Stop The Gaza Holocaust

By Dr Marwan Asmar

Years from now academics from many different disciplines, will sit and examine what has now long become recognized as the Gaza Holocaust with its own dramatic features and tools, willingly and determinedly perpetrated by the Israeli military and political leaderships while the rest of Israeli society looked on and the world watched aghast, in complicity and helplessness.

Political scientists, historians, sociologists, anthropologists and economists will seek to examine every aspect of horror committed by the Israelis against the Palestinian people of Gaza, in terms of destroying and ruining a functional Palestinian society that once existed but no more.

As well as death and murder, Gaza has become a rubble heap and an enduring wreckage with former buildings, towers and skyscrapers raised to the ground.

The Gaza holocaust will become a new term and course taught in world universities alongside traditional courses of holocaust studies committed by the Nazis in World War II.

Only this time, the Gaza holocaust will focus on how the Jews – now in the form of an Israeli state, institutions and a powerful military and security apparatus – turned from being the victim of racist, fascist horror, to those committing the worst massacres against Palestinian people.

The Gaza holocaust will be real-time, modern sets of murders and heinous acts of killing and destructions committed by what is regarded as a professional Israeli army with one of the most sophisticated technological gadgets in the world committing unspeakable crimes against women, children and the old in a tiny geographical strip and an enclave called Gaza.

The Gaza holocaust will be about introducing new concepts, ideas, methods and methodologies about introducing new meaning to atrocities, extermination, destruction, elimination, eradication, genocide, slaughter, decimation, excision and obliteration.

All of the above words have become common currency in the new Israeli holocaust against Gaza plotted out by men in blue suits in Tel Aviv and occupied Jerusalem and willingly committed by officers and soldiers in uniform aided and abetted by a destructive machine of warplanes, tanks, missiles, artillery and naval ships.

Similar to the Nazis and Hitler, this Gaza Holocaust will be remembered for its external angle. Israel is committing murder with the help of the United States who are shipping the weapons – planes, tanks, artillery and mass bombs – to help the country bomb the Palestinian enclave to the ground.

History will show that the United States has been part-and-parcel of the Gaza holocaust, willingly arming Jewish state to the teeth and without it, Israel wouldn’t have been able to wage the war for so long, currently in its 11-month.  

Similarly, other world states including the UK, Britain, France Germany, Italy and more like India has been willing partners in the supply of weaponry to beat the people of Gaza with while at the same time – and like Washington – professing peace talks, ceasefire and two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

This Gaza holocaust, once entering the text-books for research, will be mind-boggling for its intensity of the ‘’kill factor”, huge bombs dropped on Gaza – 82,000 tons of explosives were hurled down on the Strip by the end of July starting from October, 2003 – and the enormous destruction this caused to the environment and ecosystem of a land that is no more than 364 square kilometers.

This mad holocaust – 2000 pound bombs, that’s two-ton bombs were willing and continuously dropped on residential squares – will take years to fathom, understand and put into perspectives with theoretical models that must be introduced to understand what and how it was triggered and how it was dealt with.

Continue reading
Gaza’s Situation is ‘Moral Stain on All of US’ – Antonio Guterres

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the humanitarian situation in Gaza is a “moral stain on us all” as the Israeli genocide war enters its 10th month.

During a meeting of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), Wednesday, Guterres repeated his call for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza war.

“The humanitarian situation in Gaza is a moral stain on us all,” Guterres added.

The UN Chief also said that Israel’s policy toward the occupied West Bank is dooming any prospect of a two-state solution with the Palestinians.

Through administrative and legal steps, Israel is changing the geography of the West Bank, Guterres said in a statement read by his chief of staff, Courtenay Rattray.

Settlement expansion is expected to speed up due to big land seizures in strategic areas and changes to planning, land management and governance, Guterres added.

“Recent developments are driving a stake through the heart of any prospect for a two-state solution,” said the UN chief.

Israeli military raids, arrests of Palestinians and settler violence have soared in the occupied West Bank and occupied Jerusalem since Israel launched its war on Gaza on October 7.

Guterres noted that Israel has taken punitive steps against the Palestinian Authority and legalized five Israeli outposts in the West Bank.

“We must change course. All settlement activity must cease immediately,” Guterres said.

This article is reprinted from the Al Quds News Network

Continue reading
Thousands of Israelis Demand Deal, Netanyahu’s Dismissal

Thousands of Israelis protested Saturday, in Tel Aviv, Caesarea and occupied Jerusalem. They demanded a hostage swap deal with Hamas holding the Israeli hostages – with the figure now down to 120 – since 7 October, 2023.

Thousands of Israelis protested in the “Kidnapped Soldiers’ Square” in Tel Aviv, demanding the return of the hostages through a deal with Hamas and the dismissal of the Benjamin Netanyahu’s government through early elections Anadolu reported.

Yedioth Ahronoth reported the demonstration was the largest in Tel Aviv since 7 October.

As well, thousands protested at the Paris Square in the city center of occupied Jerusalem; They also demanded a hostage deal, according to Israeli Channel 12.

And the same was the case in downtown Caesarea where protested marched to Netanyahu’s residence and called for his “immediate” resignation.

Knesset member Gilad Kariv took part in that demonstration where protesters accused Netanyahu and his government of being “responsible” for the deaths of dozens of hostages in Gaza.

Former Defense Minister Benny Gantz, who left the now-dissolved War Cabinet, also participated in demonstrations in the “Kiryat Gat” settlement in the Negev, where protesters demanded a hostage swap deal, the Turkish news agency reported.

More than 37,500 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, most of them women and children, and nearly 86,000 injured, according to local health authorities.

More than eight months into the Israeli war, vast tracts of Gaza lie in ruins amid a crippling blockade of food, clean water and medicine.

Continue reading