In the battle of his political life, Benjamin Netanyahu has nothing to lose. He could, however, gain vainglory and self-exaltation by murdering as many Palestinians as possible to satisfy the unquenchable vengeful Israeli culture. A crime catapulted by Western leaders who rallied behind Netanyahu in the aftermath of the prisoners’ revolt against the posts guarding the largest open-air prison on earth.
The embrace of Netanyahu by Western leaders has granted the bona fide pathological liar an unchecked authority to carpet-bomb civilian centers, target hospitals, and orchestrate the evacuation of northern Gaza in order to complete the ethnic cleansing of historical Palestine.
In a disturbing parallel to the 1948 Zionist-led massacres that marked the initial ethnic cleansing of Palestine, Israeli forces committed further atrocities in northern Gaza this week. Two of which targeted thousands of displaced refugees seeking protection at the al-Fakhura UN school, and another at an evacuation center in Tel al-Zataar neighborhood.
The deliberate targeting of evacuation centers and hospitals where civilians sought shelter in northern Gaza is part of "Israel’s" terror strategy to intensify the forceful evacuation of residents from their neighborhoods. Let’s not forget that those who heeded Israeli directions and moved south found themselves facing the same danger. Dozens lost their lives on the highways, and others were killed upon reaching the ostensibly "safer" shelters. "Israel" is ensuring that no place in all of Gaza remains safe, a troubling reality reflected in the fact that 43% of civilians killed in the Strip are in the so-called "safer" south.
In the past 40 days, Gaza has endured an onslaught equivalent to more than three nuclear bombs. This surpasses by threefold the total number of bombs dropped by the United States on Afghanistan throughout an entire year. Regrettably, US taxpayers footed the bill for both wars. While acknowledging civilian casualties in Afghanistan, the US did not primarily pursue indiscriminate bombing of civilian populations as its primary war objective. For "Israel", however, the main goal is to remove the civilians, or as "Israel's" Minister for Agriculture and former head of Shin Bet, Avi Dichter, articulated this policy on Israeli TV, "We are now actually rolling out the Gaza Nakba." The Nakba, is the term Palestinians use for the ethnic cleansing from Palestine in 1948.
"Rolling out" the Nakba, or human-made catastrophe, can neither be achieved without inducing flight and instill fear among the civilian population, nor without a cover-up and Israeli exception to international law. Western media for example, almost always, qualify their coverage on the number of killed Palestinian civilians with a statement like, we know "Israel" has warned civilians to move south, in effect normalizing, and, to an extent, mitigating the responsibility of the Israeli army for civilian casualties. In fact, this could mark the first war where the burden of avoiding loss of life is placed on noncombatants rather than the military conducting the war.
Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken declares from New Delhi, "Far too many Palestinians have been killed. Far too many have suffered these past weeks." Yet, the American government continues to reject, or is unable to force "Israel" to submit to a ceasefire. This glaring cognitive dissonance in America’s inconsistency between its public pronouncement expressing specious concerns for the loss of life, yet it calls the war—that murdered "far too many"— as "self-defense." At the same time, it provides the material and nonmaterial means to carry out further killing.