The sadistic cruelty and acts of evil perpetrated daily in Gaza are watched by millions of people around the world, in a way that was not true of the worst atrocities in past ages. In Israel and, to a lesser degree, in the US, pictures of the savagery may be hidden from the public, but they are viewed with horror by the rest of the world.
Previous generations had the excuse that they did not know what was happening during the killing of 1.5 million Armenians in 1915-16 and of six million Jews 30 years later. Today we do know about the relentless deaths in appalling detail, making it all the more shocking that Western leaders have openly or covertly backed the Israeli campaign.
Among those recently arrested are retired headmaster Jon Farley in Leeds, his offence being to carry a placard, drawn from an illustration in Private Eye, contrasting the banning of Palestine Action for spraying paint on military aircraft with UK government tolerance for Israeli forces “shooting Palestinians queuing for food”.
As Greta Thunberg, the climate campaigner, asks: “If watching children being systematically starved, over two million people being systematically starved by Israel, is not enough to motivate you to get off the couch, then what is it going to take?”
But Israel’s Channel 12 says a rapid deal was not within reach, with gaps remaining between the two sides, including over where the Israeli military should withdraw to during any truce. A Palestinian official said that the latest Hamas position was “flexible, positive and took into consideration the growing suffering in Gaza and the need to stop the starvation”.
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This self-serving self-censorship remains strong in the UK, but is visibly breaking down in the US, especially within the Jewish community itself. Ezra Klein in the New York Times writes: “The consensus that held American Jewry together for generations is breaking down. That consensus, roughly, was this: What is good for Israel is good for the Jews. Anti-Zionism is a form of antisemitism. And there will, someday soon, be a two-state solution that reconciles Zionism and liberalism.”
Klein emphasises the deep rift that has opened between different generations: “Many older Jews I know are shocked and scared by Mamdani’s victory. Israel, to them, is the world’s only reliable refuge for the Jewish people. They see opposition to Israel as a cloak for antisemitism.”
The moral, cultural and political earthquake in Gaza will inevitably send out even more destructive tremors. Netanyahu’s three trips to see Trump in Washington since the latter took office have produced no ceasefire and have been followed by an escalation in violence. “Voluntary transfer” of Palestinians from Gaza is increasingly likely – though there is nothing voluntary about the exodus of de-housed people fleeing starvation and death.
Gaza may be destroyed, but the destruction is not going to end there.
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