Everybody now knows from the first week after October 7th that Israel had already planned to commit genocide, traditionally defined genocide, targeting a population because of their bloodline and trying to exterminate or move them.
Everyone knew this because Israel announced it.
Twice in October of 2023, the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, said out loud in a public speech, “The Palestinians are Amalek.”
Amalek, a reference that many in the West didn’t get, but everyone in the region understood. And it’s a reference to 1 Samuel 15, the first verses in it, which you should read because it tells you a lot about what Israel’s doing now.
Those verses describe God’s command to eliminate a tribe called the Amalekites. And not just the draft-age men, but all of them, including children and infants. All of them. Kill all of them. Destroy all of their property. Slay all of their animals. This is God’s command.
So when Benjamin Netanyahu describes the Palestinians as Amalek, twice in the first month of the Gaza operation, you don’t need to guess what the point of this is. The point is to destroy every man, woman, child, and infant in Gaza. And they set about doing that.
But it wasn’t just Netanyahu who said that. It was a lot of different authorities in Israel.
On October 9th—three days after the Hamas attacks—Yoav Gallant, the defense minister of Israel, their own Pete Hegseth, described his plans for Gaza, not for Hamas, for the entire territory, for the over two million people who live there. And we’re quoting:
“No electricity, no food will be allowed in. We are fighting human animals, not human beings, human animals.”
Well, that winter, the deputy mayor of Jerusalem responded, not to say, “Whoa, whoa, settle down, defense minister! Calling your opponents animals is, of course, genocidal talk.” No, the deputy mayor of Jerusalem thought he didn’t go far enough. He said this:
“They’re not human animals. They’re not human beings. They are sub-human.” And then he said that the Palestinians of Gaza should be buried alive with bulldozers. Which some, ultimately, apparently were.
You had both cabinet ministers in Israel and supporters of Israel in the United States making the same case in public from the very first day, “Kill indiscriminately, move them out.”
There were “discussions,” on the American Right about what we should do with those Gazans, the people who live there. “Move them to other countries—Egypt, maybe even the United States. Get them out, kill enough of them that the rest leave, so the survivors want to flee.”
So the aim was genocidal from the very first day. The Israelis announced it. Israel’s supporters in the United States seconded it, amplified it. And members of the US Congress on television, the people who are paying for this genocide, announced proudly, “That’s right. The Israelis have every right to kill civilians, and that’s why we are paying them and giving them weapons to do so.”
In addition to shooting children in the head, leaving toy bombs to blow their hands off, having a
‘shoot to cripple’ policy, bombing schools, hospitals and playgrounds, shooting people running for food drops, starving people, pouring cement in their water holes, setting up safe zones then bombing them, setting hospital tents on fire, shooting doctors to the extent Palestinians give them street clothes so they aren’t shot wearing hospital scrubs, executing hospital staff and patients and burying them in mass graves, bombing aid stations, trucks and ambulances, blocking over 1,000 aid trucks, they have run over 100s of people with bulldozers while still alive. If you support Israel, you are evil. It’s that simple. If you provide them with money and weapons there is probably a penthouse suite in hell waiting for you.
Stop. The. Genocide.
