The Future Of Humanity Will Be Decided In Gaza

There’s a reason the Nazis loom so large in our history, a reason why the story of their defeat is a collective cultural reference point, depicted regularly in films, books and music.

It’s because evil is very easy to spot.

And everyone understand what happens if you don’t stop it.

We all understand that if evil wins, humanity ends.

We may go on in our bodies, but the triumph of evil causes a terminal loss of our essence as human beings.

There’s a reason that good vs evil is the oldest story in human history.

From the Theseus and the Minotaur in ancient Greece, to the Nazis to today’s superhero films, evil is an insidious force that, if it wins, overwhelms the human spirit.

So now, wonder: what happens if you let an apocalyptic death cult go on an unrestrained genocidal rampage without consequence? I’ll tell you. Your humanity, your essence, maybe your actual bodily life, or the bodies of those you love, will eventually and inevitably be swallowed by those same violent forces.

This is why the future of the humanity will be decided in Gaza. Not in some lyrical or allegorical way, but in very real and concrete ways.

Other things matter. But right now, Gaza matters the most. Greta Thunberg understands this very clearly.

In Gaza, the absolute best of humanity are being slaughtered by the absolute worst of humanity, and in the most cowardly ways.

The mainstream media gave up telling us about the stories of the dead. Most never even tried humanising the Palestinians of Gaza to begin with.

Just yesterday a paramedic team were murdered by Israel while on their way in their ambulance to a slaughter site. The murdered paramedics were the same team who just two weeks ago rescued a little girl who was on fire as she ran through the flames of a burning school in Gaza City being used as a refugee shelter.

In Gaza, the absolute best of humanity are being slaughtered by the absolute worst of humanity, and in the most cowardly ways.

A few days before that, on the first day of Eid, photojournalist Abdulraheem Khidar returned to his home (an excised skeleton of concrete and steel but still acting as a shelter for his family) to find it flattened. He’d left in the morning to document the genocide. When he came back, the Israelis had murdered his entire extended family. His mum, dad, wife, daughter, aunts, uncles, cousins, nephews, nieces. He could only identify the bodies of four people. The rest lay scattered in pieces. His entire family, forty-eight people, vaporised for the crime of being alive in Gaza.

In Gaza, the absolute best of humanity are being slaughtered by the absolute worst of humanity, and in the most cowardly ways.

We’re witnessing a level of evil that rivals anything in history. And this evil is being carried out with full impunity and with the support of the west, with the blessing of the people we vote for and pay our taxes to. How can anything ever be the same again?

The official death toll now stands at 55,000. But this is just identified, named bodies. The Lancet and The Economist conservatively estimate 105,000 killed. Other estimates put the number of dead closer to 300,000. A Harvard data set and some extrapolation puts the number at 400,000.

If Israel gets away with mass atrocity crimes, if it gets away with genocide, if it faces no consequences for what it’s done, the window closes on a human future of decency, let alone justice.

Right now, Israel is objectively a worse case of evil and injustice than Nazi Germany. Why? Because Nazi Germans, from functionaries to journalists to Reich leaders, were tried, punished, executed. The Nazi state was dismantled. Many Nazi remnants remained of course, many Nazis lived long lives, some, infamously, were incorporated into the US security state. Right-wing German politicians to this day are the descendants of Nazis. But there was at least an effort.

The Germans were confronted militarily.

They were defeated.

There were consequences for genocide.

Israel on the other hand has been on a 77-year consequence-free rampage that has inevitably culminated in genocide. The inevitability of this is important. Greater evil flows from impunity granted to lesser evil. Let Israel get away with genocide, and nothing should be ruled out. Israel is an off-the-leash psychopathic supremacist state with nuclear weapons. We’d be stupid to think, given the right excuse, they wouldn’t drop a nuclear bomb somewhere, probably on Iran. Israeli politicians have already proposed dropping one on Gaza.

Many in Israel also have an apocalyptic mindset. Rabbis and personalities close to Israeli politicians talk often about the end of the world. Many fanatics in the Israeli government, like finance minister Bezalel Smotrich, believe biblical redemption for Jews will come when the ‘Greater Israel’ project of regional expansion (which includes the settlement of Gaza) is complete. This apocalypticism (alongside all the lobby cash of course) is a big reason why Israel has so much support from American politicians. In a poll a few years ago fifty percent of Christian evangelicals in America said they support Israel because they believe it is important for fulfilling Judeo-Christian end-times prophecy.

The future of humanity will be decided in Gaza. And it might be decided in nuclear hellfire.

Then there are the conventional weapons and the experimental AI being used in Gaza.

The Palestinians, in Gaza and the West Bank, have long been a testing ground for new weapons and military tech that the Israelis then sell to the west as ‘battle tested.’ London’s Met Police just bought 18 new ‘Sandcat’ armoured vehicles which are manufactured by Israeli weapons company Plasan and have been used extensively in Gaza. Genocide is good for business. And good for cops. Maybe the Sandcat will be used on you, your children, or someone you love if they get out of line or protest against a future injustice.

Palantir’s AI, sold to the IDF for use in Gaza and the West Bank, is going to be used on you. It was reported last week that Palantir has been commissioned by the Trump administration to create a ‘master database’ of all Americans that will use AI to merge information from across US agencies.

The future of humanity will be decided in Gaza.

Many millions of people feel this.

Which is why a 10,000-person strong convoy of buses, trucks and cars is currently on its way from Tunisia, journeying through north Africa and picking up thousands on the way, to try and break the siege of Gaza.

Which is why the protests for Gaza have never stopped. They continue every week in cities around the world. And now, high profile cultural figures are standing up for the first time and saying what needs to be said. Yesterday Pep Guardiola, the Manchester City football team manager and the most famous football manager in the world, said he ‘sees his children’ in the children being murdered in Gaza, and that if Israel isn’t stopped, ‘our children will be next.’ Musicians, from Sam Fender to Fontaines DC, are calling out Israel for genocide and displaying the Palestine flag at their gigs. This was just yesterday in Barcelona.

These interventions are hugely important and valuable. Zionists desperately want and need Israel to be seen as a normal country. When Israel’s actions are ostracised by the culture, it dents the façade of normal they indulge in and helps encourage others to speak out.

It feels like the tide is turning.

Yes it’s turning too late.

Too late for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.

Too late for those forever traumatised by what they’ve seen, what’s been done to them.

Too late to undo the horror.

Too late for our leaders forever stained by their cowardice, complicity and participation in genocide.

Yes, for many people, the world has already ended.

But it is not yet at an end.

We must continue to do what we can to support the Palestinians, to support those supporting the Palestinians, to pressure our governments to stop arming Israel, to pressure our leaders to save the Palestinians.

It is not yet too late to salvage our humanity.