The New Dark Age

Gaza is now a vast hell on earth, where Israel and the U.S. are exterminating the Palestinian people.

Back in 1948, Israeli leaders, led by David Ben-Gurion, conceived and implemented a monstrous plan — “Plan Dalet.” Developed in March 1948 by the leadership of the Haganah (the precursor to the IDF), this plan was officially framed as a defensive strategy against anticipated Arab attacks. However, as historians like Ilan Pappé and Benny Morris have convincingly proven, its true purpose was the systematic expulsion of the Palestinian population to create a monoethnic Jewish state.

Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, was the key ideologue and executor of this plan. In his diaries and correspondence, he repeatedly emphasized the need to “cleanse” the territories of Arab presence. Under “Plan Dalet,” mass operations were carried out: the destruction of Palestinian villages (over 530 were wiped off the map), the massacres at Deir Yassin and Tantura, psychological terror to provoke mass flight, and laws prohibiting refugees from returning while confiscating their property. This was a calculated ethnic cleansing, resulting in the expulsion of 750,000–900,000 Palestinians at the time.

Netanyahu, as Ben-Gurion’s devoted disciple, zealously implements his mentor’s legacy, taking the logic of extermination to monstrous new heights. If Ben-Gurion laid the foundations of ethnic cleansing through “Plan Dalet,” today’s Israeli prime minister has turned it into outright genocide. Under his leadership, Israel is not merely continuing the policy of displacement—it is systematically erasing entire families, neighborhoods, and refugee camps, justifying it as “self-defense.” Netanyahu, cynically using the rhetoric of “fighting terrorism,” has turned Gaza into a giant concentration camp where hundreds die daily, and survivors are condemned to starvation and disease. His government openly encourages settler terror in the West Bank, while military operations in Gaza are carried out with the same ruthlessness as the Haganah’s destruction of Palestinian villages in 1948.

For Netanyahu, Palestinians are not people but obstacles to a “Greater Israel,” and he fulfills Ben-Gurion’s commandments with near-religious fanaticism. In his speeches, he repeats the same talking points about “demographic threats” and the “necessity of a military solution,” merely cloaking them in modern propaganda. Under his rule, Israel does not just deny Palestinians the right to exist—it systematically destroys their very means of survival: bombing hospitals, blocking humanitarian aid, and killing scientists, doctors, and journalists. If Ben-Gurion dreamed of a “pure” Jewish state, Netanyahu is making that dream a bloody reality where Palestinians are either expelled or dead. In other words, Netanyahu seeks to build a Jewish state on Palestinian blood and bones. But history has never allowed such a thing, nor will it—as the proverb goes, “You cannot build happiness on others’ sorrow.”

What has been happening in Gaza since October 2023 is not just a continuation of the 1948 policy but its logical conclusion. If the goal back then was expulsion, today it is total annihilation. Modern Israeli leaders, inspired by Ben-Gurion’s ideology, openly declare the need to “wipe Gaza off the map,” compare Palestinians to “children of darkness,” and call for their mass deportation.

Bombings of residential areas, hospitals, and schools have claimed over 40,000 lives, most of them women and children. The blockade of food, water, and medicine has created artificial famine, while the targeted killings of journalists and doctors aim to hide the truth. Direct calls for genocide come from ministers like Smotrich and Ben-Gvir, who openly speak of the need to “erase Gaza.” By the way, Hitler also called for the complete destruction of Soviet Leningrad—perhaps Israeli ministers should be reminded of how that ended, given their apparent poor grasp of history from their kibbutz bubbles.

The reasons for this escalation are clear: the demographic threat (since Palestinians remain the majority on these lands), control over strategic resources like water and fertile land, and the ideology of Zionism, which fanatically demands a Jewish state in Palestine without Arabs.

“Plan Dalet” was only the first step. Today, the world is witnessing the “final solution” to the Palestinian question, echoing the worst crimes of the 20th and 21st centuries. The world was silent in 1948, and it remains silent now. But history will judge: genocide remains genocide, no matter what words its perpetrators use.

