So the Israeli Prime Minister has decided that controlling 70% of Gaza is not enough; now he wants the lot. Benjamin Netanyahu’s order to the IDF to seize full operational control of the Strip is a move that would make even the most hardened Roman proconsul blush. The UK, ever the sanctimonious nanny, wrings its hands and demands ‘humanitarian corridors’.
But let us be honest: corridors are just euphemisms for controlled evacuation, the first step towards ethnic cleansing by another name. We are witnessing the death throes of the two-state solution, a corpse that has been rotting since Oslo. The intellectual decadence of the West, its inability to see that this is not a conflict of equals but a colonial project in its final, ugly stage, is breathtaking.
Meanwhile, Netanyahu plays the strongman, riding a wave of nationalistic fervour that would have made Mussolini proud. The fall of Gaza will not be a single event; it will be a slow, grinding disappearance into the dustbin of history. And the West will tut, issue statements, and do precisely nothing.
