Consuming Allies, Defying Peace: Netanyahu’s war Without End

By Elijah J. Magnier –

Israel has never faced such global isolation, nor such widespread condemnation. For decades, it relied on strong international alliances, particularly in Washington, where support from the U.S. Congress and Senate was once unwavering. But after more than 700 days of relentless war in Gaza — now widely described as genocide — that foundation is crumbling. Prominent senators and representatives are openly critical, reflecting a profound erosion of Israel’s soft power in its most vital arena. Yet despite this collapse of international legitimacy, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presses on. His new target is Gaza City, where he aims to force nearly one million Palestinians south into what Israel calls a “humanitarian corridor.” In practice, this corridor functions as a vast concentration zone: a place where Gazans are compelled to gather, but from which they can only exit by leaving the Strip altogether — never to return. The objective is clear: a forced ethnic cleansing of Gaza through displacement and exhaustion.

Netanyahu expects more than two million people to be moved toward al-Mawasi (a narrow sandy strip of land along the southwestern coast of Gaza, just west of Khan Younis previously used as farmland and scattered Bedouin dwellings, utterly unfit for such mass concentration of people) and then be squeezed toward Rafah, on the Egyptian border. Such a mass transfer of civilians under bombardment represents an act without precedent in modern history. Cairo, long a reluctant partner in regional stability, has reacted forcefully. Egypt’s Foreign Minister, Badr Abdelatty, has accused Israel of committing a “genocide” in Gaza that goes “far beyond the imagination,” warning that Cairo will not tolerate any attempt to displace Palestinians into Sinai.