Israel Wants to Kill Everyone in Gaza
7.5.25
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Israel’s latest plan for the Gaza Strip, approved by the Security Cabinet on May 5, has, astonishingly, managed to plumb new depths of screamingly illegal depravity in a 19-month genocidal campaign in which screamingly illegal depravity has, from the very beginning, been the norm.
The new plan, which theoretically aims “to destroy Hamas and rescue [the] remaining hostages” seized on October 7, 2023, has four main components: firstly, the permanent military occupation of the Gaza Strip; secondly, the forced displacement of the entire surviving population to a small portion of land in south; thirdly, the conversion of that small portion of land into a concentration camp; and, fourthly, the illusion of “voluntary migration”, behind which extermination — via direct killing, starvation and, probably most potently, medical neglect through the almost complete destruction of medical supplies and equipment — will continue until everyone is dead.
This isn’t how it’s being described in news reports, because it’s a truth that eludes most mainstream journalists and their editors, who have been cowed into submission by pro-Israeli bias for so long now that they have forgotten that their job is supposed to entail them analyzing information rather than simply regurgitating it unquestioningly.
Permanent military occupation
On the first point, Israel has been working towards the permanent military occupation of the whole of the Gaza Strip since it shredded the six-week ceasefire on March 2, imposing a siege on all supplies to Gaza — all food, all water, all medical supplies and all fuel — which has now lasted longer than any previous siege over the last 19 months. Starvation now stalks Gaza like never before, with Gaza’s Government Media Office stating on May 4 that, because of the “systematic blockade”, “more than 3,500 children under the age of five face imminent death by starvation”, while “70,000 children are being hospitalized in the enclave due to severe malnutrition”, and “approximately 290,000 children are on the brink of death.”
During the ceasefire, when hostages were exchanged and humanitarian aid was allowed in, Israel also stopped its relentless bombing campaigns, and withdrew its troops to the border. Since it resumed bombing on March 18, however, as Al Jazeera reported yesterday, it has “restricted Palestinians’ access to 70 percent of Gaza, either by declaring large areas as no-go zones or issuing forced displacement orders, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).”
As a result, occupying the remaining 30% of the Gaza Strip isn’t a particularly ambitious aim, even though it would mean that, almost without anyone noticing, the Israeli far-right’s long cherished dream of “annexing” the whole of Gaza is within sight. This is in spite of the inconvenient fact that, as the Guardian reported yesterday, “Annexation and the acquisition of territory by military conquest is forbidden as one of the founding principles of international law including the UN charter,” It also, noticeably, directly contradicts a statement made by Benjamin Netanyahu in January 2024, when he categorically declared, “Israel has no intention of permanently occupying Gaza or displacing its civilian population.”
Two changes have occurred since Netanyahu’s statement 16 months ago. Firstly, Joe Biden has been replaced by Donald Trump as the US president, and, while Biden remains single-handedly responsible for having allowed, encouraged and facilitated Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza with his “ironclad” support for the first 15 and a half months of this unprecedented depravity, he and his Secretary of State Antony Blinken repeatedly notified Netanyahu that his actions needed to be subjected to certain restraints. Most of these turned out to be theoretical (the “red line” regarding the invasion of Rafah being a prominent example), but it seems reasonable to assume that permanent military occupation and the expulsion of the population were consistently maintained as prohibited actions, to defend the fiction of a “two-state solution”, and in a begrudging nod to the requirements of international humanitarian law, which were otherwise being so disgracefully flouted.
With Trump in charge, however, there appears to be no sustained dialogue whatsoever, and no coherent policy position. Although helping to facilitate the ceasefire in January, Trump almost immediately called for the forced displacement of the entire population, framing it as being for humanitarian reasons, and then dabbled with notions of taking over Gaza himself and remaking it as “the Riviera of the Middle East”, but he now seems to have moved on, leaving official US policy on Gaza drifting like a rudderless boat.
