Paul Larudee
Jul 30, 2025
The problem with all the plans to rescue Gaza is that they’re too little, too late. By design.
There are plans for bigger flotillas of aid by sea, reduction of military aid to Israel, sabotage of Israeli interests abroad, military intervention, United for Peace votes at the UN, etc. The problem is that they are all too late. Exactly as planned.
The first lines of defense were to silence criticism by slinging charges of “antisemitism” against anyone trying to spare the lives and human rights of Palestinians, and crushing with brute force, deportations, expulsions and onerous punishments anyone who dared to declare solidarity with the victims. Nevertheless, the international community won judgments in the ICJ and the ICC against Israel. Nations suspended agreements with Israel, limited trade and economic and other activity, and in much of the world Israel became a pariah.
It was all acceptable to Israel, because it could get what it needed from the US and other “friendly” countries. The genocide continued unabated and the international Zionist network, directed by the Israeli Ministry of Public Diplomacy, continued to run interference in the Western media, the curricula in the educational institutions and the diplomatic channels, especially the United Nations.
None of the accomplishments of human rights activists had any real effect upon the situation on the ground in Palestine, especially Gaza. Even the death statistics there were usually limited to only those killed by weaponry and who could be identified by name. The real figures are certainly in the hundreds of thousands.
Now, at last, it is becoming more permissible to speak of genocide, famine and starvation. It seems that someone gave the OK. Why? Because the degree of Zionist control over the discourse is beginning to weaken under the onslaught of information and images bypassing the mainstream news sources.
The other defenses of the Zionist narrative are still in place, but there is increasing mobilization against them. So what is Israel’s recourse? To join them, of course. As Vladimir Lenin said, “The best way to control the opposition is to lead it.” In part, this means relenting, to a limited extent, repression of criticism. In addition, Israel, with its US partners, blocked all humanitarian aid to Gaza and opened its own Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which distributes a trickle of aid at sites and times that become opportunities to slaughter those who try to receive it. Similarly, it authorized air drops of small amounts of aid directly on crowded camps, so as to cause more deaths, while claiming to be providing aid.
The strategy seems to be to use fake attempts to prevent starvation in order to delay genuine and meaningful aid until it’s too late, and the genocide is accomplished. Although the attempts are transparently disingenuous and deliberately ineffective, it permits subservient and sycophantic news outlets and political statements to continue to produce propaganda that claims otherwise.
If Israel’s strategy is effective, this will cause human rights activists to invest in longer term projects that will not reach Gaza or affect the outcome there until the genocide is complete.
Thus far, the plan seems to be working.
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