By Joseph Rittenhouse —
What does it take to unleash a storm of bullets into a sea of starving people? No weapons. No threat. Just hollow faces, sunken bellies, hands raised—not in defiance, but in desperation. And still, you pull the trigger.
What kind of twisted machinery runs in your veins to let you aim an assault rifle at the weak and the hungry? What black switch flips in your mind that says: Yes, mow them down. Shoot to kill.
Maybe it’s easier if you convince yourself they’re not human. Strip them of their names. Call them a threat. Call them terrorists. Call them anything but what they are—mothers, fathers, children. Starving, desperate, clinging to life.
History already showed us this. Nazi soldiers did it. They lined up innocent Jews, marched them to pits, and filled those graves with bullets and flesh. And we said: Never again.
Some will say: “It’s complicated.” Others will insist: “Israel has the right to defend itself.”
But tell us—how does defense justify shooting unarmed civilians running toward food?
This cannot be explained away. It cannot be normalized. It cannot be ignored.
We’ve seen horrors like this before, of what happens when one group dehumanizes another—when children become “collateral,” and the starving become “threats.” Nazi death squads operated on the same logic. Round them up. Call them less-than-human. Pull the trigger.
And now, it’s happening again.
Only this time, it is Israel—a nation born from the ashes of genocide—dealing death from the sky and the ground to a population under siege.
Does anyone still believe “Never again” means anything?
We recognize the pain and suffering of the Israeli people. We mourn every innocent life lost to Hamas terror. But there is no moral equation that balances what is unfolding now. You do not respond to violence with collective starvation. You do not restore peace by killing the desperate.
But here we are.
And this time it’s Israeli soldiers. This time it’s Palestinians. Over 200 slaughtered. 600 more torn apart as reported by The Guardian. Not in battle. Not during a firefight. But at a food convoy. Trying to survive.
How the hell do you pull that trigger?
Don’t tell me orders. Don’t give me defense. Don’t give me “they had to.” You don’t have to fire into a crowd of starving civilians. You choose to. That finger moves because somewhere, somehow, you gave yourself permission.
And don’t talk to me about morality or values when you’re pumping bullets into the backs of hungry men and women who haven’t eaten in days. Don’t talk to me about defending your borders when you’re gunning down barefoot kids who haven’t had clean water in a month.
Is that it? Strip them of their dignity, their food, their water, their homes—until they no longer look like people? Until you can slaughter them and still sleep at night?
What kind of soldier sleeps after that?
And what kind of world lets them?
If this is what we’ve become—people who watch this unfold on screens, who scroll past it, who shrug or worse, cheer—then maybe humanity isn’t lost. Maybe we never had it to begin with.
If God sees this, and does nothing, then maybe we should stop pretending we’re worth saving.
This isn’t war.
This is execution.
And there will be a reckoning.
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14 Comments
I completely agree. Now this has happened in other parts of the world.
What I can not understand, is its Israel that is doing it?
I mean, my whole life I have been reminded not to forget the Holocaust!
So its Bibi, and his far right henchmen doing it to the people of Gaza?
Its a damn shame that innocent women and children are being slaughtered!
Mr. Netanyahu, you should no better you monster!
Ever think Hamas, a terrorist organization is stealing the food and blocking it from getting to the people???? Nah, that couldn’t be possible, right?
It is debunked Netanyahu nonsense created to justify shooting unarmed emaciated women and children who attempt to get food from food lines. But once again you believe what you are told and not what the facts are.Even if Hana’s was stealing and or blocking food as you and your talking head propagandists insist is happening despite zero proof that it is, it does not justify killing unarmed innocents trying to do something as basic as eat!
Hamas has zero value for Palestinian lives. This is no different than Po Pot, Stalin, and Mao who killed and starved millions, yes millions of their own people.
Writing an article based on a Guardian “News” report as a source is at best, ludicrous.
There are multiple countries air dropping supplies into Gaza. The Israelis are guarding the transport routes into the country so supplies cannot be stolen by Hamas.
