Kristopher Moreno-Lombardi | Alabama–

What is the cost of broadcasting the extermination of an entire people to the world, with the international community remaining apathetic? What does it cost to allow this to continue for an entire year, with corporations colluding with a genocidal state? You might think, This won’t affect me, right?

Wrong. The hypernormalization of violence in Gaza and southern Lebanon will have unparalleled consequences for all of us. The damage wrought by Netanyahu’s blatant violations of international law is immeasurable. He has committed crime after crime, even targeting the UN repeatedly, as the world watches in silence. This is genocide, normalized, and it signals the collapse of international law and human rights protections that historically shielded minorities.

Netanyahu and Israel have operated with impunity for 78 years. Zionists have weaponized the Holocaust, justifying the same kind of violence it condemned. This normalization has emboldened others—take President-elect Donald Trump, who plans mass deportations of Latin immigrants, an inherently genocidal act. Such boldness would not exist without Netanyahu’s example: if you have a major power backing you, you can commit atrocities without consequence.

The ripple effects are global:

In India, Muslims and Kashmiris in Kashmir face imminent genocide by India.

In Papua New Guinea and East Timor, indigenous peoples suffer under genocidal regimes.

Kurds in Kurdistan and Assyrians in Syria are targeted.

In the U.S., genocidal rhetoric against transgender Americans escalates.

These atrocities are connected. After a year of global inaction, governments everywhere now understand they can massacre their people with impunity. In Bangladesh, police opened fire on student protesters, killing at least 150, despite international condemnation. The U.S. has made clear that it will sacrifice international law to support its proxy state in MENA, providing Israel with cutting-edge weaponry to perpetrate these crimes in broad daylight.

This normalization of genocide is unprecedented. The protections meant to prevent atrocities are unraveling. The world is entering a terrifying new era, where states can exterminate entire populations without consequence. We have lost the international norms that once restrained genocide.

The international stage has been completely destroyed we live in a world where everyone I mentioned above will begin a full scale genocide within the coming years and what would have once restrain them and keep them from such crimes the United States has signed the death warrant of millions of people and it will pay absolutely no price for it nor will India Indonesia or any of these nations that want to commit these genocides they will go unpunished and the scary thing is it’s already happened I must say it once again international law is deed

So The cost? The erosion of all international law, leading to a world where human rights mean nothing. We stand at the precipice of a global abyss where mass extermination and violence is routine.

Categories: International, Israel, Palestine