The New Dark Age

Tuesday, 20 May 2025 — BettBeat Media

This moment demands more than your horror. It demands your action. Now.

The machinery of genocide grinds forward in Gaza with total impunity, its architects now boldly declaring their intentions without pretense. What we are witnessing is not warfare but industrial-scale extermination—methodical, deliberate, and carried out with the full blessing of American power.

The evidence lies not in conjecture but in the words of Israel’s own leadership. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich — his name alone exposes his demonic heritage — proudly announces that humanitarian aid is permitted only “so the world does not stop us and accuse us of war crimes” while they “annihilate everything that remains in the strip.” Prime Minister Netanyahu speaks of allowing “minimal humanitarian aid” solely to prevent “images of mass starvation” that might disturb even staunch pro-Israel senators.

These are not rogue statements but articulations of state policy. When officials speak of “dismantling Gaza” and leaving it with “unprecedented destruction,” we must recognize this for what it is: the final stage of ethnic cleansing, the final solution — “die endlösung” — the culmination of a process that has unfolded over 2 years while the world watched.

Apocalypse

The apocalyptic scenes emerging from Gaza confirm this reality. Hospitals targeted repeatedly, their generators destroyed, patients fired upon while attempting to flee. “Safe zones” bombed indiscriminately. Women and girls, torn from their families, are separated from the men and warehoused naked to be used as sex toys by soldiers who methodically film their gang rapes of children and share them amongst each other—atrocities documented yet met with deafening silence. Not even the Electronic Intifada is willing to discuss the mass sexual abuse of Palestinian children while spending almost two years meticulously debunking false October 7 rape myths that captivate Western media.

Infrastructure reduced to rubble as far as the eye can see—entire neighborhoods vaporized into dust and memory. Five trucks of aid permitted for two million people—a cynical gesture described by Smotrich himself as merely “optics,” a grotesque theater of humanitarian concern while deliberate starvation serves as weapon of mass elimination.

Trump speaks of a “freedom zone” in Gaza—an Orwellian phrase masking the planned expulsion of its indigenous population. He dismisses the displacement of nearly two million people as manageable, suggesting they need only remain somewhere in “the Middle East” to satisfy what he calls their “spirit for the Middle East.” This orientalist dehumanizing language reveals the colonial mindset underlying the entire project.

Never Again, Except for Brown People

Ponder this: We are still in the month that commemorated the Holocaust and liberation from the Nazis. We’ve witnessed solemn rituals where white Europeans bow their heads before cameras, voices breaking as they intone that “this should never happen again“—a promise as empty as the air it disturbs. International law, human rights conventions, and the post-Holocaust pledge of “never again” have been rendered meaningless as this campaign of extermination proceeds unimpeded, with Western powers not merely standing idle but actively fueling its machinery.

The mechanisms that supposedly guard against such atrocities are proving hollow, their enforcement selective and political—justice available only when convenient for empire and the victims are white. As a European, I have never felt more repulsed and disgusted by my continent, my people, my history. It absolutely revulses me to my core, this complicity masked as civilization, this barbarity draped in the language of democracy.

The time for polite concern has passed. Sanctions and arms embargoes represent the bare minimum of moral response. What is required is direct, sustained action that disrupts the machinery of complicity—boycotts, divestment, protests that block and harm military trade, and unrelenting pressure on elected officials who continue to fund this horror.

History will judge not only the perpetrators but those who stood by in silence. The euphemisms of “conflict,” “war,” or “military operation” must be cast aside. What we are witnessing is one of the worst genocides in human history—declared openly, executed systematically, and enabled by the West. Our failure to respond with the urgency this demands makes us participants, not merely observers.

The Palestinians of Gaza are being systematically starved, bombed, raped, tortured and driven from their homeland while the architects of their suffering boast about it. This is the culmination of a process designed to erase them as a people. The final solution to what Israel’s leadership clearly views as the “Palestinian question” is unfolding before our eyes.

This moment demands more than your horror. It demands your action. Now.

– Karim