Israel implements its “final solution” for Gaza
Horror, as Israel steps up its bombing attacks on the starving Palestinians, prior to a planned ground invasion, military occupation and confinement in a concentration camp.
A screenshot from a post on X by the Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif, showing the ongoing destruction and devastation in Gaza.
My latest article on my website, Unparalleled Depravity as Israel Implements Its “Final Solution” for Gaza, is an urgent update on the situation in the Gaza Strip, as, over the last few days, Israel has launched “Operation Gideon’s Chariots”, which can only be regarded as its “final solution” to the “Palestinian problem”, with all the historical echoes of the Nazis’ “final solution” that entails.
Israel’s plan, announced 12 days ago, is to militarily occupy the whole of the Gaza Strip, to destroy all its remaining buildings, and to drive the surviving population to the south, to be held in a concentration camp where vetted individuals, subjected to biometric screening, will be allowed food, provided every two weeks, but only at the barest of subsistence levels to prevent death by starvation.
Via posts from those trapped in Gaza, I report on the unprecedented escalation of military activity over the last two nights, as the severity of the attacks, and the death toll, have, shamefully, matched the scale and intensity of the earliest days of the genocide.
I condemn western leaders for their continued inaction, and reserve particular contempt for Donald Trump, who, in his four-day tour of the Gulf, failed to say or do anything to help the Palestinians by calling for a renewed ceasefire and the resumption of desperately-needed humanitarian aid to stave off mass starvation, even after Hamas obliged him by releasing the US-Israeli soldier Edan Alexander.
Instead, he revived his absurd proposal to remake Gaza — this time as a “freedom zone”, rather than “the Riviera of the Middle East” that he proposed in February — and has continued to endorse the “voluntary migration” of the entire population.
Is he wilfully complicit, or just a rambling and incoherent fool? Sadly, no one even seems to know.
A song for Grenfell
Wednesday marked seven months and eleven months since the Grenfell Tower fire in west London, and, in solidarity with survivors, the families of the 72 people who died, and the local community, I posted a video of my band The Four Fathers playing 'Grenfell', my song about this entirely preventable disaster, which came about through cost-cutting and profiteering enabled by politicians and facilitated by wilfully corrupt contractors. Despite an extensive public inquiry, no one has been held accountable for the fire, a completely unacceptable situation as its eighth anniversary nears.
The video, recorded at the launch of our album, ‘Songs of Loss and Resistance’, is here, on YouTube, and you can also listen to the studio version, recorded with the great Charlie Hart, who plays accordion on it, here.
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