Israel cheats on ceasefires as it cheats on the very notion of peace. No truce holds, because Israel never intends one to hold. Even as the world headlines declare “ceasefire in Gaza,” Israeli warplanes circle overhead and soldiers continue their raids. The guns never fall silent. Ceasefires, in Israel’s doctrine, are not about peace, they are a pause to reload, a break to deceive international opinion while tightening the siege on a population already shattered beyond repair.

According to Al Jazeera and the Gaza media office, Israel has violated the truce dozens of times since early March 2025 — at least 116 Palestinians killed and nearly 500 wounded since the supposed “pause.” The total toll since October 2023 now exceeds 68,000 Palestinians killed and more than 179,000 injured. These are not numbers. They are people buried under rubble, hospitals bombed, aid convoys blocked, and children found lifeless in their mothers’ arms.

And yet, the United States remains silent, the silence of the enabler, not the neutral. Across European capitals, governments that once claimed moral leadership now speak only of “Israel’s right to defend itself.” They cannot utter the words “Palestinian right to live.” The West’s conscience is buried under military contracts and political lobbying.

Washington’s silence is not ignorance. Rather, it carries with it the power that enables the politics of silence It is protection money paid to its own politics. Israel’s global impunity is buttressed by a powerful web of influence – AIPAC and other lobbies that have turned the US Congress into an echo chamber of Zionist propaganda. Presidents come and go, but the money remains constant. And that money ensures that every Israeli violation is shielded, every massacre justified, and every dissenting voice in America crushed as “antisemitic.”

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This is not Jewish power – it is political corruption wrapped in religious symbolism. To be even altogether, here is Zionism at its pinnacle. It shames the Jewish prophetic tradition of justice and truth. Israel’s wealth, much of it extracted from US taxpayers and international complicity, sustains a war economy. An apartheid sustained by the dollar, blessed by silence, and justified by fear.

When Israel violates a ceasefire, it distracts the world with emotional images of hostage releases. The narrative is carefully........

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