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.
A Harvard published study by Israeli academic Yaakov Garb estimates that 377,000 to 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 . . .
The scale of the evil being perpetrated
by Israel requires a dismantling of Israel’s Zionist infrastructure, the same
way that Nazi Germany was forcefully denazified after World War II. What the
Gaza genocide has demonstrated is that Israel’s political, military and
societal leadership must be prosecuted for promoting and perpetrating genocide,
and forced to obey international laws and basic human rights through external
intervention and international pressure since they won’t do it on their own. For
decades, and especially since October 2023, Israel has shown that it is
unwilling abide by the international treaties and conventions to which it is a
signatory and under which other nations operate, meaning that only a military
coalition of the willing can stop the Gaza genocide, break the blockade
that Palestinians in the enclave have endured since 2007, and hold Israel
accountable for its crimes against humanity and war crimes.
Israel’s founding was orchestrated by
key figures like David Ben-Gurion, the state’s first prime minister and primary
architect, who proclaimed Israel’s independence on May 14, 1948, and
consolidated Jewish terrorist militias, such as the Haganah and Irgun, into the Israel Defense
Forces (IDF). His vision for the state was deeply rooted in a loathing for
non-Jewish Palestinians, as evidenced by his private writings. In a 1937 letter
to his son Amos, Ben-Gurion wrote, “We must expel the [Palestinians] and take
their places . . . And, if we have to use force—not to dispossess the Arabs of
the Negev and Transjordan, but to guarantee our own right to settle in those
places—then we have force at our disposal.” Similarly, in 1938, he declared,
“After we become a strong force, as a result of the creation of a state, we
shall abolish partition and expand into the whole of Palestine.” These
statements reveal a deliberate intent to dispossess and expel Palestinians,
setting a precedent for the ethnic cleansing of over three quarters of a
million people during the 1948 Nakba, a foundational act of violence that
continues to shape Israel’s policies.
Golda Meir and Moshe Sharett, both
signatories to Israel’s declaration of independence, furthered this agenda
through their roles in securing the state’s establishment. Meir, who later
became prime minister, was instrumental in obtaining international funding and
diplomatic support, yet she denied Palestinians their identity, famously
claiming in a 1969 news interview that “there was no such thing as
Palestinians.” Sharett, Israel’s second prime minister, managed foreign affairs
and expressed a similar mindset of conquest, stating in a 1914 letter to a
friend in Tel Aviv, “We have not come to an empty land to inherit it, but we
have come to conquer a country from people inhabiting it.”
These leaders’ words and actions, rooted in a genocidal mindset involving exclusion and conquest, not only justified the violent expulsion of Palestinians to establish a Jewish state in Palestine, but also entrenched a framework of systemic oppression and brutality that has persisted for decades. Their vision of Israel was predicated on the erasure of Palestinian presence, both physically and culturally, as evidenced by the destruction of hundreds of towns and villages, the renaming of landscapes, and the denial of Palestinian identity. This genocidal mentality, articulated in their own words, fueled massacres like Deir Yassin, where Irgun and Lehi militias killed hundreds of Palestinian villagers (including small children) in April 1948, and set the stage for policies of land expropriation, discriminatory laws, and ongoing violence. The Nakba was not a singular event but the foundation of a continuous project of dispossession, reflected in the leaders’ explicit calls for ethnic cleansing, which have culminated in repeated atrocities against Palestinians in recent years, including military occupations and blockades that perpetuate Palestinian suffering initiated almost eight decades ago.
These leaders’ words and actions, rooted in a genocidal mindset involving exclusion and conquest, not only justified the violent expulsion of Palestinians to establish a Jewish state in Palestine, but also entrenched a framework of systemic oppression and brutality that has persisted for decades. Their vision of Israel was predicated on the erasure of Palestinian presence, both physically and culturally, as evidenced by the destruction of hundreds of towns and villages, the renaming of landscapes, and the denial of Palestinian identity. This genocidal mentality, articulated in their own words, fueled massacres like Deir Yassin, where Irgun and Lehi militias killed hundreds of Palestinian villagers (including small children) in April 1948, and set the stage for policies of land expropriation, discriminatory laws, and ongoing violence. The Nakba was not a singular event but the foundation of a continuous project of dispossession, reflected in the leaders’ explicit calls for ethnic cleansing, which have culminated in repeated atrocities against Palestinians in recent years, including military occupations and blockades that perpetuate Palestinian suffering initiated almost eight decades ago.
