Israel’s Goal Is Sly, Slow, Mass Murder and Starvation
MAY 20, 2025
It was quickly obvious to me, as it was to so many people, that Bibi Netanyahu and the Israeli government was engaged in a genocide in slow motion, using the October 7th Hamas attack to justify the most ruthless reprisals against more than two million Palestinians in Gaza.
Caitlin Johnstone’s new piece, “Israeli Officials Explain Balancing Act Between Overt Genocide And Maintaining Western Support,” cites the words of Israel’s own government to prove this. Israeli officials are open about it. They make no apologies. They would like to starve and kill more quickly, but they need to go slow so as to maintain support in the U.S. Senate.
I wrote the article below in early December 2023. It was obvious then, as it is today, what Israel’s goal is. Gaza (and the West Bank) is to be ethnically cleansed. Full stop. The main challenge for Israel is to do it in a way that’s palatable to politicians and supporters in the United States.
A palatable genocide. Just think of that idea for a moment.
Anyhow, here’s my article from December 2023, unchanged.
Biden to Israel: Don’t Ethnically Cleanse Too Fast
Don’t Bomb and Kill Too Much, Bibi
DEC 02, 2023
Have you ever heard parents tell their unruly children: Don’t run in the store too fast. Don’t slug your friend too hard. Don’t eat all the candy. Instead of telling them to stop running in the store, to stop slugging their friend, to stop hogging all the candy.
I feel like that’s the Biden and Blinken approach to Israel: Don’t ethnically cleanse Gaza too fast. Just slow down a bit. Don’t make it too obvious. Don’t be too ruthless.
Biden and Blinken are those permissive parents who are dominated by an unruly child. Let’s call the child “Bibi.” They don’t dare tell Bibi to stop. They don’t dare punish him. They don’t dare make a scene, because Bibi will throw a tantrum and make their lives hell. So they allow Bibi to do whatever the hell he wants to do, except just a bit quieter, or slower, or less violent. They enable the child, in short, and indeed Biden and Blinken give Bibi more “clubs” (as in 2000-pound bombs and Hellfire missiles) so he can keep slugging other kids with even more relish.
Speaking of enabling, I got my daily report today from the New York Times on what’s happening in the “Israel-Hamas War.” Note the framing here: the idea this is a war between equals, when Israel is an overwhelmingly powerful nation-state and Hamas consists of maybe 20,000 lightly-armed fighters. Anyhow, here’s the summary:
Israel-Hamas War
- Israel said it had launched 200 strikes into Gaza since fighting resumed yesterday. Air-raid sirens in Israel warned of possible incoming rockets.
- Gazan officials accused Israel of striking southern Gaza, where many displaced Palestinians are sheltering.
- Antony Blinken, the U.S. secretary of state, blamed Hamas for the cease-fire’s end and said he had seen signs that Israel had begun to take new steps to protect Palestinian civilians.
- The resumption of fighting left dozens of hostages still in Gazaand reduced the amount of aid entering the enclave, which had increased during the truce.
Let’s take a look at those bulleted points.
- The powerful Israeli military has launched 200 strikes against Gaza, killing hundreds of innocent Palestinians, which goes unmentioned, even as small rockets from Hamas may (or may not) have been launched against Israel.
- Gazan officials “accused” Israel of striking southern Gaza: Is there any doubt here? Where “many” displaced Palestinians are sheltering: How many? What type of shelter is available to them? Hasn’t Israeli military action “displaced” more than a million Palestinians, most of whom have no real shelter to speak of?
- Blinken blames Hamas: What a surprise! And how is Israel protecting civilians in Gaza when they’re launching 200 “strikes” against them?
- Apparently, the only hostages that matter are the ones held in Gaza. Israel’s mass incarceration of Palestinians, including children, goes unmentioned.
Again, Israel is held blameless; Hamas is responsible for everything bad that has happened, is happening, and will happen in Gaza. Because our child Bibi can do no wrong.
Don’t bomb too much, Bibi. Don’t kill too many other children. Don’t ethnically cleanse too fast. There: that’s my good boy. That’s my little angel.
Bracing Views 
“A palatable genocide. Just think of that idea for a moment.”
Indeed, are the Talmudic scholars pondering that one?
