Kennedy denies Zionist deliberate ethnic cleansing of Palestinians

In one of my UK Column News sections I dissect the interview by Glenn Greenwald of Robert F Kennedy Jr, Democrat Presidential candidate.

While many are trying to argue that Kennedy has been “got at” by the Israel Lobby in the US I disagree. Yes, the Israel Lobby is the most powerful hand behind the throne in the US, yes the Israel Lobby wields unprecedented influence and can change the political tide in their favour regardless of the candidate. In this instance, I believe Kennedy is presenting his personal beliefs long held. Kennedy is a long-term supporter of Israel, he believes in the Zionist tropes that are deployed to justify an ongoing ethnic cleansing project that began during the Nakba of 1948.

In this interview I believe Kennedy is not “influenced” to disappear Palestinian rights or to deny Israeli aggression globally and against Palestinians. He is not “influenced” to believe that Israel is judged by “double standards”.

Actually, he is correct and if we are to apply the same standards that the West applies to Arab nations that do not recognise the Israeli settler non-state and defend Palestinian rights – we should be providing arms to the Palestinians, planning regime change of the Zionist government, bringing Israel to the ICC for an infinite number of crimes against Humanity. The double standards that Kennedy claims are applied to Israel are in fact to defend Israel and to punish any Arab state that stands in defiance of Israeli hegemony in the region. When does Kennedy condemn Israeli aggression against Syria that is now happening on a weekly basis? He doesn’t. Those are “double standards”.

In this interview Kennedy expresses long-held views, the discomfort comes perhaps because he knows these views will be extremely unpopular and will draw extensive criticism but he is not “influenced” to ignore the suffering of the Palestinian people. Instead he claims Israel does not kill Palestinians deliberately. 78 dead Palestinians in 2023, 14 children – countless more injured, Gaza bombed and reduced to stone-age rubble and living conditions…again. All this does not exist in Kennedy world.

I am not saying that Kennedy should not be admired for his stance on Covid but his stance on Palestine goes beyond any other Democrat – he does not even attempt to soften the diatribe, it is full on propaganda defending an apartheid, racist, ethnic cleansing state that is a cancer in the region. Transvestites are “safe” in Israel but Mr Kennedy – Palestinians are not.

Many will try to politicise Kennedy’s position – “he is only doing this to get elected”. Palestinians don’t care who gets elected because they know nothing will change. Israel will be held up as the “only democracy in the region”, Palestinians will be designated terrorists for fighting back against one of the most brutal entities on this earth that is stealing territory, destroying homes, abusing and torturing children, bombing Gaza with impunity, aggressing neighbours, backing terrorists in Syria and running expansionist campaigns directly and by proxy that will further fracture and partition the region. Enough is enough.

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