Only Military Action Against Israel Can Save The Palestinians

Israel has just inflicted what eyewitness accounts on the ground are describing as the deadliest night of the genocide so far.

Some speak of over 250 dead, maybe 300 or more. Men, women and children who tried hiding from the bombs in tents and rubble. Because there is nothing left to bomb but tents and rubble. There is nowhere to shelter but in tents and under the rubble. So Israel is bombing tents and rubble.

Omar, a pharmacist and filmmaker in Gaza, posted his account of living through last night. It is devastating.

Others posted their final messages, split apart by American bombs, never to be heard from again.

By December 2023, Israel had dropped on Gaza the equivalent explosive force of two nuclear weapons.

It is now May 2025.

Gaza has been utterly annihilated.

Everything has been destroyed.

Everything.

There are two hospitals left, bombed and battered, barely functioning. Everything else, every school, every university, every library, every house, every park, every apartment block, every farm, every shop, every standing structure has been levelled or made unusable.

Israel killed the leader of Hamas in his home in Iran. Then they killed the leader of Hamas in Gaza. The Lancet estimates Israel has murdered north of 100,000 people, including tens of thousands of children. Even American peace activists have been murdered by the IDF. Starvation is the latest tactic.

Yet even after all of this death, nothing sates Israeli bloodlust.

Israel intends to kill as many people in Gaza as possible before moving on to the West Bank, where hundreds have also been killed in recent months.

The full ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians and the capture of all Palestinian land to feed Israeli expansion is the goal. Israelis have said as much on numerous occasions, even going as far as using the word Lebensraum associated with the Nazis in their attempt at European domination.

Israel will not stop unless they are forced to stop.

The few Israelis who oppose the genocide in Gaza describe a deep psychopathy at the heart of the Israeli psyche, evident in IDF soldiers dressing up in the underwear and wedding dresses of murdered Palestinian women.

The depravity and degeneracy, the complete collapse of morality demonstrated by a society that, by an overwhelming majority, supports what their country is doing to the Palestinians, should frighten us.

This imperial outpost, this modern day Nazi state only knows force, and so, twenty months of slaughter later, the only logical next step is to use military force against Israel.

There are legal precedents.

Under the UN Security Council’s Chapter VII powers, states have in the past been given the green light to stage military interventions within the borders of another state if the violence there ‘threatens international peace and security.’ It was done in Bosnia, it was done in East Timor.

The evidence of a genocide in Gaza is plain as day, every genocide scholar agrees what is happening is genocide. The moral case for war against Israel, the case for what scholars call a responsibility-to-protect military intervention, could hardly be more compelling.

Israel cannot be reasoned with. Dialogue won’t work. For twenty months the most brutal slaughter imaginable has been enacted against defenceless civilians trapped between a fence and the sea, at the mercy of a high-tech genocidal power.

There are very few things humans should go to war over, but stopping a genocide is one of them.

Military force against Israel is the only way to save the Palestinians.

If Israel is not brought to submission through force it is hard to see how the world recovers from this.

We’ve borne impotent witness to an genocide committed by a western ally. Do people understand what this really says about who we are, about our values, about our respect for human life?

Perhaps the biggest fallacy entertained by those who live in relative comfort is that the culture of impunity created by allowing a genocide to happen stops in the time and place of the genocided people. Military intervention against a genocidal state is not therefore only necessary for the Palestinians today, it is necessary for all our futures.

The best candidates to do it are Egypt and Iran. Both have the capability and the proximity. They could act with the support of countries in South America like Colombia, Brazil and Mexico whose air forces could help support a ground invasion into Gaza from the Egyptian border.

One thing for sure is that no one in Europe, despite the moral grandstanding of European leaders over their support for Ukraine, will come to the military aid of the Palestinians. Compared to Ukraine, the civilian suffering in Gaza is on a different level. Palestinians are being wiped out at an industrial scale, yet far from objecting to this genocide, far from holding a consistent moral line on violence against civilians, Europe, with a few tokenistic exceptions, supports Israeli genocide. The biggest culprits are the UK and Germany who send weapons and intelligence that help inflict unfathomable horrors against children day after day. Outside of Europe, Australia and Canada, like most of Europe, and despite what they say about Trump, have also signed an oath of fealty to America. The stench of cowardice emanating from western liberal democracies over Gaza and Israel is overwhelming.

Gaza was a test of our humanity.

The truth is that the condition of the Palestinians under Israeli apartheid has been a long-standing test of our humanity.

This new phase just makes it more obvious. More obvious that we’ve failed.

A military intervention, as wishful as it might be, could yet bring us back from the brink.

If you agree, why not write to your elected representative, wherever you are, and make the case. It can’t do any harm.

In the absence of state intervention, irregular methods of targeting Israeli interests should be explored by people with a conscience. Israeli import-export companies, tech companies and weapons companies can all be found in a location near you with a bit of research. Aside from the blocking of Elbit arms factories in the UK, all heroic acts, I’m surprised we haven’t seen more of this.

The flotilla with Greta Thunberg on board was a brave attempt at a civilian intervention, but it was doomed to failure against a country that can act with impunity and has no hesitation about killing civilians.

Other tactics must be pursued.

Just as there is a precedent for state intervention to stop genocide, there is a precedent for irregular civilian actions against states to advance the cause of ending the injustice of apartheid.

In the 1980s, South African companies in the west were targeted by activists as a way to impose costs and make it more costly for them to operate. A tin of paint or a humble pebble can force the hiring of extra security staff, the need to take out more expensive insurance or the installation of new security features at offices and factory sites.

Gaza is the rock on which the moral credibility of the post-war liberal order has been dashed.

The genocide of the Palestinians, so openly announced and enacted in full view of the world, will be looked back on as the most shameful episode in modern human history.

People will ask what we did.

I’d like to have a decent answer.