Unfortunately, many people in the west are still running cover for Israel, or trying to give them an out minus consequences. The situation is very simple. The ICJ issued a legal order for Israel to cease military operations in Rafah to avoid civilian harm. Israel arrogantly and demonstrably ignored the order. Civilians were harmed and killed. Anyone within the Israeli government who was involved, including its leadership, should be taken into custody immediately and tried for war crimes.
Because the overt goal of Israel’s historic enterprise, and in particular its present campaign, is the removal or eradication of the Palestinian people, both from Gaza and from the West Bank. The Israel they demand, the Zionist ethnostate, cannot exist without ethnic cleansing, therefore they are engaged in ethnic cleansing. And the US, and its leadership, is attempting to profit in various ways from this endeavor while cynically pretending at overtures of peace and reconciliation.
And the press needs to stop characterizing ‘far right’ political factions around the world as anything other than fascism. There is no vast ideological divide between ‘far right’ and fascism. They exist to create and spread fascism, wherever in the world they may reside. The softening language is a throwback from the post-war world that allowed neoliberalism to avoid actually fighting fascists again. Call it out for what it is, or stop muddying the waters and doing their dirty work for them.