Zuhdi Shubeitah
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The Whip of Classification, Blacklists and Sanctions in the US Administration: Where To?

Examines how White House classification lists, blacklists and sanctions are used against states, groups and individuals, and presents critiques from Noam Chomsky and Robert Fisk, with reference to the Gaza Strip and recent Israeli actions.

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· The criteria of the White House classification lists, the blacklists and their constituents: democracy.. then human rights, and now the charge of international terrorism, and anti-Semitism.. and Holocaust denial, and sanctions, and laws that legalize like the Caesar Act.. and others.....for states, groups and individuals in the world, out of line, according to the American conception, are tools for covering up modern colonial globalization.. under the pretext of affecting American national security!

· Appearing in excerpts from the widely known book by Noam Chomsky "The Fateful Triangle: "The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians"..." he says that as long as the United States of America is committed to an Israeli Sparta, as a strategic asset, the expectations foretell more tragedies, repression, terrorism, wars, and even the possibility of a conflict in which the great powers could become involved" ..!

· As for the well-known British journalist Robert Fisk, who was a correspondent for The Times of London until 1987... from 1976.. and later a correspondent for The Independent, and who witnessed the Qana massacre in 1996.. he said in his 2005 book "The Great War for Civilisation" that the West.. always classifies those who seek freedom, independence, self-reliance, the overthrow of occupation, and opposition to United States policy: as against American national security, and as terrorists dangerous to international peace and security..!!..There have been similar events by that name previously (massacres), and extending through history... Among these massacres, the Qana massacre of 1996, about which this British journalist wrote some of his observations, as an eyewitness to how Israel acted, with the support and protection of the West.. led by the United States, in tearing apart children and women, bodies strewn about, by bombing them with missiles in places of shelter, and ambulances.. He spoke of what the mostly biased Western media do, in classifying others as individuals or states, or organizations, as they please, and he said the following phrase – and they started in our faces... world brainwashing classifications –: when he said " they regale us with the usual drivel, about the war on terror... and the war against international terrorism..! About Israel..! which will not sit idly by...! The terrorists ..the terrorists... the same brainwashing"

· We see how some Western states, led by the United States of America, are conducting a campaign of liquidation and extermination of the Palestinians, to eliminate their presence on part of their occupied land, for more than 75 years, where they have classified them as terrorists, and asked all countries of the world to condemn Hamas, and stood as a strong barrier with other Western states in the international organizations... to prevent a ceasefire. And still.. on the thirty-fifth day of Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip... and before the Arab and Muslim summit... today in Riyadh... which I listened to hastily, and did not finish.... some remarks from participants.. that they (i.e. the Arab-Islamic summit conference) – 57 states – see the priority, in the necessity of opening humanitarian corridors..!! exactly as Israel and the United States want.!.. and not an immediate ceasefire..! In light of what we witnessed today in terms of the deaths of 39 premature infants, to the highest companion in the hospital, due to lack of electricity and oxygen..!! While the United States did not refer... to the thousands of civilians who were killed by filling in and bombing their homes, camps, hospitals, schools, shelters, and mosques, and their churches.. and the energy sources necessary to operate hospital centers, and water sources.. and food warehouses, grain, and bakeries..! Rather they bombed, and continue to bomb hospitals, in their surroundings and courtyards and gates.. and cut water and electricity.. where many of the wounded and sick died in front of television cameras... they did not refer to that, as if it were a terrorist act.. but they commented with a faint phrase.... that the reason is Hamas..... and that it – namely Hamas – uses civilian citizens as human shields.. and therefore, in order to annihilate Hamas, as was the declared objective.. it requires annihilating civilians, and displacing those who remain of them, as a host.. to reach Hamas fighters....!

