man the orphanage there and who get all kinds of sectarian stick from Western show boaters on that account. They and tens of thousands of other Palestinian Catholics do not need any lectures on what they and their Church should do in the face of Israeli and Qatari aggression from Protestant and Jewish supremacists playing to their own agenda. Just as the Qataris have sidetracked resistance in Gaza, so also have they sidetracked solidarity in the West, where their interminable marches to nowhere and the attacks on Santa Claus and Catholic cathedrals are designed only to empower Israel’s Black Lives Matter crisis actors and repel everyone else.
These sectarian attacks on Irish and American priests saying Mass are worthless virtue signaling jobs that stand in direct contrast to the actions taken by the very same actors, to kick Russia bag and baggage out of all international sport. How is it they can banish Russia and the best they can do to admonish Israel is to beat up American and Irish priests, who fund raise for Gaza? If these pro Palestinian protesters were serious about putting Israel under pressure, then Israel would not be able to safely compete in any international sport and El Al would be grounded.
But, because that would entail personal costs, far better is it to gang up on Santa and on Irish and American priests who fund raise for Gaza.
As for me, I have not been on one pro Palestinian march and nor do I intend to be as long as they are led by these serial grifters and Erdoğan fellow travellers. This is not to abandon Taybeh’s ‘good’ Latin, Greek Catholic and Greek Orthodox faithful but to, in fact, do its converse, to plot and plan for the tide to turn and, as with Syria, to help make it turn.
