Soon 'Palestine Once Existed'

"If nothing happens, in a month, there will be no more Palestinians left in Gaza."

Soon ‘Palestine once existed’.

They are building extermination camps in Rafah. This is not hyperbole or metaphor. It is happening now, today, as we scroll through social media feeds and debate the semantics of genocide while Palestinian children starve under a blockade that even the most callous imperial powers have finally, belatedly acknowledged.

The machinery of death has been operating in plain sight for almost two years, its mechanisms documented in meticulous detail, its architects boasting of their plans while Western leaders clasped their hands in feigned concern…for the Israelis.

Now, the mask has fallen completely. We are witnessing Israel's final solution for Gaza, and the question that will define our generation is simple: Will we stop it? No, really. Will we bloody stop it?

"We are entering the final solution phase of what's happening in Gaza," says Palestinian-Syrian journalist Laith Marouf, speaking from Beirut with the certainty of someone who has witnessed too many horrors to traffic in exaggeration. "We are watching as the Zionist colony is building extermination camps in the Rafah region and has now declared almost 80% of Gaza as a kill zone."

“While Palestinian children scream in agony under Israeli bombs, Muhammad Bin Salman — this perfect Arab stereotype — smiles beatifically alongside Trump”

Europeans — The Arsonists Shocked at the Scale of Their Fire

The West's thin veneer of moral outrage arrives two years too late. France, Canada, and the UK have issued statements condemning Israel's actions, threatening targeted sanctions and declaring, "We will not stand by while the Netanyahu government pursues these egregious actions." Twenty-three nations acknowledge that "Israel blocked humanitarian aid entering Gaza for over two months. Food, medicines, and essential supplies are exhausted. The population faces starvation."

Oh yes, they "face" starvation. They endlessly "face" starvation. Just like the Palestinians endlessly "lost" forty-five thousand people, of which "fifteen thousand" were children. These clinical, antiseptic terms—"face," "lost," "casualties"—sanitize what we're witnessing. Palestinians aren't "facing" starvation; they are being deliberately starved to death as policy. They haven't "lost" lives; their lives have been violently taken from them.

The true death toll isn't the carefully curated official count stuck at 45,000 for more than a year, but probably exceeds half a million Palestinians—a number hinted at when Trump casually mentioned there were "one eight, one nine million left in Gaza."

These same Western governments spent the past two years arming Israel, shielding it from international consequence, and silencing dissent within their own borders. They "intervened on the side of the Zionist colony, fully aided it financially and militarily, and rounded up the largest military buildup since World War II, including the largest flotilla of warships on the shores of Palestine and Yemen to stop anyone from intervening," Marouf reminds us. Their condemnations now are the moral equivalent of arsonists expressing shock at the scale of a fire they methodically fueled.

Arab Slaves to White Man

Meanwhile, we witness one of the most obscene spectacles in modern history: Arab capitalists standing in rapturous ovation for the architect of Palestinian annihilation. While Palestinian children scream in agony under Israeli bombs, Muhammad Bin Salman — this perfect Arab stereotype, this meticulously crafted Hollywood Bogeyman, this precise image of what it means to be an "Arab" in the eyes of the Westerner — smiles beatifically alongside Trump, granting the Western world legitimacy for their most vile stereotypes of the Arab world.

“Yessah Massah, take my money ‘bowss’….” — MBS cozying up to the world’s most depraved genocidal maniac slaughtering his Arab kin.

The tableau is almost medieval in its depravity — except that medieval times were less depraved. While Palestinians are literally being burned and slaughtered, these Arab capitalist vassals, these sexually depraved cockroaches of history, prostrate themselves before the very monsters orchestrating the genocide of their Arab brothers and sisters. They sign away their national wealth — the $2 trillion in "great deals" Trump boasts of securing — in what amounts to blood money that has been footing the bill for the genocide of the Palestinians and finances every intervention that the United States and the empire as a whole is conducting everywhere around the globe.

It is a moment of such breathtaking moral bankruptcy that future generations will struggle to comprehend it — the perfect distillation of imperial power, colonial subservience and capital’s total corruption of the human soul played out on a global stage while Gaza burns.

The End is Here

The humanitarian crisis in Gaza has reached its terminal phase. Every mechanism designed to prevent such atrocities has failed. The United Nations has been reduced to issuing impotent statements. International Criminal Court investigations proceed at a glacial pace while bodies pile in mass graves. Protest marches are laughed at by the ruling classes. Western media outlets that spent months amplifying unverified Israeli claims about October 7 have gone silent about the most brutal war crimes committed against Palestinians.

To refresh your memory, read this UN report, or this one. No, seriously, read them. I dare you.

"If no one intervenes directly right now militarily, the Palestinians in Gaza will be exterminated," Marouf warns. Not through mass expulsion or ethnic cleansing, but through deliberate killing. "The Israelis openly are declaring they're going to kill every Palestinian and that nobody will stop them."

Time has run out. "If nothing happens, there will be no more Palestinians left in Gaza in a month," Marouf states.

We stand at the precipice of an atrocity that will define our era. The institutions we built after the Holocaust to prevent such horrors have been exposed as hollow, their enforcement mechanisms toothless against Western-backed genocide. The promises of "never again" ring empty as we watch, in real time, the systematic extermination of an innocent people trapped in what has become the world's largest concentration camp.

Why this brutality, you ask? These poor souls committed the unforgivable sin of existing on land desired by others. For thousands of years, Palestinians have inhabited this beautiful land, only to find themselves, once again, targeted by (Ashkenazi) white European settlers who will take what they desire by any means necessary. The colonial script remains unchanged—only the weaponry has evolved.

Two years ago, when Israel began its campaign of collective punishment against Gaza, we were told it was about Hamas. When they bombed hospitals, we were told Hamas was hiding there. When they blocked food, water, and medicine, we were told it was Hamas. When they killed journalists, doctors, and UN workers, we were told they were Hamas. When they sniped babies, they said they'd turn into Hamas terrorists. When they starved mothers to death they told us it was because they would birth Hamas fighters. When they obliterated entire neighborhoods, we were told it was necessary for Israel's security against Hamas.

Now, as they build extermination camps in Rafah, what new lies will we tell ourselves?

Endlösung der Palästinafrage

The machinery of death operates with industrial efficiency while we debate whether to call it genocide. Palestinian children starve while Western leaders issue careful statements condemning "disproportionate" force. The language of human rights has been stripped of meaning, deployed selectively to shield the powerful while condemning the weak.

History will judge us not by our statements of concern or social media posts of solidarity, but by whether we allowed this final solution to proceed. There will be no pleading ignorance, no claiming we didn't know. We know. The question is whether we care enough to stop it.

The Palestinian people of Gaza stand at the edge of annihilation. Their fate – and our moral standing – hangs in the balance. The time for statements and sanctions has passed. Either we act now — now — to stop this genocide, or we accept our place alongside those who watched other genocides unfold and did nothing.

The choice is ours. The time is now. The extermination camps are being built.

- Karim

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