The West’s New Genocide

28 May 2025, by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)

Of course, Netanyahu blames the slaughter in Gaza on “Hamas” though the reason he gives for exterminating 2.2 million Gazans is that he wants to kill all members of Hamas, which had fewer than 20,000 members, which is less than one-thousandth of the Gazan population of 2.2 million. And previously, he had blamed the Holocaust on not Hitler, and not the German people, and not blamed Christians and Europeans, though virtually all of its perpetrators WERE Christians and Europeans, not any of them was a Palestinian — but instead he alleged that Hitler wanted to expel the Jews, instead of to exterminate them (Holocaust-deniers say the same thing, but are considered pro-Nazi when they do — Netanyahu is not), and he said that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem had put the idea of exterminating Jews into Hitler’s head, that it was not there before the two met (their only meeting) on 28 November 1941 (which was already after the Holocaust had started). So, Netanyahu blames Palestinians, not Europeans, for the Holocaust (because he wants Europeans to continue cooperating with him), and so he is now exterminating Palestinians (while European Governments suppress reporting of, and demonstrators against, this extermination). And he’s actually killing 1,000 Gazans in order to kill each 1 member of Hamas. So, his REAL target is obviously Gazans — though the ‘news’-media in Europe don’t say anything about that. Gazans are Palestinians and he hates them (just like America’s Government and Germany’s Government, etc., do).

On 20 October 2015, Netanyahu said that “The Mufti of Jerusalem [leader of the Palestinians], Haj Amin al-Husseini, who was later sought for war crimes, in the Nuremberg trials because he had a central role in fomenting the final solution, he flew to Berlin, Hitler didn’t want to exterminate the Jews at the time, he wanted to expel the Jews.” Netanyahu was there blaming the Holocaust on Arab Muslims, not on European Christians (even though the Holocaust was actually planned and carried out not only by German Christians but also by Christians in many other European countries, which the Roman Catholic Hitler was leading in this entire vast European enterprise.

The idea that the Mufti, whom Hitler had never even met until so late as 28 November 1941, inspired Hitler to commit the Holocaust, which had already actually started before that meeting, is simply ludicrous. A person as intelligent as Netanyahu, is almost certainly lying to assert it. Either that, or else he’s insane. But, in either case, he is, without question, genocidally motivated against Palestinians.

Even the Israeli JCFA acknowledged on 5 January 2016 that

Recently, the issue of the Mufti’s historical responsibility became a subject of public controversy when, on October 20, 2015, Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, stated in an address at the 37th Zionist Congress in Jerusalem that Haj Amin al-Husseini convinced Hitler to change his anti-Jewish policy from one of forced emigration to one of extermination. Mistakenly, he claimed that Husseini “was one of the leading architects of the Final Solution,” but later he retracted this statement.1 It is important to note that authoritative historians of the decision-making sequence leading to the Holocaust found no such role for Husseini. The implication of their work is that, had he never arrived in Hitler’s Berlin in 1941, the Holocaust would still have taken place.

Furthermore: Netanyahu simply invented the lie that “The Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, who was later sought for war crimes, in the Nuremberg trials because he had a central role in fomenting the final solution …” The Mufti was not, at all, involved in the Nuremberg Tribunals. Google’s AI (at the time when this is being written) says that the reason for this (his not being tried) was because of “French protection,” and that “Al-Husseini's role in anti-Semitic propaganda and incitement could have formed the basis for charges of war crimes or crimes against humanity at Nuremberg,” but this speculative statement too is an arrant lie because he simply wasn’t involved, at all, in the Holocaust — it’s insane to think that the Nuremberg Tribunal would have considered for prosecution someone who had had no role in the Holocaust or other Nazi war crimes, none at all; it is an insult to the intelligence of Google’s audience — but the billionaires who control Google don’t want to embarrass Netanyahu; so, they have to speculate like that, in order to fool people about this matter.

And it is not ONLY he who is behind this genocide — the one in Gaza. On 15 February 2024, I headlined “Biden Greenlights Netanyahu to Exterminate the Gazans”. If you didn’t read that article, it’s not because all of the mainstream (and many of the other) ‘news’-media hadn’t received it, because I had submitted it to all of them; they simply didn’t publish it. And part of that article was an Israeli news-report which said that

Israel’s dependence on the United States was stated bluntly by retired IDF Maj. General Yitzhak Brick in an interview earlier this week.