In a second development, undoubtedly related to the above, Netanyahu, increasingly desperate to hold onto power, to prevent his ongoing prosecution for fraud, has increasingly relied on the two far-right settler ministers in his coalition government, Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, who are both longtime advocates for the complete conquest of Gaza, its colonization by the Israelis, and the forced displacement of the Palestinian population, which they have persistently framed as “voluntary migration.”
Just yesterday, at a conference in the occupied West Bank settlement of Ofra, Smotrich, speaking as though he were the Prime Minister, and not Netanyahu, declared that “Gaza will be entirely destroyed, civilians will be sent to the south to a humanitarian zone without Hamas or terrorism, and from there they will start to leave in great numbers to third countries.” He also, as the Guardian described it, “expressed his hope that the territory would be formally annexed during the current government’s term, which could last until late next year.”
Mass forced displacement to the south and the concentration camp option
The second point — the forced displacement of the entire Palestinian population to the south of Gaza — is connected to the third, which I described above as the establishment of a concentration camp.
According to the Associated Press, in “a memo circulated among aid groups”, Israel, via COGAT, its military agency that is nominally responsible for coordinating aid to Gaza, “told the United Nations that it will use private security companies to control aid distribution in Gaza.” The memo stated that “all aid will enter Gaza through the Kerem Shalom crossing” with Israel, “on approximately 60 trucks daily, and be distributed directly to people” at logistics hubs established on the edge of the resettlement zone where the remaining two million Palestinians are supposed to allow themselves to be herded like sheep.
The memo added, alarmingly, that “facial-recognition technology will be used to identify Palestinians” at the logistics hubs, and that “text message alerts will notify people in the area that they can collect aid.”
The AP recognized that 60 trucks would mean that the deliveries would provide only the barest amount of subsistence necessary to prevent starvation, because, as they stated, “Some 500 trucks entered Gaza every day before the war.”
In addition, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) condemned Israel’s proposals, sending an email to aid groups urging them to reject any “draconian restrictions on humanitarian work”, and declaring, in a statement, that the plan “appears designed to reinforce control over life-sustaining items as a pressure tactic — as part of a military strategy”, which is, of course, fundamentally illegal.
As they also explained, the proposal to supply food via hubs that people would have to visit “would leave large parts of the population, including the most vulnerable, without supplies.”
What should also be noted is that, even if Israel were to manage to relocate the surviving population to the south, and to impose a rationed aid system, they would be doing so in an area made toxic by Israel’s persistent military assaults, without any buildings left standing, without water or sewage supplies, and without any functioning hospitals or healthcare centers.
This would be a death sentence for untold numbers of people, as part of the secondary deaths that, as medical experts pointed out last year, always exceed direct deaths many times over. With the current death toll standing at over 52,000, it’s not unreasonable to estimate that the final death toll will be at least a quarter of a million, and, without any serious attempt to improve living conditions, may rise to half a million or more.
Whether or not the aid plan, which has been floated before, is feasible, it ought to be apparent to anyone that herding two million people into an area in which less than 15 percent of the supplies they need to survive comfortably is provided, and for which they must be vetted, is a proposal for nothing more than a concentration camp run by private contractors who will distribute barely adequate provisions for survival to those who pass technologically-imposed security measures.
Israel claims that this devious proposal is necessary to prevent Hamas from controlling aid supplies, suggesting that the organization — which, lest we forget, is the local government in Gaza — is untrustworthy, although this has been strenuously denied by aid groups, and it seems reasonable to assume that it is, instead, a proposal that originates from an obsessive drive to control the population and to keep them permanently weak — just like the Nazis did to Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
The specter of “voluntary migration”
On the fourth point, the far-right’s beloved notion of “voluntary migration”, this has, of course, long been nothing other than a cynical attempt to rebrand mass ethnic cleansing, which is, of course, as fundamentally illegal as using starvation as a weapon of war.
