As Gaza Starves, Netanyahu Pledges To Expand The “War”. According To Some Sources, This Is Being Done With President Trump’s Blessing. This Announcement Comes At A Time When Starvation In Gaza Has Reached The Tipping Point.
On Tuesday, August 4th, reports began to appear in Israeli media that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu intends to launch a more “aggressive” military operation against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, which will end with Israeli occupation of the territory. According to these same sources, this is being done with President Trump’s blessing. This announcement comes at a time when starvation in Gaza has reached the tipping point and there is the highest level of famine, while countries besides the United States increasingly criticize Israel’s actions and demand a resolution to this grim chapter in history. Netanyahu, however, instead of showing concern for international pressure or the impact this has on his American patrons, is solidifying power, including illegally firing the Attorney General who has been prosecuting him. With the notable exceptions of Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor Greene, who became the first Republican Representative to call Israel’s actions genocide, the ruling party in the United States is unfazed and is even doubling down, with the Trump Administration attempting [and then reversing] to tie state and local disaster relief funds to support for Israel, while a large number of Congressional Republicans just went to Israel and were photographed with Netanyahu, who has an outstanding international warrant for war crimes. It should be undeniable at this point that Israel’s objectives in Gaza are genocidal. It is not just the government: a new poll showed that roughly 80% of Israel Jews are at least largely unconcerned about famine in Gaza. All of this notwithstanding, our corrupt and fanatical governing class is determined that Americans be as culpable for this crime as possible. It is past time to take every possible action to end Israel’s genocide, feed Gaza, and remove the Likud government from power. However, despite increasing public criticisms from new quarters, it seems the policy of the “civilized world” will be to support or at least remain neutral towards Israel until there is greater mass death among the Palestinians of Gaza and those who remain are restricted to an even smaller concentration camp.
From the start of Israel’s war on Gaza we have been flooded with propaganda about 10/7 itself, Israel’s goals and actions, and the entire history of Israeli oppression of Palestinians. Much of it was of surprisingly poor quality, as we have learned that Israel was never actually good at propaganda, the American and British media just cover for them to an incredible extent. They have, as with any propaganda campaign, also relied on public ignorance about the workings of human affairs. For example, many have claimed Israel has been going “easy” on Gaza and that no other power would show this degree of restraint following an attack, despite that Israel’s behavior has been among the most unrestrained of any state in modern history. Israel was bombing at roughly the fastest sustainable rate it was capable of, when you figure that pilots need to sleep and planes need to be reloaded and maintained and that sort of thing. It is said that in the first 13 months of this conflict Israel dropped more munitions on Gaza than were used in entire Second World War. Though they have murdered as many Gazan journalists as possible and have prohibited foreign journalists from entering, a surreptitious video was recently taken of Gaza City from the air, and the scale of destruction is unprecedented:
Much of the public for some reason believes that genocide is something one can just decide to do, not something which takes an enormous amount of work and planning. As genocide scholar Mark Kersten recently explained, genocide is a process, not an event,
“Genocide is not perpetrated instantaneously. It does not ‘just happen’. Rather, those who seek to commit genocide must prepare their population to either support violence or to turn a blind eye to it…
In part because human beings have an innate aversion to harming others and participating in atrocities, genocide also takes on insidious forms, what some call “slow violence”…This lack of instant violence – often accompanied by continued births and parts of the population surviving – is often used to deny genocidal violence.
It is perhaps instructive to imagine the amount of work that would goes into two people killing one person and then disposing of the body, but on an industrial scale. By any method one would use, and whether or not one leaves corpses lying around, to instruct one large body of men towards the extermination of as many of a population of 2 million as possible is an enormous undertaking which takes years, particularly when you want the amount of plausible deniability- or in this case implausible deniability, that allowed Israel to go through the first 20 or so months of this with the word “genocide” remaining taboo in most “respectable” circles in the powerful “Western” countries. Further, the human instinct for survival is great, as seen by the willingness of Gazans to brave indiscriminate gunfire to grab bags of flour. Starvation is a slow and miserable process, particularly as any society starts with quite a lot of stored food and will ultimately kill their livestock, eat the seeds they intended to plant, hunt for insects, peel the bark off of trees, and boil their leather belts for food; hunger will drive humans to such lengths for survival that during the siege of Jerusalem a woman killed, cooked, and ate her own baby, and was so driven to madness by hunger that she saved half of him to present to partisans who would inevitably be attracted to the smell of meat and come to take it.
Time is running out for Gaza and there is every indication that the Netanyahu regime intends to make things worse instead of better, even if they do let in a nominal amount of food to provide themselves with an alibi. International law, always fragile, is collapsing under the weight of Israel’s genocide which is backed and enabled by the powers that consider themselves to be world police. America’s political leaders are determined to involve all American’s in these crimes and put the guilt onto the entire population, following Israel into perdition. It is time for a radically different course: the world must come together to stop Israel and save what people of Gaza can still be saved. Given the scale of Israel’s well-documented crimes, supporting an international invasion force to overthrow the Likud regime and protect the Palestinians is at this point a moderate position. By committing genocide Israel has lost its place among the nations of the world: the only question now is how many more they bring down with them.
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