As a citizen of the UK I write this with profound dismay. My country once stood against Hitler’s tyranny, sacrificing thousands of young lives to halt the Nazi machinery of genocide. Our WW2 soldiers, many not yet twenty, now lay dead on the fields of Normandy, their white gravestones stretching to the horizon.
Under Starmer’s government my country now participates in the very same genocidal acts by supplying arms to the Israeli Zionists. This is not only a betrayal of the Palestinian people but a desecration of the memory of those who died to stop such horrors. If Starmer and his ministers possessed a shred of conscience, they would walk among the graves at Normandy and confront the reality of their current participation.
Let us be clear: Zionism is not Judaism. An ideology that has far more in common with Nazism than its adherents admit. The Zionist-Nazi Pact of 1933 — the Haavara Agreement — was a marriage of convenience, serving both the Nazis and the Zionists. The Zionists ignored the plight of ordinary Jews. Only the wealthy escaped to Palestine in exchange for ninety per cent of their assets. The poor were abandoned to the death camps. Over six million Jews and many million non-Jews perished at the hands of Nazis and their Zionist collaborators. Yes, Zionists. They aided the Nazis in evading trade embargoes and many fought alongside the Nazis and Italian Fascists in WW2.
Among the fallen in Normandy are young Jews who died fighting both Nazism and the very ideology now murdering children in Gaza. In 2025, as bombs rain upon Gaza, the world indulges in a grotesque exercise of hypocrisy. The killing of Palestinians finally reached such a scale that international bodies could not ignore it, yet diplomacy continued to churn out words and those who could, did nothing to stop it.
Between October 2023 and May 2024, Israeli forces killed at least 34,568 Palestinians and wounded 77,765 more — over five per cent of Gaza’s population. Fourteen thousand five hundred of the dead were children, more than in all the world’s conflicts over the previous four years combined. Twenty-five thousand tonnes of explosives — equivalent to two nuclear bombs — were dropped on Gaza. The ICJ declared the allegations of genocide “plausible” — a word that speaks volumes in its ambiguity. Amnesty International stated unequivocally that Israel “committed genocide”. Legal scholars concurred. Yet, in a display of pure Orwellian doublethink, the United States described these allegations as “unfounded”. The same US that claim to uphold human rights continue to arm Israel, a lesson in hypocrisy.
The mechanics of genocide proceed in plain sight: hospitals, schools and water systems are systematically destroyed. Starvation is wielded as a weapon and entire towns and their inhabitants have been destroyed. Survivors speak of an apocalypse, of being made subhuman and the language of extermination is now routine among Israeli officials. The Zionists, like their former Nazi allies to justify murdering Jews, have dehumanised their Palestinian victims.
Unlike the Nazi genocide, the genocide in Gaza is “live-streamed”, documented, analysed and condemned, yet uninterrupted. The international system, designed to prevent such horrors, is ignored. Legal judgments are made but never enforced. Moral pronouncements are rendered meaningless by political expediency. The Palestinian struggle is the latest chapter in a long Zionist settler-colonial project of ethnic cleansing which started in 1948. But still the killing continues, shielded by the same powers that once swore “never again”.
The truth is not hidden but rendered irrelevant, discarded by those with the power to ignore it.
Oman Observer is now on the WhatsApp channel. Click here
