In an in-depth three part-series, new Zeteo contributor Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, who has volunteered in Gaza, unpacks what we actually know about Gaza's real death toll.
When these horrible people say the Tik Tok generation don’t know “facts and figures”, I lose all hope that politicians will ever listen. The young people I’ve encountered who have been unfortunate enough to witness a Holocaust on their screens are very educated on the history of the region. We all grew up learning the horrors of the Holocaust and the lesson was never again for anyone! As I browsed my Instagram feed and saw a baby shaking in pain from the burns she suffered I broke down in tears. I am never numb to the atrocities, but I am a bit broken wondering how we live in a world where this can occur. Empathy is gone and the sanctity of life seems to mean nothing to those in powerful positions.
This is outstanding Doc. Thanks for doing this series. I am surprised you decided not to use the “…wall of dead children” quote for Hurwitz. That one stuck with me for days, but I think all this speaks for itself.
Space limitations. I have to be honest, I feel like just printing her repeated remarks on her book tour is the best way to teach people about what our society actually is. They become so completely insane that it's almost impossible to understand how she can actually mean them seriously.
Thank you, Dr. Sidhwa, first, for your work in Gaza; second, for your ongoing efforts to educate us about how our tax dollars are being used to devastate a civilian population; and third, for this clear summary. I have heard your interviews before, and those of several other health care workers who volunteered in Gaza. They, together with student protesters, honest journalists and artists have served as my teachers. Thank you, Zeteo, for not abandoning the Palestinians and for publishing this important work.
Later in life than expected, I have been reeducated. Gaza has done that. I am now much more aware of the pervasiveness of evil in the world, in my own country, with it’s bipartisan support of a genocide, of the Democratic Party and its members who have and continue to vote for genocide, because, well you know, there’s Trump. Why focus now on the Democrats? Because I had been a reliable Democrat most of my life, having never once voted for a Republican and experience this as a personal betrayal of the worst kind. Who was president during both Operation Cast Lead (2008-2009) and Operation Protective Edge (2014), when Palestinian civilians were targeted with 2000lb U.S. bombs and white phosphorus? Who was president in 2023 and 2024 when Israel launched a genocide with U.S. weapons and when its every evil act was excused by the U.S.? It is the responsibility of every registered Democrat to support those who oppose genocide in the primaries, to let the party know we won’t again vote for a genocide. To demand alternatives. Otherwise, Trump is just karma.
This is a great summary of how we got here and the complete and utter lack of any morality of those orchestrating the genocide!
Absolutely so important to NOT FORGET GAZA!
I have been a part of a group protesting at Colt firearms factory since last June and while we had stopped in November, we have renewed the protests at the beginning of Jan!
Thank you Dr. Sidhwa, for making this heartbreaking, running nightmare of a reality better known to us here in the U.S. May it help to awaken us from our apathy and blind ignorance toward the long running atrocities that have been (and are still being) committed against our Palestinian brothers and sisters.
I'm old enough to remember, and even have been involved through the years, the Israeli atrocities. My first middle east deployment was to Beirut in the fall of 1983. I made five other subsequent deployments through the years to other middle eastern countries, all to support American imperialism. Although I didn't realize it at the time. Not until I deployed to Afghanistan in 2002, right after 9/11.
The goal since 1948 has always been the same. Israel has always wanted their biblical land back and when the British and the Americans gave them their chance at the end of WWII, they took it with a gusto. And they've been going hard ever since. The Zionists can't forget what the Europeans did to them throughout the 19th and 20th centuries and they're taking out their generational anger on the hapless Palestinians, and any other Arabs anywhere near their, so called, ancestral lands. So long as the Americans, and the feel sorry Europeans, continue to support them with money and military materials. Remove the money and military support, and Israel disappears back into the desert sands whence it came.
As we all know by know, the Americans will never give up their cash cow, so the genocide will continue until the ethnic cleansing is complete enough to satisfy the bloodthirsty Israelis. That won't stop them from continuing their war in southern Lebanon and south western Syria though. Especially since the supporters are making bank. Follow the money, right back to the American and European military industrial complexes.
The Israeli genocide is continuing without regard to the repercussions that will accrue to Israel. If Canada or Greenland were to usurp some of the US states, would the UN , the world look the other way? Israel is blatantly continuing its genocide and usurpation with Trump's approval. The world was viewing the socalled truce negotiations with bated breath because the fact is that Israel has a prolonged history of violations and brutal attacks on civilians, schools and hospitals all over Gaza.
It has reneged on UN demands for keeping within its limits and has embarked on shameless belligerence in attacking civilians all over, even in Lebanon and Syria.
The fact is that Israel is violating its own Scripture-the Torah, which does not permit such violence and massacre of human beings-young and old, which is why it has incurred the anger of the Muslim world in particular, In all the Scriptures of the Almighty's revealed religions. In the Holy Quran, in the Surah-ye Baqerah, translated from Arabic by Mohammad Marmaduke Pickthall, in verse 83, Allah says: "...And remember, when we made a covenant with the Children of Israel, saying"...Shed not the blood of your people, nor turn them out of your dwellings..""Yet
you slay each other, and drive out some from their homes by sin and transgression..." "What is the reward of those who do so, save ignominy in the life of the worldm and on the Day of Resurrection...?"
