The world is watching – or perhaps more accurately, the world is seeing and choosing silence. What we are witnessing in Gaza is not just another chapter in a long and painful history of conflict. It is the systematic destruction of a people, a culture, a future and with every passing day, the pretense of international law, the ignorance of human rights, and the illusion of Western moral superiority are torn further apart.
It’s not hysteria to say this. It’s not an exaggeration. It’s the raw truth. Images of lifeless children, mothers cradling the remains of what were once their babies, entire families obliterated in a flash of fire and concrete – this is not a tragedy, it is an atrocity. And it is not happening in a vacuum. It is not an earthquake or a flood. It is the deliberate act of a state wielding the most advanced weapons technology in the world, sanctioned and supplied by the self-proclaimed champions of democracy and human rights.
The hypocrisy is astounding. While the US lectures the world on freedom and democracy, it sends billions of dollars in weapons to a government that enforces a brutal military occupation and imposes collective punishment on a trapped civilian population. While the UK preaches about international norms, its military aircraft aid in Israeli targeting operations. Germany, Italy, and others line up to provide arms, while ignoring the clear evidence of war crimes and the grotesque human cost.
More than 50,000 Palestinians dead. A third of them children. Tens of thousands more wounded, many with injuries so severe they will never walk or speak again. Gaza’s hospitals are bombed. Its ambulances are shot at. Emergency workers are executed, their hands tied behind their backs. These are not isolated incidents. They are patterns. And yet, the world shrugs.
Israel claims it is acting in self-defense, a phrase that has been stretched and distorted beyond recognition. What began as a response to a brutal Hamas attack has morphed into a campaign that bears all the hallmarks of ethnic cleansing.
The death toll, the targeting of civilians, the starvation tactics – they speak for themselves. And still, defenders of Israel’s actions act as if October 2023 was the beginning of the story. As if 75 years of occupation, expulsion, apartheid, and systematic dehumanization never happened. As if the Nakba were a myth. As if Palestinian suffering is a footnote.Even inside Israel, Arab citizens face discrimination, restrictions on movement, and the threat of settler violence backed by state power.
The apartheid system is no longer a controversial label. It is a reality, verified by human rights organizations across the globe. And yet, Israel continues with impunity, emboldened by the silence and complicity of its allies.And now, even Arab states, some under the guise of diplomacy, others in the name of ‘constructive engagement’ are playing along.
Lavish iftars in Tel Aviv, normalizing relations while Gaza starves. It mirrors the cowardice of the past, like Thatcher’s excuses for apartheid South Africa. But Gaza is not a metaphor. It is a graveyard. It is where babies die of dehydration and wounded men bleed out under rubble while world leaders issue vague, meaningless statements about restraint and proportionality.
Meanwhile, Netanyahu boasts of reshaping Gaza according to the Trump-era fantasy of a “Gaza Riviera,” as if wiping out a people is simply a real estate development opportunity.There’s a rot in the global conscience. A refusal to acknowledge that this is genocide not because it isn’t, but because admitting it would demand action, justice, and change. So the powerful choose inertia. And the rest of us are left with heartbreak, rage, and a growing sense that the values we were told were universal were only ever conditional.History will not look kindly on this moment. And neither should we.
