Five weeks on, the Israeli regime continues to hit new genocidal lows in its barbaric attack on Gaza. In its quest to erase the military humiliation experienced on October 7, the Israelis are employing unspeakable levels of collective punishment against all Palestinians…premature babies, journalists, doctors, and whole families. And despite Israeli officials being clear about their intentions to carpet bomb Gaza into extinction (or surrender), Western leaders are still vocal in their support of this campaign.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has provided an overview of the casualties suffered by the civilian population of Gaza as of November 20 2023. 11, 078 Palestinians have been killed. (Today, November 25, 2023, the number of Gazans killed has been updated to more than14, 000). Of these, more than 3,000 are women and some 5, 000 of the fatalities have been children. Some 6, 5000 other people including 4, 400 children are reported missing and may be trapped under the rubble left by what amounts to Israeli carpet bombing. Israel has bombed hospitals, schools, mosques, churches and residential buildings.

For the record many experts agree that Gaza can rightly be described as a giant concentration camp, not least among them the great Jewish scholar Norman Finkelstein. But rather than discuss the abuses which gave rise to this crisis in the first place, outlets like The New York Times are working to make the conversation about anti-Semitism instead.

In the context of its perspective of global war against communism, American imperialism had given its message to the Soviet Union and the peoples of the world. With these bombs, it reminded the imperialist-capitalist world that it was now the real boss…