The Cold Machinery of Power: From Neutrality to Active Complicity in Gaza

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” - Desmond Tutu

“A civilization that justifies colonization and genocide is already a sick civilization, a civilization that is morally diseased.” - Aimé Césaire

“The greatest crimes of the state are always cloaked in high-minded rhetoric and noble ideals, but beneath it lies the cold machinery of power.” - Chris Hedges

Power flourishes not only with weapons but also with silence and the well-planned refusal to step in. The United States was more than just an ally in Gaza; it was the invisible hand that enabled the conflict. While the American veto cleared the stage of consequences, American arms continued to flow steadily, providing Israel with a lifeline that allowed it to continue Israel's genocide campaign. This was active complicity rather than passive support.

Even confessions of guilt were accompanied by manipulations of the truth. Matt Miller twisted his words and meanings of "not a genocide," but something softer, a distinction that fueled the appearance of moral restraint while 10s of thousands of women and children were slaughtered and buried under rubble told a different reality. Such language was more about maintaining American and Israeli power and creating room for historical denial than it was about the truth.

When Trump presented what was essentially a plan for ethnic cleansing under the guise of vision, the seeds of this devastation had already been sown. His proposed plan to turn Gaza into a glittering Trump Casino Resort was not a policy; rather, it was permission, a signal to his good friend, Bibi - as Trump calls him, "one of the best guys in the World" that the Palestinians will be displaced, their houses, businesses, schools and universities demolished, and their memories hidden behind a facade of progress. According to this reasoning, conquest becomes beautification, land becomes a land grab of ownership, and hatred is passed off as advancement. Instead of chaos, we witness the ruthless math of power and envy, where the idea of a land purified and free of its inhabitants serves as an excuse for the most evil acts.