Israel's is apparently a genocide

In a remarkable development a strong protest is rising from within Israel against itself nearly twenty one months into the country’s war of attrition against Gaza following Hamas attack on October 7. Leading NGOs in Israel namely B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights have openly declared what is happening in Gaza is a genocide of Palestinians. Although both organisations previously called out Zionist regime’s policies, the reports they released on Monday are said to be harsher than ever before. Saying that it is a deeply painful moment for them, both the groups acknowledged they are part of a society that is committing genocide. The figures released by the Gaza Health Ministry claimed that about 60,000 Palestinians, including women, children and ordinary citizens, have been killed in the airstrikes and shelling. At least twice as many may have been injured or died of starvation. The reports released by the two agencies carry details about the atrocities including the starvation of thousands of women, children and the elderly, the deportation, the brutal demolition of houses and the destruction of infrastructure. B'Tselem Director Yuli Novak said that they perceive it as a ‘clear and deliberate attempt to destroy a section of people.’ Yuli Novak also openly states that every human being should ask themselves, ‘What are you doing about this genocide?’ Adding further she said: ‘Genocide is not just a legal crime. It is a social and political phenomenon.’

It is known to all that the United Nations decided to set up the State of Israel in Palestine in the Arab World in 1948 in order to resettling Jews who were scattered around the world after Nazi Germany's brutal dictator Adolf Hitler had initiated ethnic cleansing of the Jewish people in his country. It is also well-known that great powers using their unjust influence achieved the Jewish resettlement by evicting a vast majority of natural inhabitants of the land. Israel’s capturing and annexing of the homeland of the Palestinian people, including Jerusalem in 1967 is also part of modern history. The United States and its allies have not showed the verve to condemn the the Zionist state’s brutality of killing thousands of people on a daily basis in the Gaza Strip where more than two million Palestinians live, or least acknowledging that genocide is happening there. It is in this context, while admitting Hamas attack on October 7 deserves condemnation, the human rights groups in Israel are asking why the United States and its allies are unable to acknowledge the mass killing of hundreds of thousands of women, children, and ordinary people in Gaza and the use of starvation as a weapon of extermination is a genocide. There are observers who suspect the endless meetings in the name of ceasefire talks are part of a conspiracy to buy time for Israel to carry out the genocide. Donald Trump has not shed a drop of tear despite UN allies including Britain, France, Canada and Australia made calls to stop the war. As Israeli NGOs pointed out, the US and its allies have a moral and legal responsibility to stop this genocide. President Trump recently blamed that Israel was not keeping promise to allow the transit of food to thousands of children and people dying of hunger in Gaza. If there is any iota of sincerity in his words, Trump should force Netanyahu to do it. But what is the point of advising Hitler's reincarnations on justice and humanity?