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Gaza Genocide, the system and the Neoliberal Bastards

For some of us, this is the essential question: How does a genocide continue? What sustains the world’s complacency and enables its complicity? Let's consider a few answers.

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Ezgi Basaran
Aug 13, 2025
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‘A wasteland of rubble, dust and graves: how Gaza looks from the sky’ says Guardian that joined a Jordanian military airdrop for a rare chance to observe the Palestinian homeland, 5 August 2025/ Alessio Mamo.

A tent beside a hospital, holding only four journalists from Al Jazeera, the only network that has managed to show the world Gaza’s devastation, is targeted and murdered by Israel. It is a blatant war crime. I am furious, in tears, and helpless. They were murdered because Netanyahu’s government has decided to bulldoze what remains of Gaza City, silencing the last eyes and ears on the ground before moving in at full force. I still ask the question, how can this be. How will we survive this as human beings, our bodies and souls intact? We will not. We are changing, altering. We are becoming different people as we watch this genocide. Don’t you think?

As Israel decided to take over Gaza City, as starvation in Gaza turned into a ‘political problem’, too costly to look away from, the We…

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