By Kalliste
The terms ‘Left’ and ‘right’ in politics are defined by which class interests they express, however distantly. “Green” today is broadly defined by its attitude to protecting the environment and the ecosystems it supports.
Zionism expresses the programme of defending the state of Israel above all other objectives, and to this end Zionists are comfortable with actions that are totally at odds with socio-political, and indeed to right to human existence for some ethnic and religious groups.
Such specific goals now mean that Zionists have imposed restrictions on such basic rights for Palestinians as well as non-Palestinian people who support their rights, including freedom of religion. Destroying their religious sites, many millennia old, their archeological history and artefacts as well as carrying out atrocities intended to destroy their culture and eradicate all traces of their civilisation.
In addition to genocide by bombs, poisoning wells and aquifers, contaminating the ground water with sewage and destroying desalination plants, Zionists also restrict the access of Palestinians to food, contaminate farmland with white phosphorus and glyphosate (toxic and cancer-causing chemicals) intended to destroy food sources across many occupied areas. Not just Gaza and the West Bank, but also Lebanon and Syria, repeating the US atrocities in Vietnam and Cambodia like spraying Agent Orange, which led to long term health and birth defects, and such later atrocities as those in Iraq and Serbia where NATO used depleted uranium. This led to extensive birth defects and cancers long after US armies moved on to other criminal ‘regime change’ enterprises.
When the Maidan Coup in 2014 installed a pro-US, CIA led government in Ukraine and attempted to forcibly suppress its Russian-speaking population (which first drove Crimea to unify with Russia), the West conveniently ignored the deliberate attempts by the Kiev regime to cut off water and energy, food and other supplies. After 8 years this resulted in the oppression of millions of people, by their treatment as 2nd class citizens in their own country, with their land devastated to the point of permanent ecocide.
The greatest harm to the environment is being done by NATO, led by the US who are often subservient to Israel’s own imperialist projects when they are not pushing their own imperialist agenda. Under those complementary strategies they sanction more than 60 countries, ensuring economic devastation, increasing poverty, inequality and mortality, leading to at least half a million deaths a year, the vast majority of those deaths being caused by US/UK and EU sanctions.
Regime change wars by NATO carried out in the interest of the Zionist agenda have been noted for the genocidal, ecocidal efficiency with which they have been carried out against civilians, devastating the land and the survivors long after the military industrial complex has moved on to the next target.
Some illustrative links on this:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/06/05/lebanon-israels-white-phosphorous-use-risks-civilian-harm
https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/02/1166907
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgez359nd72o
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(25)00189-5/fulltext