All of these Jewish leaders and their
Zionist comrades drove the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, which expanded Israel’s
territory beyond the United
Nations’ Partition Plan for Palestine and facilitated the Nakba, during
which more than 500 Palestinian villages and towns were destroyed. The atrocities perpetrated by Jewish
terrorist groups Irgun and Lehi, under the
leadership of Menachem
Begin and Yitzhak
Shamir, terrorized civilians into fleeing, laying the groundwork for the
Jewish state. The terrorist groups led by the two future prime ministers, and
other future Israeli political leaders, committed depraved violent acts,
including bombings and assassinations, which contributed to the Zionist
project’s militant and racist foundation. This legacy of violence and ethnic
cleansing, initiated by Ben-Gurion and his contemporaries, continues to shape
Israel’s policies today, culminating in the current genocidal campaign in Gaza.
Israel’s violations of international law form a consistent pattern of criminal defiance to the global order since it was founded. The Nakba set the stage for ongoing decades of oppression and dispossession, with the 1967 occupation of Palestinian territories and illegal settlements condemned by numerous UN resolutions. Furthermore, Israel's blockade of Gaza, enforced since 2007, constitutes collective punishment under the Geneva Conventions. By restricting access to food, water, medicine, and fuel, creating a humanitarian catastrophe, Israel is committing a war crime under international law (again).
A 2025 poll published by the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz and conducted by Penn State University, found that 82% of Jewish Israelis
support ethnically cleansing all Palestinians from Gaza, while 47%
endorse biblical-style massacres of every man, woman and child,
reflecting a radicalized society with a genocidal mindset,
driven by ethno-nationalist education and leadership. These attitudes,
particularly among younger Israelis, indicate a deeply entrenched
ideology that normalizes brutal violence against Palestinians,
necessitating external intervention to halt the genocide.
The complicity of nations like the United States, Germany, Canada, and the United Kingdom, exacerbates the crisis. Despite rhetorical criticism of Israel’s actions, these countries continue to supply the it with weapons and have provided diplomatic cover to the Apartheid state for decades, undermining their claims of moral leadership. The US has rushed arms to Israel since October 2023 even while the International Criminal Court (ICC) investigates Israeli leaders for war crimes and crimes against humanity, highlighting a deep hypocrisy that renders international law practically non-existent for Palestinians. Western support, particularly through arms sales and vetoes at the UN, enables Israel’s impunity, allowing the genocide to continue unchecked. This inaction implicates these nations in the slaughter, as they fail to uphold their obligations under international law while Palestinians die under bombs labelled “Made in America.”
International law provides a clear mandate for military intervention in Gaza. Article I of the Genocide Convention obliges states that the contracting parties “confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish,” and not merely to condemn it. The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine, adopted unanimously by the UN in 2005, requires states to intervene when a government perpetrates atrocities against its population, as Israel is doing in Gaza. Historical precedents demonstrate the efficacy of such interventions. In 1999, NATO’s intervention in Kosovo halted ethnic cleansing by Serbian forces, saving countless lives. In East Timor, a multinational force deployed in 1999 stopped militia violence backed by Indonesia. These interventions succeeded because the international community recognized that territorial sovereignty cannot be used as a shield to slaughter innocents, and that delaying action means more death. Gaza deserves the same urgency, as the 377,000 “disappeared” Palestinians underscore the scale of the catastrophe.
A coalition of nations, such as South Africa, Spain, Belgium, Ireland, and militarily capable states in the region like Egypt, Türkiye, and Pakistan, could deploy a humanitarian flotilla to break Israel’s blockade, protected by naval and ground forces against Israeli attacks. The flotilla would deliver food, medicine, and supplies directly to Gaza’s shores, establishing a secure corridor to alleviate the orchestrated famine. A no-fly zone, enforced by coalition air forces, would prevent Israel’s aerial bombardments which have devastated Gaza. Participating nations could declare that any Israeli attack on the flotilla constitutes an act of war, thereby deterring Israeli aggression. This model draws on the example of the 2010 Mavi Marmara flotilla, where unarmed activists attempted to break the blockade but were attacked by Israel, killing nine. A militarily protected flotilla would neutralize Israel’s ability to bomb aid convoys or execute aid workers. By securing Gaza’s airspace and coastline, the coalition could dismantle Israel’s plan to seize Gaza’s land for Jews only settlements, ensuring Palestinians’ right to self-determination and survival.
