Arms for Ukraine, but no arms for Palestine. Welcome to the great hypocrisy

John Wight
5 min readAug 28, 2024

Muhammad Haitham al-Tamimi was just two-years-old — yes, you read that right, TWO-YEARS-OLD — when he was shot and killed by Israeli troops in the Occupied West Bank in June 2023. He became yet another child-victim of the murder machine that is the State of Israel when it comes to its ongoing barbarous and brutal occupation of the Palestinians in the West Bank, and its siege and asphyxiation of same in Gaza. Thousands more like Muhammad have been killed since.

The wider point is that the collective West has never been more united in its support for Ukrainian resistance to Russian occupation, nor has it ever wavered in its defense of Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine. The hypocrisy underpinning this sordid dynamic is so rancid it can only make you retch, such is the level of disgust engendered.

This, dear reader, is the world that our governments, mainstream media, and propagandists in the West are never done telling us is the best of all possible worlds. It leads us to ask as to the whereabouts of the reset button, so we can start human affairs again — from the beginning.

The cause of the Palestinian people is the cause of humanity in our time. From it flows all the ills of Western so-called civilization, chief among of which is the rancid concept of might is…

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