19 March 2025

Genocidal War Resumed

By Dr. W Tayseer Shanableh          (Academic & Former Diplomat)

Netanyahu resumes his genocidal war on Gaza, this time, he has the full support of the Trump Administration!

There are many reasons for Netanyahu to resume his genocidal war against the Palestinian people in Gaza. We can summarize the main reasons in the following:

• Netanyahu is under enormous pressure being on the brink of losing office, getting convicted, and most likely going to jail. What a scenario! Let alone his serious fights with the Shin Bet (Israeli intelligence authority responsible for the domestic sphere) that have everything to do with the investigation over the security failure on October 7th. His only hope is to get Itamar Ben-Gvir, the firebrand head of the Jewish Power party back into the cabinet to secure a majority in the Knesset. With the genocidal war resumed, now Ben-Gvir is more than ready to re-join the government. 

• Trump, who returned to the white house “angry and ferrous” almost on everyone and all US allies! full of revenge spirits that one can easily read from all the names he appointed in critical positions: like Defence, State Department, CIA, and others. Trump in his new office raised a target to “achieve peace using power”! As his Vice President JD Vance said after the US struck Yemen’s Houthis: “We will use overwhelming lethal power until we achieve our goals” These goals are the American interests, no matter whether they provoke all international laws or whether this lethal power causes the death of thousands or even tens of thousands of innocent civilians! Therefore, resuming the genocidal war on Gaza is a fantasy that he wants to prove correct by using overwhelming power to kill as many people as possible and to destroy whatever is left so that the Palestinian resistance will be forced to surrender, leading to the transfer of Palestinians that would allow for ethnic cleansing!
• The US-UK attack on Yemen paved the way for Netanyahu to resume his genocidal war against Palestinians in Gaza, in parallel to the ethnic cleansing against Palestinians in the West Bank, simply by weakening the Houthis missile launching capabilities against the Zionist entity…
• Post October 7th and after the failure of the Israeli security system and the significant defeat of its military, the Zionist entity decided to restore the deterioration that was built firmly through decades which succeeded until then in providing security based on the balance of power and the enormous fear created from the so-called undefeatable strong military might of their army. Now after the genocidal war and massive destruction in Gaza, and Lebanon, as well as the severe destruction of the Syrian Army, Arab regimes have submitted totally to Trump and Netanyahu, willingly or unwillingly!!
• After almost 15 months of genocidal war that left more than 60 thousand killed and 120 thousand injured, and more than 90% of buildings and infrastructure in Gaza either totally or severely damaged, including residence buildings, hospitals, schools, mosques, churches, universities, bakeries, power stations, and water desalination stations. In almost every single structure, immediately after the ceasefire, Palestinians returned to their wrecked homes, especially in North Gaza, Netanyahu, and his generals realized their failure in ethnic cleansing Palestinians, eventually failing to achieve any of the goals they announced at the beginning of the genocidal war; Hamas is still there and very well intact and Palestinians did not flee their homeland!

• The ICJ ruled out the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza as illegal and not lawful and that actions of the Israeli army in Gaza are mounted to plausibly an act of genocide, later the ICC issued an arrest warrant against Israeli PM Netanyahu and his then Defence Minister Galant. Even though the US packed all actions of the Zionist Entity giving the Zionist entity a “card blanch” of impunity on all platforms including the UN Security Council, the fear of being arrested in more than 120 countries is still there!

The notion of “Peace Through Power” that Donald Trump's fantasy suggests, is nothing but achieving total submission of all those who dare to confront the American ambitions of regaining “absolute” control of the Middle East and its newly discovered hydrocarbon resources in the Eastern Mediterranean. We all know that beneath the Mediterranean (Gaza Offshore), there are billions of dollars’ worth of hydrocarbons that Americans want for investment!

In-plain wards, the Trump Administration is after colonizing the ME making sure that neither Russians nor Chinese would have a footstep in! For Trump (or for the Deep State that brought him back) they would do whatever it takes to achieve this goal, even if that would ignite a 3rd World War!

In an article published on Global Research in January 2015 entitled “If you can't hear the drums of war, you are deaf” Henry Kissinger (Nixon’s Secretary of State and once described as the most famous living practitioner of international statecraft) stated that the United States allowed both China and Russia to increase their military and economic capabilities to reach “permissible limits” before they (Americans) rage a devastating war to destroy these capabilities, where Kissinger sees Iran as “the last nail in the coffin of China and Russia”. Nothing in Trump’s actions is by chance or coincidence, rather these are a series of events designed to exhaust and eliminate these two global powers so that the United States can lead the new world for decades without a competitor.

Let us put this in simple words Americans would take any risk including a great war!

As expressed by Kissinger (Global Research in January 2015) -in case the Americans do not lead there is “no harm” in the world to being destroyed in a great war-