Featured

Are Palestinians facing a pre-holocaust situation in the West Bank?

Published

4 years ago

September 3, 2022

If you ask the President of the U.S. Joe Biden if he accepts Putin’s justification of the ongoing Russian aggression against Ukraine, namely the claim that Russia has the right to defend itself, he is likely to scoff at the question, ignore it altogether or may even harshly rebuke the questioner for having the audacity to ask such a question. However, if you ask him what he thinks about the virtually genocidal attacks frequently carried out by Israel on Palestinians, causing the death and maiming of thousands of innocent people, including many children, he will readily and unhesitatingly invoke the utterly mendacious mantra that Israel has the right to defend itself. The eight million Palestinians living in mandatory Palestine today are already facing an advanced pre-holocaust situation by the Israeli occupation against them

This is not a Jewish inmate at a Natzi concentration camp; This is a Palestinian inmate at a Jewish concentration camp!

*Khalil Awawdeh extricates his freedom after six months of Hunger strike in the Israeli Jails in protest against his open-ended imprisonment without charge and trial.*

Brazenly unethical stance

This brazenly unethical stance has been the official policy of successive American administrations since Lyndon Johnson or even before. Indeed, it has been quite rare for a U.S. official to ascribe the right to self-defence to the Palestinian people who are murdered, savaged and tormented by the Israeli occupation army almost on a daily basis.

And in case an honest but nonconformist remark is made regarding the Palestinian struggle for freedom, even inadvertently or as a slip of the tongue, the official in question is unceremoniously and promptly fired from his job, or asked to immediately submit his resignation.

We all remember what happened to US Ambassador to the UN, Andrew Young, following his brief meeting in mid-August, 1979, with Zuhdi Labib Terzi, the P.L.O. observer at the international organization’s headquarters. Needless to say, embracing Israel’s Lebensraum, bellicosity and regional hegemony is by no means due to lack of awareness on Washington’s part of pertinent facts.

Are Palestinians facing a pre-holocaust situation in the West Bank?

The real reasons for this enduring evil discourse has everything to do with American collusion and connivance with the manifestly criminal Zionist entity which routinely violates international law while the entire world is looking on helplessly. Predictably, this chronic helplessness is due to America’s immoral embrace of the nefarious apartheid entity.

Russian aggression versus American hypocrisy

Well, perhaps US policies are not as diabolical as those of Russia for a variety of reasons. However, in many aspects, American pornographic hypocrisy, double standards, and brazen mendacity transcend reality. Indeed, in order to support American policies, even toward a just cause like Ukraine, one would have to have more than just a grain of dishonesty and moral duplicity. Are Palestinians facing a pre-holocaust situation in the West Bank?

Yes, I do condemn in the strongest terms the Russian invasion and naked aggression against neighbouring Ukraine. However, for the sake of rectitude and moral consistency, I must condemn, also in the strongest language, Israel’s recurrent Nazi-like crimes against the helpless and abandoned Palestinians.

U.S. Softness on Israel encourages Israeli criminality

Thanks mainly to America’s warm-dark embrace of Israel’s criminal aggression, genocidal policies and toxic racism against millions of Palestinians, this writer is completely convinced that the eight million Palestinians living in mandatory Palestine today are already facing an advanced pre-holocaust setting by Israel against them. I am not a prophet of doom and gloom. But neither am I a gullible observer, who has eyes that see not, ears that hear not nor does he understand.

We cannot rely on Israel’s Talmudic ethnic democracy to stop the Jewish state’s fast drift toward full-fledged fascism, even a brand of fascism similar to Nazi Germany’s beginnings.

According to an Israel Democracy Institute survey, a number of Jewish voters who described themselves as right-wing spiked to 62% in 2022 compared to 46% in April 2019. The same survey in 1986 showed that only 39% of Jewish Israelis identified as right-wing.

I am by no means the first writer or journalist to sound the alarm bell. The late Israeli historian, Zeev Sternhel, described Israel a few years ago as “akin to Nazi Germany in its earlier years. Sternhel, a Holocaust survivor, argued that like every ideology, the Nazi race theory developed over many years. At first, he said, the Nazis deprived Jews of their civil and human rights, very much like Israel is doing to the Palestinians now in both Israel proper (the Nationality Law) and the West Bank, through land-theft, and unrelenting settlement expansion, in addition to unceasing bloody repression. The Concentration camps occurred much later and were the “effect” of earlier policies in the 1920s and 1930s. The pre-holocaust signs were conspicuous and numerous, including Hitler’s Mein Kampf the infamous Nuremburg Laws, the Nazi Citizenship Law issued on 15 September, 1935 and the Kristalnacht on 9-10 November 1938.

