Today – on the 77th Anniversary of the Nakba – John V. Whitbeck sent these extremely important words of his own as an introduction to Gideon Levy’s account of the parallels between what happened back then and today.
The silence of the West at Israel’s genocide is already a major event in world contemporary history. The Rest – the 88% of humanity – will remember forever. The 12% West not only commits and supports this genocide politically, militarily and media-wise, it also destroys itself because of its manifest moral decay.
Jan Oberg, TFF director
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Read much more about Nakba at the excellent BetterWorld Info.
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“Transmitted below is the latest wisdom from my distinguished recipient Gideon Levy.
As Gideon notes, Israel killed about 100 Palestinians in Gaza yesterday. AL JAZEERA is reporting that Israel has killed at least 74 Palestinians in Gaza so far today.
While these figures are consistent with the average of slightly over 100 Palestinians killed in Gaza daily since October 7, 2023, they represent a significant increase in Israel’s recent kill rate, which has been around 50 per day.
Israel appears to be warming up for the intensification of its genocidal assault which it has announced its intention to commence as soon as President Trump has left the region.
Today is “Nakba Day”, the 77th anniversary of the day when the Zionist movement declared a Jewish State of Israel in the land which, until then, the entire world called Palestine.
A prior alien implantation upon the land of Palestine, the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, lasted 88 years.
Even some Israelis are now publicly wondering whether, if the Jewish State continues to revolt the moral conscience of most of mankind by pursuing the total ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from historical Palestine, it will be able to match the 88-year run of the Crusader Kingdom.”
John V. Whitbeck is an international lawyer who has advised the Palestinian negotiating team in negotiations with Israel.
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Israel’s New Gaza Operation Should Be Called ‘Chariots of Genocide’
Gideon Levy
May 14, 2025
About 70 people from dawn to noon on Wednesday. Almost twice the number of those killed in the massacre at Kibbutz Nir Oz. 22 of them were children, and 15 were women. The previous evening, 23 were killed in a hospital.
Operation Gideon’s Chariots has yet to begin, and the chariots of genocide are already warming their engines.
How will we call this massacre, so indiscriminate and pointless, even before the big operation has begun? 23 killed in the bombing of a hospital – one of the most serious war crimes – just to try and kill Mohammed Sinwar, the latest devil, with nine bunker buster bombs – everything to provide Yedioth Ahronoth in their lust for the main headline: “In his brother’s footsteps.”
The readers loved it, Israelis loved it, no one came out against it on Wednesday.
They made peace in Riyadh, and in Gaza they massacred. It’s hard to think of a more grating contrast than this, between the scenes in Riyadh and those in Jabalya on Wednesday.
Children’s bodies being carried by their parents, the bulldozer trying to clear a way for the ambulance and being blown up from the air, the people burrowing in the ruins of the hospital searching for their loved ones – all this in the face of lifting sanctions from Syria and the hope for a new future.
Nothing, not even the elimination of another Sinwar, can justify the indiscriminate bombing of a hospital. This unwavering truth has been totally forgotten here by now. Everything is normal, everything is justified and approved, even the attack on the intensive care ward in the European Hospital in Khan Yunis is a mitzvah.
No choice exists but to cry out again: You cannot attack hospitals – and not schools that have been turned into shelters, either – even if the strategic air command of Hamas is hiding underneath them. Even if Sinwar is there, whose kill is so pointless.
Is there anything left we can do in Gaza that will be seen in Israel as morally and legally unacceptable? 100 dead children? A thousand women for Sinwar the brother? It was necessary to eliminate him, they explained, because he was an “obstacle to a hostage deal.”
We’ve even lost our shame. The sole obstacle to a hostage deal sits in Jerusalem, his name is Benjamin Netanyahu, along with his fascist partners, and no one can even conceive that it’s legitimate to harm them to remove the obstacle.
What happened on Wednesday in Gaza is just a promo for what will occur in the coming months, if no one stops Israel. The further Donald Trump’s colossal campaign in the Gulf advances, the pistol that will stop Israel has yet to be seen.
When supposedly there was still a purpose, when the goals were seemingly clear, when the human need to punish and take revenge for October 7 was still understandable, when it still seemed that Israel knew what it wanted at all; it was still possible somehow to accept the mass killing and destruction.
But no longer. Now, when it’s clear Israel has no goal and no plan, there is no longer any way to justify what happened in Gaza on Tuesday night.
No Israeli leader opened their mouth, not a single one. The left’s hope, Yair Golan, on a good day calls to end the war, and like him, tens of thousands of determined protesters.
They want to end the war to bring the hostages home. They are also worried about the lives of the soldiers who will fall in vain.
But what about Gaza? What about its sacrifice? How have we reached a situation in which no Zionist politician can come out in its defense? Not one righteous man in Sodom, not a single one.
The sights from there once again scorched the soul on Wednesday, once again body carts, once again children in a long line of body bags on the floor, here lie their bodies, and once again the heartbreaking weeping of parents for their daughters and sons.
About 100 people were killed in Gaza on Wednesday. Almost all of them innocent, except for their being Palestinians who live in the Gaza Strip. They were killed by Israeli soldiers. This is their appetizer for the campaign their military aspires to – and we remain silent.
Source: Transnational Foundation
Gideon Levy: Gaza Burns & Israel Turns On Itself (Glenn Diesen, 05.15.2025)