The fanatic in the Middle East is Israel

In today’s Scotsman, Martin O’Gorman defends the indefensible - the UK’s political and military support of the settler colonialist project that is Israel. Settler colonialism is a form of colonialism in which settlers create societies distinct from the indigenous population and seek to control land and resources and establish their own economy and system of governance.

The UK is a pro at settler colonialism, having practiced it for centuries (and is currently practicing it on Scotland). It passed its know-how on to its former colony, which “settled and colonised” America, killing and displacing millions of native Americans while importing slave labour from Africa.

Now America’s middle eastern settler colonial project known as Israel, with vast financial and military assistance from the US, has for the last 76 years “settled and colonised” Palestine, culminating in the current genocide of its people. The daily horror of exploding body parts in Gaza has now spread to Lebanon, all instigated by Israel’s psychopathic addiction to killing. 

It’s not fanatical, Mr. O’Gorman, to resist a brutal and illegal occupation, the constant slaughter of innocent men, women and children, and the systematic destruction of one’s culture, society and history. 

The fanatical terrorist in the Middle East is not Hamas, Hezbollah, or Iran, but Israel. Israel is the alien splinter of settler colonialism that the west inserted into the region to secure its unfettered access to oil, aided and abetted by western compliant dictators like el-Sisi, Abdullah and Mohammed Bin Salman. In the last year alone, Israel has bombed Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, and Iran - five sovereign states that predate the existence of Israel.

The UK is a puny power hanging on for dear life to America’s coattails, but both are going down. The western world order, founded on settler colonialism, is dying before our eyes.

I hope Scotland has the foresight and courage to get out before it’s too late.