Unmistakable pre-Holocaust signs

I am not trying to sensationalize the situation in Palestine. However, there are definitive signs that are more than just worrying, which must alert all honest people to the dark clouds hovering over Palestine.

These signs of pre-Holocaust setting are also numerous and conspicuous and are already constituting a way of life for the bulk of the Israeli Jewish society. For the sake of brevity, I will summarize some of the most important portents in several points:

1-The overwhelming toxic hatred of Palestinians has already become the mainstream discourse in Israel. Venomous fascism is the fashion of the day, and non-conformists are marginalized, ostracized, and demonized. Even the Arabic Language is being suppressed as if the language of Zuheir and al-Mutannabi posed a threat to the Zionist scheme.

2- An ultra-racist political discourse, which was a taboo only a few decades ago, has now gained widespread acceptance and respect within government circles and society. For example, former Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, who is planning to become Israel’s next Premier, is shamelessly courting openly racist parties, advocating a genocidal expulsion of Palestinians or the enslavement of Israel’s non-Jewish citizens as “water carriers” and “wood cutters.”

3-The genocidal ideology of the Jewish settlement movement, which was somewhat marginal in the 1970s and 1980s. has become the mainstream ideology among Israeli Jews. Hence, calls for expelling Palestinians or at least stripping them of their civil and human rights, no longer raise anyone’s eyebrows, neither in government nor in society or even among most Jewish intellectuals.

4- The Israeli Justice system has fallen, nearly completely, into the hands of extreme Talmudic Jewish supremacists who are indoctrinated in the ideology Jewish supremacy which teaches that only Jews are real human beings and that non-Jews are effectively sub-humans. Thus, Israeli courts have virtually stopped prosecuting settlers who murder innocent Palestinian civilians. For example, a Jewish settler who murdered a Palestinian farmer named Ali Hasan Harb from the village of Skaka near Salfit in the central West Bank a few weeks ago, was neither arrested nor interrogated. Are Palestinians facing a pre-holocaust situation in the West Bank?

Nazification of the Israeli law in the West Bank

Moreover, the Nazification or “settlerization” of the Israeli law vis-à-vis Palestinians also found expression on 27 July, 2002, in the Israeli High Court ruling allowing Jewish settlers to retain an illegally seized private Palestinian land at the Mitzpe Kramin outpost near Ramallah. The ruling, which reversed a decision made by the same court two years ago, is raising concerns among rights groups that it might be used as a green light by the settler movement to embark on a fresh wave of mass land-grab in the West Bank. Interestingly, not a word was uttered from Washington to protest this scandalous whitewashing of land theft by the “only true democracy in the Middle East.”

Of course, I can cite hundreds if not thousands of examples corroborating my view that a pre-holocaust setting is now firmly in place in Palestine, at the hands of the grandchildren and great-grand-children of the Holocaust survivors.

Murdering Palestinians and denying responsibility

As I write this piece, I have just received news that trigger-happy Israeli occupation troops marauding throughout Palestinian population centers in the West Bank have killed two Palestinian youngsters: Samer Khalid from the Alein refugee camp near Nablus and Yazan Afana from the Qalandia refugee camp north of Jerusalem. Samer Khalid reportedly was killed while driving his car, while Afana was hit by a random bullet as he was walking in the center of al-Breh, Ramallah’s twin city. Isn’t that a pre-holocaust setting that is now firmly in place in Palestine?

Both men were totally innocent, and the Israeli army denied responsibility for the murder of the two Palestinians as if Martians, not Israeli occupation soldiers, did the shooting. This means that their death will go into oblivion just as was the case with thousands of other Palestinian victims of the 70-year-old slow -motion Zionist-Jewish pre-holocaust against the Palestinian people.

Israeli forces killed two Palestinians in two separate raids in the occupied West Bank on Thursday.

Samer Khaled, 25, was killed during a raid on the Balata refugee camp near Nablus, while Yazan Afana, 26, was shot in al-Bireh pic.twitter.com/kK7vNaHOYs
— Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) September 1, 2022

Israeli forces killed two Palestinians in two separate raids in the occupied West Bank on Thursday. Samer Khaled, 25, was killed during a raid on the Balata refugee camp near Nablus, while Yazan Afana, 26, was shot in al-Bireh

Well! A final word to the peoples and governments of the world. When the fast-track Jewish holocaust against our people takes place, just don’t say we didn’t know!

