What does one make of forced starvation in Gaza that has no moral cost on anyone in the world? If realism demands strategic silence and sympathy for the beleaguered and hungry Gazans is policed, and protests against genocide are considered support for terrorism and antisemitism, then surely there is something fundamentally wrong with the world’s conscience.

In the immorality of Israel’s actions to deny food, water, medicines, and other essentials to helpless people in Gaza, combined with the West’s failing to sanction Israel, President Donald Trump and European leaders are not only complicit in Israel’s crimes, but their brazen silence has allowed the genocide of Palestinians to continue unchecked for so long, even though they have the power to stop the massacre and ethnic cleansing.

The West’s incredible contradictory standards on their commitment to fundamental human rights, defence of international law and multilateralism, the stark contrast between the firm response of the US and European nations to Russian aggression against Ukraine, and their passivity in the face of war in Gaza, despite the dramatic deterioration of the humanitarian situation there and the increasing violations of international law in the West Bank, simply show the Western world’s moral turpitude over the genocide taking place after systematically destroying all the infrastructure in Gaza. Their economic interests and strategic control over the Middle East for military bases, oil routes and arms contracts explain the West’s inaction in controlling an obscenely barbaric crime.

Israel’s ongoing, relentless and zealous military onslaught in Gaza may have been........

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