Nicky Reid
It is getting harder and harder for me to cover the endless holocaust in Gaza. I am not an objective journalist. In fact, I reject the very notion of objective journalism as inherently problematic and at times downright toxic. I take shit personall,y and any attempt to pretend otherwise would merely be an act of deception on my part. I prefer being upfront, defining the problem from my perspective, and then openly seeking solutions while admitting that I am just one voice in what I dearly hope will become a much larger dialogue. I genuinely believe the conversation on Palestine could benefit a great deal from more international observers taking this approach. Still, this conversation has also become downright excruciating as the Second Nakba just continues to accelerate while the whole world watches, screaming from the sidelines.
I don’t feel like there is any need to convince the world that what is happening in the Gaza Strip is unspeakably evil anymore. The body count has become impossible to keep up with as Israel has taken to killing close to and often far more than 100 civilians a day. The level of depravity being displayed on live television by the IDF and their American conspirators is beyond disgusting.
Donald Trump’s Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has monopolized what little aid still occurs in the region and turned it into another tool for genocide, setting up a handful of sites on the Strip and distributing food to the desperate masses for just minutes a day in order to create stampedes through active warzones, which the IDF then uses like turkey shoots. Thousands of starving men, women and children have been machine gunned in mass and this isn’t just a dirty secret anymore. There is literally hours of footage online clearly showing uniformed Israeli soldiers opening fire into crowds of visually emaciated people until their clips run dry.
I am beyond appalled. I am furious and I am not alone. Public animosity against Israel has never been higher across the Western world. Even conservatives are beginning to break with Zionism as their favorite ally in the Middle East fires American-made tank shells into crowded Catholic churches and tars any priest uppity enough to say “knock it off” as an antisemite. This burgeoning groundswell of popular disgust has led many Western governments to speak out for the first time against the increasingly genocidal scourge of Zionism they once celebrated, but Israel just keeps getting bolder and bolder in their sadism. This is because talk is cheap, and money speaks louder than bombs.
Foreign ministers from 25 Western nations released a joint statement this July condemning Israel for its “inhuman killing of civilians” and demanding a ceasefire. This included a separate joint statement made by the leaders of the United Kingdom, France and Canada, threatening to take absurdly vague “concrete action” if Benjamin Netanyahu doesn’t call off his latest offensive against starving children. Israel responded by letting a few more aid trucks over the border. Amnesty International responded by condemning this toothless PR stunt and rightfully declaring that it was “outrageous and morally reprehensible” that the leaders of the so-called “free world” had taken “nearly 80 days of broadcast starvation and cruelty amidst genocide to exert pressure on Israel.”
But I’m afraid that it’s actually far worse than that. Emmanuel Macron’s France appears to have at least temporarily cut off its shipments of arms to Israel but the UK and Canada don’t appear to have even touched the tap. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s predecessor and fellow Liberal Party power broker, Justin Trudeau, authorized military exports to Israel as late as January of last year and approved of at least $21 million in new licenses for military exports (mostly bombs) still arriving as we speak. As for the land of Lady George and roses, 15% of the components for Israel’s growing arsenal of F-35 fighter jets are still made by British companies to blow up Arab boys on mopeds.
Donald Trump’s liberal foils across the western world can cry a river of crocodile tears, but until they react to a genocide they have all been facilitating for generations with an actual arms embargo, they are every bit as guilty as Orange-Man-Bad and are at least ten times as hypocritical.
For nearly 80 years now, the world has been sold the same snake-oil sales pitch from every Western globalist institution, from the UN and the World Bank to NATO and the EU; that these vaunted institutions of liberal guilt are the only thing keeping the world safe and free from the wrath of another Hitler. Well, here he is, in fact, here are two of them. Both Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu are openly and unapologetically carrying out the most overt and unabashed genocide since the Third Reich and the “free world” can’t be bothered to commit themselves to anything more severe than telling them to keep it down while white people are watching.