With the backing of Trump, however (even if his disintegrating, fragmented mind has now moved on), it is now being cynically promoted and disguised within Israel as a humanitarian gesture, although the reason I describe it as a specter is because it is, and always has been a completely illusory concept.
For 19 months — with one exception, which I’ll discuss below — no country on earth has demonstrated the slightest interest in taking in any more than a handful of refugees from Gaza. The settlers, in their derangement, think that western countries, where anti-immigrant sentiment is more virulent than at any other time in living memory, will recognize their delusional notion of themselves as the most important people on earth and will line up to take 10,000 or 20,000 Palestinians off their hands, enabling them to fulfil their long-cherished messianic fantasy of removing the Palestinians from 100% of the land that was theirs until the settlers came from Europe to violently dispossess them.
At the start of Israel’s genocide, Netanyahu evidently hoped that the intensity of his genocidal assault would persuade Egypt or Jordan to obligingly accept the Palestinians of Gaza as refugees, but that was a non-starter, as neither President Sisi nor King Abdullah was interested in even contemplating a capitulation to Israel that would endorse the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, and that, even more crucially for their survival, would create massive internal unrest on such a scale that it could topple them from power.
Trump had the same notions in January, but was also swiftly disabused of his fantasy that, when the world’s self-ordained emperor spoke, others would obey. Instead, the only options that have been proposed are so ridiculous that they don’t even bear examining — the proposal by Trump’s Middle East Envoy, Steve Witkoff, to send the population to Indonesia, and Israel’s insulting attempts to portray Libya, Sudan, Somalia or Somaliland as suitable destinations.
The only exception to the universal refusal to accept Palestinians in any significant numbers is Egypt, which, until Israel closed the Rafah Crossing in May 2024, allowed around 100,000 people to pay extortionate fees to organized people- smugglers to allow them to escape Gaza, but only, for the most part, to be held in an impoverished limbo in which they have no rights and no legal status, and in which, we must conclude, President Sisi is only tolerating them until a suitable opportunity arises to send them all back.
Once the illusion of “voluntary migration” is shattered — an illusion that most western media have failed to properly take on board — the hidden reality becomes apparent. For the Palestinians remaining in Gaza there are only two possible outcomes: a quick death by Israel’s ongoing military assaults, or a slow death via hunger, dehydration, and the myriad murderous outcomes of Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s entire medical system.
“Voluntary migration”, then, is Israel’s most cynical proposal of all, being nothing more than a cynical smokescreen to disguise the deeper, darker aim of complete extermination, or, as we might want to describe it, the “final solution” to the perceived Palestinian “problem.”
So will Israel’s plan happen, or is it just a threat?
While some commentators are suggesting that the plan is simply a way of increasing pressure on Hamas, and others are noting that no steps will be taken until after Donald Trump visits the Middle East next week, it would be unwise to think that any of the options proposed are anything other than the deeply-felt desires of those in power in Israel.
What remains to be seen, of course, is how the plan is received within Israel itself, as a military expansion will require vast numbers of reservists to be mobilized to serve in the IDF. Tens of thousands of reservists have already been called up, even though, as I reported in my recent article, The Soul-Shredding Horror of Israel’s Unstoppable Genocide in Gaza, there is growing dissent within the military about what former Shin Bet director Ami Ayalon has called “a perpetual war with no achievable military objectives.”
In addition, there is also a sizeable movement within Israel, led by the family members of the surviving hostages, to the resumption of hostilities that began when the ceasefire was shredded, and which is widely seen as Netanyahu sacrificing the hostages’ lives for his own political survival. At a Knesset committee meeting on Monday, as the AP reported, Einav Zangauker, whose son Matan is one of the hostages still held, called on soldiers “not to report for reserve duty for moral and ethical reasons.”
