[News] Netanyahu’s new Holocaust: From livestream genocide in Gaza to the war on Iran

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 Netanyahu’s new Holocaust: From livestream genocide in Gaza to the war on
Iran
By Jamal Kanj <https://english.palinfo.com/?p=250486>

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The Orwellian G7 statement described Israel’s military attacks on Iran as
“self-defense. By twisting language to fit political ends, the communiqué
normalizes aggression and offers diplomatic cover for Israel’s serial
violations of international law. Rather than condemning the Israeli
escalation, the G7 resorts to vague calls for “de-escalation,” effectively
endorsing Israeli impunity under the guise of neutrality.

Conspicuously absent from the statement was any mention of Israel’s use of
starvation as a weapon against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza, Israeli
violation of the ceasefire agreement in Lebanon or its years-long bombing
of Syria. In effect, the G7 has now aligned itself fully with Netanyahu’s
open-ended wars.

It might come as a surprise that the civilian nature of Iran’s nuclear
program was reaffirmed this week by the head of the U.S. intelligence
community. In her testimony before Congress, Tulsi Gabbard, stated
unequivocally that “Iran was not building a nuclear weapon.” This
assessment was echoed on the same day by the head of the International
Atomic Energy Agency, who told CNN there is no “systematic effort to move
into a nuclear weapon.”

Yet, the G7’s statement reflects not objective assessment, but political
posturing—another expression of Western supremacy toward maintaining
hegemony over nuclear technology and deny advancement of non-Western
nations. Nowhere is this bias more dangerous than in Washington and
Europe’s tacit endorsement of Israeli attacks on Iranian facilities—sites
that are safeguarded under international treaties. These attacks constitute
a blatant violation of Article 56 of the Additional Protocol I to the
Geneva Conventions, which prohibits targeting nuclear power facilities.

Striking an operating enrichment plant or spent fuel pool poses a grave
danger. Such an act could release massive amounts of radiation, leading to
civilian deaths and contaminating aquifers, farmland, and entire ecosystems
for generations. The effect would be tantamount to a nuclear attack,
regardless of the delivery method. Nonetheless, Western capitals that
rightly warn of similar dangers at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia plant
paradoxically excuse Israeli raids under the euphemism of “self-defense.”

The specter of a catastrophic leak could possibly explain why Israel has so
far held back from bombing Iran’s deeply buried Fordow enrichment complex,
where uranium is refined to 60 percent. The environmental, diplomatic, and
regional fallout could be incalculable. While Netanyahu wants to see this
facility destroyed, he seems to prefer delegating that risk to the United
States, betting that the Trump administration will be more willing, and
more able to shoulder the consequences.

Targeting nuclear infrastructure—civilian or not—sets a dangerous
precedent. It ignores the lessons of Chernobyl and Fukushima, shatters the
global taboo against striking nuclear facilities, and exposes the hypocrisy
of Western leaders who decry proliferation while tolerating allies risking
a nuclear calamity.

That moral blindness is neither new nor accidental. It is rooted in the
same imperial pedigree that nourished slave trade, annihilated Indigenous
nations, engineered colonial famines, Holocaust, and twice unleashed atomic
bombs on civilian targets. The same so-called Western “civilization”
supplies the weapons, satellite intelligence, and diplomatic cover for
Israel courting nuclear disaster in Iran and starving children in Gaza. The
complicity was laid bare this week by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who
openly admitted that Israel is doing “the dirty work for us.”

Prodding Washington to join a new Israeli engineered American war,
Netanyahu’s operatives in the U.S.—driven by an “Israel first” agenda—are
making every effort to convince Trump to complete the most difficult phase
of Netanyahu’s demonic vision. Their argument? That Israel has already
crippled Iran’s defenses enough to make American involvement low-risk for
U.S. forces and interests in the region.

Into this carefully choreographed farce steps Netanyahu himself—a master
manipulator who understands Trump’s psychological vulnerabilities better
than his own advisors. A single call, laced with flattery and grandiose
promises of historic greatness, may be all it takes. Appealing to Trump’s
fragile ego—telling him he’ll be remembered as the “savior of Israel”—could
be enough to drag American soldiers into yet another made-for-Israel war in
the Middle East.

Much like in 2003, when the “Israel First” Jewish neocons, including
Netanyahu’s own lies before Congress in 2002, manipulated another gullible
U.S. president with the fantasy that regime change in Iraq would ignite a
wave of democracy across the Middle East. Over two decades later, the
region—and to a significant extent, the United States—is still paying the
price for being dragged into a disastrous foreign war built on lies,
hubris, and blind loyalty to the Israeli strategic interests.

Will he, or won’t he? Predicting Trump’s decisions has always been
notoriously difficult—not due to any strategic genius or by grand design,
but because of his combustible mix of grievance, ego, and impulsiveness.
For example, his trade wars began with sweeping tariffs and unraveled into
chaotic carve-outs; his hardline immigration policies crumbled into talks
about exempting farm and hospitality industries. The same erratic pattern
defines his foreign policy: bombastic threats, sudden reversals, and
renewed aggression whenever flattery intersects with FOX news talking
points. His unhinged posts and reckless declarations on Iran are no
exception—they’re just the latest flare-ups in a long trail of incoherence.

This combustible mix—Israel’s ethically reckless strategy paired with a
U.S. president prone to impulsive decision-making—creates a disturbing path
to escalation. It risks fulfilling Netanyahu’s diabolic ambition to
“reshape the Middle East,” a slogan that already produced the 2003 Iraq
war. Twenty years later, Iraq still bears its scars; American involvement
in a new war on Iran would begin yet another chapter of chaos in
Netanyahu’s “new Middle East.”

Western leaders have failed to learn from their devastating lessons of
history. Time and again, they repeat the same blunders born of arrogance of
power—only this time, the stakes are even higher. By offering unconditional
support to Israel, they are not merely turning a blind eye; they are
underwriting Netanyahu’s genocidal policies, and Israeli Jewish supremacy.

Western leaders’ complicity is not passive. They have become
enablers—co-authors in the unfolding genocide in Gaza and active sponsors
of a looming nuclear calamity in Iran. Despite decades of evidence showing
how imperial hubris breeds chaos and destruction—from Africa to Vietnam,
from Iraq to Libya and beyond—these leaders continue to embrace the
illusion that might makes right, whitewashing Israel’s livestreamed
slaughter in Gaza, and paving the way to bring about a nuclear holocaust in
Iran.

*-Jamal Kanj is the author of Children of Catastrophe: Journey from a
Palestinian Refugee Camp to America, and other books. He writes frequently
on Arab world issues for various national and international commentaries.
His article appeared in MEMO.*
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