NOW, when Israel performs a “final solution” in Gaza, when it is far too late for dissent to make the difference, the tide slowly begins to turn. Now that Gaza is flattened, transformed into pits in common and rubble, people who are silent in the last 19 months are slowly starting to speak. Now that Israel and the United States do not even try to claim that they do not intend to empty Gaza and the West Bank of the Palestinians, to “take control” of all land, some criticisms have started to take place.
In the United Kingdom, they released the word “e”. After 19 months of genocidal violence and almost three months of a famine campaign, the United Kingdom has decided to describe the situation as huge. The United Kingdom, with France and Canada, has threatened – and I am sure that the leaders of Israel tremble in their boots on this subject – that there could be a “concrete” response if mass murder and famine continue.
Meanwhile, there was a slight change in the media coverage. Instead of simply parrobating the discussion of the Israeli government, the main media figures such as Piers Morgan are starting to challenge Israeli spokespersons on the reasons why the international media has not been freely authorized in Gaza to see what is happening for themselves.
All this is too little, too late. This will not bring the little Hind Rajab, a five -year -old girl who was killed when 335 bullets were dismissed by Israeli soldiers in the car in which the terrified child was trapped. Or the workers of the Haid executed by Israel and buried in shallow tombs.
He will not reconstruct hospitals, children’s gardens, IVF centers and universities that have been systematically leveling by Israel. This will not give children in Gaza – the largest cohort of children amputated in the world – their members. It will not solve long -term damage that malnutrition and almost two years of schooling have done a generation.
The criticism we see now is simply an asscient exercise. The performative opposition, so that in the future, when the real scale of the massacre in Gaza is clear, the politicians and the personalities of the media responsible for the activation and the justification of this horror for 19 months can say: “Look! I said something! I did not stay!”
And what will you say? When future generations read on Gaza with horror and wonder how the Western world, with all its moral superiority, its Rules based on rules And his emphasis on international human rights law, allowed that a genocide in difficulty occurs, what will you say? When future generations learn that, for 19 months, we woke up every morning to videos of bright children bright – bombed with weapons that the American taxpayer helped pay and that the Western world helped to justify – will you be able to say that you took the floor?
Many ordinary people will be able to keep their heads high and say that they were not silent; Whether they use the platforms or the privileges they had. Logan Rozos, a NYU student who had retained his diploma because he used his start speech to recognize “the atrocities that are currently performing in Palestine”, could say that he was not silent. The students expelled from the University of Columbia for having protested could say that they were putting their future at stake in the name of justice. Actors like Melissa Barrera, who was dismissed from Scream 7 on her pro-Palestine messages, may say that she has prioritized integrity during her career.
People with real power, however, will not be able to say as much; They will not be able to wash the blood with their hands. It seems likely that all this horror will ultimately be pinned over Benjamin Netanyahu while others are trying to relax. But it is not only the genocide of Netanyahu. This is the genocide of Biden-Harris; The Trump-Vance genocide; The Keir Starmer and David Lammy genocide. This is the genocide of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. It is the genocide of the consumer media. The list continues.
We would not be where we are today without the systematic dehumanization of the Palestinians by the Western media and the suppression of pro-Palestinian discourse. We would not be here if Western journalists and Joe Biden had not made the consent of the genocide by repeating the incendiary lie according to which Hamas had beheaded babies. We would not be here if the Biden administration had really worked towards a ceasefire instead of lying about their efforts and giving Israel Carte Blanche to do everything he loved. Finally, history will judge all these people.
But it may be a pile wish. Maybe I’m naive by thinking that even if all the Palestinians are sent into exile in Libya and Gaza is transformed into a Trump brand station, there will never be an account. After all, how many Americans or Europeans really know the Nakba? How many people know the operation of Israel “Cast Thy Pread” in 1948 where drinking water in Palestinian villages was poisoned? How many Americans know Rachel Corrie know, the young non -violent activist of Washington who was killed by an Israeli bulldozer as she was trying to save Palestinian houses in Gaza from destruction in 2003?
Since the Nakba, the Palestinian voices have been actively removed and the Israeli atrocities have been minimized. (A Palestinian writer I know had an article on Palestine mapping from a very prestigious American magazine several years ago after refusing to remove the discussion of the NAKBA.) You will have heard of all the atrocities committed by a Palestinian. We will have told you again and again that it all started on October 7, 2023.
It is too late for real justice in Gaza now. We can never bring the dead children back. We cannot erase what happened. But it is not too late for responsibility. The atrocities must be documented. The dead in Gaza must be counted properly so that we know how many people have been murdered. The media must stop the parrot of the official figure of more than 55,000 people who died without putting this in context and noting that when you explain indirect deaths after famine, illness or cold, the actual number of deaths is probably extremely higher.
If you have stayed silent so far, telling yourself that all this is far too complicated for you to speak, it is not too late to raise your voice. What is happening in Gaza is different from horrors that occur in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo because, if you are in the West, This happens on your behalf. This occurs with your tax money and with the help of your leaders. If you are in the United States, your elected representatives have pronounced a standing ovation for this genocide. We are all accomplices. Although some of us are much more accomplices than others.
So, again, think about what you mean to future generations when they ask what you have done right now. Silence is not a neutrality. And your silence will not be forgotten. As Martin Luther King Jr said: “In the end, we will not remember the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