Post Views: 4,430

Featured

Gaza’s Broken Daily Life: Weddings, Tents and Hospitals Under Fire and Siege

Published

3 days ago

June 7, 2026

Syed M Sarmad Kazmi

Gazas-Broken-Daily-Life-Weddings-Tents-and-Hospitals-Under-Fire-and-Siege

Gaza’s heinous genocide is no longer confined to moments of direct attack. It is now visible in the complete breakdown of daily life itself. Families are still being butchered vehemently in places where they had sought shelter. To worsen these matters, shortages of fuel, engine oil, gas, and spare parts are crippling hospitals, bakeries, rescue vehicles, water systems, and ordinary transport.

A Tent Camp Hit in Gaza City

On June 6, despite the so-called “ceasefire,” an Israeli air attack hit a tent camp in Gaza City where displaced Palestinians were sheltering. Resultantly, at least seven people were killed, while at least 15 others were injured, many of them treated in intensive care. Women and children were believed to be among the casualties. The strike hit a United Nations school compound that had become a shelter for displaced families.

These were displaced people already living with the consequences of bombardment, evacuation, and loss. A tent camp is meant to be a temporary refuge for families with nowhere else to go. When such a place is hit, it deepens the fear that no civilian space is beyond danger.

A Wedding Turned Into Mourning

Moreover, the Gaza City strike by Israel targeted a tent next to another tent where a wedding appeared to be taking place. Unfortunately, earlier the same day, a strike in Khan Younis killed a man who was scheduled to be married later that day. His cousin said the family had prepared for the wedding but was instead attending his funeral.

This detail shows how deeply the genocide has entered private life. A wedding in Gaza is not just a celebration but an attempt to preserve social life despite displacement, hunger, and fear. When a groom is killed on the day of his wedding, even brief moments of normality remain exposed to violence.

The Ceasefire Gap

The attacks came amid discussions over the Gaza ceasefire process. Specifically, Hamas was preparing for meetings in Egypt on the implementation of the ceasefire agreement, while several Israeli attacks across Gaza that day killed at least nine people. Gaza remains under Israeli military control, and the second phase of the agreement has been stalled for months.

For people, the real meaning of a ceasefire depends on whether people can sleep safely, gather without fear, reach hospitals, and rebuild some predictable rhythm of life. If strikes continue and basic services keep failing, the gap between imaginative political claims and reality remains painfully wide.

The Shortages Freezing Daily Life

Alongside these unprovoked attacks, Gaza is facing another severe pressure due to a shortage of gas, engine oil, and spare parts. Undoubtedly, these shortages are affecting emergency services, bakeries, water supplies, and hospitals. Items that may sound technical outside Gaza now decide whether a generator runs, a vehicle moves, bread is baked, and whether water can be pumped.

These shortages are damaging daily life in connected ways:

Hospitals need generators and spare parts to keep operating rooms functioning
Bakeries need power and maintenance materials to continue producing bread
Water systems need energy supplies, chemicals and parts to keep desalination and pumping services running.

Hospitals and Rescue Services Under Pressure

Hospitals have been among the most vulnerable since October 2023. Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza warned of an imminent health disaster after extreme power failures affected surgical operating rooms. Moreover, all of its generators have stopped working while summer heat is expected to place more pressure on the remaining equipment.

This is not a minor operational issue as Gaza’s remaining hospitals are already treating genocidal injuries, malnutrition, infections and chronic illness in overcrowded conditions. If generators fail, surgical care, emergency treatment, refrigeration, lighting, and essential equipment are all affected. Gaza’s authorities have also warned that fire and rescue operations risk coming to a halt as vehicles break down due to shortages of spare parts, fuel and engine oil.

Bread, Water and Survival

Food and water systems are also largely affected. Bakeries depend on fuel, generators, and maintenance materials, while water systems need energy supplies, chemicals, and spare parts. UNICEF data showed that seawater desalination output had fallen to about 16,000 cubic metres per day, compared with 20,000 in March, due to the restrictions on essential supplies. In a densely displaced population, any reduction in water production quickly becomes a public health concern.

This is why Gaza’s broken daily life must be understood as a connected genocidal crisis. The strike on a tent camp, the killing of a groom, the failure of hospital generators, the collapse of rescue vehicles and the shortage of water-production supplies are not separate stories. Together, they show how civilian life is being attacked directly and indirectly at the same time.

In a nutshell, until these conditions change, daily life in Gaza will remain trapped between immediate violence and the gradual destruction of everything needed to survive.

