Update: Trump's Final Solution for Gaza

Where have we seen this before? Israel pursues a deliberate policy of hunger, malnutrition, and destruction of health facilities in Gaza in order to drive out the population (Source: here).

In February 2025, US President Donald Trump gave Israel green light to ethnically cleanse Gaza. Apart from Ireland and Spain, no Western nations have had the moral fibre or political courage to condemn Trump's dark vision for Gaza and oppose the unfolding Israeli genocide.

Trump said the United States stands ready to take ownership of Gaza after Israel has ‘won’ the territory and ‘resettled’ the 2.1 million Palestinians living there. Trump’s statement was an open invitation for Israel to implement the expansionary vision of some of its most deranged, racist, and extreme Far-Right Zionist groups, which also happen to prop up Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.

In a blog post I published shortly after Trump's announcement, I warned that those who think the Palestinians in Gaza have had it rough over the past year and a half have got another thing coming.

My warning, sadly, was prescient. The Palestinians in Gaza now stand on the very precipice of total annihilation. Netanyahu is suddenly basking in American love. Trump's position on Gaza gives Netanyahu greater room to manoeuvre on the political Right, and he and his henchmen have wasted no time exploiting the opportunity.

The suffering inflicted by Israel on the Palestinians in Gaza since Trump’s remarkable intervention has been nothing short of stomach churning. It illustrates an almost unfathomable collapse in moral authority on the part of a highly educated people with a past that suggests they ought to know better.

Over the last few weeks, the Israeli government has abandoned all efforts at finding a peaceful settlement in Gaza, even to the point, where Israel no longer even pretends to want to bring the remaining Israeli hostages home alive. Huge swathes of land in Gaza have been parcelled into so-called 'buffer zones' as ‘Lebensraum’ zeal on the part of Zionist extremists has displaced earlier objectives of defeating Hamas and returning the hostages. The Gaza conflict is now firmly about land.

The orange colour denotes the buffer zones in which Palestinians are no longer allowed to enter (Source: here)

In addition to ousting Palestinians from their own land, Israel has also significantly stepped up its indiscriminate bombing of Gaza, killing dozens of completely innocent civilians every single day. More telling, however, is Israel's specific targeting of Gaza’s health sector, including hospitals, medical equipment, medical staff, and ambulances. There is a revolting method in this madness; Netanyahu believes Gaza can be made uninhabitable if the health sector is completely destroyed. The attacks on the health infrastructure are therefore integral to the greater plan of ethnically cleansing Gaza.

So, too, is Israel’s policy of denying food supplies to the Palestinians in Gaza. The policy prompted Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada, to draw attention to a UN Food Programme alert that says food stocks have run out in Gaza - see below.

The dwindling of food supplies in Gaza are the direct consequence of Israel's ongoing blockade of aid supplies. Denying access to food, alongside the bombing, and the destruction of Gaza's health sector are how the Israeli engineers of its ‘Final Solution’ hope to depopulate Gaza.

Where the Palestinians will go, if they leave, no one knows. Israel does not care. By now, most Israelis have come to view the Palestinians as sub-humans. They will let them starve to death if it comes to that. There is no difference between what Israel is doing in Gaza right now and what the Nazis did to the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.

Israel has already killed more than 64,000 Gazans of which 60% are women, children, and men over the age of 65. The number of injured stands in the hundreds of thousands and more than 300,000 Palestinians are homeless. Some 80% of Gaza’s infrastructure has been destroyed. Yet, the danger is greater now than at any time in this conflict due to Trump’s green light for the Israeli annexation of Gaza.

Enthusiastic encouragement and heavy military backing by the United States means that Israel’s criminal conduct in Gaza goes nearly unchallenged. It has the firm backing of the Israeli people, while Europe has turned its back on the ordeal of the Palestinians, pretending that nothing is happening.

The notable exceptions are Ireland and Spain, whose courageous and principal leaders continue to speak out against Israel's genocide in Gaza. Ireland and Spain both have historical experiences that give them special insight into the outrages currently unfolding in Gaza.

Only Europe can stop the genocide in Gaza. Americans support Israel regardless of its crimes, even to the point where the US government arrests people, who publicly support Palestinians. Europeans are generally more sympathetic towards the Palestinians, perhaps because they have witnessed a genocide against Jews on its own soil in World War II. Europeans, in my view, are better informed about the Israeli-Palestine situation too. They understand the importance of not allowing Trump and Netanyahu to put into action their dark visions for Gaza and the Palestinians.

Unfortunately, Europe is weak. The European Union (EU) is currently preoccupied with Ukraine and beefing up its defences against Russia following Trump's abandonment of the former in favour of the latter (see here and here). Europe’s challenge, as always, is how act with unity and determination, when EU rules grant de facto veto powers to fascist wrecker governments, such as that of Hungary’s Viktor Orban. Hungary recently welcomed a state visit by Netanyahu, when, under international law, Hungary ought to have arrested the Israeli leader on charges of war crimes issued by the International Court of Justice.

Not all hope is lost. As the United States continues to shrink from its post-World War 2 role as global leader, the Gaza crisis presents an opportunity for Europe to step up and assume leadership of sorts. By calling out Netanyahu and assuming the moral high-ground on Gaza, European leaders can demonstrate moral strength and create a renewed sense of togetherness based on core European values. Voters would strongly welcome firm leadership on the Gaza.

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