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Israeli aggression on Gaza: The West's complicit silence on genocide

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  • Source: Carnegie Middle East Center
  • 2 Nov 2023 16:40
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Micheal Young discusses the dangers of the West's silence of Gaza's genocide and Israeli plots to ethnically cleanse the Gaza Strip.

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  • Israeli aggression on Gaza has seen the West remain complicitly silent on genocide and war crimes.
    A protester places his shoe above a sign condemning French President Emmanuel Macron, US President Joe Biden, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as war criminals during a demonstration in solidarity with Gaza in Amman, Jordan, on October 27, 2023. (AFP)

The West has engaged in deliberate silence on Israeli war crimes, genocide, and plots to forcibly displace the Gaza Strip's entire population, Micheal Young a Senior Editor at the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center explained.

Young kicks off his piece by highlighting the war crimes through which "Israel" established its so-called "state" on usurped Palestinian land. The "Israelis have sought to undermine the accusation that their state was built on the foundations of what is considered to be a crime against humanity," Young wrote in reference to the 1948 Nakba where more than 750,000 Palestinians were forcibly pushed out of their homeland by Zionist gangs.

The author drew a comparison between the historical event and recently surfaced plans that entail the mass forced displacement of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip toward Sinai.

As Young points out, Israeli officials have not shied away from openly discussing these plots, framing them as measures that would ensure the safety of civilians while "Israel" ravages their homeland.

Netanyahu and the second Nakba

According to a report published by the Financial Times, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has attempted to push Egypt to open its borders to Palestinian refugees. A Western official who spoke to the newspaper downplayed the suggestion, saying it would be the case "at least during the conflict."

Egypt has made unequivocally clear, specifically during a joint press conference between its President Abdul Fattah el-Sisi and Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz, that Cairo will not allow the Israeli conspiracy to bring an end to the Palestinian cause.

If such a scenario were to take place, no promises can guarantee that Palestinians, a large portion of whom are refugees in Gaza, would return to their homes once the Israeli aggression on Gaza ends. In fact, historical and current Israeli practices have never indicated that the occupation's expansionist inclinations have demised.

In fact, its expansionist policy in the West Bank, where the government arms, aids, and protects illegal settlers, as well as Netanyahu's government's insistence to carry out unilateral action, provide enough evidence for observers to distrust Israeli claims.

"That’s what happened in 1948, and only a fool would believe it can’t happen again," Young emphasizes.

Plot to ethnically cleanse Gaza ready for implementation

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Young also shed light on reports stemming from "Israel's" Ministry of Intelligence, which is believed to have released a document entailing a list of options available to deal with civilian populations in the Gaza Strip.

One of which is to "evacuate the Gazan population to Sinai" and "create a sterile zone of several kilometers inside Egypt and not allow the population to return to activity or residence near the Israeli border."

Although the United States has held round-the-clock briefings on "Israel's" aggression on Gaza, it has yet failed to condemn Israeli war crimes in Gaza and such plans that scream out ethnic cleansing.

Young refutes claims that such a document does not hold any value simply because it has not been publicly discussed. He says that numerous governmental policies start as ideas that go under the radar, in order to avoid bureaucratic complexities.

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Eiland's plan to save "Israel" from its existential crisis

The rise of the Resistance in the Gaza Strip, through its ability to turn theoretical strategies and non-battle tested locally-produced weapons, into one of the most embarrassing moments for the Israeli military, has set in stone "Israel's" need to eliminate the Resistance. 

Giora Eiland, the former head of the Israeli "National Security Council", has recognized the graveness of the situation, stressing that "Israel" is "fighting an existential war."

Eiland hit the nail on the head. "Israel" is indeed in grave danger, as a fascist racist occupation has indeed spread its infrastructure of death and oppression all over stolen Palestinian land; a material reality which Palestinians will undoubtedly fight back against.

The former official called on the occupation "to create conditions where life in Gaza becomes unsustainable... become a place where no human being can exist, and I say this as a means rather than an end. I say this because there is no other option for ensuring the security of the State of Israel." 

Eiland's criminal ideas call for collective punishment, willfully causing great suffering to body and health, destruction and appropriation of property not justified by military necessity, and unlawful deportation, as Young explains.

"Israel" has managed to cross out all of the above in its short 75-year history. It has also deliberately bombed hospitals, targeted schools, flattened residential buildings, killed journalists, cut off water from the Strip, and barred the entry of fuel in its current aggression on the Gaza Strip.

The Western elite's silence on Gaza's genocide has seen fierce opposition from their own populations, Young stresses. Although, Young believes that Western elites are bound to change their stance on "Israel", he does underline that in the meantime, they will "continue to engage in a shameful conspiracy of silence."

People all over the world and in Western cities such as New York, Madrid, London Berlin, and Paris expressed their own perspective on "Israel" and its aggressive policies and opposed their governments' complicity.

"It is a perspective that regards Israel’s establishment as compensation for what is perhaps the greatest crime in history, the Holocaust; that regards Israel as an extension of the West and a reliable ally throughout the last half-century; and that views Israel as modern, democratic, and liberal in a sea of intolerance and backwardness."

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