I think it’s worth emphasizing that based on actions—priority targeting of hospitals, health workers, journalists and civilians; and cutting off food and water while not accepting ceasefires agreements which would have returned the hostages, that the Israel’s goal is genocide.
There are no significant signs that they are defeating Hamas, and their actions, as opposed to their words, don’t indicate that was ever the intention.
I think they’d accept ethnic cleansing if they could find someone to take the Palestinians, but since they can’t, mass murder is the goal.
This is consistent with Israel’s history: it’s a colonial settler project where the goals has always been to remove Palestinians and occupy their land and, if not ruined, even their homes.
The WHO estimated that up to a million Gazans were at risk of death due to famine by next month. The longer the war and the blockade goes on, the more will die.
Back in 2006 I wrote that Israel only had two options for its future:
- Accept Palestinians as citizens and create a single, secular, state; or,
- Genocide or ethnic cleans the Palestinians.
And so it has come to be.
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