"Never Again" Culminates in "Again"

Israel's armed forces continue massacring up to one hundred Palestinians a day with no fear of consequences, including recently five journalists at Nasser Hospital in Jan Yunis,* one of the few that remain functioning in the Gaza Strip. 

As usual, the Israeli military quickly offered its hypocritical regrets for damage done to innocent bystanders, and absurdly claimed that it does not target journalists, though in the first nine months of its civilian slaughter in Gaza it killed more of them than in any other conflict in history, and, by now, more than two hundred have perished there.

It's incredible that Israeli apologists can keep a straight face while claiming that such systematic killing legitimately qualifies as mere "collateral damage," to use the revolting language designed to make meticulously planned mass murder seem like a car accident.

Outside a small circle of cynical experts, everyone else paying attention has been able to see for some time now that the U.S. and Israel are carrying out a deliberate and systematic elimination of Palestinians and the journalists who report on them (overwhelmingly Palestinian themselves), as a way of preventing the world from getting an up-close picture of the Gaza extermination campaign.

Killing those dedicated to documenting the worst crime of the 21st century the U.S. and Israel hope to completely erase it from human consciousness and historical memory.  

Fat chance. Especially in their efforts to kill by mass starvation the national security state fanatics have reached a level of sadism that doesn't just drastically restrict the entry of food to Gaza, but murders the hungry people who come to the distribution centers hoping to get a portion of what little gets through. That image is already well etched in our collective memory.

As the United Nations Relief and Works Agency recently pointed out, we are bearing witness to the fact that "never again" has become "over again." In fact, it may very well become "over and over again," as each self-righteous victim group takes its turn as the victimizer.

Reports of the death of affirmative action are greatly exaggerated.

*This was also a "double-tap" attack, which means that Israel killed in two stages - with the initial raid on the hospital, then again when rescue workers arrived to aid the survivors.

Source:

Gaza: "The Unthinkable Over Again," La Jornada (Spanish) August 26, 2025