By Kevin Barrett, for the forthcoming edition of American Free Press (previewed here for paid subscribers)
As of October 23, Israel has killed more than 5,000 Palestinian civilians, and injured more than 16,000, during the past two weeks The toll rises by the hour, as the open-air concentration camp known as the Gaza Strip, one of the most densely populated areas on earth, is shattered and drenched in blood by 10,000+ tons of Israeli bombs. Virtually all of the victims are civilians, the majority women and children. (Combatants crouch in bunkers deep underground, waiting to defend Gaza against the Zionists’ threatened ground invasion.)
Israel barely pretends to be targeting military forces. The Zionists bomb hospitals (18 since October 7) and other health care facilities (over 115), ambulances and humanitarian aid convoys, churches, mosques, civilian infrastructure including water, sewage, and electricity, schools, markets, and refugee camps. Israel blows homes and apartment buildings to bits, often with no warning, mass murdering entire families.
International law professor Francis Boyle and others have persuasively argued that Israel’s actions qualify as genocide. Which raises the question: What do Israelis think of the genocide they’re perpetrating?