The Zionist genocide is being carried out without regard of its repercussions. Just remember,
When these horrible people say the Tik Tok generation don’t know “facts and figures”, I lose all hope that politicians will ever listen. The young people I’ve encountered who have been unfortunate enough to witness a Holocaust on their screens are very educated on the history of the region. We all grew up learning the horrors of the Holocaust and the lesson was never again for anyone! As I browsed my Instagram feed and saw a baby shaking in pain from the burns she suffered I broke down in tears. I am never numb to the atrocities, but I am a bit broken wondering how we live in a world where this can occur. Empathy is gone and the sanctity of life seems to mean nothing to those in powerful positions.
This is outstanding Doc. Thanks for doing this series. I am surprised you decided not to use the “…wall of dead children” quote for Hurwitz. That one stuck with me for days, but I think all this speaks for itself.
Space limitations. I have to be honest, I feel like just printing her repeated remarks on her book tour is the best way to teach people about what our society actually is. They become so completely insane that it's almost impossible to understand how she can actually mean them seriously.
Thank you, Dr. Sidhwa, first, for your work in Gaza; second, for your ongoing efforts to educate us about how our tax dollars are being used to devastate a civilian population; and third, for this clear summary. I have heard your interviews before, and those of several other health care workers who volunteered in Gaza. They, together with student protesters, honest journalists and artists have served as my teachers. Thank you, Zeteo, for not abandoning the Palestinians and for publishing this important work.
Later in life than expected, I have been reeducated. Gaza has done that. I am now much more aware of the pervasiveness of evil in the world, in my own country, with it’s bipartisan support of a genocide, of the Democratic Party and its members who have and continue to vote for genocide, because, well you know, there’s Trump. Why focus now on the Democrats? Because I had been a reliable Democrat most of my life, having never once voted for a Republican and experience this as a personal betrayal of the worst kind. Who was president during both Operation Cast Lead (2008-2009) and Operation Protective Edge (2014), when Palestinian civilians were targeted with 2000lb U.S. bombs and white phosphorus? Who was president in 2023 and 2024 when Israel launched a genocide with U.S. weapons and when its every evil act was excused by the U.S.? It is the responsibility of every registered Democrat to support those who oppose genocide in the primaries, to let the party know we won’t again vote for a genocide. To demand alternatives. Otherwise, Trump is just karma.
Thanks for your witness and detailed analysis
This is a great summary of how we got here and the complete and utter lack of any morality of those orchestrating the genocide!
Absolutely so important to NOT FORGET GAZA!
I have been a part of a group protesting at Colt firearms factory since last June and while we had stopped in November, we have renewed the protests at the beginning of Jan!
Thank you Dr. Sidhwa, for making this heartbreaking, running nightmare of a reality better known to us here in the U.S. May it help to awaken us from our apathy and blind ignorance toward the long running atrocities that have been (and are still being) committed against our Palestinian brothers and sisters.
Thanks CS, if these articles help people understand what we are doing in Gaza then the effort was worthwhile
Thank you for your humanitarian medical work and for your powerful writing.
Thank YOU for caring enough to read
Thank You Sir for sharing this information. Much Gratitude for shedding important light on the truth in Gaza and in Palestine as a whole.
Invaluable education in a nutshell, thank you.
Thank you for revealing the Truth about all the innocent victims of the genocide in Gaza .
I'm old enough to remember, and even have been involved through the years, the Israeli atrocities. My first middle east deployment was to Beirut in the fall of 1983. I made five other subsequent deployments through the years to other middle eastern countries, all to support American imperialism. Although I didn't realize it at the time. Not until I deployed to Afghanistan in 2002, right after 9/11.
The goal since 1948 has always been the same. Israel has always wanted their biblical land back and when the British and the Americans gave them their chance at the end of WWII, they took it with a gusto. And they've been going hard ever since. The Zionists can't forget what the Europeans did to them throughout the 19th and 20th centuries and they're taking out their generational anger on the hapless Palestinians, and any other Arabs anywhere near their, so called, ancestral lands. So long as the Americans, and the feel sorry Europeans, continue to support them with money and military materials. Remove the money and military support, and Israel disappears back into the desert sands whence it came.
As we all know by know, the Americans will never give up their cash cow, so the genocide will continue until the ethnic cleansing is complete enough to satisfy the bloodthirsty Israelis. That won't stop them from continuing their war in southern Lebanon and south western Syria though. Especially since the supporters are making bank. Follow the money, right back to the American and European military industrial complexes.
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Song Title: "Are We Not Human"
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The Israeli genocide is continuing without regard to the repercussions that will accrue to Israel. If Canada or Greenland were to usurp some of the US states, would the UN , the world look the other way? Israel is blatantly continuing its genocide and usurpation with Trump's approval. The world was viewing the socalled truce negotiations with bated breath because the fact is that Israel has a prolonged history of violations and brutal attacks on civilians, schools and hospitals all over Gaza.
It has reneged on UN demands for keeping within its limits and has embarked on shameless belligerence in attacking civilians all over, even in Lebanon and Syria.
The fact is that Israel is violating its own Scripture-the Torah, which does not permit such violence and massacre of human beings-young and old, which is why it has incurred the anger of the Muslim world in particular, In all the Scriptures of the Almighty's revealed religions. In the Holy Quran, in the Surah-ye Baqerah, translated from Arabic by Mohammad Marmaduke Pickthall, in verse 83, Allah says: "...And remember, when we made a covenant with the Children of Israel, saying"...Shed not the blood of your people, nor turn them out of your dwellings..""Yet
you slay each other, and drive out some from their homes by sin and transgression..." "What is the reward of those who do so, save ignominy in the life of the worldm and on the Day of Resurrection...?"
The Zionist genocide is being carried out without regard of its repercussions. Just remember,
Allah is the Final Arbiter.
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Asiya Ansari,
UAE