World News: Israel and the Depopulation of Gaza
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- Category: Haute This Issue
- Published on Monday, 28 July 2025 13:02
- Written by Olivier Longhi
By using starvation and the systematic bombing of health and hospital facilities, Israel is tending to depopulate Gaza right before the eyes of the international community who are caught between non-interference and historical guilt.
"Kill them! But kill them all! Let there be no one left to reproach me for it!" These are the words of Charles IX, taken from Alexandre Dumas' novel, La Reine Margot, published in 1845. These words, terrible, because they opened, admittedly in a romanticized way, the door to the Massacre of Saint Bartholomew, on August 24, 1572, in Paris and everywhere, shortly afterwards in France, and saw the Catholics slay the Protestants of the time by the thousands.
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More than 500 years later, are these same words applicable, all things considered, to the drama unfolding in Gaza? The question that now arises is: What is Israel's objective in what is no longer even a conflict with Hamas, decimated, bled dry, unable to counterattack? It was read or heard that Israel was practicing a genocide that did not want to assume itself as such.
Qualifier and Famine
At the same time, it is extremely delicate to criticize Israeli policy because the qualifier of anti-Semitism immediately comes up, in view of the history of the Jewish people in the twentieth century. However, there is a clear difference between anti-Semitism and criticizing Israel's policies, as geopolitical scientist Pascal Boniface (IRIS – Institute of International and Strategic Relations) has explained many times.
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To this day, there is no longer any doubt that Israel wants to depopulate Gaza of all Palestinian populations, just as there is no doubt that Israel is using famine, lack of access to essential resources and systematic bombing of hospitals and other health facilities to achieve its ends. With total impunity, haloed by its offensive against Iran, unreservedly supported by Donald Trump and aware of Europe's historical guilt which pushes the latter to measure its words, Israel acts freely.
Cynicism and Ethnic Cleansing
From the need to have a free state, free from all external threats, an obligation recognized as essential by François Mitterrand in 1982 before the Knesset, the state founded in 1948 by Ben-Gurion has sunk into a violent and destructive cynicism, using its military but also historical strength: how to attack a country created from scratch to allow the Jews of the whole world to live free, far from all persecution.
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Starving Gaza, by making women and children the first victims, seems far from any military objective but looks more like ethnic cleansing, which again does not say its name. So, the second question is, when will Israel stop this systematic cycle of widespread destruction? When will the United States ask for it? When will the European Union demand it? When will the UN send Blue Helmets?
All these questions also refer to a notion of interference that international law limits and controls. Finally, the answer can be found in the previous lines: When Israel has depopulated Gaza, military operations will cease.
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Bio: Olivier Longhi has extensive experience in European history. A seasoned journalist with fifteen years of experience, he is currently a professor of history and geography in the Toulouse region of France. He has held a variety of publishing positions, including Head of Agency and Chief of Publishing. A journalist and recognized blogger, editor, and editorial project manager, he has trained and managed editorial teams, worked as a journalist for various local radio stations, was a press and publishing consultant, and was a communications consultant.
