Seven months and one day have passed since Hamas carried out the execrable massacre of at least 1,200 people on October 7, 2023 and the Netanyahu Government also began a no less execrable massacre of Gazans. I don’t remember if that same day they achieved a tie in victims, but it was clear that their thirst for revenge went far beyond a tie.
In seven months and one day, at least 35,000 deaths have been recorded. The slaughterers thus please the cruel, harsh, implacable and heartless god of Deuteronomy, the last book of the Torah, where we read: “You must not feel sorry, life for life will be paid, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, a foot per foot.” And so they do, under the orders of the current ultra-Orthodox Netanyahu Government, in devout compliance with the Old Testament today modernized by the ruling Likud, which demands thirty eyes for an eye, thirty teeth for a tooth and thirty hands for a hand.
Sometimes numbers are just numbers. But after a certain threshold of barbarism, the quantitative becomes qualitative, and in this case the threshold has been crossed by a State that, protected by the right to defend itself from terrorist attacks, contravenes all legislation and international agreements and goes on an unchecked rampage, exterminating civilians and carrying out a genocide of Palestinians as happened before with Armenians, Kurds, Tutsis and, in the most abominable case of the 20th century, with the Jews themselves.
With the invasion of Rafah, Netanyahu and the Government of Israel intend to complete the second step of the Palestinian Shoah. They have already achieved the first: 35,000 innocent people dead and Gaza devastated. The third step, if the world does not prevent it, will be the West Bank. And for now the world does not prevent anything. There haven’t even been shouts, just some whispers and a clamorous official silence from most European countries…
Meanwhile, our ability to be horrified wears off, which is why it is sometimes convenient to talk about it again, repeat what we know or, if words are no longer enough, take a look at the photos of Motaz Azaiza, a Palestinian photojournalist who, despite the extreme difficulties, he documents the atrocities in Gaza daily (the images are on Instagram for those who, from time to time, have the heart and courage to leave their comfort zone and take a bloodbath).
