Israel/Palestine

This war was always about creating the conditions where only that one final choice remained for Palestinians.

It was methodically planned and carried out, with the aid of the naive/gullible and the willing and complicit and the perversion and manipulation of international law, taking advantage of the crowded urban nature of Gaza and its tunnel system.

How anyone can look at Gaza today and with a straight-face claim this was self-defence or the rescue of the hostages, or that Israel had no choice - is beyond me.

Though I've noted that those who unceasingly defended and rationalized Israel's actions and pushed its absurdly illogical and immoral talking points are now silent about the announced ethnic cleansing. Now that "self-defence" has been clearly shown to be a pretext and a ruse for at least 16 months - where is the outrage about being duped or outrage and concern on behalf of the "walking dead" and starved Palestinians soon to be expelled too??

Surely all Democrats and liberals care about things like ethnic cleansing!? Though surely they would have cared about a genocide too, no? But ethnic cleansing is a continuation of a genocide...so...

Western leaders too are showing us who they are and what the West stands for. I have lost all faith that they are going to stop this. They didn't stop the first half of the genocide. I don't think they can change their colours, their worldview or their selfish motivations, interests or ideology even in the face of this. And the US under Trump will threaten and blackmail anyone who doesn't tow the line.

Gideon Levy was right about everything from the start. People should read him to understand what the left in Israel is up against and why they are in despair.