Critics may argue that military intervention risks escalation or violates sovereignty. However, Israel’s genocidal actions have already escalated the conflict to catastrophic and inhumane levels, and sovereignty cannot justify crimes against humanity and war crimes. Decades of diplomacy, sanctions, and UN resolutions have failed to curb Israel’s terrorist aggression, as evidenced by it's bombing and invading every territory on its borders, its continued illegal settlement expansion in the West Bank, and its total disregard for ICJ rulings. Garb’s study highlights the failure of current aid mechanisms, noting that US-backed GHF sites serve as tools of control rather than relief, exacerbating civilian suffering, as they have to choose between starving to death or risking their lives in the shooting gallery around these aid centres. Waiting for Israel to comply voluntarily is a futile expectation when its leaders and a significant portion of its populace advocate for the extermination of all Palestinians.
Israel’s violations of international law form a consistent pattern of criminal defiance to the global order since it was founded. The Nakba set the stage for ongoing decades of oppression and dispossession, with the 1967 occupation of Palestinian territories and illegal settlements condemned by numerous UN resolutions. Furthermore, Israel's blockade of Gaza, enforced since 2007, constitutes collective punishment under the Geneva Conventions. By restricting access to food, water, medicine, and fuel, creating a humanitarian catastrophe, Israel is committing a war crime under international law (again).
Yaakov Garb’s Harvard published study, analyzing Israeli military data and spatial mapping, estimates that at least 377,000 and as many as 400,000 Palestinians, half of whom are children, have “disappeared” from Gaza since October 2023, suggesting a death toll far exceeding the toll of around 69,000, due to unreported deaths from starvation, disease, and bombardment. Garb criticizes the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid sites as inaccessible and complicit in enabling the murder of unarmed civilians, highlighting the blockade’s devastating impact. The International Court of Justice (ICJ), with South Africa’s genocide case joined by Belgium, Ireland, Spain, and 11 other countries, has underscored Israel’s intent to annihilate Palestinians. Yet Israel has disregarded the ICJ's provisional rulings about taking steps to prevent genocide, shielded by its main allies, like the United States.
The crisis in Gaza is dire and demands immediate action, with the only solution being military intervention. Israel has induced a man-made famine, with dozens dying daily from starvation (along with the scores being shot and bombed by Israeli forces) as humanitarian aid is systematically obstructed at the Gaza-Egypt border. In May 2025, the UN’s humanitarian affairs chief warned that 14,000 infants faced imminent death without an immediate lifting of the blockade. But Israeli officials care little about Palestinian children dying, having openly expressed genocidal intent. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich declared in 2025, “We are destroying everything in Gaza, and the world isn’t stopping us,” while former Knesset member Moshe Feiglin labeled every Gaza child an “enemy.” In addition, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s October 2023 “Amalek speech” invoked biblical imagery to justify eradicating Gaza’s population, which he has described as an “evil” similar to the Nazis. Leaflets dropped over Gaza perversely depicting its destruction as a “righteous conquest,” framing genocide as a divine mission.
The crisis in Gaza is dire and demands immediate action, with the only solution being military intervention. Israel has induced a man-made famine, with dozens dying daily from starvation (along with the scores being shot and bombed by Israeli forces) as humanitarian aid is systematically obstructed at the Gaza-Egypt border. In May 2025, the UN’s humanitarian affairs chief warned that 14,000 infants faced imminent death without an immediate lifting of the blockade. But Israeli officials care little about Palestinian children dying, having openly expressed genocidal intent. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich declared in 2025, “We are destroying everything in Gaza, and the world isn’t stopping us,” while former Knesset member Moshe Feiglin labeled every Gaza child an “enemy.” In addition, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s October 2023 “Amalek speech” invoked biblical imagery to justify eradicating Gaza’s population, which he has described as an “evil” similar to the Nazis. Leaflets dropped over Gaza perversely depicting its destruction as a “righteous conquest,” framing genocide as a divine mission.
