Two Years of the Gaza Genocide

October 7, 2025

Two years have passed since the full activation of the Gaza genocide, a systematic operation of depopulation and de-infrastructuring carried out by the Israeli state. To call this a “war” is to grant it a legitimacy it does not deserve. Wars are fought between states; this is an extermination campaign waged against a captive population. This should not be a contested claim; the evidence for this as a fact is overwhelming. That evidence can be found in the mounds of rubble and mass graves scattered all throughout Gaza. Approximately 67,000 human beings have been liquidated, over 20,000 of them children. With tens of thousands going uncounted, buried under the rubble, due to the lack of a state apparatus capable of uncovering them. An entire population of 2.2 million people has been forcibly displaced, herded into ever-shrinking kill boxes under the guise of “safe zones.” The genocide itself is a dual-mode strategy, pairing the kinetic destruction of all infrastructure necessary for life with an engineered biological collapse through starvation. This is not a tragic consequence of conflict but a deliberate weapon system. What we are witnessing is the output of a system for which mass murder has become a standard tool of geopolitical management. The ruins of Gaza are a data point, a stark readout of the current operating parameters of global imperial power, a project underwritten, armed, and defended by the ruling classes in Washington, London, and Berlin.

Two years of Israeli attacks have killed at least [67,000](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/18/gaza-tracker) Palestinians. Thousands of other people are still under the rubble.

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The pretext for this final escalation was the Hamas-led incursion of October 7, 2023. The official story, repeated ad nauseam by every court journalist and state department spokesperson, is one of a catastrophic intelligence failure. This narrative is a calculated fiction, an insult to any thinking person. The idea that the Israeli state, with one of the most technologically advanced and pervasive surveillance networks on earth, was somehow oblivious to a complex operation planned for months is an absurdity. We now know from their own internal documents that Israeli intelligence possessed the complete operational plans long before the attack and that military units were deliberately stood down, allowing the incursion to proceed. The event was not an intelligence failure but a managed provocation. The shock and horror it generated were not an unfortunate byproduct but an essential feature, instrumentalized to manufacture the political consent needed to unleash a pre-planned campaign of demographic erasure. It was the trigger, not the cause, cynically permitted to justify a genocide that had been waiting for its moment. The official narrative serves to obscure a simple truth: the state needed a sufficient horror to greenlight an even greater one.

While Israeli soldiers pull the triggers and drop the bombs, the Gaza genocide is a collective project of the imperial core. The governments in Washington, London, Paris, and Berlin are not passive observers but active participants and logistical guarantors of the slaughter. The United States functions as the primary quartermaster, ensuring an uninterrupted flow of the high-yield munitions required to pulverize an entire urban landscape. European powers provide direct financial life support, purchasing Israeli government bonds to fund the war machine, effectively converting symbolic political approval into the capacity for mass murder. This support is rationalized by a brutally simple propaganda operation. A binary was deployed and ruthlessly enforced: Israeli state violence is coded as “self-defense,” while any form of Palestinian resistance is coded as “terrorism.” This framework was buttressed by the weaponization of identity, equating any criticism of the colonial state of Israel with antisemitism. This charge was designed to silence dissent and criminalize solidarity, yet its fraudulence is exposed by the thousands of anti-Zionist Jews who have been at the forefront of mass demonstrations, providing a living, breathing refutation of the state’s cynical propaganda.

The United States is not a mere enabler; it is the system’s primary architect and operator. Any pretense of the US as a broker for peace or a defender of human rights has been incinerated in the fireballs that have consumed Gaza’s hospitals and schools. The public adoption of eliminationist rhetoric by American officials was not a series of diplomatic gaffes but a clear signaling of intent. When the Secretary of State stands next to the Israeli Prime Minister and labels Palestinians “barbaric animals,” he is not misspeaking. He is authorizing the genocide most violent phase, giving the green light for total war against a civilian population. Every bomb that falls, every bag of flour blocked at the border, and every child who starves to death is a direct consequence of command decisions made in Washington. This is not about ideology or ancient hatreds; it is about the cold calculus of empire. The erasure of Palestine is a crucial step in securing American hegemony over the energy resources and strategic shipping lanes of the Middle East, a critical theater in the escalating global conflict with its geopolitical rivals. The bodies in Gaza are collateral in a much larger imperial game.

Israel has orchestrated widespread hunger in Gaza through military restrictions that have blocked aid for months and an imposed food distribution system in which people are shot almost daily while trying to collect food.

