NOURNEWS- US President Joe Biden warned on Tuesday against any country or organization thinking of taking advantage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, while indicating that the US is surging additional military assistance, including ammunition and interceptors, to Israel. Also on Tuesday, the first plane carrying American ammunition for Israel's strikes against Gaza landed in Israel.
Rarely does the White House react so efficiently to an issue unless there is a huge interest in it. If anything, the fast provision of military aid is another reminder that the US military-industrial complex stands to gain the most once more from a conflict in West Asia, as it did in Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and other regional instabilities in the past. Even as of right now, US-backed forces in Syria are stealing this country’s oil and valuable minerals, never mind the massive money that was flown into the US because of selling weapons to countries such as Saudi Arabia due to the insecurity in the region.
As of today, at least 2,100 people have been killed in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since the surprise attack by Hamas on Saturday - mostly women, children, and civilians on the Palestinian front, and a humanitarian crisis is going to emerge in Gaza because of Zionists savagery for laying siege over this area. From the point of view of avoiding more human casualties and averting a humanitarian disaster, the most rational and responsible response after the initial attack is to call on all parties to exercise maximum restraint and calm and to achieve a ceasefire as soon as possible.
However, instead of calming the situation, the US, and other Western officials appear busy fanning the flames by providing additional military aid without the slightest mention of the ongoing and intensified war crimes committed by IDF and the Zionist regime. Not only in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but in every conflict, Western countries’ response is always to escalate the violence instead of encouraging peace and to protect their own by violating every possible rule, just because their hegemony depends on it. The US is one of the few that can exploit the conflict and human lives for sickening profits.
Take a look at the performance of US defense stocks this week. The nearly 9 percent rise in Lockheed Martin's stock on Monday was the biggest for the largest US defense contractor on a non-earnings day since March 2020. Northrop Grumman shares also had their best day since 2020.
Humanitarian slogans for most Western world leaders are just a tool to push their agendas, manipulate public opinion of the world, and gain massive monetary profits from these crises. For example, look at Ukraine, in accordance with the Western governments, their media are whitewashing crimes committed by the Ukrainian forces, they are literally whitewashing Nazism, terrorism, governmental corruption, and shady trades in black markets (western weaponry are finding their ways to the black markets because they are being sold by Kyiv) just to show Ukraine as the hero in its war with Russia while showing Russia as the great evil that endangers the world itself, and the only reason for this biased narration is NATO and America’s proxy war against Russia for keeping the western hegemony alive.
The biased and agenda-oriented support of the West of Ukraine in its war, their empty humanitarian slogans, and their double standards are being shown to the world due to their support of the Zionists and their usurper regime.
The US is quick to accuse Hamas of being a terrorist, barbaric group that seeks blood without any regard for human lives, but they are also quick to shut their eyes and mouths regarding war crimes committed by the Zionists. If you don’t believe me, just listen to the words of Zionists’ high officials: While calling Palestinians “human animals”, Yoav Gallant, the minister of defense of Israel, has imposed a full siege upon Gaza and its 2 million people, furthermore, Israeli PM has boasted about its army’s air strike against Gaza which according to the latest reports of Palestine’s Ministry of Health as of 11 October 2023, has led to the death of more the 260 children and 200 women.
While innocent children are dying, the US is providing the ammo and missiles of the Zionists to murder the said children just to gain monetary and political profits out of this conflict. Money and political gains have always dictated Western countries’ policies and strategies. While the Biden administration warned any group against taking advantage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, if any group stands any chance to exploit the conflict and profit from the violence, it will be the US military-industrial complex. Whenever there is a military conflict or even merely regional tensions in any part of the world, the US can always find a way of turning it into a great opportunity for American arms dealers to make a fortune.
According to media reports, the big five military-industrial complex giants - Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, General Dynamics, and Northrop Grumman - gained the most from those conflicts. They routinely split more than $150 billion in Pentagon contracts annually, according to an article published by The Nation in May.
In the Russia-Ukraine military conflict, the Big Five giants not only sold large amounts of military equipment to Ukraine, but also used the opportunity to market their products to other European countries. They also obtained more contracts and funds from the US government.
As a result, Ukraine became the world's third-largest arms importer in 2022, ranking fifth among the main US arms export destinations, according to data from Statista. Also, the US State Department said in January that direct military sales by US companies rose 48.6 percent to $153.7 billion in fiscal 2022 from $103 billion in fiscal 2021, thanks in large part to arms sales to Ukraine amid the continued escalation of the conflict, according to media reports.
Instead of contributing to the maintenance of world peace, the US has continued to fuel the escalation and continuation of various conflicts to bring fortunes to its military-industrial complex, but it comes at the expense of people's lives. Without war, it would be hard for those companies to sustain their businesses. However, the approach of relying on wars to get enough orders is dangerous to the world. The world cannot afford to allow them to continue making profits from misfortunes in other countries and regions.
But, of course, America is the leader of the current and corrupt system of the world and its allies always follow America’s decisions. There is no hope for the Western leader to see the light and truth regarding the situation of Palestine and the heinous war crimes committed by the Zionists, simply because, the Western countries have chosen to not see the truth, they have chosen to gain profits from the blood of innocent civilians, they have chosen to not slam Israel over the use of prohibited phosphorus bombs against populated and nonmilitary areas of Gaza.
Israel has repeatedly bombed Gaza with airstrikes as the conflict entered the fifth day. The bombardments have destroyed hundreds of targets, including homes, schools, and hospitals. The Zionists have further threatened Egypt over sending any medical and humanitarian help to Gaza while laying a full-on siege over Gaza and shutting off this area’s Water, food, and electricity, as of right now, 9 journalists in Gaza Strip were killed by IDF to censure the truth of this conflict, all of these crimes are considered War crimes in an unbiased world, but, it is Israel, an ally of the US that is committing these grave crimes, the Western countries have decided to deem Palestinians as terrorism which deserve to be punished.
Furthermore, despite all these, and rising worries that Western countries’ action may exacerbate the situation and involve additional parties in the Israel-Gaza conflict, the US is reportedly considering sending a second aircraft carrier to West Asia while more countries in the region attempt to de-escalate tensions.
According to Western media reports, the US is considering dispatching a second aircraft carrier to join the USS Gerald R. Ford in the Eastern Mediterranean as a show of solidarity for Israel and “a warning to regional players.”
In today’s world, and due to the Western empire of lies, The US and its hegemony choose the heroes based on its agendas and profits, and right now, Ukraine is the hero against Russia because Russia has committed “war crimes” by the merits of western countries but the Palestinians which are defending themselves against a usurper and tyrannical regime which has actually committed war crimes by ever internationally known rule and merits, are considered terrorist which deserves to be “butchered and killed”.
Collectively, the West is showing its true colors and the real value of its humanitarian slogans with its support of Ukraine and the Zionists to commit war crimes against innocent civilians just because they serve the US agendas. They deem Ukrainians heroes due to fighting in NATO's proxy war against Russia, in the meantime, the West calls Palestinians terrorism just because they stand against a racism, barbaric, apartheid, and tyrant regime in Tel Aviv due to Israel's strategic importance and value in America's plans. The world needs to wake up before it's too late, innocent people and children are dying right at this moment.
BY: Homayoun Barkho
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