I contend that the genocide in
Gaza being committed by the Israeli government can also be termed a holocaust.
This is actually not much of a leap; what is surprising is that American mercenaries—retired
U.S. Army officers working as subcontractor security forces at food distribution
sites in Gaza—have also enjoyed the sport of shooting adult and even children
Gazans under the reasonable assumption of impunity. As the funder of the
subcontractor, the U.S. Government can be considered as an accomplice even more
directly than in merely supplying Israel with the weapons to use to kill off
the population of Gaza. The sheer inertia of the American electorate and the intractability
of the federal representatives can itself be viewed as a subtle accomplice in
the ongoing atrocity of the Gaza Holocaust. Even in the E.U., the electorate
and its federal representatives have been slow to adjust, as for instance E.U.
President Von der Leyen made an excuse in July of 2025 not to end the trade
agreement with Israel. With the U.S. so ethically compromised, the world wisely
looked to the E.U. and even to China to step in and stop the holocaust, especially
after an American who had witnessed the killing publicly described the horrendous
role of both the Israelis and Americans providing “security” at the food-distribution
sites.
Anthony Aguilar, a retired
U.S. Army employee who had served a quarter century in the Special Forces as a
Green Beret, worked as an independent subcontractor for UG Solutions as armed
security for GHF, which is funded by the U.S. Government to manage food-delivery
sites in Gaza. So he is very credible. He ended his contract on June 14, 2025 “after
witnessing his fellow security officers and soldiers with the Israeli Defense
Forces repeatedly open fire on Palestinian civilians who had trekked to GHF’s
four aid hubs. Armed officers often celebrated hitting civilians at the sites,
where the United Nations says more than a thousand Palestinians have been killed.”[1]
That is, a retired U.S. Army employee working as a subcontractor witnessed not
only Israeli soldiers, but also American mercenaries, carry out atrocities “against
starving Palestinians trying to access aid.”[2]
The IDF lied that soldiers have used their guns at the sites only to “deliver
warning shots for unruly crowds. But Aguilar said that officers attacked
civilians with tank rounds, mortars and fully automatic weapons with at least
210 rounds each of green-tipped armor-piercing ammunition designed to kill.”[3]
Aguilar has stated, “(a)ll four distribution locations were intentionally,
deliberately constructed, planned and built in the middle of an active combat
zone.”[4]
In other words, it is no
accident that Israeli soldiers and American mercenaries have shot so many
Gazans at the food-distribution sites. Perhaps it could even be said that the
idea for the sites was part of a wider strategy in the Israeli government to kill
as many Gazans as possible while seemingly placating objections by other
governments that Israel had been deliberately starving Gazans under the
ethically-discredited notion of collective justice. Similar to the Nazi strategy
of representing the concentration camps as labor camps, the Israeli strategy
seems to be to turn a humane response—food distribution sites—into a means of shooting
even children under the false claim of “crowd control.”
The Israelis’ Gaza Holocaust and the Nazi’s Jewish Holocaust resemble on another in that extermination of a people (i.e., people who group-identify themselves in a particular group) can be said to be the goal. In fact, the Israeli leveling of entire cities in Gaza goes beyond the Nazi’s Jewish ghettos. Put another way, whereas the Israeli government has sought to render Gaza as uninhabitable so the residents would suffer for an extended period of time before dying, the Nazis did not render the ghettos uninhabitable before the Jews were taken to the camps. In this way, the Gaza Holocaust is actually worse, assuming that it is unethical to intentionally make people suffer, especially if severely. An Israeli government official even stated that death is not bad enough for what the Gazans deserve, as if even the children were culpable for Hamas’ attack back in 2023. Perhaps therein lies the real difference between a genocide and a holocaust.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
