By Latheef Farook
Twenty five year old Aaron Bushnell of San Antonio, Texas , an active-duty member of the United States Air Force, set himself ablaze on Sunday 25 February 2024 outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., while shouting “free Palestine.”
Free Palestine is a phrase that embodies the sentiment of millions of people in the world that have been protesting against the horrific genocide being perpetrated by Israel on inncent Palestinian civilians who are sons and daughters of Gaza .Aaron Bushnell, 25, declared he will ‘no longer be complicit in genocide’ before setting himself alight in Washington D C.
According to video footage airman Bushnell calmly walked up to the Israeli Embassy and said he was about to engage in an extreme act of protest against what he called an act of genocide against the Palestinian people. The video shows him dumping liquid from a water bottle over his head and then lighting himself on fire.He repeatedly shouted “Free Palestine” and burned for about a minute before he collapsed on the ground.
It is abundantly clear that Israel is able to carry on its brazen destruction of Gaza and death rampage only with the avowed support of Western world, specifically the USA. Multiple UN resolutions explicitly asking for a humanitarian ceasefire have now been vetoed by the USA. Billions of dollars and countless armamentaria keep flowing to Israel from the USA and its blood-thirsty allies to keep feeding the insatiable hunger for mayhem.
Following day ,Monday evening, hundreds of pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered for a growing memorial outside the Israeli Embassy. ” one demonstrator, Gabby, said. “We want a ceasefire immediately.”Candles and flowers were placed on the sidewalk on International Drive near Van Ness Street.
“Disgusted. I’m angry. I’m really sad,” demonstrator Sammy Q. said. “We don’t need people to resort to this kind of thing… We’ve seen it in Vietnam in the past, and for him to come out here and do that, it’s–I’m ashamed. I’m ashamed to be an American.”
Aaron Bushnell’s case is yet unique as he is geographically distant from the scene of genocidal horror in Gaza and ethnically removed from the persecuted Palestinians. That shows that he has a heart of gold and compassion that is perhaps rare in human beings.
In his last message to the world, he expressly stated that he did not want to be “complicit in genocide” and indicted the ruling class for “normalizing” a genocide. His humility was writ large when he said “compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers”, his act was “not extreme at all”.
His death is the world’s loss. He was able to see through the lies and deceit of Western support to Israel’s genocidal onslaught in Gaza while claiming to work towards reconciliation.
According to reports one can earnestly hope that Aaron Bushnell’s martyrdom will not be in vain as the Israeli genocidal juggernaut rolls on unabated. As of today, 3 March 2024 hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are on the brink of starvation as Israeli forces are actively bombing even those in refugee camps and hospitals. Visuals of desperate Palestinians scrambling to catch food and relief supplies being air-dropped along the beach in Deir al Balah are heartbreaking. To date, it is estimated that more than 10,000 children were slaughtered among the ~30,000 Palestinians killed. Aaron’s death would hopefully shake the namesake US two-party oligarchy from its self-imposed slumber and force them to stop supporting a 21st century genocide.
In other parts of the world, people have ended their lives to bring attention to special issues. The Arab Spring began on December 17, 2010 with a 26-year-old street Tunisian vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi setting himself on fire after a policewoman confiscated his food street vending cart. He was the only breadwinner for his family and had to frequently bribe police in order to operate his cart.
His death sparked citizens throughout the Middle East to challenge their repressive governments. Some administrations were forced from power by the citizens, including Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who had ruled with an iron fist for 23 years.
The Arab spring also toppled the thirty year tyranny of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt. In the subsequent free and fair elections in 60 years pro Islamic Brotherhood Mohamed Morsy was elected President. However on behalf of US-Europe and Israel Morsy was overthrown in a coup by Saudi Arabia,Kuwait and United Arab Emirates at a cost of 11 billion dollars .The military coup installed in power military man Abdel Fattah El Sis who obediently serve US and Israel.
According to latest reports tyrant Abdel Fattah El Sisi is aiding and abetting Israel and the west in their evil designs against Palestinians and the region.in its on going genocide of Palestinians in Gaza while his son reported to be minting in money on the misery of Palestinians.
El Sisi is hand in glove with Israel and, according to reports, implementing Israel’s agenda ..This is the reason why he is not helping to opening Rafah border crossing to help send food convoy to starving Palestinians.
On the other hand Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates did nothing to prevent the massacre of Palestinians or to even provide a bottle of water or a food parcel to them who were deprived of water, food,medicine.
Instead Saudi Arabia organised a multi million dollar western music festival as part of its westernization of this country which is the birth placed of Isl,m. Dismissing Islamic values the Saudi regime,created by western imperial opwers and protected and promoted by United States and Israel, also opened liquor shops and imposed restrictions on fasting Muslim during the forthcoming Holy Month of Ramadhan.The regime also detain Islamic scholatrs who criticize these policies violating Islamic teachings and values.
Added to it the United Arab Emirates, instead of helping the Palestinians slaughtered by Israel, sent ten truck loads of fresh food to Israel- perhaps to help facilitate the genocide.
These tyrants keep their people brutally suppressed. If only the oppression is atopped and borders were opened frustrated people throughout the Middle East will deal with Israel and its US-European supporters.
RE Aaron Bushnell
What Bushnell’s desperate act exposes is that some 95-99% of people anywhere DO NOTHING when confronted with grave injustices such as the current US-Israeli Holocaust of the Palestinians, just like all the “bad German people” during the Nazi Holocaust, whom they are happily pointing the finger to as examples of OTHER PEOPLE who are bad and evil in their deep dishonesty, self-delusion, and madness.
He pointed exactly this reality out in one of his last statements:
“Many of us like to ask ourselves, ‘What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?’ The answer is, you’re doing it. Right now.”
Now WHY is it that 95-99% of people anywhere DO NOTHING when confronted with grave injustices? Because “advanced” humans have a malignant disease called a “Soullessness Spectrum Disorder” …. https://www.rolf-hefti.com/covid-19-coronavirus.html
Because of this big truth Bushnell is pointing to lots of truth-hating soulless people resort to slandering Bushnell as mentally disturbed, having been suicidal (he was not), etc. or try to misrepresent him negatively in some other form.
“America is the greatest exporter of violence the world has ever known. So wear your patriotism on your sleeve and be proud. You are a depraved citizen of the world’s worst killer nation.” — Paul Craig Roberts, Ph.D., American economist & former US regime official, in 2015
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