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The impunity enjoyed by the genocide’s managers serves as the final, definitive proof of the bankruptcy of “international law.” The spectacle of an indicted war criminal like Benjamin Netanyahu addressing the UN General Assembly to boast of targeted assassinations and ethnic cleansing is not an anomaly. It is a demonstration of where real power lies. He did not deny the accusations; he bragged about his crimes, secure in the knowledge that no superstructural forum like the UN has any causal power over the actions of the imperial core. The UN is not a body for dispensing justice but a stage for performing legitimacy, a talking shop where empires can sanitize their violence. An arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court is a symbolic gesture, immediately nullified by Washington’s guarantee of non-enforcement. This confirms a core tenet of any materialist analysis: formal legal systems are tools of class rule, designed to regulate relations among the powerful and discipline the weak. When confronted with the raw power of the imperial state, these frameworks become inert, their authority dissolving into meaninglessness. There is no law above the law of force.

The so-called “peace process” must be analyzed not as a failed attempt at diplomacy but as a successful psychological operation designed to produce a specific outcome. Fraudulent proposals, like the one advanced by the Trump administration, were never intended to be accepted. The offer to place Gaza under the control of a “Board of Peace” co-chaired by Donald Trump and the war criminal Tony Blair was a deal designed for rejection. Its terms amounted to a demand for unconditional surrender, a return to the most naked forms of 19th-century colonial administration. The function of this theater was not to achieve peace but to engineer a Palestinian refusal. That refusal could then be weaponized, shifting the blame for the continued violence onto its victims and manufacturing the political cover necessary for the next phase of intensified assault. This is a classic tool of statecraft: deploy a symbolic offer of “peace” to manage a contradiction in favor of the dominant power. It creates the pretext for ethnic cleansing while allowing its architects to claim they exhausted all other options. It is a cynical, murderous game, and the “peace process” is simply one of its recurring plays.

The bourgeois nationalist regimes of the Middle East have played their assigned part as collaborating subordinate nodes in the imperial system. The governments in Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia offer hollow rhetorical condemnations for public consumption while taking actions that confirm their alignment with the imperial agenda. From enforcing the blockade of Gaza to endorsing US-led “peace” frameworks that liquidate Palestinian rights, their behavior is not a betrayal but the logical expression of their core function: to preserve their own oligarchic power structures. These regimes are run by ruling classes whose primary material interest is the suppression of any independent mass movement that could threaten their corrupt and brittle rule. They fear the revolutionary potential of their own populations far more than they oppose the crimes of Zionism or American imperialism. The history of the last century is a long and bloody experiment proving that nationalism as a political technology is incapable of securing genuine liberation for the oppressed. Instead, it creates a class of local managers who administer the colonial relationship on behalf of their imperial patrons, trading the sovereignty of their people for their own survival.

More than 169,000 people have been injured, many with life-altering wounds. UNICEF estimated that 3,000 to 4,000 children in Gaza have lost one or more limbs.

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Starvation has been deployed as a primary weapon system, a direct and meticulously managed assault on the biological foundation of the Gazan population. This is not the tragic, unavoidable byproduct of war; it is a calculated act of infrastructural warfare. The declaration by the Israeli Defense Minister of a “complete siege” with “no electricity, no food, no fuel” was not a threat but a clear statement of operational intent. The resulting famine, the most rapid onset of mass starvation ever recorded by modern science, is a man-made and ruthlessly enforced event. It is achieved by controlling every calorie that enters the strip, turning food into a tool of collective punishment and demographic control. Netanyahu’s claim that his government is “deliberately feeding the people of Gaza” while his soldiers block thousands of aid trucks at the border is a statement of such radical detachment from reality that its function is not persuasion but the raw assertion of absolute power. It is the power to define reality in defiance of all evidence, a privilege enjoyed only by those who know with certainty that no countervailing force can hold them to account for their lies or their crimes.

The armed Palestinian resistance, including the October 7 operation, must be understood within a materialist framework. It is not an ideological abstraction but a practical, physical impulse for survival by a people facing systematic negation. When a population is caged within an open-air prison for decades, subjected to a crippling blockade and periodic liquidation events mislabeled as “wars,” resistance becomes a physical necessity. The breakout was a direct action that targeted both the infrastructure of the cage, the perimeter fence, and the ideological construct of Israeli invincibility. To deny the right to resist under these conditions is to demand that the victims collaborate in their own annihilation, to insist that an entire people passively accept their slow-motion extermination. The profound asymmetry of force, pitting one of the world’s most advanced militaries against a trapped population with makeshift weapons, strips the occupier of any coherent claim to “self-defense.” The term has no meaning when used by a colonizer to justify the enforcement of a brutal military occupation. Resistance is the inevitable physical response to intolerable material conditions.

The global wave of mass demonstrations that erupted in response to the genocide represents a powerful rejection of the official narrative. Tens of millions of people across every continent have taken to the streets, creating a significant crisis of legitimacy for the governments enabling the slaughter. However, the central lesson to be derived from two years of this activity is the confirmed impotence of any strategy based on moral appeal to the perpetrators. The architects of this genocide are not amenable to persuasion; they are not misguided souls who can be convinced by the power of our arguments or the scale of our protests. They are executing a program that serves their material interests. The failure of moral suasion provides critical feedback, forcing an update to our tactical models. The focus must shift away from symbolic protest, which begs for mercy from the powerful, and toward tactics that exert direct leverage on the machinery of war and profit. The potential of the mass movement can only be actualized if it transitions from a mode of expressive protest to a mode of infrastructural disruption.

