Erasing Gaza: Crimes of a megalomaniac

 

With all the pressure, including the threat of arrest warrants, nothing has stopped Israel from committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to act with impunity, launching another “intensive military operation” and announcing plans to forcibly displace Gaza’s population “for their own protection”.

The world has heard this language before. It’s the vocabulary of ethnic cleansing.

Over 52,000 Palestinians are dead. Entire families erased. Children buried in mass graves. Hospitals bombed. Cities turned to dust. This is not defence but systematic annihilation. And despite all of this, the Israeli state continues to raise its middle finger to the world.

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It’s time we confront an uncomfortable truth: asking the United States to stop supporting Israel will not work.

Washington does not merely support Israel. It treats it as an extension of its own imperial architecture.

Israel is America’s outpost in the Middle East, its de facto 51st state. And just so you know: US foreign policy is not broken but working exactly as designed.

Time for other countries to step up

We must stop expecting moral leadership from a country that enables, arms, and protects a regime committing war crimes and genocide in broad daylight.

Instead, we must turn toward the rising influence of the Global South, Brics countries, and certain European states such as Ireland, Spain, and Belgium, where civil society is demanding change.

The global balance is shifting, and with it, an opportunity to reframe the Palestinian struggle as a global justice issue, not a Western diplomatic talking point.

But most importantly, it is people’s movements, across cities, campuses, unions, and streets, that must continue rising as the third force. Not just in solidarity, but in sustained resistance.

Through boycott, divestment, protest, legal action, and pressure on governments, we must become the voice that institutions have failed to be. Because silence is complicity, and governments will not move unless pushed.

The rules-based international order has collapsed, but global people power is still alive. It is our only hope to hold the line between justice and genocide.

Let history record who stood up, who stayed silent, and who refused to accept that an entire people could be erased while the world watched. - Mkini

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CHARLES SANTIAGO is former Klang MP.

The views expressed here are those of the author/contributor and do not necessarily represent the views of MMKtT.