Further high-level dissent was revealed during the Security Council meeting that approved the plan, when, as Al Jazeera reported, Eyal Zamir, the new Chief of the General Staff of the IDF, “reportedly warned that Israel could ‘lose’ the captives in Gaza if it pushed ahead with a full-blown military offensive.”
Zamir also took exception to Itamar Ben-Gvir’s call for Israel to “continue to block all food, water, medicine, fuel and other aid from entering Gaza to starve the population”, when he also “advocated for ‘bombing food warehouses and generators’ so there are no more supplies and electricity is fully cut off”, warning that this “would ‘endanger’ Israel as it would expose the country to even more allegations of violations of international law.”
Israel’s national broadcaster, Kan, reported that Zamir told Ben-Gvir, “You don’t understand what you are saying. You are endangering us all. There is an international law, we are committed to it. We cannot starve the Strip, your statements are dangerous.”
Al Jazeera also noted that, in an interview with Israeli Army Radio, the opposition leader Yair Lapid “questioned Netanyahu’s decision to mobilise tens of thousands of reservists, saying the prime minister was calling up troops and extending their service without setting a goal for the operation”, while another opposition figure, Yair Golan, said that Netanyahu “was only trying to save his government from collapsing as the plan ‘serves no security purpose and does not bring the release of the hostages closer.’”
As aid organizations cry out, UN spokespeople powerlessly condemn Israel’s intentions, and a handful of western leaders voice their concerns — while still, of course, failing to sanction Israel in any way — the rest of us are stuck hoping that the growing dissent within Israel can somehow halt what really ought to be unthinkable: the permanent military occupation of Gaza, the establishment of a concentration camp and the continuing extermination of a people who, over the last 19 months, have suffered more than anyone outside of Gaza can truly imagine.
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Andy Worthington is a freelance investigative journalist, activist, author, photographer (of an ongoing photo-journalism project, ‘The State of London’), film-maker and singer-songwriter (the lead singer and main songwriter for the London-based band The Four Fathers, whose music is available via Bandcamp). He is the co-founder of the Close Guantánamo campaign (see the ongoing photo campaign here) and the successful We Stand With Shaker campaign of 2014-15, and the author of The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison and of two other books: Stonehenge: Celebration and Subversion and The Battle of the Beanfield. He is also the co-director (with Polly Nash) of the documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”, which you can watch on YouTube here.
In 2017, Andy became very involved in housing issues. He is the narrator of the documentary film, ‘Concrete Soldiers UK’, about the destruction of council estates, and the inspiring resistance of residents, he wrote a song ‘Grenfell’, in the aftermath of the entirely preventable fire in June 2017 that killed over 70 people, and, in 2018, he was part of the occupation of the Old Tidemill Wildlife Garden in Deptford, to try to prevent its destruction — and that of 16 structurally sound council flats next door — by Lewisham Council and Peabody.
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Andy Worthington says...
When I posted this on Facebook, I wrote:
In my latest article, I follow up on Israel’s new plans for an escalation of hostilities in the Gaza Strip, cutting through the failures of media commentators to establish what the plans actually reveal, which is nothing less than the extermination of the entire population.
Everything about the plans is diabolical, including the screamingly illegal proposal to militarily occupy the whole of the Gaza Strip and to force the surviving population to the south, to be hemmed into a tightly-controlled area in which aid, at the barest of subsistence levels, will be provided by private contractors, but only to those who have submitted to monitoring and the use of facial recognition technology.
However, it is the last component of the plan — for the “voluntary migration” of the population — that is even more troubling than the proposals for total military occupation and for a kind of techno-concentration camp. This is because, as few commentators seem to want to acknowledge, no country is willing to take in significant numbers of Palestinian refugees. Egypt and Jordan have persistently refused, because of legitimate fears of massive unrest were they to be complicit in mass ethnic cleansing, and in the countries of the west, as I describe it, “anti-immigrant sentiment is more virulent than at any other time in living memory.”