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It has been Israel’s goal since the occupation after the 1967 war to make life so miserable for the Palestinians that they would lose hope and leave. As time passed and it was clear none were leaving, the misery imposed reached new levels. A novelty at the time, the introduction of “skunk water” was a step in that direction. The stuff has a terrible stink that cannot be washed off and lasts for days. It got to the point where the spraying trucks were hosing down entire Palestinian towns with the intent of getting into homes and saturating furniture and bedding. Then came the beginning of settler attacks on Palestinian farmers, burning of Palestinian orchards, etc.
Hitler was out to exterminate the Jews, but never did he announce it to the world and explain exactly how he was going about doing it. This bold assertion of extermination by Israel is arrogance beyond measure and removes any doubt that the Israeli government does not consider the Palestinians as human beings, but as a pestilence to be removed by the true owners of the land. The IDF is in accord or there would be refusals by troops to carry it out.
This is all possible because of one man, Donald Trump. With Trump on board, Israel need not care what the world thinks. The only reason to voice the plans is to boast of them, showing Israel to be as powerful as any country in the world, a fact due to the power of Zionist money to animate the US government. Just as it was with the Nazis, we are seeing pure hatred in operation, sustained over 19 months.
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I would just slightly modify your spot-on comment to say it’s not just Trump, though he’s the latest one holding the bag, it goes back to every US president from Truman onward, though JFK wanted to take a step in the right direction by wanting to compel AIPAC’s precursor organizations to register as a foreign agent. This was in May 1963, six months before…
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Israel’s actions are TERRIBLE, but our support and complicity are MUCH WORSE in my mind. Is our entire U.S. Senate on Israel’s payroll? Shall we call this Better Government through BRIBERY?
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I read that Elias Rodriguez from Chicago left a manifesto. Wondering if it will mention Bracing Views…
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It’s far more likely to mention Israel’s murderous actions, don’t you think?
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Yep, keep on inciting. I wonder how Israel will respond, both in America and beyond? Methinks of Little Bill Dagget in Unforgiven: “I’m gonna hurt you. And not gentle like before, but bad.” And the mass suicide in Gaza continues…
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“Mass suicide”: so the Palestinians in Gaza are killing themselves? I’m so glad it’s not bombs, bullets, shells, and starvation, among other causes. So happy to discover the U.S. and Israel share no responsibility for this “mass suicide.”
Take a close look at Gaza today. It looks like Berlin in May 1945. But I guess the Palestinians did that too.
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The difference in the horrific acts carried out by Elias Rodriguez, of Chicago, and the Zionists, of Israel and Washington, D.C., is that one was driven by moral derangement to commit the act that he did, whereas for the other it has been a matter of longstanding deliberate policy.
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You wish. In reality, his actions only serve to support the opinion that Hamas and their sympathizers are less than human.
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“Hamas, like all resistance groups from the African National Congress to the Irish Republic Army, is demonized and misunderstood.
“Hamas is not, despite what Israel and Washington say, a terrorist organization – although like most resistance groups, including the Jewish militias that created the state of Israel, it has used terrorism as a tactic. Hamas is a religious, nationalist political movement. It does not hold the Palestinians in Gaza hostage. It has broad popular support among Palestinians, largely because of the failure of the Palestine Liberation Organization, or PLO, to deliver the promises made with Israel in the Oslo Accords, but also because its dogged resistance to the Israeli attack on Gaza.
“Indeed, since the Israeli attacks it has become lionized throughout the Muslim world. The ferocity of the Israeli violence against Hamas, including the routine assassination and imprisonment of its leadership, has failed to dismantle the organization. To outsiders the intransigence of Hamas, which in its 1988 charter called for Israel’s destruction, and which carried out suicide bombings in Israeli cities, fires rockets into Israel and led the incursion into Israel that left some 1,200 Israeli dead, is dismissed by Israel and Washington as evidence of the group’s fanaticism.
“Because those on the outside do not understand what when into making Hamas, the steady drip of humiliation, violence, and impoverishment that define Israel’s occupation of the Palestinians, Hamas and its ideology is incomprehensible. But from the Palestinian perspective, Israel has left the Palestinians with no other choice.” ~ Chris Hedges
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-chris-hedges-report-with-paola-caridi?utm_source=publication-search
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The manifesto is here: The Israel Embassy Shooter Manifesto – Ken Klippenstein and it demonstrates a solid knowledge of what has happened in Israel/Palestine.
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Solid knowledge! He deserves a Bracing Views “A” !
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