· The customary issuance of the classification, considering Hamas, or any organization, or state, or individual, that does not yield to the United States.. or attempts to demand its rights usurped by the Israeli occupation army for more than 75 years... for a people who struggle and fight for their freedom, to rid themselves of the Israeli occupation of their land since 1948.. These fighters for the freedom of their usurped land...... are labeled as terrorists... terrorists.. and must be exterminated.. And the United States of America, to achieve the goal of exterminating Hamas... supplied the aggressor Israel with weapons, equipment and the most advanced military and space technology.... and sent aircraft carriers and submarines and battleships to encircle the Middle East as a military brigade, for the strongest state in the world, and other British and French warships..!.. and the world is stunned... seeing the stream of presidents and officials from these countries to Israel.. to show support, and assistance by personal presence materially, morally and practically.. to establish a shield to protect, and help the occupation army, in what it calls its defense of itself.. and they pursue those who oppose this policy from individuals, groups and prevent demonstrations, and legislate laws imprisoning protesters.. and the latest pursuit even from inside the House of Congress.. where most Republican representatives and 22 Democratic representatives agreed to reprimand Representative Rashida Tlaib in Congress, who is of Palestinian origin, and an active member of the Democratic Party.. because she urged members of Congress to work to achieve an immediate ceasefire, and to stop the extermination of the Palestinians... as she was wearing the Palestinian keffiyeh during her speech... She was reprimanded and condemned for referring to Palestine as the Palestinians’ homeland from the river to the sea... and they accused her of anti-Semitism.!.. where she criticized Israel, and thus called, as they interpreted it.... for its annihilation..!

· The British journalist cited above adds his observations, saying that in 1996, I (meaning the journalist) was walking among the ashes of hundreds of refugees, whom the Israelis detonated into pieces in the international forces’ camp in the Qana massacre of 1996, there was a man lying on the ground, split into two, and there was a pregnant woman, I could see the arm of her fetus, and his leg hanging from her belly, and there was also a man with a shrapnel lodged in his head, who asked his daughter to come and help him to rise, and I heard her answer him saying: wait a moment I am trying to gather my brother, he was split into two, and there was another brother carrying his child in his arms, the child was headless!.. (Narration of Fawziya Saad, one of the survivors of the Qana massacre on 18-4-1996)

· And when this British journalist spoke about the testimony of Fawziya Saad dated 18-4-1996.. one of the survivors of the Qana massacre, with a soldier in the Israeli occupation army, about this account.... that soldier replied to him mocking: it is war, and in war such things happen..They are just a bunch of Arabs.. why are you so affected to this extent! The Israeli soldier was a sergeant (sic), in the Israeli army whose artillery battery shelled the refugees in Qana, as reported by the Israeli weekly Kol Ha'ir on 10-5-1996..!

· Another remark this British journalist reported, in his account of the Qana massacre 1996 to his superiors in the editorial department of The Independent... was that "I began tapping the numbers on my mobile phone, there amid the rotten smells and destruction and filth, I managed to call the foreign affairs desk at The Independent (where I was a correspondent at that time), and sobbing surrounded me, I found myself gathering my voice to describe everything I could see around me, with cold medical precision, and despite the screaming, I managed to hear Steve Creuher on the line from the paper’s office in Canary Wharf in London, saying: I have just read the initial telegram report, and he said to his fellow journalist: (Michael Williams thinks we should combine this operation with the killing of the Greek tourists in Cairo )...!!, I screamed at him (No Steve no... no..!), for that morning, an Egyptian citizen had committed to killing a group of Greek tourists thinking they were Israelis, it was a horrific killing but to combine the two operations.. was a kind of madness..! (This is how they make the news in the Western media)"

· The journalist also reported that five days before the Qana massacre.. an Israeli Apache helicopter pilot fired a missile at an ambulance south of the city of Tyre, and the Israelis announced that the vehicle was carrying terrorists, but that was not the case. The ambulance was carrying families fleeing their village that was being shelled, according to the evacuation instructions I heard from the radio station of the militia affiliated with Israel, and in that ambulance were killed that day two women and four children, they were not from Hezbollah! And the Israelis insisted that the ambulance was carrying terrorists and they never apologized at all!

· After all that has been mentioned of the massacre committed by Israel, and the massacres and extermination that Israel is now committing in the Gaza Strip... what, I wonder, is the White House's definition of terrorism?...But, and God knows best, the fault is with us...!

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Zuhdi Shubeitah, “The Whip of Classification, Blacklists and Sanctions in the US Administration: Where To?” (English translation of «سوط التصنيف والقوائم السوداء، والعقوبات لدى الادارة الامريكية الى أين؟», originally published 11 November 2023), https://www.zuhdish.co/en/articles/the-whip-of-classification-blacklists-and-sanctions

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