Israel Mass murdering Palestinians in Gaza, and towards this “war” liberals took an ambivalent stance. W October vote Most Western countries abstained or voted against over the UN resolution on the humanitarian truce in the mediate East. In December Resolutions 10 countries, including the United States, Austria and the Czech Republic, were opposed to the ceasefire, including Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. In comparison, at an extraordinary UN gathering on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, only 4 countries supported Moscow: – Belarus, Syria, Eritrea and North Korea.
When the war breaks out, the Democratic West first asks who dies. Or at whose hand. This phenomenon is as morally questionable as dangerous. In this edition, the ethical standards adopted by the global community discredit themselves, and they are replaced by the overwhelming reality of the post-truth.
Blinded by the rubble-covered bodies of Palestinian children, frequently despairing net users ask about human rights. They compose about disappointment, ideological occupation. The liberal communicative has one more time proved to be devious, and society no longer believes in it. She's exhausted, out of date over time, or did she commit suicide online? Regardless of the reason, its most serious crisis in decades is the arrival of a fresh era in global politics. Not necessarily better.
The end of the Cold War in the late 1980s was to symbolize the beginning of a fresh era in which the rivalry between capitalism and socialism gave way to the neoliberal pragmatism of the free marketplace and globalisation, which would lead to worldwide harmony.
After the collapse of the USSR, the Americans lost the powerful ideological weapons they utilized to control the increasing states and prevent them from being politically defined. Washington had to adapt to the reality of the open world, change the image from an armed superpower to a guardian of the recently formed liberal order, based on global and humanitarian law. Thus imperial and economical dominance mechanisms were re-established in morality, the expression of which was to be the global public opinion.
Only a sufficiently powerful enemy was missing – this changed on September 11, 2001. War on Terror established the image of Washington as a “policeman of nations”. To proceed to dominate internationally, The West never intended to tolerate revisionist states—those who refused to submit to or openly opposed the liberal imagination of the world. Shortly after the end of the Cold War, liberal ideas turned into missiles. "Human rights" were the communicative basis for Western intervention in Yugoslavia, "peace" armed attack on Iraqand ‘democracy’, inter alia, Afghanistan occupation.
Liberalism legitimizes the presence of American troops on all continents. erstwhile we would consider it a violation of the sovereignty of the state – present we give sovereignty voluntarily in exchange for protection against, as the communicative says, forces threatening global stability. Although this argument seems apparent from a global policy point of view, the issue of sovereignty raises quite a few controversy. The public is convinced that if we do not accept everything the West proposes, we will be absorbed by the East. But it's not about who to choose. The point is, we haven't had a choice in a long time.
Z data According to the end of January, more than 10,000 children have already died at the hands of Jerusalem in Gaza since October. Radosław Sikorski statedthat "it is not lawful to accuse of the genocide of Israel, who did not want for this bloodshed." The global Court of Justice, which utilized the word “genocide” respective times in its opinion on the subject, has another opinion. decision on South Africa's request for emergency measures against Israel.
The European Union, on the another hand, in large numbers statement on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict does not usage that word once. Germany explicitly advocates Jerusalem – Chancellor Olaf Scholz announcedthat “there is only 1 place for Germany” or “an arm in the arm with Israel”. This. unconditional support from Berlin is not only an component of the permanent moralized fight against anti-Semitism, but it can be assumed that it will be utilized as a tool for strengthening anti-immigration policy.
In turn powerfully related with Israel United States and United Kingdom not only do they openly support the Israeli offensive, but they decided to go 1 step further and in cooperation, among others, with Australia, Canada and the Netherlands bomb solidarity with Palestine Yemen.
Journalists of the American CNN reported of the journalistic abuses of pro-Israeli propaganda, claiming that "most of the news from the start of the war, no substance how accurate the first reports were, was distorted by systemic and organization bias in the net towards Israel". A akin phenomenon can happen Observe in major American newspapers specified as “New York Times”, “Washington Post” or “Los Angeles Times”. If this agitation were not enough, American billionaires would come out initiative establishing a fund to finance a peculiar media run promoting the pro-Israeli communicative of the war in Gaza.
Reflecting on who truly destabilizes the planet is blocking not only anti-Palestinian propaganda, but besides universal political correctness – another tool of liberal discourse. Any criticism of the phenomenon of Western censerism must be sufficiently balanced in order not to be accused of plotting for Moscow or Pyongyang. Post-solidarity intellectual environments are highly defensive about anti-Western arguments, avoiding the possible of an alternate world. However, this may be needed sooner than expected.
The stormy events of the last 3 decades exposed the hypocrisy of the West adequate to be able to talk about the beginning of the revolution, or at least about speeding up the evolution of political consciousness, especially younger generations. Just look around, listen. Social media, lecture rooms and streets are filled with voices of opposition. An example of this is statement signed by more than 800 U.S. officials and the European civilian Service, in which they express concerns and opposition to the policies of their governments.
Thousands of people in European capitals demands a ceasefire In Gaza. Students of Western college including Oxford and Harvard, protest against genocide – sometimes they are victims besides Pro-Israeli censorship. Academics frequently lost their jobs at universities for their propalaestinist attitude – specified destiny was met e.g. David Miller and Norman Finkelstein.
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they break in stitches from evidence of Israeli war crimes, which, in comparison with the communicative of Western politicians, provokes outrage. Twenty-year-olds are increasingly speaking with Marx, not even knowing it. The subject of their discussions are not only Russian or Israeli crimes, but also, and possibly above all, public relativisation. If global or humanitarian law is violated erstwhile innocent people are killed, we know who is the perpetrator and who is the victim. We know what should be done immediately. That's how they raised us, ironically, liberals.
Hypocrisy can be broken, but even from a strategical perspective, we already know that Western efforts to keep control of both the "strategic" areas of the planet and the dynamics of planet politics are frequently counterproductive. At least for decades, we have seen political interference resulting in radicalisation. As a result, anti-American and anti-European sentiments are strengthening in the mediate East. The young Arabs are increasingly turning towards fundamentalism, which promotes support for opposition axes co-created by Iran, Syria, Lebanese Hezbollah, Iraqi People's Mobilization Forces, Yemen's Huti movement, and yet Palestinian muslim Jihad and Hamas.
As we see deeper and deeper divisions in the world, we see the ground for greater, even more dangerous conflicts. We announcement any past lessons we've never done. Beyond neo-imperialism, the planet destabilizes global poverty, increasing fascism, turn towards conventional values in protest against social deconstruction.
The planet is becoming increasingly outraged by the grotesque hypocrisy of Europe. He is increasingly opposed to American hegemony. A lie that no 1 will believe anymore and the voices of experts that no 1 will always trust again. If this is what the fresh order of the planet proposed by the West will look like, the voters will reject it, they will reject it. The communicative of Europe as a human rights asylum proved to be a hypocritical fiction. What's the story? replace?
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Monika Kwiatkowska – polytolo, internist, east-easter. postgraduate of global Relations at the Institute of Political Sciences and global Relations of the Jagiellonian University. investigation assistant at the Institute of mediate and Far East Jagiellonian University. erstwhile Chair of the Jagiellonian University of Science. Book co-author Undemocratic Systems of the Post-Cold War World: A Comparative Analysis of Selected States.
