GAZA TRAGEDY/ Israel's new war and the black hole ready to swallow a people
The Netanyahu government has decided to occupy Gaza. A catastrophe is brewing in the midst of an ongoing tragedy. A UN Security Council meeting has been called for today.
The Israeli government has decided to enter the "black hole." The IDF will militarily occupy the Strip. The death instinct has won, the human desert advances. The appeal of 600 high-ranking security officials was not enough. The protests of the hostages' families were not enough. Finally, even the opposition of the Chief of Staff, Eyal Zamir, was ignored.
The Netanyahu government's decision is of astonishing historic gravity. The situation of Palestinian civilians is already tragic: deaths from hunger, bombings, and lack of healthcare. The evidence of the ongoing famine is horrifying. And now, a decision that marks the beginning of a new war, a final war within an already tragic war.
The future scenario is disturbing: heavy losses for the Israeli army, the likely killing of hostages, and a definitive catastrophe for civilians. "There is no humanitarian response for 1 million displaced people," General Zamir declared yesterday regarding the complex military operation.
The plan calls for the occupation of the entire Strip, evacuating residents already exhausted by bombings, food shortages, and water shortages. Imagine what will happen in a military operations camp with 70 percent of its buildings destroyed (1 million tents are still blocked at the crossings). Jihadists nestled among women and children, shooting at Israeli soldiers; young soldiers responding to fire sources that are difficult to intercept. Unorthodox warfare on both sides.
And yet more chaos, ungovernability, and then the advance of hundreds of thousands of people southward to conquer the narrow spaces where hundreds of thousands of others, also starving, already live in dire conditions. Overcrowding, panic, lack of sanitation, potential epidemics, and thus massive civilian deaths.
The Israeli government is talking about increasing the number of aid distribution centers from four to twelve: so far, they have been a death trap. One need only look at the courageous testimony of Anthony Aguilar, a US contractor who reported widespread violence and war crimes near the centers.
Israeli officials, however, declare that after the evacuation they will provide a humanitarian citadel—a de facto open-air concentration camp—to facilitate voluntary humanitarian evacuation, in other words, deportation to other states. In short, the tragedy of a people, exploited by the powerful and affected by the violence of history, is truly approaching.
We've come to this because Hamas is a murderous/suicidal organization, essentially desperate, that cares neither for the lives of the hostages nor for the Palestinian people. The Israeli government , for its part, is not content with having significantly weakened the Shiite international (Iran, Houthis, Syria, Hezbollah), but wants to definitively eradicate the "problem." It does so by moving from an ideological, unrealistic, and maximalist mindset.
The result of these choices will likely be the eradication of Hamas, but at the cost of the death of an entire people. This annihilation, however, will not be the side effect of a choice, but a grave and deliberate moral fault .
The impending disaster is unfortunately made possible by conflicting political pressures in the US, even though J.D. Vance has declared the administration's disagreement with the occupation of the Strip. The neoconservatives, with their unquestionable assertiveness, are still strong at all levels. The lobbies ' ideas denounced by realist political scientist John Mearsheimer, in fact, still hold sway.
Furthermore, arms sales are booming: field trials are progressing well. And there's some good news: in addition to the market expansion, the new development is that the burden of taxes will now be borne by European taxpayers .
Those who decided on this new act of endless war, however, have failed to understand one thing. What is happening is creating an unbridgeable rift in public opinion, not only in the West, but also among states and within national societies. When the pieces are everywhere, repair may be impossible.
Therefore, it is essential to put an immediate end to the slaughter of innocents. European governments must listen to the voice of international agencies and organizations—the UN, UNICEF, the Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders—by implementing decisive and urgent measures against this slaughter. Today, humanitarian workers are small lights in the darkness of reason. We must observe and protect their work.
The accusation of anti-Semitism – which is “a sin against God” (Pope Francis) – instrumentally leveled against those who criticize the choices of the Netanyahu government, is a rhetorical strategy of moral disqualification born of cognitive warfare.
When the irreparable approaches, we will all be responsible for failing to stem the death of a people. The names of those who, indolently, drifted politically, pretending to take the initiative, will be carried away by the waters of Lethe. The names of those who persevered in the error of endless war, however, will be associated with those of Nero or Caligula. Only the names of those who did the impossible to save the innocent will remain.
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