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By Helen Savaki

The unlawful attack by Hamas in October 2023 was followed by a military campaign by Israel that has lasted more than two years and, by common admission, now amounts to a genocide of the Palestinians. It is the most intensive bombardment of an urban area and the largest deliberate starvation of a population in post-war history.

According to a letter published in the British medical journal The Lancet (“Counting the dead in Gaza: difficult but essential”), the direct and indirect Palestinian deaths are estimated at more than 186,000 in Gaza. The rate of killing children is “unprecedented in the history of modern wars,” according to the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med Monitor).

Children are dying from hunger or being born dead. Two-thirds of homes have been flattened. More than three-quarters of the population have been displaced. According to the UN, Israel has committed war crimes. According to the laws of war, Israel has committed crimes against humanity. It is astonishing that Israel, a country with Holocaust survivors, is carrying out a genocide.

The genocide in Gaza

“This is a monumental tragedy for the Palestinian people. But morally it is also a defining moment for Americans, because the United States is directly complicit in this horrific war,” said the Israeli-born Democratic U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders. American political scientist and international relations scholar John Mearsheimer accused Biden’s United States of being complicit in the genocide carried out by Israel. Indeed, President Biden even bypassed Congress in order to send additional weapons to Israel.

It should be noted that by September 2025, 75% of the international community (156 of the 193 UN member states) had recognized the sovereignty and independence of the State of Palestine within the borders that existed before the 1967 war, including the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem. Nevertheless, Israel expanded settlements in the West Bank in violation of international law. In addition to the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany are also complicit in Israeli war crimes and violations of international law through their continued arming of Israel. All of this highlights the moral bankruptcy of the West, which history will not treat kindly.

As for the Trump administration, it continued the Biden tradition by supporting Netanyahu in the genocide of the Palestinians in 2025–2026. However, Netanyahu stands as an obstacle to Trump’s attempt to strengthen ties with the oil-rich kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia’s response to Trump’s rhetoric about the ethnic cleansing of Gaza and turning it into a Riviera was that “the establishment of a Palestinian state is a prerequisite for normalizing relations with Israel.”

Saudi Arabia, moreover, has not joined the Abraham Accords that Trump had promoted. Netanyahu’s response—“The Saudis can create a Palestinian state in Saudi Arabia”—was followed by angry reactions from Jordan, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Iraq, and the Gulf Cooperation Council. Clearly there is a limit to the concessions Arab states are willing to make to Netanyahu’s Israel.

Behind Israel’s “moral” image

It should also be noted that Israeli operations are financed in part by Israel’s diamond industry, which constitutes a system of modern colonialism through the plundering of Africa. It is one of the largest exploitation networks in the world, bringing billions of dollars annually to Israel. Entire mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo are under the control of exploitative operators, while the local population suffers extreme poverty.

A characteristic example is the Israeli millionaire Dan Gertler, who secured exclusive mining rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo by bribing President Laurent-Désiré Kabila and later his successor Joseph Kabila. The United States imposed sanctions on Gertler in 2017 for exploiting Congo and for corruption. However, Israel protects Gertler, and thus the Tel Aviv diamond exchange benefits from the plundering of the African continent.

Soon after the start of Israel’s military operation in October 2023, it became clear that Israel’s main objective was not Hamas and the release of hostages. The goal was—and remains—the expansion of occupied territories and consequently ethnic cleansing through the genocide of Palestinians. This is a continuation of the “Nakba” (“Catastrophe”) of 1947–49, when 50,000 Palestinians were killed and 700,000 were expelled from their ancestral homes, fleeing to Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan where they spent the rest of their lives in refugee camps.

It is also a continuation of the Six-Day War of 1967, when Israel tripled its territory through the illegal annexation of East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza Strip belonging to Palestine, the Sinai Peninsula belonging to Egypt, and the Golan Heights belonging to Syria.

According to UN Security Council Resolution 2334, “Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territory have no legal validity and constitute a violation of international law.” Today as well, documents from the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice are devastating both for Israel—through descriptions of war crimes and mass killings of civilians—and for the United States, which is characterized as complicit through its financial, material, and diplomatic support.

It should be noted that after October 7, 2023, Israel attacked six countries: Palestine, which remains its main target; Lebanon, with the main aim of neutralizing Hezbollah’s military infrastructure, a key ally of Hamas; Iran; Iraq; Syria; and additionally Yemen targeting the Houthis. The plan is the fragmentation of Israel’s neighboring states into divided and weakened states. The functional partition of Libya, Iraq, and Syria has already been achieved. Worse may yet come, given that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu declared he feels connected to the “vision of Greater Israel,” which supposedly includes parts of Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Syria.

The law of the jungle

In Iran there was a surprise Israeli attack in June 2025, two days before a scheduled meeting between Iranian and U.S. representatives as part of the sixth round of negotiations. The tragedy of history was that Israel involved Trump’s United States in a direct war with Iran—something even the war-inclined former President Biden had avoided. In June 2025, U.S. aircraft bombed three Iranian nuclear facilities in Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan, and President Trump triumphantly declared that the United States had eliminated Iran’s nuclear weapons program.

In Iran’s counterattack, Israel—until then appearing as the undefeated power in the Middle East—suffered losses of $3 billion within 12 days and requested U.S. intervention for a ceasefire. The fact that many Iranian missiles penetrated Israel’s air defenses led European countries to cancel orders for Israel’s Iron Dome system, which evidently underperformed. Many analysts believed at the time that the war opened by the U.S. and Israel against Iran would not end in June 2025.

And indeed, in March 2026, Trump—who had been elected as a peacemaker—bombed Iran once again without authorization from the U.S. Congress and without UN approval. According to international law, the “preemptive attacks” against Iran by both Israel and the United States constitute war crimes. The outcome of the U.S.–Israeli attack on Iran is unpredictable and in any case painful. The claim by Netanyahu and Trump that Iran was weaponizing enriched uranium was not confirmed by either U.S. intelligence services or the United Nations. In fact, Iran has signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), and in the latest inspection in Tehran the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) found no evidence of nuclear weapons activity in Iran.

By contrast, Israel possesses nuclear weapons and has never signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Nevertheless, no sanctions nor even inspections have been carried out against Israel. The lesson is that disregarding the NPT guarantees impunity. However, the violation of laws and international agreements leads to a “jungle.” With the collapse of the rule of law and the subsequent breakdown of the international order, the law of the strongest prevails.

The big question

In conclusion, neither the invasion of Iraq in 2003 under George W. Bush against Saddam Hussein, nor the military involvement in Libya in 2011 under Barack Obama to neutralize Gaddafi, nor Obama’s operation in Syria in 2013 against Assad, nor the attacks on Iran in 2025 and 2026 under Trump against Khamenei were for any obvious American interest. All these operations served Israel’s interest—namely Israel’s hegemony in the Middle East. The United States must remove every government in the Middle East that opposes Israeli hegemony. Of course, all these U.S. wars also serve the military-industrial complex and the Israeli lobby, which essentially govern the United States, as well as the restoration of lost American global hegemony, as the current government declares.

And the big question remains: Is Israel exploiting the United States and dragging it into wars in the Middle East—wars in which the United States has no direct benefit? Or are the United States using Israel as a battering ram against Arab countries within the framework of a clash of civilizations, as described by the American political scientist Samuel Huntington, and in the effort to restore the United States’ global unipolar power?

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