As I proceed to explain, the proposal for “voluntary migration” is, therefore, nothing but an illusion that is being used by Israel to disguise its true intent, which, without any viable escape route for the Palestinians, consists solely of continuing extermination, either “a quick death by Israel’s ongoing military assaults, or a slow death via hunger, dehydration, and the myriad murderous outcomes of Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s entire medical system.”
...on May 7th, 2025 at 7:05 pm
Andy Worthington says...
Today, reflecting the severity of the crisis, over three dozen UN Special Mandate holders — the moral conscience of the UN — issued an extraordinary press release, calling on the nations of the world to recognize that they face a “defining choice” — to “End [the] unfolding genocide or watch it end life in Gaza.”
The experts noted that “Escalating atrocities in Gaza present an urgent moral crossroads and States must act now to end the violence or bear witness to the annihilation of the Palestinian population in Gaza — an outcome with irreversible consequences for our shared humanity and multilateral order.”
Calling for States “to transcend rhetoric and take enforceable action to immediately end the carnage and ensure accountability for [the] perpetrators”, the experts added, “This is one of the most ostentatious and merciless manifestations of the desecration of human life and dignity.”
They’re right, of course, but will their words stir the necessary action from governments that, for 19 months, have been complicit in the most savage horrors that any of us have ever seen?
If not, it feels like an epitaph — both for international humanitarian law, and for humanity itself.
https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/05/end-unfolding-genocide-or-watch-it-end-life-gaza-un-experts-say-states-face
...on May 7th, 2025 at 8:33 pm
Andy Worthington says...
Annalise Zaverdinos wrote:
Has our world always been this cruel? Are we just seeing it more because we can share it our phones? I DON’T RECOGNISE THIS PLANET RIGHT NOW. Am I going crazy???
...on May 7th, 2025 at 8:33 pm
Andy Worthington says...
I think all of us are aware, Annalise, that, throughout human history, there has always been a struggle between those who revere life, and those who worship killing and death.
I also know that, as I type this, other atrocities are taking place around the world, but, despite this, nothing compares to what has been happening in Gaza for the last 19 months not just because technology has allowed those being slaughtered to tell us and show us what is happening, and not just because the intensity of the bombing, and the weapons used on such a small and confined space, from which no one can escape, exceed in horror anything we’ve previously seen.
In particular, what makes this horror so soul-curdling is the “ironclad” support given to the killers by our own governments, and the exceptionalism that the killers claim — all, sadly, a result of the impunity they’ve been granted for the last 78 years, and the grotesque combination of giddy exuberance, persistent victimhood and the suppression of dissent worldwide that they’ve cultivated and been allowed for so long that they no longer even see how grotesquely manipulative and fundamentally depraved it all is.
...on May 7th, 2025 at 8:34 pm
Andy Worthington says...
Jessy Mumpo wrote:
Yes, I agree, Annalise. The international order set up after the 2nd world war, laws and norms which were meant to prevent this kind of thing is being dismantled, which makes the world far less safe.
...on May 7th, 2025 at 8:35 pm
Andy Worthington says...
Sadly, this genocide has exposed the weaknesses of the post-WWII international order more clearly than ever before, Jessy, Bodies like the ICJ move far too slowly to fulfil the Genocide Convention’s intention of preventing rather than just punishing genocide after the fact, and the Security Council is permanently stymied by the veto that the “winners” of WWII granted themselves.
I still think it’s remarkable that the ICC had the courage to issue arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant, breaking the unwritten rule that the post-WWII order wasn’t meant to apply to “us” (which apparently includes Israel), but only to “others” in Africa and elsewhere, but what’s sadly become apparent is how the concept of global law without an actual enforcement mechanism simply cannot cope with a live, and livestreamed genocide. Something has to change if the concept of international humanitarian law is to survive.
...on May 7th, 2025 at 8:35 pm
Andy Worthington says...
