08/12/2025
*Imagine holding your starving child in the dark, listening to bombs fall, knowing the world could stop it but chooses not to. That’s Gaza tonight*
The Brutal Truth
Call it what you want — “self-defense,” “conflict,” “security.” But strip away the PR slogans and you’re looking at a modern-day N**i regime: ethnic cleansing, collective punishment, starvation, and the industrial-scale destruction of human life. This isn’t about Hamas. If it were, they wouldn’t be flattening entire neighborhoods, bulldozing farmland, and bombing refugee camps full of children who have never picked up a weapon. This is about land — stealing it, piece by piece, until nothing remains for the people who have lived there for generations.
A History They Don’t Teach You
This didn’t begin on October 7th. It didn’t even begin in 2007 when Israel imposed its blockade on Gaza, choking off food, water, medicine, and freedom of movement. It began with the Nakba in 1948 — over 750,000 Palestinians forcibly expelled from their homes when the state of Israel was created. Entire villages erased, families scattered, heritage stolen. Since then, it has been decade after decade of displacement, occupation, and apartheid — documented not by “radicals,” but by international human rights organizations, the UN, and historians who refuse to whitewash the record.
The Lie of “Security”
The world is being told this is about “Israel defending itself.” Defending itself from whom? Children with no clean water? Grandmothers who can’t leave the strip because the borders are sealed? A population where 50% are under 18, living in what even the UN calls an open-air prison? If this is “defense,” then the word has no meaning left. This is punishment for existing in the wrong place, with the wrong identity, under the wrong flag.
The Role of the U.S.
And let’s be clear: Israel isn’t doing this alone. The United States is supplying the bombs, the bullets, and the political cover. Billions in military aid, vetoes at the UN to block ceasefires, and shameless propaganda to frame the victims as the aggressors. If the U.S. truly cared about peace, it would cut off the weapons, demand accountability, and enforce the same international laws it claims to uphold elsewhere. But peace is not the goal — control is.
Imagine It Was You
If this feels abstract to you, make it personal. Imagine you’re sitting on the floor of your apartment in Toronto or New York or London, and the walls start shaking from airstrikes. Your child is crying because they haven’t eaten in two days. There is no water, no electricity, no medicine. You pray for morning, but the morning brings more smoke, more rubble, more bodies. And the world watches, shrugs, and changes the channel — because they’ve been told your life matters less.
The Myth of “Two Sides”
People love to say, “Well, there are two sides to every story.” But when one side is trapped behind walls and barbed wire, starving and dying under drone fire, and the other side controls the air, the sea, the borders, and the weapons — this isn’t a war. It’s an ex*****on. And pretending otherwise is just moral cowardice dressed up as “nuance.”
The Price of Silence
Silence isn’t neutral here. Every moment you say nothing, bombs are falling on schools, hospitals, and aid convoys. Babies are dying in incubators because the fuel for generators was blocked. Doctors are amputating limbs without anesthesia. You can’t sit this out and claim to care about human rights. Your voice might not stop the bombs, but your silence guarantees they will keep falling.
This is Genocide
The word “genocide” isn’t hyperbole. It’s the deliberate destruction of a people — physically, culturally, and historically. And it’s happening in front of our eyes, livestreamed on our phones. History will remember who spoke up and who hid behind excuses. It will remember who stood with the oppressed and who sided with their killers.
The Moral Choice
At the end of the day, this isn’t complicated. You either believe all human beings have the right to live free from occupation, starvation, and mass killing — or you don’t. You either stand against genocide, or you help enable it. You can’t say “Never Again” for one group and “They had it coming” for another. The test is now. And the world is failing.
