As Israel crosses the genocidal threshold [16] in Gaza, a regional summit in Riyadh protests, and issues an urgent call for a ceasefire [17]. Yet the regional powers at that summit are guilty of equivalent crimes—Saudi Arabia in Yemen [18], and Iran and the Basar Assad regime in Syria [19]. Assad's propaganda chief Bouthaina Shaaban [20] especially decried [21] Israel's targeting of hospitals [22] in Gaza. Yet as recently as last month, the Assad regime bombed hospitals [23] in Syria's rebel-held north. Indeed, the Assad regime also savagely bombed [24] and besieged [25] Palestinians for months, at Yarmouk [26] refugee camp outside Damascus. In Episode 200 [27] of the CounterVortex podcast [28], Bill Weinberg notes with chagrin that key organizers of this month's National March on Washington for Palestine [29] included pseudo-left "tankie [30]" formations that actively support [31] the genocidal [32] Assad regime. They also now [33] abet [33] Russia's genocidal campaign [34] in Ukraine, in which hospitals have been repeatedly targeted [35]. This moral contradiction undercuts our effectiveness in advancing the urgent demand for a ceasefire in Gaza.
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