Justine McCarthy: Erstwhile imperialists’ defence of Israel’s merciless slaughter makes a mockery of democracy

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Displaced Palestinian families seek shelter at the Al-Shifa hopsital in Gaza City. What crimes were committed by the 420 children, on average, being murdered in Gaza every day? Photograph: Bashar Taleb/AFP via Getty Images “I write at a moment of great anguish for the world,” Craig Mokhiber began his letter of departure as the director of the United Nation’s human rights office in New York. He said “a genocide [was] unfolding before our eyes” and the organisation he served seemed powerless to stop it. He was talking about Israel’s mass killings and blockade of 2.2 million Palestinian civilians in Gaza....