by Eric Zuesse
\nTHE DURAN<\/p>\n
Right now, Israel is waiting for Trump to leave the Middle East before launching what is expected to be\u00a0the final stage<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0of Israel\u2019s final solution to the Palestinian problem: eliminating the Gazans and also forcing all Palestinians out of the West Bank. This will turn Israel into the universal global pariah-state, and will enormously embarrass America and its European colonies that are allied with it.<\/p>\n There are indications that Israel can\u2019t find ways to expel the Gazan survivors into the desert \u2014 perhaps into Israel\u2019s own\u00a0Negev Desert in southern Israel<\/b><\/span><\/a>: it\u2019s 60% of Israel\u2019s territory with 13% of israel\u2019s population because its average high temperature in July is around 37C or 100F. That vast desert, 14,475 km2, contains 1,130,972 population, which is roughly half of what the population was in Gaza before\u00a0the extermination<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0started there with the bombings on 7 October 2023, and the full-scale invasion there starting on October 27th: 2.3 million Gazans have been under this onslaught. They lived in Gaza\u2019s mere 365 km2. So, Gaza is twice as many people in 1\/40th of the land that Negev has. And, of course, the Negev is extremely dry, much more than Gaza is. Moreover, Gazans are city-people \u2014 NOT adapted to living in a desert. If Israel will send Gazans there to starve and die, Israel will be just as much of a pariah-nation as-if those deaths had occurred by Israel\u2019s continued bombing and blockade of Gaza \u2014 such as Israel has been doing since 7 October 2023. Consequently, even if Israel won\u2019t end the Gazans by bombing and blockading them, etc. (the direct genocide route), the aftermath for Israel\u2019s allies will nonetheless cause Israel\u2019s allies to share in Israel\u2019s pariah-state status.<\/p>\n Israel is highly dependent upon the support it has from not only the United States but also the European member-nations in the U.S. empire. If Israel will lose that support, then Israel will be doomed. And, now, somewhat suddenly (because of the now-impending intensification of Israel\u2019s war against the Gazans), that process of finalizing the result might be beginning. It would constitute a sea-change in what had been, for the past 80 years, massive support by The West (such as America\u2019s having given Israel\u00a0$18 billion last year<\/b><\/span><\/a>). The closer we get to the end of the ethnic cleansing and genocide, the more panicked Israel\u2019s backers will become to get onto the public record that they\u2019re not co-responsible along with Israel, for what could turn out to be the biggest genocide since Hitler\u2019s against Jews.<\/p>\n The ethnic cleansing and genocide in Gaza will probablly be the second-biggest genocide since the year 1900.<\/p>\n The biggest was the genocide of around 6,000,000 Jews by Hitler in WW2, but actually he also killed around\u00a026,600,000<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0in the Soviet Union during his Operation Barbarossa \u2014 Germany\u2019s invasion of the Soviet Union. Included in that were 13,950,000 killed in Russia, 6,850,000 in Ukraine, and 2,290,000 in Belarus \u2014 the 3 main WW2 victim-populations in the USSR. However, most of the 6,000,000 Jews (throughout Europe) were targeted specifically\u00a0because of<\/i>\u00a0their religious ethnicity, not\u00a0merely<\/i>\u00a0on account of the War. So,\u00a0that<\/i>\u00a0was a genocide \u2014 not\u00a0just<\/i>\u00a0war-casualties.<\/p>\n Around 500,000 people (Tutsis) were slaughtered in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, which was probably the biggest genocide, until now, after the Holocaust. If Israel succeeds at emptying Gaza of its live inhabitants, it would be 2,200,000 slaughtered, the second-largest genocide since 1939. Prior to that was the 1915-16 Armenian genocide, which killed an estimated\u00a0\u201c664,000 and possibly as many as 1.2 million Armenians\u201d<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n Israel\u2019s allies might already be too late to separate themselves from the blame for whatever it is that Israel has in mind for the Gazans, and for the Palestinians in the West Bank.<\/p>\n The reality-avoidance by Israel\u2019s allies will soon come to a crashing halt. Already in the CFR\u2019s\u00a0Foreign Affairs<\/i>\u00a0journal, their April\/May 2025 issue, is\u00a0\u201cIsrael\u2019s One-State Reality: It\u2019s Time to Give Up on the Two-State Solution\u201d<\/b><\/span><\/a>, and it\u00a0says<\/b><\/span><\/a>:<\/p>\n RUDE AWAKENING<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n It is primarily Israelis and Palestinians who must grapple with the one-state reality. But that reality will also complicate Israel\u2019s relationship with the rest of the world. For half a century, the peace process\u00a0allowed Western democracies to overlook Israel\u2019s occupation in favor of an aspirational future in which the occupation would come to a mutually negotiated end. Israeli democracy (however flawed) and the nominal distinction between Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories also helped outsiders avert their gaze. All these diversions are gone.\u00a0The one-state\u00a0reality has long been embedded in Israeli law, politics, and society, even if it is only now being broadly acknowledged. No ready alternatives exist, and it has been decades since there was any meaningful political process to create one.<\/i><\/p>\n \u201cSee no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil,\u201d tolerates and accepts evil, and it thereby fosters evil. In America\u2019s case, especially because Americans spent $18 billion last year to supply the weapons and satellite intelligence and targeting assistance to Israel for carrying out this genocide-in-the-making \u2014 instead of\u00a0cutting off<\/i>\u00a0that assistance \u2014 co-owns its result, and doesn\u2019t\u00a0merely<\/i>\u00a0tolerate and accept and foster it. Perhaps America\u2019s being the world\u2019s most powerful country will enable it to squelch or even prevent public statements of its having willingly supplied the means by which Israel did it. But for how long will this fact be effectively hidden?<\/p>\n