BY THIS time, you and I, and several billions of other people, can agree that Israelis Zionists are pathologically inclined.

Unless you only view this so-called “war” from the Zionist-sympathetic media such as CNN, BBC, ABC, etc this is an inescapable fact. The real stories come from seeing with your own eyes what’s happening in Gaza brought to you in blood by Gaza’s own reporters, at the cost of 98, and counting, of them being killed by the US-backed terrorist state.

The Zionists have done everything in the book of nasty evil — from genocide to torture to grave-robbing — against the Palestinians that it is hard to believe that they can sink any lower.

But day by day, they find a way to do it.

Emboldened and egged on by the US, Israel has effectively levelled Gaza in an open attempt to discourage Palestinians from returning to their land after this current abomination they have unleashed finally ends.

They have murdered the best talents of Palestine, destroyed the healthcare, economy and education systems and have even poisoned the earth.

Israeli soldiers and murderous “settlers” have gleefully cheered the destruction of Gaza, all the better they said, for them to see the sea with the Palestinian city out of the way.

After 75 days, Israel has not even a single rescued hostage taken from Oct 7 to show for murdering 20,000 Palestinians. All the hospitals it bombed on the lie that they harboured Hamas in Gaza have been proven by their newspapers to have no connection with the resistance movement.

No beheaded babies, no mass rapes and no cruelty against civil ians by Hamas despite what Israel, the US and Western countries have accused them of doing.

What Israel is doing in Gaza now has nothing to do with military objectives other than to kill as many Palestinians as they can before their bloodlust is sated or before someone slaps them on the wrist.

Yet, after 75 days of genocide and yet every attempt to call for a stop is met with the threat of violence from Israel, the US and Europe.

Ordinary people can’t even say “Free Palestine” in many countries without being arrested by their governments.

Even calls for bringing food and medicine to Gaza have been rejected and again threatened with violence by the US which can be seen by its bullying stance against Yemen.

Exasperated by the non-action of fellow Islamic majority states twiddling their thumbs to daily murders of Palestinian men, women, and babies, the most impoverished state in the region has stepped up.

Yemen has effectively closed the Red Sea to all Israel-bound shipping and single-handedly delivered a kick in the backside for the Zionists.

All it wants for the blockade to end, Yemen told the world, is for the killings to stop and for humanitarian help to be allowed to get to the Palestinians.

A request that only pathologically evil people would find unreasonable.

It is unimaginable in a sane world that as we speak, the most powerful warmonger in the world can now threaten to go to war with Yemen over a simple request to give aid to a people that Israel has tried its bloody best to eradicate.

The US, and its Western allies, are now caught in its early public stance to stand by Israel “no matter what” because Israel is now the tail wagging the dog.

Anything to further their plan to create a greater Israel, which they have announced publicly, that includes all of Jordan and parts of Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and the emirates.

While the US is assembling a coalition of reluctant allies to form an armada against the Houthis, Israel is gleefully rubbing its hands at the prospect of other people fighting its enemies for them.

While the US and Israel want the world to tremble at the prospect of their aircraft carrier battle groups striking poor Yemen all in the name of protecting Israel, the Yemenis know better.

It knows that any seaborne campaign is useless because the Red Sea is a pond within the reach of so many missiles and drones of countries like Yemen, Iran and Hezbollah.

The world’s navies could not even contain Somali pirates let alone a war-hardened and determined people like the Houthis.

The neo-cons in the US and Israel salivate at the prospect of another war in the Middle East but they may find out soon that the world has shifted since they last used lies to start wars.

The US will find out that standing with Israel “no matter what” will have a steep price.

• ZB Othman is an editor of The Malaysian Reserve.

• This article first appeared in The Malaysian Reserve weekly print edition