The sheer horror of the situation in Gaza isn’t sufficient to stir the dead hand of our government into action. It doesn’t even alter its position regarding the supply of lethal weaponry to an Israeli war machine which is completely out of control.
The same is true of governments across the so called “democratic” West. Governments across the WEOG group of nations are beyond the pale when it comes to Israel. A term (beyond the pale) once used to describe the barbarity of Russian pogroms against Jews can now be deployed in description of what Israel, other European countries we now understand to be deeply implicated in genocide and the USA (Israel’s full-time genocidal sugar daddy) are wreaking on the population of Gaza.
For all that Western media (forever implicated itself as aiding and abetting) would have it otherwise, the “GHF food aid” programme is seen to be a hollow sham and a vicious and cynical trap in which desperate Palestinians are shot, crushed, or blown to smithereens whilst queuing or scrambling for carelessly (or cruelly) assembled “food aid”, much of which is designed to frustrate, more than feed; nonplus instead of nourish.

And yet the English Government does nothing to prevent Genocide and argues in the High Court, even as Israeli quadcopters (many of which are built in the UK and shipped to Israel under export licences by Elbit Systems and others) snipe children, shooting many twice, in the back or chest and then through the head, that it has no idea as to what Israel’s or the quadcopter operator’s intentions were when so doing. It denies that genocide is occurring because, it claims, Israel could potentially be targeting a “terrorist” when inadvertently it murders a child with a weapon developed with pinpoint, unerring accuracy in mind.

Last week the provisioning director of the Palestinian Red Cresent in Gaza reported that Israel (which holds all essential data on every individual who was living in Gaza in October 2023 and probably on many born since) uses the phone numbers of individuals when they blow up residential blocks. It is the job of some officers of the Occupation Forces to call these telephone numbers after those individuals’ homes have been demolished, to see if they answer from beneath the debris. If they do then those employees can extract a few minutes harmful amusement by taunting the individuals as they lie trapped, injured, or die beneath their homes.
It is time to take the law into our own hands. Dr Hicham El Ghaoui (https://marchtogaza.net/dr-hicham-el-ghaoui/) and others have organised a Global march to Gaza on 12 June from El Arish on the Mediterranean in the northern Sinai Desert to the Rafah Crossing on the southern edge of the Gaza Strip. If sanctions are what it will take then there is no better indicator of a collective will than a million or more well-intentioned people making a highly-publicised journey on foot 30 miles across the Sinai to a disputed border crossing in heat exceeding 30 degrees.
You can apply via marchtogaza.net, you’ll need a visa to enter Egypt. You may also need backing:
Those who need funding should set up a crowdfunding page as quickly as possible (whilst they apply for a visa and book flights). Just Giving is one site on which willing individuals are raising the money needed in a matter of hours.
It is incumbent upon us … people of conscience … to ensure that this march is the largest march of its kind ever organised, but we have a very limited time in which to do it. Entries close in four days on 7 June and obviously flights to Egypt are limited (and no doubt booking up).
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If you can’t join the march yourself but can afford to do so, sponsor someone to go in your place … or search March to Gaza online and crowdfund to the extent you can afford.
It is time that Western governments were shamed into taking responsibility for the way they have acted: funding the genocide; providing political cover for genocidaires; surveilling targets; supplying weapons; failing in their obligations under the Rome Treaty, UN Charter and the Geneva Conventions to prevent a plausible genocide; misinforming the public; supporting a Zionist colonial project that has acted against the peremptory norms of international humanitarian law since 1967 and before; taking money individually and as political movements from Zionist sympathisers; doing nothing to bring about the end of an illegal occupation; doing nothing to end the internment of political prisoners and innocent children by Israel (1,000,000 since 1967); failing to execute binding arrest warrants on behalf of the ICC against Netanyahu and Galant; celebrating Israel’s barbaric cruelty by welcoming its leaders on state visits with all attendant honours; remaining silent in the face of unprecedented horrors and now defending a man-made famine.
THIS MUST END.
MARCH TO GAZA.
FREE PALESTINE! … FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA … FREE, FREE FREE PALESTINE!