As noted in Truthout and other media, this week, Israel
openly acknowledged assassinating Anas al-Sharif, the 28-year-old Pulitzer
Prize–winning journalist hailed as “the voice of Gaza.” An Israeli airstrike
deliberately targeted Anas al-Sharif and five of his Al Jazeera
colleagues—staff and freelancers—while they sought refuge in a tent designated
for journalists outside Al-Shifa Hospital.
Killing journalists is not a “tragic mistake”; it is a
calculated act of terror against those who dare to bear witness. He made clear
through his fearless reporting the horrors of genocide. He showed that Israel’s
policy of forced starvation is not a byproduct of war; it is a deliberate
policy, an ancient weapon wielded with modern precision against a trapped and
desperate people. He also showed the fierce resistance on the part of
Palestinians refusing to surrender to attempts to by Israel to exterminate them
As Amnesty International notes: "The targeted killing
of Anas al-Sharif and five other journalists on Sunday means at least 242
Palestinian journalists have been killed by Israeli forces since the beginning
of October 2023. No conflict in modern history has seen a higher number of
journalists killed. The intentional targeting and killing of journalists is a
war crime. As is the strategy of Israeli authorities that wants to stop its war
crimes from being exposed and those responsible being brought to justice."
Netanyahu’s fascist politics thrive on these crimes. They
are not aberrations; they are the scaffolding upon which his right-wing regime
stands. The bombing of homes, the silencing of cameras, the reduction of
children to statistics, these are the tools of a political order that measures
its success in erasures, ethnic and racial cleansing, and a unfathomable
politics of disposability--as we saw in Augusto Pinochet's Chile, Nazi Germany,
and other fascist regimes.
And when confronted with the evidence, Netanyahu once again
offers the cameras the smirk, the shrug, the arrogance of a man devoid of any
moral responsibility, while spewing endlessly the blatant lies that cover up
unimaginable war crimes-committed no less as a designated war criminal.
What we are witnessing with the indiscriminate killing of
thousands women and children in Gaza are not signs of reckless military
operations, accidental deaths, Hamas induced defense actions, but declarations
of power, genocidal madness; reminders that in this machinery of annihilation,
not only are the bodies of Palestinian people under siege and subject to ethnic
cleansing, but that truth itself is a target.
In Gaza and the West Bank, the project is not merely to
occupy land, but to obliterate a people’s memory, dignity, and claim to
justice. It is a war on the possibility of history itself, waged with the
confidence of those who believe they will never be held to account. This is the
essence of fascism: the conviction that some lives are disposable, some voices
intolerable, and some crimes untouchable.
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