Anna Brown wrote:
Annalise, I agree! Staggered by the level of evil we see every single day! Are we out of our minds?
...on May 8th, 2025 at 10:08 am
Andy Worthington says...
I’d say the majority of the world’s population are not “out of our minds”, Anna. Most of the Muslim world – billions of ordinary people – see the horrors that are happening and are appalled, and a majority of those polled in the west consistently oppose Israel’s actions and support the Palestinians, but our leaders have betrayed us all.
In each of our countries, prominent individuals in power, and those around them – often no more than hundreds or thousands of individuals – are destroying our collective morality to support a genocide driven by some of the most terrifyingly inhuman individuals on the planet, profiting no one but the arms industries, and introducing elements of fascistic domestic repression – of dissent, protest, even “thought crimes” – that couldn’t be justified in any other context.
Our shared humanity remains our salvation, but it’s time for people to recognize that when it is threatened like never before, when attempts are made to silence and punish morality and empathy, we may need to step up our resistance.
...on May 8th, 2025 at 10:09 am
Andy Worthington says...
Jane Christenson wrote:
No, Annalise. They are psychopaths.
...on May 8th, 2025 at 10:10 am
Andy Worthington says...
That’s an important observation, Jane, and helpful as we move forward in resistance. Sadly, however, many of our fellow citizens like psychopaths, or even adore them. They see decent principled human beings standing for leadership positions, and they despite them – as happened here in the UK with Jeremy Corbyn.
How we turn this around, if we can, is central to our continued survival right now. Those of us who revere life, rather than worshipping killing and death, need to find a way to come together outside of our broken psychopath-led political systems to take over. We outnumber them, but we’re currently more powerless than we’ve been for many decades – since the 1990s at the latest.
...on May 8th, 2025 at 10:10 am
Andy Worthington says...
Susan Shaffer wrote:
I think it’s a little bit of both, Annalise. Humanity has a very violent past. How that will inform the future is anybody’s guess. Until we declare Capitalism over, I think we will struggle with despotic regimes and angry citizens.
...on May 8th, 2025 at 10:11 am
Andy Worthington says...
Good to hear from you, Susan. Capitalism will kill us for sure if we can’t properly challenge it and dismantle it – the ongoing state of the climate demonstrates that most obviously to anyone who still has a functioning brain.
There is, however, something else going on, as we’re seeing with the genocide in Gaza, that is more primordial than capitalism – a poison in the hearts of men (and sometimes women) that is so black that they live solely to kill. It’s always been there, but it seems particularly prominent right now, and I think it’s worth looking at how the reality of climate collapse, which reveals how, over the last 40 years, everything about our so-called global civilization, with its adoration of excess and selfishness and overconsumption, has been killing us, has deranged our leaders, who, unable to accept it, have retreated into ancient responses – essentially, a state of permanent and total war.
I wrote about it here: https://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2024/09/01/if-we-should-live-our-scribes-will-record-2024-as-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-humanity/
...on May 8th, 2025 at 10:11 am
Andy Worthington says...
Annalise Zaverdinos wrote:
Andy, “giddy exuberance, persistent victimhood and the suppression of dissent” … EXACTLY.
...on May 8th, 2025 at 10:12 am
Andy Worthington says...
Thanks, Annalise, and it’s the international reach of that suppression of dissent that is so particularly alarming. Authoritarian repression is being introduced in countries – especially the US and Germany – on a scale that is unimaginable in any other context, and it’s all being done in the service of another country.
...on May 8th, 2025 at 10:12 am
Andy Worthington says...
Jessy Mumpo wrote:
‘Write to David Lammy: Urgent call for sanctions against Israel’
https://palestinecampaign.eaction.online/sanctionIsrael
...on May 8th, 2025 at 10:13 am
Andy Worthington says...
