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I have only a few minutes to write, but as the the Arab ambassadors at the UN, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and countries around the globe use diplomacy to pursue the futile goal of a ceasefire in Gaza, children are beginning to starve, and dysentery is becoming an epidemic. Israel will not interrupt its genocide for a ceasefire, and Palestinians will not accept to return to the status quo ante of oppression and deprivation in the holding pen that was Gaza before October 7th.

Today, most of the Gaza Strip is a wasteland, thanks to carpet bombing.

According to Israeli plan, most of the 2.3 million population has been driven to the small, southernmost city of Rafah, where they compete for any space of land on which to lay their heads on the increasingly cold nights. Israel will soon face them with the choice of dying on that land or being driven into other countries. Not so much by mere bombing of hospitals and population centers as by lack, of food, water, medicine, medical treatment and everything needed to sustain life.

What is needed is military intervention, an international embargo on Israeli ports and airports and the closing of its borders, a complete blockade of all travel and transfer of goods and people to and from Israel, including diplomatic missions.

But apparently the world prefers to waste time rather than address the problem, and they all will wring their hands and ask how it could have happened, when the great genocide is accomplished, probably by the end of January.

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Paul Larudee is a retired academic and current administrator of a nonprofit human rights and humanitarian aid organization.

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