Post Views: 20

Featured

Gaza’s Water Crisis: When Thirst Becomes a Weapon of War

Published

3 days ago

June 7, 2026

Syed M Sarmad Kazmi

In Gaza, water is no longer something families can expect to find when they need it. It has become a daily search, a health risk, and a painful measure of how deeply daily life has collapsed. For thousands of displaced families, the day begins with containers, queues, extreme uncertainty, and the fear that even the little water they manage to collect may not be enough for drinking, cooking, washing, or protecting children from deadly diseases.

This is not a normal shortage caused by dry weather or poor planning. Gaza’s water crisis is part of the genocide stretched far beyond its limits.

“Water is life and the right to life is a basic human right.”

When water systems fail, the impact is immediate and personal. A family cannot cook properly; a mother cannot keep her child clean, and a wounded person cannot wash safely. Thirst becomes only one part of a much wider and often unseen disaster.

Gaza’s Children Are Living With Daily Water Uncertainty

UNICEF’s latest Water, Sanitation and Hygiene report paints a devastating picture. It highlights that 1.1 million children in Gaza face daily water uncertainty, while 82% of families remain water insecure. Even more alarming, up to 70% of people are unable to collect the minimum six litres per person per day needed only for drinking and cooking. UNICEF and partners are still trying to support emergency water services through trucked water, desalination, wells, and limited network supply, but access and operating conditions remain highly restricted.

Six litres is an extremely small amount when seen against real family needs. It may help someone survive the day, but it does not allow a household to live with dignity. Families need water for hygiene, laundry, cleaning shelters, caring for infants, supporting the elderly, preparing food safely, and preventing disease. In Gaza, these normal needs have become difficult choices.

More specifically, children suffer first in such conditions. They are more vulnerable to dehydration, diarrhoeal disease, skin infections, and the emotional stress of living in dirty, overcrowded spaces. Many have already lost homes, schools, routines, and safety. Now even the simplest comfort, a clean drink of water, is uncertain.

The Collapse of Water Systems Is Deepening the Genocide

Gaza’s water emergency is not only about empty containers. It is a deliberate genocidal strategy by Israel. Water primarily depends on pumps, wells, desalination plants, pipes, electricity, fuel, chemicals, spare parts, engineers, drivers, and safe roads. Most of these parts have either been destroyed or entirely blocked by Israel.

In another report, UNICEF states that seawater desalination output fell from 20,000 cubic metres per day in March to 16,000 cubic metres per day because of shortages of chemicals and spare parts. It also says shortages of engine oil, lubricating oil, and other essential items are disrupting water production and related services.

The Al Mansoura filling point shows how fragile the system has become. Water-trucking operations there were suspended after two UNICEF-contracted truck drivers were killed in April. UNICEF says the site had been critical for the daily drinking-water access of 285,000 people, and partners are now trucking water from desalination plants at an additional cost of about $40,000 per day to replace the two million litres previously collected from that point.

Sanitation Failure Turns Thirst Into Disease

When clean water disappears, sanitation collapses simultaneously. Gaza’s overcrowded displacement sites are already under severe pressure, and the lack of proper water makes hygiene almost impossible. Waste accumulates, pests spread, and families are forced to live in conditions where preventable diseases can move quickly.

OCHA’s latest humanitarian report warned that health risks from pests and rodents remain high because access to landfills is restricted and essential sanitation items remain difficult to bring in. It also highlighted UNICEF’s warning that water shortages are forcing families into a daily trade-off between drinking, hygiene, and disease prevention.

This is where the crisis becomes especially cruel. A family may know what it needs to do to stay healthy, but knowledge is not enough when there is no water, no soap, no proper waste collection, and no safe place to live. Parents are not failing their children, but the conditions around them are failing every basic standard of human protection.

Aid Is Shrinking While Needs Keep Growing

The emergency response is also under serious strain due to Israel’s complete blockade of all borders, especially the Rafah border. OCHA reports that since mid-May, four partners have been forced to start phasing out water-trucking activities because of funding shortages. Some have already stopped, while others are expected to complete the phase-out by mid-June. As a result, more than 330,000 people across around 250 sites risk losing their primary drinking-water source.

For people outside Gaza, this may sound like a usual problem, but for a displaced family, it means tomorrow’s water may not arrive. In a place where markets are broken, movement is dangerous, and public services are shattered, losing a water-trucking route can immediately push families toward death.

Thirst as a Test of the World’s Conscience

Water is one of the clearest measures of human dignity. Without it, people cannot remain healthy, clean, or safe. In Gaza, the water crisis shows how genocide destroyed life even beyond the moment of Israel’s attacks. It continues through damaged pipes, stalled pumps, empty tanks, contaminated surroundings, and children growing up around scarcity.