This horror show has proven once and for all that the “international community” is a sick hoax. These people bombed the shit out of Yugoslavia and Libya for committing genocide without even requiring evidence. Now, a Frankenstein monster that they built is literally executing infants before a live studio audience and these humanitarian interventionists can’t be bothered to even cut the beast out of their trade deals without months of handwringing and bureaucratic horseshit. And the only reason they’re even pretending to give a fuck is because Jewish college kids are throwing their bodies beneath the treads of their tanks while Christian Zionists call them antisemites.
The BDS Movement and organizations like Jewish Voice for Peace have really gone to the mat for Palestine over the last couple years and they have probably achieved more in the way of agitprop than any international antiwar movement since Vietnam. Sadly, it’s not enough. Don’t get me wrong, the kids need to keep it up, but they also need to recognize that the Western governments that they are lobbying are as evil as they are toothless. They also need to realize that at this point the only thing likely to stop Israel from literally erasing Gaza from the map is a full-blown military intervention.
Even if any Western nation were willing to commit such heresy, it wouldn’t be effective at achieving anything but switching occupiers. The only military interventions that carry the local cache necessary for long-term success are those performed by next door neighbors. This is what finally ended the Cambodian Genocide. Vietnam sent in troops still licking their wounds from American napalm and sent Pol Pot running deep into the jungle where Reagan coddled him until he died a broken old crook in a hut. The only problem is that the United States has either overthrown or bought off everyone whom Israel isn’t currently bombing, but this is where BDS comes in.
Egypt and Jordan both have a few things in common. They both share substantial borders with Palestinian territories, with Egypt to the east of Gaza and Jordan to the west of the West Bank. They both have substantial populations of Palestinian refugees, with over half of Jordan’s population being of at least partial Palestinian descent and over 150,000 Gazan refugees languishing in Egypt. They are also both governed by despotic sluts to Pax Americana. The United States has had Egypt on a retainer of $1.4 billion in annual military aid since the 1979 Camp David Accords, in which Anwar Sadat and the various toadies who followed him essentially agreed to police the Gaza border for Israel for the price of an arsenal. Jordan has similarly received over $87 billion in US foreign aid since 1946 to look the other way while the West Bank shrinks.
These are both dictatorships with populations that are being violently suppressed as we speak for demanding they act in defense of their Palestinian brothers and sisters. What I’m suggesting is that the international movement built around freeing Palestine shift their weight behind local Arab protestors demanding real action. This means launching protests at Egyptian and Jordanian embassies across the planet, boycotting these nations’ substantial exports to the West, most of which are textiles and apparel, and going after any company that arms these regimes. The people of Egypt have already overthrown one American quisling and Jordan’s massive Palestinian population has been protesting their abuse at the hands of the Heshemite Monarchy for generations.
A simple magnifying glass could easily set off a powder keg in both of these nations and Trump is actively using this fact for leverage in an attempt to convince Jordan and Egypt to contain the refugees he and Netanyahu are attempting to expel. I’m simply calling on the Free Gaza Movement to use their own style of grassroots leverage to compel the opposite. Make them open the borders, not just to anyone and everyone delivering aid but to any off-duty soldier or member of the Palestinian diaspora with a Kalashnikov willing to join what has become a fight against genocide.
What is the US going to do? Further destabilize two allies in regions thick with Muslim Brotherhood resistance movements. Go for it, asshole, see what that leads to. As for Bibi, that motherfucker is running out of fronts to contain. The Axis of Resistance has already given him two, three, many Vietnams to fight, why not help the rest of the neighborhood to give him a few more while the fire’s hot?
Israel has surrounded itself with well-earned and well-armed enemies. If people in the West want to end this genocide, then we should seriously consider using our activism to empower them further because they may be Gaza’s only hope.
Source: https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/22/someone-needs-to-stop-israel-but-it-wont-be-the-west/
