INSANE it is, this despicable bombing of the Al-Ahli al-Arabi Hospital in Gaza which killed 500.
But what is more insane is the absence of condemnation by the Western world.
Call it the lunacy of Western hypocrisy. The United States and others in its allignment have given their ironclad support to Israel, caring little for the impunity it is breeding.
Israel conveniently blamed the bombing on Palestinian fighters. US President Joe Biden, who arrived in Israel on Wednesday to personally urge Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his mission to drive the Palestinians away from their homeland, believed Israel's finger pointing explanation.
Didn't he know that the digital aide to Netanyahu, Hananya Naftali, had earlier tweeted that the Israeli air force had struck a Hamas base in a hospital in Gaza?
Later, when international anger was directed at Israel for the horrific bombing, Naftali blamed it all on the Palestinians.
This pattern of lies is as old as the state of Israel. One that even a former adviser to the Israeli prime minister, Daniel Levy, acknowledged in a recent interview with the BBC.
We shall not go that far into the past, but the shifting narratives of Israel on the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh on May 11 will suffice.
First, the Israeli government blamed the killing on Palestinian gunmen. Then followed months of evasion. When evidence from multiple sources, including the United Nations, began pointing the killing to the Israeli Defence Force, it conceded that it was highly possible that one of its soldiers fired the bullet that killed Abu Akleh.
But no action was taken against Israel, even though Akleh was a US citizen. If a Palestinian-American can't get justice what prospect is there for Palestinians in Gaza? This Israeli pattern of lies is one that the US is familiar with, but its hypocrisy and racism make it want not to see the truth.
Yet, Biden, speaking in solidarity with Netanyahu, was able to say "based on what I've seen, it was done by the other team, not you". We wonder what Netanyahu made him see.
In less than one week Israel had dropped 6,000 bombs – that is one bomb every 32 seconds – with the promise to drive the Palestinians out of Gaza.
The US is negotiating with Egypt on behalf of Israel to take the Palestinians as refugees, with the aim to allow Tel Aviv to annex Gaza. The world, at least a section of it, if not all, is coming to its senses by blaming the war crimes as much on these Western powers as on Israel.
Miranda Cleland of the US-based Defence for Children International, writing in the Middle East Eye, a regional news portal, quite rightly classifies the atrocities perpetrated by Israel in Gaza as genocide.
Genocide, as she points out, can result from killing or by creating conditions of life so unbearable that it brings about the group's destruction. Her verdict? The US is complicit in Israel's campaign of genocide against the children of Gaza.
A thousand Palestinian children have been killed as of Oct 16. Such a targeting is a clear intent of ethnic cleansing. The blood of these children is on the West's hands.