Israel has attacked nearly all of Gaza’s hospitals and healthcare facilities. Over the past two years, at least 125 health facilities have been damaged, including 34 hospitals, leaving patients without access to essential medical services.

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The actions of dockworkers in Italy and elsewhere, who refused to load weapons shipments destined for Israel, represent a successful proof-of-concept for a strategy of infrastructural negation. This is not an appeal to power, but a direct intervention against it. Unlike a protest, which can be ignored, a blockade of a port or a strike in a weapons factory produces an immediate, undeniable material effect. It attacks the genocide not at the level of its ideological justification but at the level of its physical execution. It halts the logistical chains that make mass murder possible. This is the only strategic orientation grounded in material efficacy. Boycotts that choke off profits, strikes that halt production, and blockades that disrupt supply lines are the tools that can stop the war machine. This is the language the system understands, the language of power. It is the only realistic path to halting the current operation in Gaza and blocking the system’s broader trajectory toward global war, a trajectory driven by the same capitalist imperatives that demand the subjugation of Palestine.

The same governments that enable the Gaza genocide are simultaneously implementing more authoritarian forms of control within their own borders. The connection is not metaphorical but material; the state apparatus is a single, integrated system. The repressive techniques tested and refined in the colonial periphery are inevitably brought back to be used against the domestic population in the imperial core. The violent police crackdowns on peaceful protests, the widespread censorship of dissenting voices, and the legal persecution of activists are the domestic application of the Gaza Genocide. The struggle against genocide abroad is therefore inseparable from the struggle against austerity, surveillance, and state violence at home. It is a single fight against a global ruling class that is waging war on all fronts, both foreign and domestic, to protect its wealth and power in an era of escalating crisis. To defend Palestine is to defend our own capacity to resist the encroaching police state.

This mass opposition is actively managed by a host of designated “left” organizations and political figures whose structural role is to contain popular rage. Figures like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and organizations like the Democratic Socialists of America operate as a dissent-channeling mechanism. Their function is to capture oppositional energy that might otherwise break with the system and redirect it back into the safe, ineffectual channels of the Democratic Party, one of the two primary parties of genocide. They peddle the illusion that an administration actively arming and funding an extermination campaign can be “pressured” into changing course. The “Uncommitted” movement was a textbook example of this managed dissent, a movement whose stated goal was to influence the administration but whose actual function was to re-legitimize it, herding anti-genocide voters back into the fold in the name of lesser-evilism. These actors are not a challenge to the system; they are a crucial part of its immune response, neutralizing the threat of genuine, independent political action by the working class.

The United Nations-backed scale, known as the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), has raised its classification for the Gaza governorate to Phase 5. It is the highest level and is characterized by starvation, destitution, and death.

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The Zionist project, born as a reactionary colonial ideology to counter the appeal of socialist internationalism among European Jews, has reached its bloody and logical conclusion. Its foundational promise to provide a “safe haven” has been dialectically negated by its material reality: a hyper-militarized garrison state, fueled by ethnic supremacy, locked in a permanent and unwinnable war against the people whose land it stole. This is not a deviation from the plan but its ultimate fulfillment. The project has produced not security, but a society saturated with paranoia, brutality, and profound moral decay, entirely dependent on the patronage of a declining American empire. The liberation of both the Palestinian people who are its primary victims and the Jewish people who have been enlisted as its jailers requires the complete dissolution of this poisonous political project. The only viable path forward is not a “two-state solution” or any other superstructural fantasy, but the construction of a single, secular society based on equality and justice for all who live between the river and the sea, achieved through a common struggle of Arab and Jewish workers against their shared oppressors.

The Gaza genocide has stripped bare the historical bankruptcy of the entire global capitalist system. The casual normalization of mass murder, broadcast live for all to see, is not a policy choice but a systemic imperative for a social order that can no longer resolve its contradictions through any means other than catastrophic violence. This is the barbarism that awaits us all if this system is left to run its course. But this analysis must not terminate in defeatism and despair. The purpose of mapping the functions of the base is to identify its vulnerabilities. The way forward requires a definitive break from all the institutions of the ruling class, its political parties, its media apparatus, and its controlled opposition. The task is not to appeal to the system but to attack its infrastructure, to choke its arteries of profit and logistics. The goal must be the construction of immediate, autonomous power from below, building new organizational forms that unite atomized individuals in a common struggle for their shared needs against the machinery of the state. This is the only realistic perspective to counter the system’s inexorable drift toward a global abyss.

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