Hamas is desperate. They are done. Never again will they be allowed, as in the past, to rebuild to achieve their number one stated goal, the elimination of the state of Israel.
You need to wake up and stop promoting hate against the Jews.
Condemning what Israel is currently doing is not the same thing as hating Jews. I am part Jewish have many Jewish friends. I was raised in a predominantly Jewish community, but I am capable of holding two things in my head at once. The Jews have been persecuted for thousands of years and Israel has accomplished amazing things. At the same time what Netanyahu is doing here is genocide. Is a Hamas at fault, absolutely. That does not change the fact that what is happening in Gaza is horrific.
Actually the Israeli government has killed hundreds of thousands more innocent civilians than Hamas ever has. Where’s your fake outrage at that? One is a terror organization funded by foreign governments and the other is a criminal terrorist government. Both are wrong, both kill innocent people and both should be held fully accountable for their every criminal action. The world court would need far more detention cells for Israeli politicians than Hama Terrorist being processed for crimes against humanity.
Promoting justice for victims of genocide at the hands of convicted criminal Netanyahu and his cabinet of fellow extremist criminals is not promoting hatred of the Jewish faith or Jews! It is promoting the rule of law and human rights. Defending convicted criminals who also happen to be elected criminals over human rights and rule of law is not being pro Jew or pro anything else other than pro hater! Hamas is a terrorist organization and has committed horrific crimes-true! Hamas is NOT every Palestinian! The Israeli government has a very long track record of killing innocent Palestinians and using very heavy handed tactics to take out entire blocks of Palestinian civilians out of response for the actions of a single individual with suspected Hamas affiliation.
POL Potand Stalin are far more akin to Benjamin Netanyahu and government than Hamas! POL Pot and Stalin were individual blood thirsty hated filled individuals running governments doing the killing on their cowardly behalf. Hamas is far more similar to their predecessors the PLO or any number of 1970’s-80’s terror organizations. They do have some foreign government arms and funding. So does the Israeli government on a far larger scale. Hamas claims to kill people for land and on behalf of a political objectives. So does the Israeli government. Killing innocent people anywhere ever is a horrific crime against humanity albeit a terror organization, guerrilla group or formerly recognized government committing the crimes. Defending one murderous killer over another murderous killer is an ignorant waste of time and brain cells. It’s like claiming Charles Manson was a victim of the Helter Skelter murders because he was an abused child and never actually personally took a life (most cowards never do they just instruct others to do their dirty work).
The Geneva Conventions and Laws of Land Warfare signed by the US and Israeli governments stipulate what constitutes a war crime or crime against humanity and what is happening to innocent Palestinian civilians, Ukrainian civilians, DRC civilians, Darfur civilians and even US civilians. And crimes have and are being committed daily in these countries and many more on a daily basis. Not because there are no laws on the books to protect their victims but because the CRIMINAL DICKtators running them have been granted unprecedented complete and total immunity from prosecution for their crimes by their CRIMINAL SYCOPHANTIC Supporters.
Well put Mr Rittenhouse,
there is no justification for the murders of innocent civilians by any government or organization anywhere. It’s just murder- period! Israel does have the right to defend itself! It does not have the right to level homes, hospitals, cemeteries, mosques, churches, refugee camps or food lines unless it can be proven that enemy forces are actively taking shelter in those places and actively participating in attacks upon the forces occupying THEIR lands. Flattening a multi story patient filled hospital to take out 1 maybe 2 “suspected” Hamas terrorist IS a WAR Crime! And is a violation of HUMANITARIAN law.
Americans confuse support for Jews with support for the Israeli Government. Despite being Jews as well, those in government making policy and decisions affecting foreign countries and their people are politician’s first and Jews second. And the World Court has charged those politicians currently running the Israeli government and Hamas with WAR Crimes and GENOCIDE! Not because they’re Jew’s or Terrorist but because they have committed unspeakable crimes against humanity!
