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Israel’s Gaza War Is One of History’s Worst Crimes Ever

jacobin.com Israel’s Gaza War Is One of History’s Worst Crimes Ever

Israel’s war in Gaza combines a staggeringly high death rate, shocking violence toward children, unparalleled physical destruction, and now a world-historical famine. The world has, by objective measure, never seen anything like this.

https://jacobin.com/2025/08/israel-gaza-worst-crimes-ever

BY BRANKO MARCETIC

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Isreal is not entirely to blame for this historic war crime
The entire western world stood by, watched it happen, lied about it, denied it, funded it, financed it and ignored it until it was so overwhelmingly obvious that they were obligated to say something because history would point out their complicity .... but even now, the majority of the western world just cautiously wags a finger at Isreal as 'one of history's worst crimes' continues as the world watches.
It's like watching someone getting beaten with a baseball bat in public, in full view of everyone .... and absolutely no one wants to do anything about it.
This isn't Israel's fault .... the entire world, all of us are at fault for allowing it to happen.
Not only are we destroying ourselves with global warming .... we distract ourselves from that reality by being as inhumane and disgusting to ourselves as possible. We should go extinct .... we bring no good to the world or ourselves.
- Israel wasn't forced to do this, they can stop at any fucking time.
  
  To be fair, Hamas CAN release the remaining 50 hostages at any fucking time as well. I think it's gets forgotten that they are still holding on to Israeli citizens after nearly 2 years. I spent my highschool years living in Israel and then (90's) Hamas were blowing up busses and vest bombing malls.
  I'm not saying that I agree with what is absolutely turning into a genocide, but the situation is more complicated that you think. Hamas has been operating freely as a terrorist organization for over 30 years. They have killed thousands of Israeli citizens. The gazans, and Hamas specifically, are being used by Iran as a cheap proxy war. The intention here was to provoke an overreaction from Israel to turn public opinion against them. Netanyahu took the bait.
  Israel is absolutely going too far in its response, but imagine if people from New Jersey spent 30 years crossing state lines just to kill and terrorize people from another state. Imagine new Jersey openly calling for the death of American citizens and forming militias with child soldiers to brainwash them into su*cide attacks. Then the governor coordinated with China to take hundreds of hostages from new York that they refuse to release. Would you want our military to just stop putting pressure on the new Jersey government to release the hostages because their people are dying?
- It's like watching someone getting beaten with a baseball bat in public, in full view of everyone .... and everyone gave that someone a spiked baseball bat
  Just made a slight correction there.
- i don't know about the worst but it's definitely getting up there, depending on whose number you believe
  https://www.scaruffi.com/politics/dictat.html
  
  It would definitely be up there if the numbers were number of deaths to population ratio.
- Isreal is not entirely to blame for this historic war crime
  I don't think "the rest of the world let me do it" removes any blame or responsibility from Israel... it only adds blame and responsibility to the rest of the world, deservedly so
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kitty_Genovese
  
  Funny thing: that murder is also a case of the newspapers openly lying about what happened, rather than some proof of human callousness.

A settler colony founded on racial supremacy has reached it's logical conclusion.
Shame on the West for supporting this evil.

Reading this article is so horrific, I had to stop midway.
What we can safely say is that Israel at this point is objectively worse than ISIS

Zionism ia a new Nazism.
- Zionism is older than Nazism.
  
  Yes, but they were ineffective. Today they are efficient murderers and war criminals. Zionism is an anti-human ideology that is on the same level as Nazism.

So why are they still calling it a war? It's absolutely fucking not and it's an insult to the victims of genocide to call it war.
- Tanks rolled through Rafah and Biden claimed that it wasn’t an invasion so Netanyahu didn’t cross his “red line.”
  It’s obviously worse than a war but they won’t call it an extermination.

"Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it"
I'm sure especially Israelis, many of whom politicians, have said this many times over the years.
- The lessons of history are too easily selectively interpreted.
  Them having been the subject of the most publicised and studied genocide does in no way give them a pass to do one.

On the lower end of estimates, Israel has dropped more than 70,000 tons of bombs on Gaza since the start of the war. That’s the equivalent of roughly six Hiroshima bombings on an area less than half the size of Hiroshima, but with six times its population.

the world, by objective measure.. ..the world has never seen anything like this.
This really weakens the opinion piece, as it attaches a quantitative quality that can easily be attacked. (Two world wars would easily dwarf this)
That said, article goes on to clarify that the numbers and statement are relative to all other conflicts in this century, which is more precise. And most likely factual.
To strengthen the summary, it should clarify that it is comparing to conflicts in this century, although this does make it less sensational.

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