{"id":306502,"date":"2025-11-03T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=306502"},"modified":"2025-10-31T07:02:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T07:02:28","slug":"from-never-again-to-again-and-again-how-the-world-enabled-gazas-destruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/11\/from-never-again-to-again-and-again-how-the-world-enabled-gazas-destruction\/","title":{"rendered":"From \u2018Never Again\u2019 to Again and Again: How the World Enabled Gaza\u2019s Destruction"},"content":{"rendered":"

27 Oct 2025 – <\/em>Special Rapporteur, Francesca Albanese*<\/strong> the UN\u2019s rare voice of conscience amid its faltering moral architecture, has delivered a searing indictment \u2014 not only of Israel but of the global order that enables it. In her latest report, she states plainly that nations maintaining military, financial, and diplomatic ties with Israel are\u00a0\u201cresponsible in some measure\u201d<\/em>\u00a0for what she calls the Gaza genocide.<\/p>\n

These are not rhetorical flourishes. They are the measured language of law \u2014 and of a moral reckoning long deferred.<\/p>\n

For over two years, Gaza\u2019s destruction has unfolded in plain sight \u2014 a live-streamed atrocity that has killed or wounded more than ten percent of its population and displaced nearly all. Albanese calls it a\u00a0\u201ccollective crime,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0impossible without the aiding hand of foreign powers.\u00a0\u201cFramed by colonial narratives that dehumanize the Palestinians,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0she writes,<\/p>\n

\u201cthis atrocity has been facilitated through third states\u2019 direct support, material aid, diplomatic protection, and, in some cases, active participation.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The enablers are neither few nor innocent, the chorus of collaborators stretches far and wide, but none bears greater guilt than the United States. Washington supplies two-thirds of Israel\u2019s weapons, has poured more than $38 billion in military aid since October 2023, and wielded its UN veto as a shield against accountability. Its choreography of \u201cpauses\u201d and \u201ctruces\u201d \u2014 never a permanent ceasefire \u2014 ensured the continuity of violence under the guise of diplomacy. Under both Democratic and Republican administrations, America has not merely condoned Israel\u2019s actions; it has\u00a0underwritten<\/em>\u00a0them.<\/p>\n

Europe\u2019s record fares no better. Germany remains Israel\u2019s second-largest arms supplier. Britain, invoking the moral bankruptcy of realpolitik, defended Israel\u2019s right to cut off water and power to civilians \u2014 a stance indefensible under international law. France, Italy, Denmark, Poland, and Greece deepened trade ties even as Gaza\u2019s hospitals collapsed and its schools turned to dust. Economic pragmatism triumphed over principle; commerce eclipsed conscience.<\/p>\n

Arab states stand equally guilty \u2013 masters of betrayal draped in the cloak of silence, their palaces glitter while Gaza burns – their hypocrisy knows no bounds, loud in rhetoric but criminally silent in action.<\/p>\n

Nothing illustrates this rot better than the UAE, Egypt, Jordan, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco \u2014 through normalization and business with Israel \u2014 lent legitimacy to a regime of occupation and annihilation. Albanese names over sixty nations whose material, political, or diplomatic support made Gaza\u2019s devastation possible. Their complicity, born of expedience and ambition, stands as a betrayal of both Arab solidarity and the universal ideals of justice they claim to uphold.<\/p>\n

What emerges from her report is a world order on the brink \u2014 between the collapse of international law and the faint hope of its renewal. The West\u2019s hypocrisy is now complete: those who once vowed\u00a0\u201cnever again\u201d<\/em>\u00a0have presided over genocide in real time. The same powers that proclaim democracy and human rights now officiate at their burial.<\/p>\n

A century of Western complicity in Palestine\u2019s dispossession has been marked by cowardice disguised as diplomacy, cruelty cloaked in neutrality, and indifference exalted as pragmatism. Every chance for courage was replaced by calculation; every plea for justice, met with silence.<\/p>\n

Albanese\u2019s warning is unequivocal: states that arm, fund, or shield Israel\u00a0\u201ccould and should be held liable for aiding, assisting, or jointly participating in internationally wrongful acts.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0This is not moral outrage \u2014 it is a legal summons. The International Criminal Court, having already issued warrants for Israeli leaders, must now extend its reach to those who financed, justified, and protected their crimes.<\/p>\n

When the smoke clears, the world will face its own reflection \u2013 distorted by cowardice, scarred by hypocrisy. If Gaza\u2019s cries cannot awaken our sense of justice, perhaps nothing ever will.<\/p>\n

Notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, hasn’t been directly quoted as saying “Framed by colonial narratives that dehumanize the Palestinians….” in the provided search results. However, her reports and statements suggest she believes Israel’s actions against Palestinians are rooted in colonialism and settler-colonialism, which dehumanize Palestinians.[\u00b9](https:\/\/law4palestine.org\/genocide-as-colonial-erasure-summary-of-the-un-special-rapporteurs-report-on-israels-settler-colonial-genocide\/<\/a>) [\u00b2](https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/genocide-as-colonial-erasure-report-francesca-albanese-01oct24\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Some relevant quotes from Francesca Albanese include<\/p>\n

[\u00b3](https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2024\/03\/1147976<\/a>) [\u2074](https:\/\/www.greenleft.org.au\/2024\/1419\/analysis\/francesca-albaneses-second-report-gaza-genocide-colonial-erasure<\/a>):<\/p>\n

– “The colonial amnesia of the West has condoned Israel’s colonial settler project,”<\/p>\n

– “Genocide as colonial erasure” – This is the title of her report where she investigates the atrocities Palestinians currently go through and gives a broader view of the genocidal intent as colonial erasure.<\/p>\n

– “In settler-colonial contexts, land and its resources are particularly relevant. Land is intrinsic to both a people\u2019s right to self-determination and the settler-colonial project. An inherent conflict exists between the colonisers, who seek to acquire and control the land, and the Indigenous population, for whom the land is integral to their identity”.<\/p>\n

You can find her reports and more information on the UN Human Rights Council website or through the provided links<\/p>\n

[\u2075](https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/documents\/country-reports\/a79384-report-special-rapporteur-situation-human-rights-palestinian<\/a>):<\/p>\n

– Report: A\/79\/384: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese – Genocide as colonial erasure<\/p>\n

– Document: Genocide as colonial erasure \u2013 Report of Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967<\/p>\n

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Javed Akbar is a freelance writer with published works in the <\/em>Toronto Star and across diverse digital platforms.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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