82%
of Jewish Israelis support ethnically cleansing all Palestinians from Gaza,
while 47% endorse biblical-style massacres of every Palestinian man, woman and child . . .
A 2025 poll published by the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz and conducted by Penn State University, found that 82% of Jewish Israelis
support ethnically cleansing all Palestinians from Gaza, while 47%
endorse biblical-style massacres of every man, woman and child,
reflecting a radicalized society with a genocidal mindset,
driven by ethno-nationalist education and leadership. These attitudes,
particularly among younger Israelis, indicate a deeply entrenched
ideology that normalizes brutal violence against Palestinians,
necessitating external intervention to halt the genocide.82% of Jewish Israelis support ethnically cleansing all Palestinians from Gaza, while 47% endorse biblical-style massacres of every Palestinian man, woman and child . . .
The complicity of nations like the United States, Germany, Canada, and the United Kingdom, exacerbates the crisis. Despite rhetorical criticism of Israel’s actions, these countries continue to supply the it with weapons and have provided diplomatic cover to the Apartheid state for decades, undermining their claims of moral leadership. The US has rushed arms to Israel since October 2023 even while the International Criminal Court (ICC) investigates Israeli leaders for war crimes and crimes against humanity, highlighting a deep hypocrisy that renders international law practically non-existent for Palestinians. Western support, particularly through arms sales and vetoes at the UN, enables Israel’s impunity, allowing the genocide to continue unchecked. This inaction implicates these nations in the slaughter, as they fail to uphold their obligations under international law while Palestinians die under bombs labelled “Made in America.”
International law provides a clear mandate for military intervention in Gaza. Article I of the Genocide Convention obliges states that the contracting parties “confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish,” and not merely to condemn it. The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine, adopted unanimously by the UN in 2005, requires states to intervene when a government perpetrates atrocities against its population, as Israel is doing in Gaza. Historical precedents demonstrate the efficacy of such interventions. In 1999, NATO’s intervention in Kosovo halted ethnic cleansing by Serbian forces, saving countless lives. In East Timor, a multinational force deployed in 1999 stopped militia violence backed by Indonesia. These interventions succeeded because the international community recognized that territorial sovereignty cannot be used as a shield to slaughter innocents, and that delaying action means more death. Gaza deserves the same urgency, as the 377,000 “disappeared” Palestinians underscore the scale of the catastrophe.
A coalition of nations, such as South Africa, Spain, Belgium, Ireland, and militarily capable states in the region like Egypt, Türkiye, and Pakistan, could deploy a humanitarian flotilla to break Israel’s blockade, protected by naval and ground forces against Israeli attacks. The flotilla would deliver food, medicine, and supplies directly to Gaza’s shores, establishing a secure corridor to alleviate the orchestrated famine. A no-fly zone, enforced by coalition air forces, would prevent Israel’s aerial bombardments which have devastated Gaza. Participating nations could declare that any Israeli attack on the flotilla constitutes an act of war, thereby deterring Israeli aggression. This model draws on the example of the 2010 Mavi Marmara flotilla, where unarmed activists attempted to break the blockade but were attacked by Israel, killing nine. A militarily protected flotilla would neutralize Israel’s ability to bomb aid convoys or execute aid workers. By securing Gaza’s airspace and coastline, the coalition could dismantle Israel’s plan to seize Gaza’s land for Jews only settlements, ensuring Palestinians’ right to self-determination and survival.
Critics may argue that military intervention risks escalation or violates sovereignty. However, Israel’s genocidal actions have already escalated the conflict to catastrophic and inhumane levels, and sovereignty cannot justify crimes against humanity and war crimes. Decades of diplomacy, sanctions, and UN resolutions have failed to curb Israel’s terrorist aggression, as evidenced by it's bombing and invading every territory on its borders, its continued illegal settlement expansion in the West Bank, and its total disregard for ICJ rulings. Garb’s study highlights the failure of current aid mechanisms, noting that US-backed GHF sites serve as tools of control rather than relief, exacerbating civilian suffering, as they have to choose between starving to death or risking their lives in the shooting gallery around these aid centres. Waiting for Israel to comply voluntarily is a futile expectation when its leaders and a significant portion of its populace advocate for the extermination of all Palestinians.
