Gaza Tragedy Sounds Death Knell For ‘Rules-Based Order’
Following the end of the temporary truce in fighting, the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) have pursued even more ruthlessly their campaign to destroy Gaza, expanding the targeting to cities and populations in the south. Residents in and around Khan Younis have been ordered to leave, but where should they go? Is ethnic cleansing to be the final solution for the Palestinians?
How the brutal bomb targeting is mapped out, with the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI), is the subject of a November 30 (2023) exposé, titled ‘A Mass Assassination Factory: Inside Israel’s Calculated Bombing of Gaza’, by Yuval Abraham published in +972 Magazine. The exposé is based on the testimonies of seven former and current Israeli intelligence professionals, among others, who are distraught over the killing and destruction. They report on the power targets chosen for shock effect, such as private residences, infrastructure and public buildings, as opposed to military targets.
The article makes clear that behind the goal of exterminating Hamas lies a deliberate decision to make Gaza uninhabitable, terrorising the population to flee. The objective to be achieved has nothing more to do with a legitimate war on terrorists.
Were the US to intervene forcefully against the Netanyahu Government and support the opposition forces in Israel, the slaughter could be stopped. That would mean breaking with the legacy of a diabolical Henry Kissinger, who just passed away, and well before him, of the British Empire, which designed the entire Middle East at the time to be a cockpit of war, ignitable whenever necessary to save the imperial system. An honourable organ for that system today is the City of London’s Financial Times, which warned on December 1, 2023 that the Israeli Government is prepared for a “very long war” to wipe out the enemy once and for all.
The last serious effort for peace in West Asia, the Oslo Accords signed by Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat in 1993, included economic annexes detailing far-reaching economic cooperation. A renewal of such an approach, based on Lyndon LaRouche’s Oasis Plan, is being circulated massively in the US and worldwide, to provide a solution based on mutual economic benefit.
The conflict in West Asia, however, is only one front in the West’s desperate attempt to ensure the survival of the unipolar world and its military-financial complex. However, that attempt is doomed.
The way out is for the US and Europe to cooperate with China and Russia in bringing about a completely new security and development architecture, as proposed by the Schiller Institute and as recognised by a growing number of non-Western countries, including at the just concluded COP28 Conference.
New Revelations Show Israeli Officials Knew of Plan for Hamas Attack!
As many seasoned observers suspected, the surprise attack by the Palestinian Hamas Movement on Israel was not entirely a surprise. On December 1, 2023, the New York Times reported that Israeli intelligence and security forces had obtained a year earlier a 40-plus page document, outlining a plan by Hamas for an attack on Israel. Then in July, Israeli intelligence operatives became aware of a Hamas military exercise, which proceeded along the lines of the attack that was launched less than three months later. However, the Israeli officials allegedly considered such an attack to be beyond the capabilities of Hamas to execute. The article does not indicate whether the assessment reached top officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu.
What is significant is that the Times article broke out of the containment that has prevented virtually any criticism of Israel’s brutal campaign of revenge from appearing in the mainstream media. It was published at a moment when other stories surfaced showing cracks in the support for Israel, and as demonstrations against the Netanyahu Regime’s policies were growing in the US and worldwide. The article raises questions about whether the October 7 (2023) attack provided a justification to drastically reduce the number of Palestinians living in the Occupied Territories, which many in Netanyahu’s camp have advocated.
It also coincided with the end of the short-term truce, which had briefly paused the bombing and ground campaign in Gaza, as Prime Minister Netanyahu rejected a mild plea from US President Joe Biden to extend the ceasefire, or at least to incorporate humanitarian concerns once the killing resumed.
Members of Netanyahu’s Coalition Government insist that there is no distinction between civilians and Hamas, thereby justifying the growing numbers of children and women killed. When US Secretary of State Antony Blinken raised with Israel’s War Cabinet the need for humanitarian protection of civilians, his appeal was dismissed, and Prime Minister Netanyahu bragged that he was standing up against pressure from the US!
As Israeli attacks are now covering all of Gaza, many believe only a strong intervention from the US would stop Netanyahu. Could the growing resistance among American voters to Israel’s assault suffice to push Joe Biden to act, as his re-election prospects are in trouble, and support for his Proxy War in Ukraine has dropped even further? Should Biden decide to avert a worsening human tragedy, he could endorse a Two-State Solution, backed by a plan for economic reconstruction, as proposed by China?
This article was first published in Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) Strategic Alert weekly newsletter (Volume 37, No. 49) on December 7, 2023.
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