1w ago

Israel’s Gaza War Is One of History’s Worst Crimes Ever

https://jacobin.com/2025/08/israel-gaza-worst-crimes-ever

BY BRANKO MARCETIC

Israel’s war in Gaza combines a staggeringly high death rate, shocking violence toward children, unparalleled physical destruction, and now a world-historical famine. The world has, by objective measure, never seen anything like this.

20 comments

Isreal is not entirely to blame for this historic war crime
The entire western world stood by, watched it happen, lied about it, denied it, funded it, financed it and ignored it until it was so overwhelmingly obvious that they were obligated to say something because history would point out their complicity .... but even now, the majority of the western world just cautiously wags a finger at Isreal as 'one of history's worst crimes' continues as the world watches.
It's like watching someone getting beaten with a baseball bat in public, in full view of everyone .... and absolutely no one wants to do anything about it.
This isn't Israel's fault .... the entire world, all of us are at fault for allowing it to happen.
Not only are we destroying ourselves with global warming .... we distract ourselves from that reality by being as inhumane and disgusting to ourselves as possible. We should go extinct .... we bring no good to the world or ourselves.
- It's like watching someone getting beaten with a baseball bat in public, in full view of everyone .... and everyone gave that someone a spiked baseball bat
  Just made a slight correction there.
- i don't know about the worst but it's definitely getting up there, depending on whose number you believe
  https://www.scaruffi.com/politics/dictat.html
  
  It would definitely be up there if the numbers were number of deaths to population ratio.
- Isreal is not entirely to blame for this historic war crime
  I don't think "the rest of the world let me do it" removes any blame or responsibility from Israel... it only adds blame and responsibility to the rest of the world, deservedly so
A settler colony founded on racial supremacy has reached it's logical conclusion.
Shame on the West for supporting this evil.
Reading this article is so horrific, I had to stop midway.
What we can safely say is that Israel at this point is objectively worse than ISIS
Zionism ia a new Nazism.
- Zionism is older than Nazism.
  
  Yes, but they were ineffective. Today they are efficient murderers and war criminals. Zionism is an anti-human ideology that is on the same level as Nazism.
"Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it"
I'm sure especially Israelis, many of whom politicians, have said this many times over the years.
- The lessons of history are too easily selectively interpreted.
  Them having been the subject of the most publicised and studied genocide does in no way give them a pass to do one.
So why are they still calling it a war? It's absolutely fucking not and it's an insult to the victims of genocide to call it war.
On the lower end of estimates, Israel has dropped more than 70,000 tons of bombs on Gaza since the start of the war. That’s the equivalent of roughly six Hiroshima bombings on an area less than half the size of Hiroshima, but with six times its population.
the world, by objective measure.. ..the world has never seen anything like this.
This really weakens the opinion piece, as it attaches a quantitative quality that can easily be attacked. (Two world wars would easily dwarf this)
That said, article goes on to clarify that the numbers and statement are relative to all other conflicts in this century, which is more precise. And most likely factual.
To strengthen the summary, it should clarify that it is comparing to conflicts in this century, although this does make it less sensational.

20 comments