Israel wants to kill everyone in Gaza

Don’t be fooled by the talk of “voluntary migration”; it’s just a smokescreen for the ceaseless extermination of the Palestinian people.

Sometimes you have to cut through the failures of the mainstream media to analyze what Israel’s leaders are saying, and point out that, logically, what they are proposing is relentless annihilation.

In my latest article on my website, Israel Wants to Kill Everyone in Gaza, which I hope you have time to read, 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 alarming 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.” Other proposals mooted by the US and Israel — for resettlement in Indonesia, Sudan, Somalia and Somaliland — are so ridiculous that they’re not even worth contemplating.

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.”

With Donald Trump having facilitated this escalation, unleashing, in particular, the most virulently exterminatory dreams of the far-right settler monsters Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, and with the rest of the west largely silent, and humanitarians in aid agencies and the UN as powerless as ever, the only hope lies within Israel itself, where opposition is growing — from the hostages’ families, and from those who see Netanyahu’s aims as purely self-serving. Who knows, however, if it will be enough?

Unprecedented condemnation of Israel by the UN’s legal experts

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.”

It’s as stark a warning as my own, with the experts noting 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.

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