Al-Jazeera – intro Peter Koenig, 28 December 2023
Just in from Al-Jazeera – Zionist Defense Forces (ZDF) are raiding Cash Machines (ATM), banks and exchange outlets in the occupied West Bank.
They are stealing millions of dollars, under the pretext that the money is serving to finance resistance groups.
When, in reality, they are depriving Palestinians of their means of survival – buying food and merchandise that has not yet been banned from entering West Bank Palestine territories.
There is no end in sight for Zionist atrocities.
Hence, it might be unfair to call killer-war forces Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
More appropriate seems to be the term Zionist Defense Forces.
Yes, they are soldiers and must obey orders.
Really?
Foremost they are humans and have a conscience.
Their mind tells them no matter how deep down, that what they are doing is wrong, is not only against any human law and reasoning, but is against the Principles of the Charter of the Nürnberg Tribunal, laid out in the Tribunal’s Judgment of 1950.
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In other words, these Israeli soldiers, many of whom do not agree with Netanyahu’s genocide policy, could leave the battlefield – legally.
In fact, according to the rulings of the Nuremberg Court, they MUST leave the Battlefield, if they sense that orders they receive are against human rights and against the laws of ethics.
Question – when and where does inhumanity stop and humanity begin. What is the trigger – that starts Peace?
Is it a butterfly somewhere in Asia waving through the air, that will bring a seed of Peace in the Middle East or Ukraine – or just about anywhere in the world – to start taking hold on Mother Earth’s soil and slowly grow.
It is called the butterfly effect.
It obeys no rules no digital commands, it is sheer incalculable dynamics at play.
Eventually, this growing seed may be helped by someone, who comes its way, and who will regularly nourish it with water, until the seed develops its own roots and finds its own water – and grows and grows autonomously, bigger than the tallest palm tree in the world – seeking water from deep down in the earth, so deep that no one can bar the tree’s access to its survival nutrition, WATER.
Water is Peace – but humans MUST stand by and see to it that the seeds of Peace receive their daily gulp of water to grow.
It is a question of consciousness.
Peter Koenig is a geopolitical analyst and a former Senior Economist at the World Bank and the World Organization (WHO), where he worked for over 30 years around the world. He is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed; and co-author of Cynthia McKinney’s book “When China Sneezes: From the Coronavirus Lockdown to the Global Politico-Economic Crisis” (Clarity Press – November 1, 2020) Peter is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG). He is also a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Chongyang Institute of Renmin University, Beijing.
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