This is a LinkedIn post by Hani Almadhoun, Vice President of Philanthropy at UNRWA USA and co-founder of Gaza Soup Kitchen (GSK). Please consider making generous donations to both of these organizations doing life-saving work in Gaza.

GSK constantly posts phots of children in Gaza. I try to “love” (emoji) each and every one. (Stay tuned for a post devoted to photos of Palestinian children in Gaza from GSK.) They are all our children and it pains me to no end that they have to endure this suffering because of Israel’s land grab known as the Greater Israel project (Eretz Yisrael) and its visceral hatred and dehumanization of “the other,” i.e., Palestinians or, as most Israelis call them, “Arabs.”

Silence is complicity.

MAA

Benjamin Netanyahu — indicted war criminal, subject of an active arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court on November 21, 2024, for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza — stood before a conference in the occupied West Bank and announced that his army now controls sixty percent of the Gaza Strip. Then he ordered them to push it to 70%. When someone in the audience shouted that Israel should take all of Gaza, he did not object. He said: “First seventy. Let’s start with that.”

He said it like a business update. Like a quarterly target. Like Palestinian land, Palestinian lives, and Palestinian futures are line items on a spreadsheet.

This is a confession. Delivered openly. On camera. To applause.

I don’t know what to say anymore. And I think that’s exactly the point.

We have been so bombarded by horror that the horror no longer registers. A man with an active ICC arrest warrant brags about the pace of his occupation on the world stage — unchallenged, unaccountable, unashamed. Heads of state take his calls. Governments ship him weapons. The world scrolls past it.

This is the Orwellian reality we are living in. Ethnic cleansing rebranded as military progress—genocide measured in percentages. Two million Palestinians squeezed into a shrinking sliver of coastline. At the same time, the man overseeing it describes the process in increments — fifty, sixty, seventy — as if he fully intends to reach one hundred.

We have normalized the abnormal. We have made peace with the unacceptable. And Gaza is paying for our numbness with blood.

Sixty percent. Seventy percent. He told you himself what comes next. Are we listening?

The horror show continues. Unchallenged. And silence is not neutrality. Silence is a choice.