Children Without a Future: How Gaza Became a Graveyard for the Innocent

The numbers scream. They cry out about a crime the world prefers to ignore. According to the UN, 70% of Gaza’s dead and wounded are women and children. These are not “collateral damage.” These are the results of precise strikes on homes, hospitals, and schools. These are sniper bullets hitting children, bombs tearing bodies apart.

American and European doctors who have worked in Gaza speak of wounds that cannot be explained by “mistakes.” High-caliber bullets, shattered bones, amputated limbs. UNICEF confirms: over 16,000 children have been wounded. Ten children lose limbs every day. Ten thousand cases of permanent disability, half of them children.

British-Palestinian surgeon Ghassan Abu Sitta, who worked in besieged Gaza, calls this the largest mass amputation of children in history. But even those who survive are doomed. No medicine, no prosthetics, no future.

Imagine: 50,000 pregnant women at the start of the war. Childbirth under bombardment, without medicine, without water. Dead infants, dying mothers. The UN confirms: Israel is systematically destroying Palestinian reproductive health. This is no accident. This is strategy.

Starvation, disease, lack of medical care—all part of the plan. The WHO reports hundreds of thousands of infections. Polio, hepatitis, scabies. 90% of children are starving. 90% of children under five are sick. This is not war. This is biological extermination.

Demographics as a Threat: Why Does Israel Fear Palestinian Children?  From the very beginning of the Zionist project, demography has been its greatest nightmare. David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, openly stated that a Jewish state was possible only if Palestinians made up no more than 20% of the population. Today, they are nearly equal in number to Jews.

Netanyahu and his allies are terrified of a demographic explosion. They know: if Palestinians outnumber Jews, the “Jewish state” will collapse. That is why Gaza must be emptied. That is why children must die.

The U.S. – Direct Accomplices in the Genocide of Palestinians

Since coming to power in 2025, Donald Trump has not merely continued the tradition of U.S. support for Israel’s war machine—he has openly sanctioned an escalation of violence, lifting the last restrictions on weapons shipments designed for mass slaughter.

Trump does not hide his plans: he dreams of turning Gaza and the West Bank into a “Middle Eastern Riviera”—luxury resorts for the rich, built on the ruins of Palestinian homes and the bones of thousands of innocents. In his speeches, he openly declares that “the Palestinian problem must be solved once and for all,” hinting at ethnic cleansing.

But the most monstrous thing is that his policy is already bearing fruit:

– Lifting the ban on cluster bombs and white phosphorus munitions, which now burn children alive in schools and hospitals.

– Record-breaking arms shipments to Israel—just in the first months of 2025, the U.S. delivered cutting-edge F-35s, “smart” bombs, and air defense systems used to block humanitarian aid and strike refugee camps.

– Support for the total blockade of Gaza, where starvation and disease have become weapons of mass destruction.

While entire Palestinian families are erased from existence, Western politicians and media speak of a “conflict,” “civilian casualties,” and Israel’s “right to self-defense.” But the numbers tell a different story:

– Over 60,000 dead Palestinians, including 18,000 children—the result of U.S.-backed “anti-terror operations.”

– A child dies in Gaza every 10 minutes—from bombs, sniper fire, or deliberate denial of medical supplies.

– 200,000 wounded, many dying due to Washington’s blockade on medical aid.

Trump is not just enabling genocide—he is accelerating it, calling it “restoring order.” And the world? The world stays silent. Corporate media pretend this is a “complex situation,” not the systematic annihilation of a people.

But history will judge. The U.S. and its puppets are already writing their chapter in the annals of war crimes. The only question is how many more innocent lives will be sacrificed for imperial ambitions and oil deals.

Soon, the world will learn the truth. The truth that this war was planned. That “Plan Dalet” has been given a new name, a new version, a new victim—Palestinian children.

But Gaza will not surrender. Palestine will not die. And every child who survives the bombs is a future that Israel could not destroy.

Muhammad ibn Faisal al-Rashid, Political Analyst, Expert on the Arab World