Letter: Israeli Minister – Our Total Destruction of Gaza Has No Precedent. And the World Is Not Stopping Us.
Food distribution center in Rafah, Gaza, Januray, 2025. Photo: Anas Mohammed via Shutterstock
It is estimated that Israel is killing 100 Palestinians/day in Gaza.
Israel recently initiated a new attack called “Gideion’s Chariots“, which was promised by Prime Minister Benjamin Netenyahu when he pledged to “enter Gaza with full force”, as if they haven’t been doing that since October, 2023. As if they haven’t been bombing Gaza into oblivion, forcing people to keep moving to avoid the bombs, to find refuge where there is none, to keep people in terror of when the next bombing will occur. As if they haven’t been blocking humanitarian aid from reaching Gaza. Humanitarian agencies around the world, as well as the UN are rightfully calling out the US and Israel for the creation of famine in Gaza.
And Israeli officials have come oh so close to proudly announcing genocide. Netanyahu, in the Israeli daily Maariv, last week bragged about “destroying more and more houses [in Gaza], and they [the Palestinians] have nowhere to return to,” adding that “the logical result will be the desire of Gaza residents to leave.” Netanyahu also remarked about “the difficulty is in finding countries that would accept to receive them.” How much like Hitler’s speech to the Reichstag in 1939, when he lamented that no one would take the Jews, prophesizing the destruction of European Jewry. Netanyahu has gone on to lament how the stories and photos of starvation are making it harder to implement their plans for Gaza.
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich: “We are disassembling Gaza, and leaving it as piles of rubble, with total destruction [which has] no precedent globally,” he continued. “And the world isn’t stopping us. There are pressures. There are those who attack [us]; they are trying to [make us] stop; they are not succeeding.”
He goes on explain that the proposed aid plan is simply a part of the genocide: “The [aid] that will enter Gaza in the coming days is the tiniest amount,” he explained. A handful of bakeries that will hand out pita bread to people in public kitchens. People in Gaza will get a pita and a food plate, and that’s it. Exactly what we are seeing in the videos: people standing in line and waiting to have someone serve them, with some soup plate.”
Gerry Weiss
Gerry Weiss, a psychotherapist, was a member of the Amherst Select Board from 2004 to 2010 and a member of Town Meeting for 19 years.
This is horrifying. What can people do to help?
We can lobby our Senators, Markey and Warren, who have voted for the military aid to Israel, more than once. Mr. McGovern has repeatedly voted no on the aid. (you could write to him and thank him). You can speak out the truth whenever you hear the lies being spoken and whenever you are in conversation with friends. I find that there are 3 basic camps: Pro Zionist, Anti Zionist and don’t know much about what is happening. Sending money for aid is tricky since Israel does not allow aid into Gaza. I’m researching this question and will send ideas as I find them. I found a website today that looks promising: https://upliftps.com/gaza-direct-aid-portal/ . You can join the weekly stand out at the Rt 9/Rt 91 roundabout, every Friday at 4:30. You can join Jewish Voices for Peace to keep up with events 9https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/local/), You can subscribe to Mondoweiss to get daily news about what is happening both here and in Gaza. (mondoweiss.net)