COMMENT | With all the pressure, including the threat of arrest warrants, nothing has stopped Israel from committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to act with impunity, launching another “intensive military operation” and announcing plans to forcibly displace Gaza’s population “for their own protection”.

The world has heard this language before. It’s the vocabulary of ethnic cleansing.

Over 52,000 Palestinians are dead. Entire families erased. Children buried in mass graves. Hospitals bombed. Cities turned to dust. This is not defence but systematic annihilation. And despite all of this, the Israeli state continues to raise its middle finger to the world.

It’s time we confront an uncomfortable truth: asking the United States to stop supporting Israel will not work.