The world should not wait until disease spreads further or water systems break beyond repair. Gaza needs safe humanitarian access, fuel, spare parts, treatment chemicals, protected workers, restored sanitation services, and sustained funding for emergency water delivery. Most of all, people need protection from the conditions that are turning basic survival into a daily struggle.

Post Views: 19

Featured

Gaza Flotilla Activists Face Extreme Israeli Abuse as the World Watches the Blockade’s Brutality

Published

1 week ago

May 31, 2026

Syed M Sarmad Kazmi

The Global Sumud Flotilla, which was made up of 40 vessels, tried to sail towards Gaza with much-needed humanitarian aid and a direct challenge to Israel’s blockade. Unfortunately, Israeli forces intercepted the boats in international waters and detained around 430 activists.

It is not a story of a blocked aid mission but a collection of facts revolving around intense abuse, humiliation, anger, and a brutal reminder of what Gaza’s blockade really means. For the people of Gaza, the flotilla is a symbol of hope, but for Israel, it is being perceived as a threat to its heinous genocidal mission.

A Hope Against the Siege

For decades, Gaza’s people have lived under an intense blockade that restricts movement, controls access to goods, separates families, and turns humanitarian relief into a political bargaining tool. Since Israel’s genocide in Gaza intensified, the siege has become even deadlier.

Hunger, destroyed hospitals, mass displacement, disease, and extreme shortages of fuel and medicine now shape daily life. This is why flotilla mattered, but the question that the world is asking is legitimate: Why should food, medicine, and solidarity be treated as crimes?

The flotilla, as a hope for the people of Gaza, who are suffering from famine and diseases, was intercepted by Israel about 250 miles or roughly 400 km off Gaza’s coast. These aid vessels were still far from Gaza when Israeli forces illegally captured them from international waters.

Analysts are highlighting that these flotilla activists, who volunteered from more than 40 countries, were not entering an Israeli city or attacking any military base. In fact, they were sailing through open waters to help innocent people who were dying of extreme hunger and bombardment.

Extreme Abuse by Israel

After the release of some of the detainees, they described inhumane treatment that had never been imagined before. South African activists highlighted that they were electrically shocked, denied water, food, and toilets, and were kept in abysmal conditions.

Moreover, most of the activists said that they were sexually assaulted in a very harsh manner. Some other activists also reported extreme beating and humiliation. For example, 15 cases of sexual assault, including rape, have been reported during May 2026.

Ben-Gvir Turned Humiliation into Spectacle

The most shameful moment came from Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. Even the government of France banned him from entering French territory after he taunted zip-tied detainees and waved an Israeli flag over them. France’s foreign minister called his actions “unspeakable,” and Poland also imposed a five-year ban.

He also shared footage of restrained activists, triggering international outrage and calls for broader European sanctions.

This was not hidden mistreatment accidentally exposed. It was deliberately performed, and the minister chose to stand over bound detainees and turn their humiliation into a political message.

When a genocidal state official proudly films powerless detainees, cruelty is no longer a secret, but a policy theatre.

Airport Violence Added Another Layer

It did not end with unlawful detention and punishment, as another episode of extreme humiliation was shown at the airport. At the Bilbao Airport, after some activists returned from Israeli detention, police harshly beat them. Videos showed some police officers brutally beating and dragging humanitarian activists.

This was just a glimpse of how Israel treats people who come to help humanity. They were maltreated in such an inhumane way to make them an example for the world. Anyone who comes to Gaza to help people will either be killed or detained in death-like prisons.

In this scenario, words are not enough as Palestinians remain heavily trapped, and those trying to reach them are harshly beaten, detained, deported, or killed. Condemnation must turn into legal action, sanctions, arms restrictions, diplomatic costs, and pressure to end the genocide.

The World Saw the Blockade’s Face

Israel may deny everything, but the world knows about its genocidal policies far better than ever before. It may deport activists and call the flotilla a provocation, but this episode revealed something the world should not unsee.

Even some activists from Brazil and Spain are still detained by Israel, and they are being punished in unprecedented ways. In this regard, Amnesty International also reported several injuries to these flotilla activists during detention.

After observing all this, one thing is certain: Israel is trying to eliminate Palestine from the world map and make every effort to stop necessary aid from reaching Gaza. Nobody can imagine the instances of cruelty by Israel in the 21^st century. Even the International Court of Justice has urged this prolonged genocide to be stopped as soon as possible; otherwise, life in Gaza is under extreme threat.

Gaza’s isolation is being enforced with extreme cruelty. This time, the world did not have to imagine it. It is already watching!

Post Views: 33