{"id":313675,"date":"2025-08-15T06:08:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T06:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=313675"},"modified":"2025-08-16T06:54:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T06:54:01","slug":"the-west-is-in-panic-as-israels-plan-for-full-control-of-gaza-heralds-a-new-nakba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=313675","title":{"rendered":"The West Is in Panic as Israel\u2019s Plan for \u2018full Control\u2019 of Gaza Heralds a New Nakba"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jonathan Cook \u2013 jonathan-cook.net Aug 13, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Netanyahu\u2019s mass ethnic cleansing strategy pulls the rug out from under the West\u2019s cherished pretext for supporting Israeli criminality: the fabled two-state solution<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

If you thought western capitals were finally losing patience with Israel\u2019s engineering of a famine in Gaza nearly two years into the genocide, you may be disappointed.<\/p>\n

As ever, events have moved on \u2013 even if the extreme hunger and malnourishment of the two million people of Gaza have not abated.<\/p>\n

Western leaders are now expressing \u201coutrage\u201d, as the media call it, at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s plan<\/a> to \u201ctake full control\u201d of Gaza and \u201coccupy\u201d it. At some point in the future, Israel is apparently ready to hand the enclave over<\/a> to outside forces unconnected to the Palestinian people.<\/p>\n

The Israeli cabinet agreed last Friday on the first step: a takeover of Gaza City<\/a>, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are huddled in the ruins, being starved to death. The city will be encircled, systematically depopulated and destroyed, with survivors presumably herded southwards to a \u201chumanitarian city\u201d \u2013 Israel\u2019s new term for a concentration camp \u2013 where they will be penned up<\/a>, awaiting death or expulsion.<\/p>\n

At the weekend, foreign ministers from the UK, Germany, Italy, Australia and other western nations issued a joint statement decrying the move, warning<\/a> it would \u201caggravate the catastrophic humanitarian situation, endanger the lives of the hostages, and further risk the mass displacement of civilians\u201d.<\/p>\n

Germany, Israel\u2019s most fervent backer in Europe and its second-biggest arms supplier, is apparently so dismayed that it has vowed to \u201csuspend\u201d \u2013 that is, delay \u2013 weapons shipments<\/a> that have helped Israel to murder and maim hundreds of thousands of Palestinians over the past 22 months.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu is not likely to be too perturbed. Doubtless, Washington will step in and pick up any slack for its main client state in the oil-rich Middle East.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Netanyahu has once again shifted the West\u2019s all-too-belated focus on the indisputable proof of Israel\u2019s ongoing genocidal actions \u2013 evidenced by Gaza\u2019s skeletal children \u2013 to an entirely different story.<\/p>\n

Now, the front pages are all about the Israeli prime minister\u2019s strategy in launching another \u201cground operation\u201d, how much pushback he is getting from his military commanders, what the implications will be for the Israelis still held captive in the enclave, whether the Israeli army is now overstretched, and whether Hamas can ever be \u201cdefeated\u201d and the enclave \u201cdemilitarised\u201d.<\/p>\n

We are returning once again to logistical analyses of the genocide \u2013 analyses whose premises ignore the genocide itself. Might that not be integral to Netanyahu\u2019s strategy?<\/p>\n

Life and death<\/strong><\/h2>\n

It ought to be shocking that Germany has been provoked into stopping its arming of Israel \u2013 assuming it follows through \u2013 not because of months of images of Gaza\u2019s skin-and-bones children that echo those from Auschwitz, but only because Israel has declared that it wants to \u201ctake control\u201d of Gaza.<\/p>\n

It should be noted, of course, that Israel never stopped controlling Gaza and the rest of the Palestinian territories \u2013 in contravention of the fundamentals of international law, as the International Court of Justice ruled<\/a> last year. Israel has had absolute control over the lives and deaths of Gaza\u2019s people every day \u2013 bar one \u2013 since its occupation of the tiny coastal enclave many decades ago.<\/p>\n

On 7 October 2023, thousands of Palestinian fighters briefly broke out of the besieged prison camp they and their families had endured after Israel momentarily dropped its guard.<\/p>\n

Gaza has long been a prison that the Israeli military illegally controlled by land, sea and air, determining who could enter and leave. It kept Gaza\u2019s economy throttled, and put the enclave\u2019s population \u201con a diet<\/a>\u201d that saw rocketing malnourishment among its children long before the current starvation campaign.<\/p>\n

Trapped behind a highly militarised fence since the early 1990s, unable to access their own coastal waters, and with Israeli drones constantly surveilling them and raining down death from the air, the people of Gaza viewed it more as a modernised concentration camp<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But Germany and the rest of the West were fine supporting all that. They have continued selling Israel arms, providing it with special trading status, and offering diplomatic cover.<\/p>\n

Only as Israel carries through to a logical conclusion its settler-colonial agenda of replacing the native Palestinian people with Jews, is it apparently time for the West to vent its rhetorical \u201coutrage\u201d.<\/p>\n

Two-state trickery<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Why the pushback now? In part, it is because Netanyahu is pulling the rug out from under their cherished, decades-long pretext for supporting Israel\u2019s ever-greater criminality: the fabled two-state solution. Israel conspired in that trickery with the signing of the Oslo Accords<\/a> in the mid-1990s.<\/p>\n

The goal was never the realisation of a two-state solution. Rather, Oslo created a \u201cdiplomatic horizon\u201d for \u201cfinal status issues\u201d \u2013 which, like the physical horizon, always remained equally distant, however much ostensible movement there was on the ground.<\/p>\n

Lisa Nandy, Britain\u2019s culture secretary, peddled precisely this same deceit last week as she extolled the virtues of the two-state solution. She told Sky News<\/a>: \u201cOur message to the Palestinian people is very, very clear: There is hope on the horizon.\u201d<\/p>\n

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UK Government Minister Lisa Nandy:<\/p>\n

\u2018Our message to the Palestinian people is very clear. There is hope on the horizon.\u2019<\/p>\n

Palestinians are expected to believe words of \u2018hope\u2019 from a Minister of a government that has aided and supported Israel\u2019s genocide against them pic.twitter.com\/appizVm0QY<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Going Underground (@GUnderground_TV) August 6, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n