The Last Chapter of the Genocide
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The Last Chapter of the Genocide
This is the last chapter of the genocide. It is the final, blood-soaked push to the Palestinians from Gaza. No food. No medicine. No shelter. No clean water. No electricity. Israel is swiftly turning Gaza into a Dantesque cauldron of human misery where Palestinians are being in their hundreds and soon, again, in their thousands and tens of thousands, or they will be forced out never to return.
The final chapter marks the end of Israeli lies. The of the two-state solution. The that Israel respects the laws of war that protect civilians. The lie that Israel bombs and only because they are used as staging areas by Hamas. The that Hamas uses civilians as human shields, while Israel routinely forces captive Palestinians to potentially bobby trapped tunnels and buildings ahead of Israeli troops. The that Hamas or Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ) are responsible — the charge often being errant Palestinian rockets — for the destruction of , or . The that humanitarian aid to Gaza is blocked because Hamas is hijacking the trucks or smuggling in weapons and war material. The lie that Israeli babies are or Palestinians carried out of Israeli women. The that 75 percent of the tens of thousands killed in Gaza were Hamas “terrorists.” The that Hamas, because it was allegedly rearming and recruiting new fighters, is responsible for the breakdown of the ceasefire agreement.
Israel’s naked genocidal visage is exposed. It has the evacuation of northern Gaza where desperate Palestinians are camped out amid the rubble of their homes. What comes now is — the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) on March 21 it has six days of flour supplies left — deaths from diseases contaminated water and food, scores of killed and wounded each day under the relentless assault of bombs, missiles, shells and bullets. Nothing will function, bakeries, water treatment and sewage plants, hospitals — Israel the damaged Turkish-Palestinian hospital on March 21 — schools, aid distribution centers or clinics. Less than half of the 53 emergency vehicles operated by the Palestine Red Crescent Society are due to fuel shortages. Soon there will be none.
Israel’s message is unequivocal: Gaza will be uninhabitable. Leave or die.
Since Tuesday, when Israel the ceasefire with heavy bombing, over 700 Palestinians have been , including 200 children. In one 24 hour period 400 Palestinians were . This is only the start. No Western power, including the United States, which provides the weapons for the genocide, intends to stop it. The images from Gaza during the nearly sixteen months of incessant attacks were awful. But what is coming now will be worse. It will rival the most atrocious war crimes of the twentieth century, including the mass starvation, wholesale slaughter and leveling of the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943 by the Nazis.
KHAN YUNIS, GAZA: Palestinians, who have difficulty finding food, wait with empty containers in their hands to receive food distributed by charitable organizations at Al-Mawasi in Khan Yunis, Gaza on March 21, 2025. (Photo by Hani Alshaer/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Oct. 7 marked the dividing line between an Israeli policy that advocated the brutalization and subjugation of the Palestinians and a policy that calls for their extermination and removal from historic Palestine. What we are witnessing is the historical equivalent of the moment triggered by the annihilation of some 200 soldiers led by George Armstrong Custer in June 1876 at the . After that humiliating defeat, Native Americans were slated to be killed with the remnants forced into prisoner of war camps, later named reservations, where thousands died of disease, lived under the merciless gaze of their armed occupiers and fell into a life of immiseration and despair. Expect the same for the Palestinians in Gaza, dumped, I suspect, in one of the world’s hellholes and forgotten.
The first Sinwar destroyed Gaza and the second Sinwar will completely destroy it. The Air Force strikes against Hamas terrorists were just the first step. It will become much more difficult and you will pay the full price. The evacuation of the population from the combat zones will soon begin again…Return the hostages and remove Hamas and other options will open for you, including leaving for other places in the world for those who want to. The alternative is absolute destruction.
The ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas was designed to be implemented in . The first phase, lasting 42 days, would see an end to hostilities. Hamas would 33 Israeli hostages who were captured on Oct. 7, 2023 — including women, those aged above 50, and those with illnesses — in exchange for upwards of 2,000 Palestinian men, women and children imprisoned by Israel (around 1,900 Palestinian captives have been by Israel as of March 18). Hamas has released a total of 147 hostages, of whom eight were dead, as of last year. Israel there are 59 Israelis still being held by Hamas, 35 of whom they believe 35 are dead.
The Israeli army would pull back from populated areas of Gaza on the first day of the ceasefire. On the seventh day, displaced Palestinians would be permitted to return to northern Gaza. Israel would allow 600 aid trucks with food and medical supplies to enter Gaza daily.
The second phase, which was expected to be negotiated on the sixteenth day of the ceasefire, would see the release of the remaining Israeli hostages. Israel would complete its withdrawal from Gaza maintaining a presence in some parts of the Philadelphi corridor, which stretches along the eight-mile border between Gaza and Egypt. It would surrender its control of the Rafah border crossing into Egypt.
The third phase would see negotiations for a permanent end of the war and the reconstruction of Gaza.
Israel agreements, including the Camp David Accords and the Oslo Peace Agreement, with timetables and phases. It gets what it wants — in this case the release of the hostages — in the first phase and then subsequent phases. This pattern has never been broken.
Israel refused to honor the second phase of the deal. It humanitarian aid into Gaza two weeks ago, the agreement. It also at least 137 Palestinians during the first phase of the ceasefire, including nine people, — three of them journalists — when Israeli drones a relief team on March 15 in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza
Israel’s heavy bombing and shelling of Gaza on March 18 while most Palestinians were asleep or preparing their suhoor, the meal eaten before dawn during the holy month of Ramadan. Israel will not stop its attacks now, even if the remaining hostages are freed — Israel’s supposed reason for the resumption of the bombing and siege of Gaza.
GAZA: A Palestinian family, who left their homes due to the Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, has suhoor at Salah al-Din shelter center on March 12, 2024. (Photo by Dawoud Abo Alkas/Anadolu via Getty Images)
The Trump White House on the slaughter along with Democratic Party leaders such as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. They attack critics of the genocide as “antisemites” who should be silenced, criminalized or deported while funneling billions of dollars in weapons to Israel.
Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza is the denouement of its settler colonial project and apartheid state. The seizure of all of Historic Palestine — with the West Bank soon, I expect, to be annexed by Israel — and displacement of all Palestinians has the .
Israel’s worst excesses occurred during the wars of 1948 and 1967 when huge parts of historic Palestine were seized, thousands of Palestinians killed and hundreds of thousands were ethnically cleansed. Between these wars, the slow-motion theft of land, expansion of Jewish settlements, murderous assaults and steady ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, continued.
That calibrated dance is over. This is the end. What we are witnessing dwarfs all the on Palestinians. Israel’s demented genocidal dream — a Palestinian nightmare — is about to be achieved. It will forever shatter the myth that we, or any Western nation, respect the rule of law or are the protectors of human rights, democracy and the so-called “virtues” of Western civilization. Israel’s barbarity is our own. We may not understand this, but the rest of the globe does.
posted by Satish Sharma at
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