I’m sure it’s always helpful to try and remind our leaders of their obligations, Jessy, but I do wonder what has been happening behind the scenes with the legal advice that government ministers are supposed to receive. Have they been silenced? Are they also complicit? Where is the Attorney General, Richard Hermer KC? Directly appointed by Starmer (they are old friends), he is Jewish and “speaks Hebrew, has a deep commitment to Jewish life and has family in the Israel Defense Forces”, as a source in the government explained in February, but he has been silent on the genocide since his appointment, even though, in October 2023, when Starmer was making himself complicit in the genocide by saying that Isreal had the right to cut off food and water and electricity supplies to Gaza, Starmer and other prominent Jewish lawyers criticized Israel’s actions in a letter in which they stated, “To be clear, collective punishment is prohibited by the laws of war. Equally, international law requires combatants to ensure minimum destruction to civilian life and infrastructure. An intent to cause indiscriminate damage, rather than behaving in a precise manner to minimise damage would, if established, constitute a grave violation of international law.”
On LBC, following up on the letter, Hermer said it would be “impossible to conceive” how Israel’s siege in Gaza could be in accordance with international law.
Where is he now, and why is he so silent?
https://www.newarab.com/news/who-uks-new-israel-critic-attorney-general
...on May 8th, 2025 at 10:14 am
Andy Worthington says...
Carol Gai wrote:
Since 77 years savage neocolonialist, zionist project is ethnic cleansing Palestine 🇵🇸.
Apartheid, occupier israel is not only a farce, as israel does not represent Judaism, nor shares Jewish values (not a “Jewish state”), it is per se a flagrant crime against humanity.
Israel is committing a holocaust in Gaza, far worse than WWII, as, contrary to WWIi, no one is helping the Palestinians to survive.
We have all failed the Palestinians.
Israel must be isolated, dismantled, defunded and disarmed.
USA, EU, UK, NATO and corporate controlled media are complicit in pushing the zionist, as in national supremacists, narrative.
Israel does not represent Judaism, nor shares Jewish values.
Israel is representing a brainwashed cult, stealing land and resources, desperately trying to delete historical facts, humanitarian ethics, history, dignity, respect, archeological artifacts, culture, religion and Indigenous people.
Stop israel, stop israel’s holocaust in Gaza.
...on May 8th, 2025 at 10:15 am
Andy Worthington says...
Rick Staggenborg wrote:
Well said. Disarm and de-Nazify.
...on May 8th, 2025 at 10:16 am
Andy Worthington says...
Yes, well said, Carol. The Zionist state is a brainwashed death cult that will take us all down unless we can find a way to isolate it to facilitate its collapse, and to rid ourselves of its servants abroad who are destroying their own countries on its behalf.
...on May 8th, 2025 at 10:16 am
Andy Worthington says...
Amy Lynn wrote:
End times fascism. The Rapture and JesusPocalypse.
‘Naomi Klein on Trump, Musk, Far Right & “End Times Fascism”‘
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtYSyb6fCxo
...on May 8th, 2025 at 10:17 am
Andy Worthington says...
Thanks for that link, Amy, following up on a powerful essay that Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor wrote for the Guardian, which is well worth reading:
‘The rise of end times fascism’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/13/end-times-fascism-far-right-trump-musk
...on May 8th, 2025 at 10:18 am
Andy Worthington says...
Catherine Mackenzie Korver wrote:
Send in UN peacekeeping troops. Expell the Zionazi occupiers and distribute aid.
...on May 8th, 2025 at 10:18 am
Andy Worthington says...
Good to hear from you, Catherine. This is what Francesca Albanese called for on May 6, when she urged the UN General Assembly to use the United for Peace resolution for Gaza, to overcome the Security Council’s US-led paralysis. The resolution backs “the use of armed force when necessary, to maintain or restore international peace and security.” https://x.com/FranceskAlbs/status/1919887545871282211
...on May 8th, 2025 at 10:19 am
Andy Worthington says...
