Critics may argue that military
intervention risks escalation or violates sovereignty. However, sovereignty cannot justify crimes against humanity and genocide.
By Fareed Khan
Israel’s ongoing campaign in Gaza
constitutes a deliberate and systematic genocide, and after almost 22 months of
unceasing, brutal violence by Israel against Palestinians in Gaza, it
necessitates urgent military intervention by a coalition of nations, under the “Responsibility to Protect”
doctrine, to stop the atrocities, protect Palestinians, and enforce
international law.
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For almost eight decades Israel has
operated as a rogue state, with its leaders behaving as if international law
does not apply to their nation. Over the
course of its existence Israel has violated more than 40 United Nations
Security Council resolutions, repeatedly flouted the Geneva Conventions, and
disregarded the Hague Conventions and international law with impunity. Its creation
in 1948, rooted in the ethnic cleansing of over 750,000 Palestinians during the
Nakba,
established a precedent for systemic human rights abuses that persist to this day.
Israeli leaders like David Ben-Gurion, Golda Meir, and Moshe Sharett
orchestrated the creation of the state through policies that facilitated a deliberate campaign of ethnic
cleansing and violence against non-Jewish Palestinians, setting the stage
for a nation built on crimes against humanity and violations of international
law.
A disturbing poll
published in the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz in June 2025 revealed that 82% of
Jewish Israelis support the ethnic cleansing of all Palestinians from Gaza,
with 47% endorsing the mass murder of every man, woman and child in the
enclave, reflecting a society and leadership steeped in genocidal ideologies. A
Harvard Dataverse study by Israeli academic Yaakov Garb, also published in
June, estimates that between 377,000 and
400,000 Palestinians—approximately 17% of Gaza’s pre-2023 population—have
“disappeared” since October 2023, presumed to be dead or buried under the Gaza
rubble, underscoring the enormous scale of Israeli atrocities.
