On Sunday, Israeli media reported a frost successful definite bulldozer shipments from nan United States to Israel. The salient English-language website Ynet News, for example, went pinch nan sensational headline: “D9 bulldozer shipment stalled by US embargo, leaving Israeli soldiers exposed.” To beryllium sure, location is thing much tragic than “exposed” soldiers belonging to a genocidal army.
According to nan article, 134 bulldozers “ordered and paid for” by nan Israeli subject are presently “awaiting export support from nan US State Department” but their shipment has been stymied by soul US guidance and an evident determination by President Joe Biden’s management to frost deliveries “for respective months”. The D9 exemplary is manufactured by nan US patient Caterpillar Inc.
Some observers person taken this move to mean that nan Bidenites are registering their displeasure pinch nan Israeli warfare crime of taste cleansing. But if you’re going to beryllium against taste cleansing, why not spell each nan measurement and beryllium against genocide too?
Indeed, a shortage of caller bulldozers will person precisely zero base connected Israel’s expertise to proceed waging genocide successful Gaza, wherever officially much than 43,000 Palestinians person been slaughtered complete nan past 13 months but nan existent decease toll is undoubtedly many times higher.
Ynet noted that nan machines are utilized “primarily for flattening structures successful nan Gaza Strip” but they are “also needed” successful confederate Lebanon, wherever Israel’s latest terrorist operations person besides killed thousands. The Israeli army’s existing arsenal of D9 dozers is reportedly successful request of maintenance, hence nan replacement bid – nan moratorium connected transportation of which “will apt hold different important cognition by [Israel’s military] that remains incomplete: establishing a one-kilometer-wide [0.6-mile-wide] buffer area betwixt nan Gaza Strip [and Israel] involving nan leveling of hundreds of Palestinian buildings and cultivation lands”.
Not only is location nan troubling rumor of nan “exposed” soldiers then; location is besides nan annoying interruption to Israel’s scorched-earth plan.
In summation to “leveling” civilian infrastructure and wiping retired agriculture, bulldozers person served different useful purposes successful Gaza. There was that clip successful September, for instance, that nan Palestinian Centre for Human Rights documented nan shooting by Israeli soldiers of 17-year-old Majed Fida Abu Zina, a resident of Gaza’s Far’a exile camp, who was “left to bleed for astir an hr and a half”, aft which nan Israeli service “brought successful a bulldozer and began desecrating nan boy’s body, tearing unfastened his abdomen and exposing his soul organs earlier dragging and throwing him connected al-Far’a hill”.
Incidentally, Israel’s bulldozing of quality beings has not been restricted to Palestinians. In 2003, 23-year-old American bid activistic Rachel Corrie was crushed to decease by a 36-tonne Caterpillar bulldozer driven by an Israeli worker successful nan Gaza Strip metropolis of Rafah, wherever she was protesting against Israel’s demolition of Palestinian homes. Call it Caterpillateral damage.
And Rafah, arsenic it truthful happens, was cardinal to nan communicative nan past clip nan Biden management made noises astir suspending shipments of lethal materials to Israel. In May, Biden announced he would nary longer beryllium supplying violative weapons to nan Israeli service successful nan arena of an all-out battle connected nan confederate Gaza city, reasoning that “civilians person been killed successful Gaza arsenic a consequence of those bombs.”
Well, yea – that’s really genocide works. And suspending a mates of explosive shipments present and location yet does perfectly thing to put a dent successful wide killings. Ditto for denying nan Israelis their D9 dozer replacements.
These highly isolated cases of moratoria connected weapons transfers effect Israeli subject behaviour moreover little fixed that they are accompanied by a continuous flood of billions upon billions of dollars successful US subject assistance to Israel and different free-flowing weaponry.
Recall that successful April, conscionable weeks earlier Biden issued his warning re: Rafah, nan US Congress OK’d nary little than $26bn successful supplemental wartime assistance to Israel – which was authorised connected apical of each of nan billions of dollars Israel already receives annually from its trusty American partner successful crime.
And arsenic Al Jazeera reported successful August, nan Biden management had conscionable “approved sending $20bn worthy of arms to Israel, moreover arsenic nan US publically calls for restraint successful nan warfare connected Gaza”.
Of course, nan mixed messaging is afloat exploited by Israel’s psychopathic government, headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which invokes each perceived flimsy by nan fundamentally obsequious US arsenic alleged grounds that moreover Israel’s champion friends are someway now anti-Israel.
As per nan Ynet dispatch, nan impermanent frost successful D9 bulldozer shipments is simply different lawsuit of Israel getting nan “cold shoulder… from Washington” – a authorities of affairs that “could airs a consequence to [Israeli] soldiers” successful some nan Gaza Strip and Lebanon.
And yet nan “cold shoulder” has not and will not forestall Israel from virtually and metaphorically bulldozing Gaza to decease while raining made-in-the-USA apocalyptic demolition from nan sky.
Forget nan Israeli soldiers near “exposed” by nan reported US frost connected bulldozer shipments. The organization of Gaza is afloat exposed to genocide – and world guidance to this astir sinister reality is being bulldozed arsenic we speak.
The views expressed successful this article are nan author’s ain and do not needfully bespeak Al Jazeera’s editorial stance.