Posted by: John Phoenix
A Million Gazans Forced Walking South to the Rafah Border
Gaza — Atrocities, Horrors, Genocide… No End
Global Research,
“Israel has crossed the clear line into the darkest crimes.” – Jeffrey Sachs
Our vocabulary fails us miserably in describing the horrors caused by Zionist Israel in Gaza – an extermination through organized famine, disease, firebombs, bombs dropped from fighter jets, bombing from tanks, machine gun shooting, shootings point blank, never seen before in recent history. Targeted are principally children and women; the bearer of children, the next generation of Palestinians.
And the world watches and says nothing, or more importantly, does nothing to stop this mass murder, this unspeakable suffering of children being starved to death, being shot when they stay in line for some meager food or water, being poisoned by the very food they may receive. The world leaders (sic) — not the people — still support Israel and her atrocities, endless atrocities, endless and ever-new invented suffering until death releases Gazans from suffering.
Comprehensive reporting from Gaza is not possible because journalists are systematically shot and killed by Israel’s armed forces and snipers. Thousands have been killed since 7 October 2023.
Gazans are being murdered unabashedly by Israel and the so-called Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) – a stark misnomer as IDF is the world’s most horrifying terrorist organization legitimized by the collective west.
As soon as one report is written, new sources of mayhem and killing are discovered; from bombing to shooting point blank emaciated children waiting in line for some meager meals. That is Israel. That is Zionism. But foremost and worst of all, that is the world we are living in, standing by, watching, and while watching behind their backs even arming Israel to advance faster with genociding Gazans – with any means that helps depopulating Gaza, the faster the better.
As these lines are written, Israel’s takeover of Gaza is underway. The Israeli military says an order for nearly one million people in Gaza to march south is “inevitable,” and the assault has already begun.
According to WBUR (Boston University Radio) news, IDF airstrikes killed nearly 200 Palestinian civilians during the last weekend, most of them in Gaza City. Tens of thousands of IDF forces are occupying Gaza City, uprooting families, encircling the city (what’s left of it), attacking the remaining population with tank fire from the ground and bombs from above shooting fleeing citizens in their heads and bodies, leaving them killed or badly injured, to die from lack of rescue patrols, attention and medical equipment.
As these lines may go to print, close to a million Gazan Palestinians are forced walking south towards the Rafah border town, where they may be released into the Egyptian Sinai desert, where US-paid and Egyptian-built tent cities are awaiting them, without food, without water, without medical attention – ready to perish, potentially converting the Egyptian desert into an atrocious, world’s largest graveyard.
While some public remarks from people all over the world call for a ceasefire, the Israeli forces follow orders from the Netanyahu government to expand the war. And those few calling for a ceasefire, for peace talks, they leave it at that, no humanitarian intervention whatsoever. Leaving Netanyahu and his ilk essentially with carte blanche to continue his mass murder spree.
There seems to be no end in sight. The world at large is kept in the dark about the ongoing Gaza depopulation orchestrated by Zionist Israel.
For more details including a spoken reportage, see this.
The Trump-confirmed plan is for Israel to annex Gaza – as Israel has already said would be the case with the West Bank. In Gaza, eventually Rafah the southern border town of this open prison – shambles of a prison – that Gaza had become since 2007, may open, so the mass dying will happen outside of the Israeli-annexed Gaza.
What at first looked and sounded like an ugly Trump joke, converting Gaza into a luxury resort with casinos and the always and everywhere present Trump Tower under the jurisdiction of the United States, seems to become ever-more reality.
More recently the Trump-Netanyahu duo has said that Gaza may become one of Middle East’s most advanced high-tech centers, with electronic chip productions serving the needs of the western world, meaning mainly the western military industrial complex.
What is hardly ever mentioned is the enormous natural gas deposit off-shore of Gaza in Gaza’s maritime territory, an estimated value of at least a trillion US dollars equivalent. Clearly, these resources belong to Gaza, to the Palestinians. But international laws or national laws have long been erased and overruled, converted to the “rules-based orders” which disregards ownership of an illegally defeated people.
Legality is of the past – a term so strange – younger generations, let alone future generations will no longer know what it means. Instead, they learn that Peace is War and War is Peace… this is the current narrative, right out of Orwell’s “1984.”
The trillion-dollars-worth of natural gas, it is plenty to rebuild Gaza, estimated at a minimum at US$ 80 to US$ 100 billion, and an economy so badly destroyed that some reports (World Bank) put the figure for recovery at over 30-40 years, see this youtube report:
If Trump and Netanyahu have their way – with most of Gaza’s population slaughtered, killed by famine or bombs or tanks, perished in the Sinai desert – the WB’s estimate may be off by a factor of ten, significantly reducing time for reconstruction and recovery to a booming economy, considering Gaza’s off-shore wealth.
No humanitarian idea from anyone in the world has admitted and suggested that Gaza’s off-shore hydrocarbon resources should be used to Make Gaza Great Again – a different kind of MAGA – as part of an independent autonomous, sovereign, neutral, democratic Palestine – free from foreign interference. Free from Israel.
Why is it so difficult, impossible to think and say the just, the logical, the human, and rebuild the Gaza strip as part of a combined, autonomous Palestine, with a prosperous, independent economy, and foremost with total independence from Israel? With sovereignty recognized by the UN and by the rest of the world as a free, neutral autonomous and democratic Palestine?
It may need people of a higher spiritual dimension. Our mostly inhuman civilization is not apt to think in these terms. Not the decision-makers, not their advisers. Not those in control of western, linear technified, digitized materialism.
What is needed is a thinking mode way beyond linear materialism, beyond digitized transhumanism, currently promoted by the World Economic Forum (WEF), by the UN and especially by all those invisible, unnamed monsters, who pull the strings behind these visible executing agencies.
What kind of event will it take to bring humanity to this spiritual awakening – that money, materialism and greed are killing our very civilization?
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Peter Koenig is a geopolitical analyst, regular author for Global Research, and a former Economist at the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), where he worked for over 30 years around the world. He is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed; and co-author of Cynthia McKinney’s book “When China Sneezes: From the Coronavirus Lockdown to the Global Politico-Economic Crisis” (Clarity Press – November 1, 2020).
Peter is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG). He is also a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Chongyang Institute of Renmin University, Beijing.
Featured image: Destruction caused by Israeli bombing of Jabalia camp, Gaza Strip. Photo by Hussein Jaber/UNRWA.
By Peter Koenig