For 22 months the world has helplessly
watched as Israel has carved a path of death and destruction across Gaza. On
social media we have seen children starving in tents outside destroyed
hospitals, their bodies emaciated from starvation. We have learned about Palestinian
women raped
by Israeli soldiers as they post videos of their war crimes on social
media. Doctors perform amputations without anaesthesia, and sterilize blades
with cigarette lighters due to the lack of medical supplies. Parents carry
their dead children’s
remains in plastic bags for burial, and survivors whisper from under the rubble,
“Come get me,” their pleas drowned by global inaction. The estimate in Garb’s
report of up to 400,000 “disappeared” Palestinians, including
over 150,000 children, reveals a genocide broadcast and live streamed, yet
called “complicated” by Western leaders. The world’s failure to act has turned
international law into an illusion not just for Palestinians but for persecuted
peoples anywhere in the world.
Nations that claim to uphold the international rule of law, nations like Canada, the UK, Germany and their allies, must end their supreme hypocrisy in supplying Israel with arms while feigning concern, and either join the prosecution of Israeli leaders or support military intervention to enforce the Genocide Convention and the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine. Failure to act implicates these nations and their leaders in the genocide, as their inaction enables Israel’s impunity while Palestinian children starve and entire family lines are erased from existence under Israeli bullets, bombs and missiles.
Military intervention in the Gaza genocide is not an act of violence but the antidote to the relentless violence inflicted by Israel on helpless Palestinians. It is not the failure of law but its enforcement, a necessary step to uphold humanity’s legal and moral obligations. A humanitarian flotilla, led by an international coalition, and protected by their naval and air forces, would deliver critical aid, secure Gaza’s borders, and protect Palestinian civilians from further Israeli atrocities. Gaza cannot endure more bombed food trucks, more broken promises, or more children lost to starvation or Israeli gunfire and airstrikes. The only option left to end the carnage in Gaza is military force, and it must be deployed urgently to save the Palestinian people from extinction in Gaza by a nation whose leaders and populace have embraced genocidal policies as a trait for their society.
© 2025 The View From Here. © 2025 Fareed Khan. All Rights Reserved.
The time for hollow condemnations and diplomatic posturing by the world’s so-called “moral” nations has long expired. The genocide in Gaza demands immediate and decisive action to stop the atrocities perpetrated by a state that has descended into the epitome of evil through its systematic effort to annihilate Palestinians in Gaza. Western nations that profess solidarity with Palestinians must move beyond rhetoric and leverage their own legal systems to prosecute not only Israeli political and military leaders but also any Israeli soldier who has served in the military since October 2023, for war crimes and genocide.] The International Criminal Court’s ongoing investigations provide a framework, but domestic courts in these nations can invoke universal jurisdiction to hold accountable those responsible for the deaths of over 69,000 Palestinians and the “disappearance” of another 377,000 others, as estimated by Garb’s Harvard Dataverse study.The genocide in Gaza demands immediate and decisive action to stop the atrocities perpetrated by a state that has descended into the epitome of evil through its systematic effort to annihilate Palestinians in Gaza.
Nations that claim to uphold the international rule of law, nations like Canada, the UK, Germany and their allies, must end their supreme hypocrisy in supplying Israel with arms while feigning concern, and either join the prosecution of Israeli leaders or support military intervention to enforce the Genocide Convention and the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine. Failure to act implicates these nations and their leaders in the genocide, as their inaction enables Israel’s impunity while Palestinian children starve and entire family lines are erased from existence under Israeli bullets, bombs and missiles.
Military intervention in the Gaza genocide is not an act of violence but the antidote to the relentless violence inflicted by Israel on helpless Palestinians. It is not the failure of law but its enforcement, a necessary step to uphold humanity’s legal and moral obligations. A humanitarian flotilla, led by an international coalition, and protected by their naval and air forces, would deliver critical aid, secure Gaza’s borders, and protect Palestinian civilians from further Israeli atrocities. Gaza cannot endure more bombed food trucks, more broken promises, or more children lost to starvation or Israeli gunfire and airstrikes. The only option left to end the carnage in Gaza is military force, and it must be deployed urgently to save the Palestinian people from extinction in Gaza by a nation whose leaders and populace have embraced genocidal policies as a trait for their society.
© 2025 The View From Here. © 2025 Fareed Khan. All Rights Reserved.
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