Israel’s renewed genocide finally alienates key allies

Arms embargoes and sanctions are needed, but Israel’s increasingly genocidal aggression is finally making western allies aware of their complicity.

Please, if you have the time, read my detailed new article on my website, Israel’s Ferocious Intensification of Genocide in Gaza Finally Alienates Key Allies, in which I run through key developments over the five days since my previous analysis, Unparalleled Depravity as Israel Implements Its “Final Solution” for Gaza.

Last week, after starving Palestinian civilians for eleven weeks, and bombing them relentlessly for the last two months, Israel stepped up its aggression, launching “Operation Gideon’s Chariots” with even more savage bombing, and announcing its intention to militarily occupy the whole of Gaza, to erase every remaining building, and to force the surviving population into a concentration camp in the south, prior to an illusory program of “voluntary migration.”

Plumbing unparalleled depths of depravity, after 19 months of unbearable horror, Israel’s genocidal endgame has finally provoked condemnation from its allies in the west, who, until now, have whispered barely a word of dissent. The foreign ministers of 22 countries and three senior EU officials issued a strongly-worded demand for the resumption of aid to prevent mass starvation, while the governments of the UK, France and Canada specifically threatened “concrete actions” if Israel continued its “wholly disproportionate” escalation, its starvation policies and its plans for the “permanent forced displacement” of the population, which, as they noted, “is a breach of international humanitarian law.”

Words mean nothing to Israel, of course, and, if its allies are serious, they must follow up with arms embargoes, sanctions and more, but it remains noteworthy that so many countries are now turning against Israel, no doubt because the extent of its renewed escalation of hostilities and the impact of its starvation siege are so severe that they have suddenly become aware that they need to be seen to have made the right noises for when, inevitably, there will be a legal and moral reckoning.

Hopefully, this turning of the tides is significant, reinforcing the recent warning, by opposition politician Yair Golan, that Israel, which is “kill[ing] children as a hobby”, that it “is on the way to becoming a pariah state, like South Africa was”, and the admission by an Israeli Foreign Ministry official that “the world is not with us” and that “No one will want to be identified with Israel."

Watch my Due Dissidence interview with Misty Winston

Last night, I was delighted to spend an hour and a half discussing the state of the world with Misty Winston, for her show on Due Dissidence. I first got to know Misty through her campaigning for Julian Assange, and it was wonderful to catch up with her on her new show, in which we engaged in detailed discussions about Guantánamo, Trump’s “war on migrants”, the extraordinarily chilling one-way rendition of migrants to the CECOT prison, a mega-Guantánamo in El Salvador, Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, and much more.

The show is available on Rumble here, and on X here, and I hope that you have time to watch it.

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