In this opinion video, David Hearst, editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye, examines how Israel’s Ramadan massacre in Gaza, carried out with Washington’s approval, marks a new era in global politics.
At 02:20 on Tuesday, Israel launched mass attacks on 100 targets, deliberately timing them during suhoor, the pre-dawn meal of Ramadan, to inflict maximum civilian casualties. More than 400 Palestinians were killed, including 170 children.
US President Donald Trump not only gave Israel’s leader Benjamin Netanyahu the green light for these attacks but also shattered the credibility of any ceasefire or treaty brokered by the West.
Hearst argues that Netanyahu’s brutal resumption of the war on Gaza proves that US-backed ceasefires are meaningless. With air strikes also hitting Yemen, Gaza, Lebanon and Syria, Trump has abandoned his pledge to end wars, instead positioning the US as a rogue actor on the global stage.
For Netanyahu, this war is about more than Gaza. It is about dodging corruption charges and clinging to power.
Meanwhile, religious Zionists, now the most powerful group in Israel, see the Gaza war not as a military operation but as the army of God’s vengeance in action.
Britain and Europe remain complicit, unwilling to confront Israel’s massacres, illegal sieges and violations of international law.
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While European leaders denounce Trump’s plans to carve up Ukraine with Russia, they turn a blind eye to the ongoing slaughter in Gaza, exposing the selective nature of their so-called moral leadership.
But Hearst warns that this is far from the end of the story. Neither Hamas nor the Palestinian people will disappear.
And just as Tony Blair’s war in Iraq destroyed his legacy, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s complicity in Gaza’s genocide could lead to his own political downfall.
Whoever inherits the wreckage of the Trump era must face one undeniable reality: the West’s claim to moral leadership is gone – permanently.
Produced by: MiddleEastEye
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- Galakkan pembangunan saksama, lestari serta tangani krisis alam sekitar
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- Selamatkan demokrasi dan angkatkan keluhuran undang-undang
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