“All of our missiles, the ammunition, the precision-guided bombs, all the airplanes and bombs, it’s all from the U.S. The minute they turn off the tap, you can’t keep fighting. You have no capability. … Everyone understands that we can’t fight this war without the United States. Period.”

This statement is authoritative opinion that Israel couldn’t do it without American weapons. U.S. taxpayers had donated (not sold) all of that, the money for Israel to purchase these weapons from U.S. firms such as Lockheed Martin, thus pumping up the valuations on those corporate stocks, which are controlled by U.S. billionaires, such as the ones who had purchased U.S. Presidents and members of Congress.

Here is Chris Hedges, now, talking about the results:

“Chris Hedges' Speech on Gaza: The End of the Western Mythology”

24 May 2025, transcrtipt by me of the opening, starting at 0:47 to 6:09, in the 12:40 video:

We will be beginning our book on the genocide by interviewing Palestinians in Cairo, a book my publisher who's made handsome profits off me in the past, Simon and Shuster, has already told me they don’t want [it]. my old uh office in Gaza is a pile of rubble, the streets around it where I went for coffee, ordered maful or manakish, had a haircut, are flattened, friends and colleagues are dead or, more often, have vanished, last heard from weeks or months ago, no doubt buried somewhere under the broken slabs of concrete, the uncounted dead in the tens perhaps hundreds of thousands. [Probably well over a million by now.] Israel has made Gaza a wasteland, 50 million tons of rubble and debris, rats and dogs scavenge amid the ruins, and the feted pools of raw sewage. The putrid stench and contamination of decaying corpses rises from beneath the mountains of shattered concrete. Palestinians, 90% of whom are displaced, risk death from unexploded ordinance left behind after 18 months of air strikes, artillery barages, missile strikes, and blasts from tank shells, and a variety of toxic substances including raw sewage and asbestos. Israel, supplied with billions of dollars of weapons from the United States, Germany, Italy, and the UK, created this hell, and it intends to maintain it. The blockade of all food and humanitarian aid since March 2nd, that's more than 60 days, has resulted in outbreaks of Hepatitis A, caused by drinking contaminated water, ailments such as scabies, malnutrition — 60,000 children show signs of malnutrition, 57 Palestinians have starved so far since March 2nd, most of them elderly and children, starvation, widespread nausea and vomiting. Palestinians in Gaza live in makeshift tents encamped amid these slabs of concrete. Many have been forced to move over a dozen times, nine in 10 homes have been destroyed or damaged, apartment blocks schools hospitals bakeries mosques universities. Israel blew up Isra University in Gaza City and the Turkish Palestinian hospital on March 21st in controlled demolitions. Cemeteries shops offices all have been obliterated, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East UNRA estimates that clearing Gaza of the rubble will take 15 years and cost between $40 billion and $50 billion, but any rebuilding of Gaza Israel — and the Trump administration have decided will not be done for the Palestinians and Israeli organizations including the far-right Nachala organization have held conferences to prepare for Jewish colonization of Gaza once Palestinians are removed — this is the last chapter of the genocide, accentuated by the decision by Israel’s security cabinet to occupy all of Gaza and and remain there indefinitely while emptying the northern part of the Gaza Strip completely of Palestinians. It is the final blood soaked push to drive the Palestinians from Gaza, no food no medicine no shelter no clean water no electricity. Israel has turned Gaza into a Dante-esque cauldron of human misery where Palestinians are being killed in their hundreds and soon again in their thousands and tens of thousands or they will be forced out, never to return. This final chapter marks the end of Israeli lies, the lie of the two-state solution, the lie that Israel respects the laws of war that protects civilians, the lie that Israel bombs hospitals and schools only because they are used as staging areas by Hamas, the lie that Hamas uses civilians as human shields while Israel routinely forces Palestinians captive Palestinians to enter potentially booby trap tunnels and buildings ahead of Israeli troops, the lie that Hamas or Palestine Islamic Jihad are responsible. ...

Some Europeans planned, organized, and carried out, the Holocaust, and virtually all Palestinians have been paying the price for it ever since. This is Western ‘justice’.

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.