The brutal war launched by Israel on the Gaza Strip in response to the Hamas attack of 7 October 2023, or Operation Swords of Iron to give it its official name, was a major landmark in the blood-soaked history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This was the eighth Israeli military offensive in Gaza since Operation Cast Lead of December 2008. It was also the most savage, destructive, and lethal attack with a death toll that exceeded by far the combined total of the previous seven offensives.
Providing Israel with the weapons of mass murder as well as diplomatic protection at the UN, make America, Britain, and much of the European Union not only complicit but enablers of Israel’s egregious war crimes. Noam Chomsky observed, that “Settler colonialism is the most extreme and vicious form of imperialism.” There is no better illustration of this fundamental truth than Israel’s long and savage war against the Palestinian people.