Once more, Dr. Ezzideen in Gaza, the most important writer in the world right now, forensically analyzes, in devastatingly bleak poetry, the depths of depravity to which Israel — with the rest of the world watching — has sunk in Gaza, the location for “the industrialization of agony”, where the so-called conflict “is not conflict. This is vivisection.”
As he adds, “And mankind, this species which dares to speak of beauty and eternity watches. Rationalizes. Moves on. Man is not what he imagines himself to be. He is not a bearer of justice, nor a creature of truth. He is, in his final and truest form, the most refined manufacturer of suffering to walk this earth. No beast flays its own with such brilliance. No devil is needed.”
Read. Share. Weep with fury.
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There is no delusion more obscene, more grotesque, than the belief that man is the crown of creation. If he wears a crown, it is hammered from rubble, and set with teeth pulled from the mouths of children. And nowhere, nowhere, is this filth more clearly laid bare than in Gaza, where man tears off the last veil of civilization and shows himself for what he has always been: a beast of prey, with reason sharp enough to kill more efficiently, and just enough conscience left to feel a passing discomfort, quickly silenced.
Gaza is not a tragedy. To call it that would be too kind. It is not an accident of diplomacy or borders. It is a stage. A performance. A demonstration of what happens when man is given tools, systems, data, and no soul. It is the logical conclusion of a species that does not live, it devours.
The people there — children, women, old men — are not victims. Even that word has become too gentle. They are test subjects. Vivisected, examined, catalogued. Not in the name of discovery, but in the shadow of complete indifference. Gaza has been turned into a cage, not imagined, not poetic, but literal and inside it, every instrument of human degradation is unleashed: starvation, bombardment, silence, isolation, disappearance. Not in succession. But together. Simultaneously. Exhaustively.
This is not suffering. This is the industrialization of agony.
Even laboratory rats are offered the dignity of isolation, one trauma per cage. Hunger in one, fear in another. But Gaza is no laboratory. It is a furnace. A black site. A place where the rules of experimentation have collapsed into a ritual of cruelty. The variables are no longer measured. They are weaponized.
Weapons are not used in Gaza, they are premiered. The corpse of a child is not a mistake, it is confirmation. A data point. The annihilation of a neighborhood is not an accident, it is marketing. The world does not weep. It watches. It inquires. Does the missile reach the target? Does the structure collapse within the predicted radius?
Food is not withheld out of chaos, it is rationed with mathematical precision. The Gazan is not fed according to what life requires, but what death permits. Just enough to deny martyrdom, never enough to allow meaning. It is not mercy. It is maintenance. The human spirit, suspended indefinitely in the space between perishing and enduring.
And none of this is random. It is systematic. Clean. Clinical. Gaza is not governed, it is administered like a terminal patient kept breathing for study. Psychological thresholds are tested, not by scholars, but by soldiers. Social bonds are crushed with the weight of repeated grief. Each scream recorded. Each silence noted. Each burial timed and filed.
And the world? It turns away. It names this conflict, as though the dissected and the dissecting were somehow equal. As though the rat and the scalpel were both participants in the same experiment.
No. This is not conflict. This is vivisection.
And mankind, this species which dares to speak of beauty and eternity watches. Rationalizes. Moves on. Man is not what he imagines himself to be. He is not a bearer of justice, nor a creature of truth. He is, in his final and truest form, the most refined manufacturer of suffering to walk this earth. No beast flays its own with such brilliance. No devil is needed.
If one day someone asks, But how did you know?
We will not answer.
We will open our hands and show them what remains: the burn marks on our children’s skin, the hunger carved into the bones of the living, the lullabies that now end in the roar of drones. We will say nothing. Because there is nothing left to say.
We did not learn this.
We did not read it in books.
We carried it in our bodies.
We became it.
There is no need for devils.
Man is enough.
He is the wound.
He is the knife.
And he is the one who twists it.
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...on May 18th, 2025 at 12:39 am