Commentary. Netanyahu, who, as we have been repeating for months, sees the war as the only way for him to stay in power.

written by Alberto Negri

Topic Middle East and North Africa

May 13, 2024

How will it end? In Rafah, one of the most heartrending dramas in the contemporary world is unfolding day after day, after months of massacres and carnage, the 1,200 Israeli deaths on October 7, the 35,000 Palestinians killed, 70 percent of them women and children, including the Jewish hostages (of whom no one really knows how many are still alive). It is a question on everyone’s mind, even the most indifferent, because one senses that here, as on the Ukraine front, our future will be decided, as well as how we will be perceived as a credible Western civilization by the global South.

At this point, the situation appears to be that of an agonizing stalemate, more and more catastrophic for the Palestinians.

This is from a humanitarian point of view, and one of pure survival. The people keep dying, with and without bombs: beside the bullets, hunger and disease are themselves enough to eliminate the Palestinians and reduce the whole people to ghosts wandering amid the rubble of Gaza. It is a material and moral degradation that directly targets their ability to resist, the very idea that they are able to exist as a people and as a nation. That’s why they call it genocide.

This is not a technical or legal definition – that matter is being........

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