
POSTSCRIPT: Click here to listen to me discussing this article, and the third anniversary of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, with Chris Cook on Substack, on his weekly Gorilla Radio show in western Canada. I’m in the second half of the one-hour show.
Israel is lost.
Every day for the last three years, the decent people of the world — in our untold millions — have been sunk in a pit of moral despair, weeping, having breakdowns or being permanently enraged by the most extraordinarily depraved example of full-spectrum, live-streamed barbarism in our lifetimes — the ongoing genocide of the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip by the State of Israel.
The trigger for Israel’s ongoing genocide was, of course, one particularly bloody day, October 7, 2023, when militants from the Gaza Strip, which had been maintained by Israel as an “open-air prison” for the previous 16 years, broke out through the perimeter fence and went on a killing spree in southern Israel in which 1,195 people were killed, and 251 others were taken hostage.
These are the bare facts, and, for anyone like myself who is an intuitive lifelong pacifist, they are, of course, deeply unpalatable. 1,124 Israelis and 71 foreign nationals, who all had hopes and dreams and loves and fears, were killed on October 7. 367 of them were members of the Israeli security forces, while the rest, including 38 children, were civilians.
We should mourn them all, but we cannot regard their deaths in isolation, because, in response, beginning on the evening of October 7, 2023 and continuing ever since, the Israelis have killed, at the barest minimum, 75 times as many Palestinians over the last three years, including 21,976 children — almost 600 times as many children as were killed on October 7.

It’s time for me to state something openly that has, to date, only been a sub-text of the 100 or so full-length articles that I’ve written over the last 34 months about the ongoing genocide being undertaken by the State of Israel in the Gaza Strip — that the State of Israel must, definitely, be brought to an end.
It took just over three years and three months from the Nazis’ approval of the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question” at the Wannsee Conference on January 22, 1942, which led to the establishment of extermination camps on an industrial scale, to the destruction of the Nazi regime in May 1945.
It’s now two years and ten months since the new Nazis — the Zionist Israeli regime in Tel Aviv — began its “Final Solution to the Palestinian Question” in the Gaza Strip, and if there were to be any justice in the world, the Israeli regime would be brought to an end before 2027 begins.
We’ve been repeatedly told, for the last 34 months, that we aren’t allowed to make comparisons between the Nazis and Israel, but how can we not?

It’s worse than we thought.
While dirty, demented grandpa Donald, increasingly unhinged, keeps failing asleep and then waking up and indulging in bouts of incoherent ranting, he has already accomplished what his minders always intended: to bring together the two most twisted, delusional, genocidal, pseudo-religious movements in modern history — Zionism and Christian Zionism — and to launch an apocalyptic war on their behalf.
Donald Trump, of course, as a malignant narcissist, has no God but himself, and the same is true of his chief Zionist manipulator, the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, a slippery devil of a being who has dominated Israeli politics for much of the last 40 years, and who has, over the last 29 months, finally emerged in his true colours, as the bearer of nothing but mass murder and destruction without restraint.
Using the Palestinian resistance movement’s attacks on southern Israel on October 7, 2023 as an excuse, Netanyahu, leading a political establishment and a population that are almost entirely supportive of his bleak vision, has drawn on violent Iron Age religious texts to finally manifest the true apocalyptic intent of the genocidal Zionist settler-colonial cult whose first victory was the blood-soaked establishment of the State of Israel in 1948.
Investigative journalist, author, campaigner, commentator and public speaker. Recognized as an authority on Guantánamo and the “war on terror.” Co-founder, Close Guantánamo and We Stand With Shaker, singer/songwriter (The Four Fathers).
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