U.S./Israel Push Final Solution As Solidarity With Palestine Soars

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has ordered the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians remaining in Gaza City to get out, calling it their "last chance" to save themselves before being considered Hamas terrorists and subjected to the full force of the Israeli military, which is to say they will be murdered in cold blood. Of course, any reference to "Gaza City" is by now obsolete, as what remains of that urban center is a diminishing number of doomed buildings surrounded by mountains of rubble. 

Like all the operations carried out by Israel in Gaza and the West Bank since October 8, 2023, the invocation of Hamas is simply a reflex accompanying the age-old Zionist quest to rid Palestine of its rightful inhabitants, so they can be replaced by a Jews-only state, which goal has been re-iterated to the point of tedium by Prime Minister Netanyahu, his cabinet, and Zionist leaders going back to the very beginning. One unusual note this time around is that Donald Trump and Tony Blair are apparently slated to become honorary Jews, entrusted with administrative duties for a de-populated Gaza after it has been razed to the ground by Israeli soldiers and U.S. arms.

Meanwhile, the Israeli Armed Forces forcefully terminated the Global Sumud Flotilla yesterday, an international humanitarian initiative composed of people from dozens of countries all trying to bring urgently needed food and medical aid to the people of Gaza in the face of a total blockade by Israel, which has committed similar acts of piracy in the past, even killing members of previous flotillas, the most famous of which was the Mavi Marmara. These kidnappings on the high seas are just one more indication of the impunity Israel enjoys thanks to Washington's unquestioning support of the Jewish state.

Europe has disgraced itself completely over Gaza. No European state has arrested Netanyahu when he has been in European territory, though the International Criminal Court ordered him detained back in November 2024 because of Israel's massive and ongoing crimes in Gaza. Especially shameful has been the conduct of Spain, Greece, Italy, and Turkey, whose governments committed themselves to sending warships to accompany the Flotilla, but then abandoned the humanitarian activists once they entered the high-risk zone and Israel attacked, as had been expected from the beginning. 

Waves of protest have broken out across the world at the seizure of the Flotilla, its passengers, and the continued extermination being waged in Gaza. In Italy, the country's largest union has called for an immediate general strike. 

International solidarity efforts must now re-double their strength to bring unrelenting diplomatic, political, and economic pressure on Tel Aviv, in order to force (1) an end to Israel's barbaric slaughter, (2) a return of the Flotilla hostages it has abducted on the high seas (as well as the thousands of Palestinian prisoners Israel holds in jail), and (3) prompt entrance into Gaza by the thousands of aid trucks waiting to deliver food and supplies to starving Gazans, as well as the supplies confiscated from the Flotilla.

Source:

 "Israel: Genocide and Piracy," La Jornada (Spanish), October 2, 2025