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The Simple Truth About the War in Gaza
Coleman Hughes
August 4, 2025

…Genocide is the intentional physical destruction of a people in whole or in part. Israel’s aim in Gaza is not to destroy the Palestinian people as a whole, nor is it to destroy Gaza and Palestinians in particular. The Gaza Health Ministry reports that about 60,000 people have been killed in Gaza in 22 months of war. Israel says that about 20,000 Hamas fighters have been killed. Both may be exaggerating their numbers, but let’s take them at their word. Assuming 60,000 people have been killed, that’s about 3 percent of Gaza’s pre-war population. The Nazis killed over 60 percent of European Jews. The Ottoman Empire killed over 50 percent of the Armenians in its territory. Hutu extremists may have killed close to 80 percent of the Tutsis in Rwanda over 100 days in 1994. Those were genocides. READ MORE

URBAN WARFARE John Spencer: What Are Israel’s Choices in Gaza? The Insanity of Double Standards and Uninformed Analysis. War is uncertain by its nature. It is human. It is political. And it is absolutely uncertain. To say there is only one way for the war in Gaza to end is not connected to the complete history of war. To claim that Israel has already achieved its goals and should end the war is not accurate and is often disconnected from reality. Likewise, saying that Israel cannot achieve its goals is also untrue and full of double standards. From October 8 forward, Israel’s goals in Gaza, as stated clearly and consistently by its political leadership including the Prime Minister, the Minister of Defense, and members of the war cabinet, have not changed.