Edward Torsney

In the last 48 hours Israeli armoured brigades have begun to withdraw from the civilian enclave of Gaza to the withdrawal lines detailed in the “Trump Peace Plan” in readiness for prisoner exchanges as part of the plan.

The Red Cross has now entered Gaza and we have begun, finally after 2 years of a brutal starvation siege of the civilian population, to see food, water and fuel trucks allowed through checkpoints.

The GHF organisation, responsible for luring starving people into pits and gunning them down under the pretext of distributing aid, has evaporated. That group of American mercenaries has flown home, their pockets bulging with dollar bills and their consciences packed with images of their slaughter-house antics. May they suffer PTSD flashbacks and mental torment for the rest of their miserable lives! Amen!

Trump’s Peace Plan is ostensibly an Israeli/American surrender, an acceptance finally that their policy of ethnic cleansing & genocide followed by settlement of Gaza by more European and American Jews will not work. An acceptance that they cannot beat the indigenous resistance to their invasion. The Israeli, US, UK alliance (hitherto referred to here as the ‘Genocide Coalition’) had two aims: destroying Hamas and then stealing the whole of the Gaza Strip to be turned into Jewish settlements incorporated into Israel with seaside resorts, penthouses and casinos for the rich and famous. Note that the release of hostages was demonstrably never actually an aim, since indiscriminate carpet bombing, starvation siege, shelling and heavy machine gun fire almost certainly and inevitably killed up to 80-90% of hostages held by Hamas over the 2 years of genocide.

Of their two real aims, the Genocide Coalition achieved neither: Hamas for now, still controls Gaza and has more support and more members than it had before the invasion. And the people of Gaza persist, although a third of the population has been killed by the Genocide Coalition bombing campaign.

This morning as they organised the exchange of 20 hostages along with the Red Cross as an intermediary, Hamas (Al Qassam Brigades) released a statement regarding the hostage exchange:

We announce our commitment to the agreement reached and the associated timelines as long as the occupation adheres to them

The enemy failed to retrieve its prisoners through military pressure, despite its intelligence superiority and the excess power it possesses. Now, it is yielding and regaining its prisoners through an exchange deal, as the resistance promised from the beginning.

The occupation could have retrieved most of its prisoners alive many months ago, but it continued to procrastinate and be stubborn, preferring its army to kill dozens of them due to its failed military pressure policy.’

Looking back now over the Gaza Holocaust, it’s hard to disagree with this statement as reports from October 2023 show that ALL hostages were offered by Hamas in return for Israeli forces not entering Gaza.

As history shows, however, this deal was rejected and the Genocide Coalition opted instead to embark on a 2 year program of total holocaust and attempted the complete erasure of Gaza along with everything and everyone in it. It is undeniable at this stage and vital for the veracity of the history books, that this option was ONLY POSSIBLE with the endless supply of American ordinance and British air surveillance flights constantly providing intelligence and target acquisition to the Israeli ground forces.

It is for our consciences here in Britain now to wrestle with the moral existential reality that we as a nation took part in a Holocaust, an attempted erasure of a whole people, already half starved and homeless, with no army or navy, protected only by an underground resistance movement with homemade weapons and IEDs. AND WE FAILED.

All of it was pointless. What exactly has this bloodthirsty, sadistic rampage achieved? Despite £billions in military and intelligence support, all we achieved was the senseless slaughter of countless children and the utter destruction of our own Western moral standing. The world sees Britain, America and Israel now as nothing but vile, murderous pillagers, rampaging and killing, spreading death and misery whilst we selfishly and voraciously claw the world for land and resources at the expense of innocent lives.

As the Palestinians who remain today, return from the concentration camps to scenes of post-apocalyptic devastation where their homes, towns and villages used to be, I wonder if they see in that broken desert of smouldering rubble a reflection of the desert of western morality and the abject defeat of Western Imperialistic Hegemony, brought to its knees by the simple people of Palestine, their love for one another and their 4000 year connection to their land.

“They make a desert and call it peace” – Tacitus