"A truth is dawning: that this will be remembered as one of history’s great crimes. Right now, the UN warns that 14,000 babies could perish in the next 48 hours without aid. The Israeli opposition leader and former general Yair Golan – who earlier this year declared, “We’d all like to wake up one spring morning and find that 7 million Palestinians who live between the sea and the river have simply disappeared” – now declares his country is “killing babies as a hobby”.

Still, Israel acts with impunity. Having imposed a total siege since the beginning of March, Netanyahu yesterday declared “minimal humanitarian aid” would be allowed in. Why? Not to alleviate Palestinian suffering, but because even zealous pro-Israel politicians “have warned that they cannot support us if images of mass starvation emerge”. A pinprick, in other words, for cosmetic purposes. Meanwhile, Smotrich declares: “We are disassembling Gaza, and leaving it as piles of rubble, with total destruction [which has] no precedent globally. And the world isn’t stopping us.” Zvi Sukkot, a parliamentarian in Smotrich’s party, boasts: “Everyone got used to the idea that you can kill 100 Gazans in one night … And nobody in the world cares.”

On 24 October 2023, I wrote a column on these pages with the headline “Israel is clear about its intentions in Gaza – world leaders cannot plead ignorance of what is coming”. Why? Because Israel’s leaders and officials made devastatingly clear what they would do from day one. “As the calamity of Israel’s onslaught against Gaza becomes apparent, those who cheered it on will panic about reputational damage and plead their earlier ignorance,” I wrote. “Do not let them get away with it this time.” As the people of Gaza now prepare for the worst, being right has never felt so bitter. But it took no special insight or powers of prophecy, for here was a catastrophe foretold from the start."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/20/judgment-israel-gaza-benjamin-netanyahu-enablers
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#Israel / Do Democrats really "Play Into Hamas’s Hands" by criticizing #Netanyhau and his ultranationalist government?

The #WSJ is still trying to shield Israel from accountability for its war crimes in Gaza with an over the top headline and scary photos of Nancy Pelosi, reading more like a #MAGA world type disinformation campaign.

The subline for this piece should have been: "Enabling an ally's genocide: Betraying American ideals and complicity in war crimes."

The Editorial Board. "WSJ Opinion: The Blowback Against Israel." WSJ, 10 Apr. 2024, www.wsj.com/articles/democrats-play-into-hamass-hands-israel-war-weapons-c079fb94 or https://archive.ph/gcNrb.

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