Save your outrage for Hamas. They are the problem. They steal the relief food then sell it to refuges. This conflict could end today of Hamas returned the kidnapped hostages. Hamas has been offered peace on dozens of occasions and they refuse. Hamas is evil.
You’re obviously checked out when it comes to facts and all in on bullshit and propaganda generated by Convicted Criminal Netanyahu and Trump. Hamas has released hostages as per negotiated terms and agreements only to have their terms violated, innocent un armed Palestinian women and children murdered while trying to get food for themselves and one another. That is not a crime especially not one that should result in a death sentence carried out by war criminals! Too bad you weren’t born a Palestinian or other brown skinned person so you would know and understand what being a victim of racist white land grabbing criminals who hate you because you’re in the way of their taking your land from you! Hamas is just a by product of decades of hatred, murder abuse and neglect of the Palestinian people by corrupt Israeli governments who think it ok to steal land from other people and countries just because they want more of it for their own people who not long ago were wearing the same shoe of ethnic hatred but on a different foot! They’ve clearly forgotten what Israel was created for and why! Just because Jews happen to have been the victims of genocidal hatred led by a maniac does mean they can be one themselves without a word of valid criticism! But you’re all about killing whoever for whatever so long as it directly benefits you or it appeals to your hate centered feeble mind. You are applauding war crimes committed against innocent civilians in retaliation for acts of terrorism against “innocent civilians” who take land that isn’t theirs from its rightful owners at gun point and or by group force. Not one grain of sand in Gaza belongs to Israel according to the Tora, Bible or even Quran or International Law. And yet Israel gets to control every aspect of it all day every day, just like the Nazi’s did the people of every country they illegally invaded and proceeded to violently ethically cleanse and destroy them one innocent civilian at a time! Terrorism is never a good thing either but one has to ask, “would there be terrorism with colonization and land grabbing?” Possibly but not likely. And even if there were, it would be on a microcosmic scale in comparison to the death and destruction caused by the senseless politicians who wield the might of an entire modernized country and it’s allies lobbing bombs and artillery as if it were rice being tossed at a drunken wedding.
You likely think Europeans discovered America and that you’ve never had slaves or racist hateful politics or politicians in America but you sure as shite have and do!
Present your proof that Hamas has been stealing food from starving Palestinians. Also prove Hamas not the Israeli Government has violated peace treaties by killing more and more unarmed and innocent civilians.
Of course Hamas is an evil proxy of Iran, but that does not excuse the genocide perpetrated by Netanyahu. Israel has every right to defend itself, but this has gone way beyond defense into genocide.
How the Hell do you pull that trigger? You don’t! Because in this case it is an unlawful order to do so and violation of the Geneva Conventions, Laws of Land Warfare, UN treaties and charters and most importantly a violation of morality! There are but two types of soldiers-
Ones who obey the aforementioned bodies of law, is professional enough to know what lawful and unlawful orders are. Strive to save lives and only take them whenever absolutely necessary where it’s kill or be killed.
Then there’s the stone cold killer who finds masochistic pleasure in killing others even when it is not necessary (as was the case with War Criminal CPO Gallagher pardoned by Convicted Felon Trump). They feel themselves above the law and humanity and blatantly disregard lawful orders and willingly go along with unlawful ones (as was the case with members of the AMERICAL Division under War Criminal Lt. Calley pardoned by Criminal DICK Nixon).
But the real criminals are those who remain silent about war crimes and criminals. Those who pardon them and those who make excuses for them!
Pulling the trigger in combat is mostly reflexive. Soldiers are taught through repetition on how to identify and acquire targets. They have milli seconds to decide if they can lawfully take out their targets and deadly green on green or fratricidal mistakes do happen in training and combat. There’s a Yuge difference between an accidental killing and a purposeful one. There’s Israeli Government is purposely committing genocide of the Palestinian people. The majority of the Israeli people stand unified against him and his own military has conducted strikes, walk offs, gone AWOL and most recently advised against Madman Criminal Netanyahu’s plans to occupy all of Gaza!
Our world is rapidly going to shit in a hand basket!