Posted originally on Apr 16, 2025 by Martin Armstrong 

It is no secret that US politicians are beholden to their AIPAC partners. Anyone who criticizes Bibi or Israel is deemed antisemitic, as the Israeli president recently called Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson, who are the only two major conservative voices speaking out against Israeli influence. The US sent over $30 billion to fund Israel’s war on Palestine, with $12 billion coming from the Trump Administration. Fifteen Democrats voted against continuing to fund Israel’s war on Palestine, but were outnumbered as every Republican and some Democrats insisted America must continue to fund its vassal state.

Let me be blunt—Palestinians cannot leave Gaza without approval from Israel. Two-thirds of Gaza has been declared a “no-go” zone by Israel. At the beginning of the month, the largest displacement since October 2023 occurred when Rafah and Gaza City were forced to evacuate. The Rafah Crossing in Egypt closed in March as Egypt does not wish to coordinate with Israel, believing the nation has violated the 1979 peace treaty. Israel has closed off its Erez Crossing to fleeing Palestinians. There is no safe route out of Gaza.

As of March 2, all aid to Gaza has been completely blocked. Food prices have soared by over 450%, but no aid or resources can reach Gaza. Around 66% of households no longer have access to water. WFP reports state that over 89,000 tons of food have been left to rot at the borders of Gaza as humanitarian workers cannot enter. There is no fuel. There is no transportation. There is no option for hospitals to remain open. As of March 9, all electricity has been cut off to Gaza.

Israel has destroyed everything within 1.5 km of its border with Palestine, including farms, factories, and homes. Benjamin Netanyahu denies that there is an ongoing ethnic cleansing of Gaza.

Article II of the Genocide Convention classifies a genocide as:

1. A mental element: the “intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such”; and
2. A physical element, which includes the following five acts, enumerated exhaustively:

• Killing members of the group
• Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group
• Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part
• Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group
• Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group

You can decide for yourself. The people of Gaza cannot leave. Hamas is using its own people as human shields, and they cannot escape Hamas or Israel. There is no Palestinian army to battle. The US is building one of the largest military bases in Lebanon to combat Hezbollah. We still do not know how Hamas broke through the Iron Dome. Civilians in Palestine who survive the bombings will starve, but at least governments can replace Gaza with the “Riviera of the Middle East” with the help of US taxpayers.