By Cliff Montgomery – July 9th, 2025
Human rights watchdog groups have openly declared that Netanyahu’s acts in Palestine constitute genocide.
In December, Human Rights Watch released a report entitled, Extermination And Acts Of Genocide: Israel Deliberately Depriving Palestinians In Gaza Of Water.
Another human rights watchdog called the Human Rights Research Center – which has an office in Alexandria, VA but has its headquarters in the nation of Georgia – was equally adamant about the matter. In December, it put out a press release entitled, Genocide in Gaza and Israel’s Crime of Extermination.
And as recently as July 3rd, Amnesty International released its own declaration of genocide against Israel in a damning press release entitled, Gaza: Evidence Points To Israel’s Continued Use Of Starvation To Inflict Genocide Against Palestinians.
Even highly respected organizations in fields not typically involved in human rights evaluations have declared that Netanyahu’s actions in Gaza constitute genocide.
On June 13th, the Lancet – a top-notch journal of medicine – released a study looking into the current medical catastrophe affecting Palestine. Its finding is obvious in the title of an article discussing the matter – Genocide in Gaza: Moral and Ethical Failures Of Medical Institutions.
“In March, 2024, Safiyyah Abbas and Lucy Mitchell highlighted the atrocities unfolding in Gaza,” stated the Lancet, “and the failure of Australian medical institutions to mount a meaningful protest.”
“Since then, the Israeli Government’s sustained and widespread assaults on civilians—combined with deliberate obstruction of food, water, fuel, and medical supplies—have prompted the International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants for Israeli leaders, Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, for the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare, and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhuman acts. Multiple international human rights organisations have concluded that the State of Israel’s actions amount to genocide.”
In fact, the Lancet adds an additional short list of crimes against Netanyahu, who – they say – also denied Palestinians a basic access to medicines and medical treatment. It is a matter many Western sources rarely venture to discuss in detail.
“Attacks on health-care workers and hospitals have intensified,” declares the Lancet.
“As of Jan 2, 2025, more than 1000 health-care workers had been killed,” continued the Lancet,
“and at least 670 attacks on health facilities, ambulances, and personnel had been registered by WHO, as of March 14, 2025.”
Then it adds even more bitter details.
“Health-care workers have been abducted and tortured, and continue to be murdered,” continued the Lancet. “These acts are grave violations of the 1949 Geneva Conventions,” the medical publication declared, “which state unequivocally that medical staff and facilities must be protected at all times in conflict.”
The Lancet’s final views on this matter are clear.
“The failure to explicitly condemn the Israeli Government’s genocidal actions in Gaza erodes the moral credibility of these institutions and their professed values,” concluded the Lancet, “and arguably constitutes a form of institutional complicity.”
These statements of Netanyahu’s refusal to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza received a confirmation Monday during a breakdown of ceasefire talks between Israeli government officials and Palestinian administrators.
“Israel’s refusal to allow the free and safe entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza,” states Reuters, “remains the main obstacle to progress in the ceasefire talks being held in Qatar.” The news source said it received the information from two Palestinian sources.
“The two sources said mediators hosted one indirect round of ceasefire talks between Palestinian militant group Hamas and Israeli officials earlier on Monday,” according to Reuters, “and talks were expected to resume in the evening.”
One last simple fact. If one listens closely to Netanyahu and his protectors, one notes that these people simply cannot adequately defend the indefensible.
The sad tactics of Trump and his lackeys are well known: Pretend that every Palestinian death is the murder of a terrorist, and accuse anyone who questions Netanyahu of anti-Jewish sentiment.
We’ve been at war with the terrorist group Al-Qaeda for almost 25 years now, and we’ve continued this fight because we hate terrorists, not because we hate Muslims or Arabs. Trump often has disagreed with Obama on a number of matters – but I doubt he’d ever state that his disagreements stem from the fact that Obama is Black.
So it’s clear that he knows people can disagree with others without hating what they are. Cheap ‘straw man’ tactics won’t work here. Too many families have been torn apart, too many children have died for no rational reason.
Killing women, men, children and hospital patients are not acts that “protect Israel.” Deliberately performing these killings via the refusal of humanitarian aid is not “collateral damage.” It’s the deliberate murder of kids, adults and hospital patients who clearly are not serving as terrorists. People who hate genocide despise it in the same way each of us despises terrorism.
But we should remember, the right-wingers following Trump – or, Il Douce – aren’t the only ones in denial here. Many liberals are riding the same train to denial as their fascist friends this time round. And while their denial is equally pathetic, their argument tacitly reveals the genocidal mindset behind those perpetrating the acts … as well as those defending them.
In 2024, Antony Blinken – who served as U.S. Secretary of State under Joe Biden – was equally quick to defend the indefensible acts of genocide perpetrated by the Netanyahu regime.
Blinken argued that he found the declarations of genocide against Israel to be “particularly galling,” then breathlessly attempted to justify that statement by declaring that some Palestinian groups like Hamas “continue to openly call for the annihilation of Israel and the mass murder of Jews.”
The two telling matters here:
1.) He correctly points out that some Hamas officials and a handful of other groups had called for “the annihilation of Israel and the mass murder of Jews.” A terrible thing to be sure, and certainly a reason for understandable concern. But is the solution to murder every member of these groups for things they say, simply because you’re afraid of what comes out their mouths? Shouldn’t they at least have a trial, to determine if these individuals intend to act on what they say? And even then, any actions performed by the group doesn’t mean that every individual personally supported those actions. The rush to a mass murder without trial for things people said in the heat of a moment seems … well, genocidal.
2.) Blinken used this questionable thought process to justify Israel’s refusal since October 2023 to allow the distribution of even basic amounts of drinking water to Palestinians. It is a tacit declaration that all are guilty and deserving of death for the speeches of a few. And what makes all Palestinians equally guilty and deserving of death? They were born in Palestine, they are Muslims, they are Arabs. To know one Palestinian Arab is to know them all. Therefore, their guilt is undeniable and shared by all of them equally.
The argument is – at least tacitly – the very definition of genocidal thinking. But one must think this way, if one is to justify genocide.
Notice too, the only groups judging others by what they are – rather than who they are – are the Netanyahu camp and its shameless defenders in the U.S., on both sides of the aisle. Even a large number of Israelis hate the War on Gaza. It’s probably not going to work to claim that those individuals, who themselves are Jewish people – and who choose to live in Israel – are filled with anti-Jewish sentiment.
Yet that’s the only way to read Blinken’s “defense” of the Netanyahu regime, in light of the known facts.
A quick note to Mr. Blinken: A defense of a person or group based on genocidal thinking is no real defense at all. It’s an unintended confession. And its helps no one.
