The travesty of delayed recognition and the unending Palestinian genocide

TENTATIVE SUPPORT

- USUF CHIKTE

REPORTS coming from Gaza, which Israel has turned into a concentration camp, reminiscent of the hideous Nazi era, are devastating and heartbreaking.

Israel is starving Palestinians to death. Over 150 Palestinians, including 89 children, have died of famine in recent days, as nearly two million people remain on the brink of death from starvation due to the ongoing blockade, siege and genocidal policies enacted by the Israeli state.

That is apart from daily tallies of around 100 killed by the IDF in the queues for food at Israel’s infamous, inhuman and sadistically-named “designated humanitarian corridors”, with a similar number killed during airstrikes.

This is not merely a humanitarian crisis; it is systemic eradication of people in Gaza which Israel has turned into a kosher human abattoir, luring a starving population into human pens, trapping them, and then shooting them.

Israel is writing one of the darkest chapters in human history. We belong to an era where we were taught that Nazism is the greatest evil and so it was.

Today starving children to death, shooting them for sport, shielded by democracies and dictators alike are the new abyss of cruelty.

Today comparisons between Israel, Zionism and the Nazis are commonplace.

When John Mearsheimer, the professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, was interviewed by Katie Halper, he confessed that the more time goes by ... the Israelis look like the Nazis, their rhetoric, their behaviour is truly appalling.

The self-styled Jewish State is behaving like the Nazis did. Despite this, some Western states like the UK and France have only now, nearly two years into this current genocide, begun to express tentative support for Palestinian statehood.

Their calls for recognition, delayed and conditional, ring hollow in the face of the relentless suffering on the ground.