7 October changed everything like 9-11 did

7 October 2023 seems to be as significant a day now as 9-11 has become in our lives. Again, it has impacted everything.  

I had just completed my undergraduate studies and was back in Islamabad. I was shocked by the attacks , fresh from the grief of losing my friend. I could only see the attacks in terms of death and destruction of individual lives, so called innocent citizens. International media also bombarded us with their deaths, as it does. I did rage and rage and rage at the carpet bombing of Afghanistan. I was raging at the idea of our sisters and brothers dying next door. I remember thinking of Afghans as our neighbours, so close to us.  I couldn't take the 2003 American invasion of Iraq. 

I vowed to never set foot on American soil. 

The rest is history. 

This time around for 7 October we have a live streamed genocide. What has changed this time? 

For me, besides the rage, grief and mountains of injustice, everything is so much clearer. The West has completely exposed itself as a barbaric collective, bathed in blood. The blood of every Indigenous peoples ethnically cleansed by the West started to haunt us as Israelis destroyed hospital after hospital, journalist after journalist, school after school, family after family, baby after baby. This carnage immediately conjured up history of North America, the Trail of Tears, the broken treaties, the murder of millions of bison, the stealing of children and the final act: reservations. 

I can't stand a single Western leader: walking corpse Biden embracing Zionist Bastard Netanyahu,  Fuckboy Rishi Sunak, Shitty Macron, Fuckboy Trudeau, Nazi Witch Ursula von der Leyen, Vapidly Giggling Kamala, Corpse lady Pelosi, Jeering and filthily Greedy Hillary. 

Against this we have the hypocrisy of the West's proxy war in Ukraine against Russia. 

Putin's speech on Victory Day triggered me to take an amateur deep dive into World War 2 and, the staggering awe inspiring sacrifices Soviets made to defeat Hitler, the same Hitler who was inspired by American genocide and  institutional racism  in North America. See: What America Taught the Nazis:

Whitman’s “smoking gun” is the transcript of a June 5, 1934, conference of leading German lawyers gathered to exchange ideas about how best to operationalize a racist regime. The record reflects how the most extreme among them, who relied on Krieger’s synoptic scholarship, were especially drawn to American legal codes based on white supremacy. The main conceptual idea was Freisler’s. Race, he argued, is a political construction. In both America and Germany, the importance and meaning of race for the most part had been determined less by scientific realities or social conventions than by political decisions enshrined in law.

See  U.S. Treatment of Indians Inspired Hitler’s Hunger Policies: 

The article is entitled “Hunger as a weapon: Hitler’s Hunger Plan Native American resettlement and starvation in Yemen”.It recalls how Hitler was impressed by U.S. resettlement programs that opened the “West” as it was called to white European settlement and agricultural development. Key among them was the Indian Removal Act of 1830.The Southeast tribes of Cherokee Creek Choctaw Chickasaw and Seminole were the first to be dispossessed they noted although the Cherokee tribe is best remembered for its “Trail of Tears” forced relocation.

Everything happening today in Palestine is a re enactment of Western greed and appetite for genocide which was invented by them as they colonised and pillaged the world. 

Legal and political terminology for genocide had to re-gurgitated for the world when South Africa took Israel to court.  Nothing came of it. We all know it is ethnic cleansing. Nothing came of it. We know this is how Europeans massacred Indigenous populations and took the Americas and Australia and so on. Nothing came of that. No one took the Europeans to court as a moral case. Because this terminology, definitions and laws are based on the European world order.  

Almost a year afterwards, I don't have much left in me to watch minute by minute. It's too much to bear. Also, for me to see this, bear witness to it, I will say Struggle Against Zionism instead of genocide. We know the Palestinians are fighting. It's not merely genocide. It's ongoing ethnic cleansing since 1948. But it's also a moral, political and armed struggle.  

It's a struggle against Western Imperialism and the face that Imperialism exposed by arresting students on college campuses, blocking protests, harassing and firing pro Palestinian voices in their own workplaces, arming Israel, gaslighting victims, defunding UNRWA, blocking anti Israel commentary/analysis on tech platforms, etc. List is too long.