Why has nobody but Israel and the US demanded that civilians in Gaza be allowed to leave? And hold your reflexive answer to that question to the end.

I want to talk here about the Gazan civilians – most of them considered refugees (70%+) by the international community (although I personally dispute that status). And I am going to do something few others seem to be doing on the subject, I am going to speak with clarity, integrity and morality.

Given the behaviour of western media, the NGOs, loudmouth celebrities, and western political leaders over the last 18 months, it would be fair to conclude that much of the international community would rather every single Gazan civilian die in this conflict, than see Israel gain any perceived benefit from the outcome. The world has fallen deeply into the moral abyss.

The moral abyss: refugees and the history of conflict

What we are seeing from the international community appears unique in the history of modern conflict and we have endless examples of conflict to choose from. When conflict arises – and tragically it often does -mothers and fathers pick up their children and simply run towards safety. Internal conflict / violence is a primary driver in the creation of refugees. Syria, Sudan, Afghanistan, Libya, and Myanmar are just five recent examples.

The UNHCR claim there are 43+ million refugees (excluding Palestinians) but suggest 62 million more are internally displaced. Since 2014 the refugee population has increased by 24 million (12x the population of Gaza).

And in every single modern example of violence and conflict, the self-titled ‘human rights division’ of the international community act in the same way (examples from the Syrian civil conflict, Myanmar,  Afghanistan, and Somalia):

There is a simple and consistent rule of modern conflict. As conflict escalates there is always pressure on nations to open borders so as to let civilians in danger escape and find a better life (both temporary or permanent) elsewhere. The stance of the UN & human rights NGOs is *ALWAYS* clear – to get the civilians away from the conflict.

These demands are amplified in media campaigns globally. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

Except this time.

The ‘open air prison’

My personal opinion and political positions are irrelevant here, and I am focusing only on the twisted behaviour from those who consider themselves the bastions of global morality – the UN, NGOs such as Amnesty, along with media outlets such as the BBC, the Guardian and NYT.

Gaza has been described by all these outlets as an ‘open air prison’. The UN claimed that Gaza would likely be uninhabitable by 2020. We are frequently told Gazan children live a life of depression, fear and grief.

Therefore we can say with absolute certainty – that these organisations described Gaza as a living hell – even before the Oct 7 conflict (started when Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and 1000s of Gazan civilians overran Israeli defenses, invaded Israeli territory, brutally slaughtered 1200 people + and took 251 more captive).

It is absolutely true that all these organisation demonise Israel and blame Israel for the situation. But they also blamed Assad in Syria, the Taliban in Afghanistan, the government of Myanmar and so on. It never stopped them calling for civilians to be allowed to leave an area of conflict.

Until now.

The one-way system at the Rafah border

On May 20th, members of the European Parliament and NGO leaders, gathered at the Rafah border (the Egyptian border with Gaza) to protest.

In their outrage these politicians called for an arms embargo on Israel and for an end to the ‘occupation’. But not a single sign called on Egypt to open the border and let the civilians out. Why not? Isn’t that the FIRST THING you would be demanding if you actually cared about the welfare of civilians caught in conflict? There have been endless protests calling on Egypt to open the border to let humanitarian aid in – yet none asking Egypt to open the borders to let the civilians out. This is just absurd.

This is how global human rights players such as Kenneth Roth play the cards when Israel is not involved, openly calling on Uzbekistan to open its border to help refugees get away, and referring to a UN call for Turkey to do the same:

Yet when most Gazans were down on the Rafah border in early 2024 – and opening the border would have saved all of them. He sang a very different tune: In these posts, concerns for the lives of the refugees has gone – replaced by blind opposition to what Israel is doing. Why did he not call for Egypt to open the border? Is it because HE doesn’t want Israel to gain any benefit? The lives of the Gazans became pawns for anti-Israel activists to use as human shields, no less than Hamas has done.

This is not an isolate case. Almost every single anti-Israel voice has called on Israel to open the border and let more aid in. Yet not one has called on Egypt to open the border and let the people flee to safety.

‘But they don’t want to leave’

They have made it all about Israel, Netanyahu and Trump. Media outlets such as BBC News turned into Hamas puppets and put together articles about how the ‘defiant’ Gazan’s did not want to leave Gaza:

This is nothing but empty propaganda. The BBC Arabic journos are well aware that many Gazans want to leave Gaza – not that they seem to want to tell their English speaking readers that:

“Most of the people around me want to leave Gaza,” says Ola, from Jabalia. She notes that the reason for this is “the lack of a decent life. There are no suitable places to live, no good food, no job opportunities. Everything is missing, even the most basic necessities of life.”

The reality is that many Gazans do want to leave Gaza. And if the best thing for their safety would be if they were voluntarily allowed to leave – then there is one simple question that needs to be asked.

Why has the international community *CHOSEN* to actively work to hold them trapped inside an urban conflict zone rather than working to get them to safety?

And the answer is simple: It is because Israel would benefit from their departure, and regardless of the fact it would save lives, the international face of the Palestinian cause would see it as a defeat. And nothing can be done to damage the Palestinian cause. From Amnesty to the BBC and the United Nations – every player has been willing to sacrifice Palestinian lives rather than allow Israel to gain any perceived benefit from this conflict.

If you do not believe me – answer this. If some Gazans do want to leave – and some countries were willing to take them – then why was there so much pressure on nation states to REFUSE to take refugees?

Can anyone think of another example in history, where refugees want to go to safety, there was an opportunity for them to do so, and human rights organisations did not petition the neighbouring countries to open those borders? The emperor really is wearing no clothes and yet nobody in the world is talking about it. These organisation have been swallowed by anti-Israel hate and they would all rather see those civilians left at risk in Gaza, so they could then blame Israel whenever anything (real or imagined) happens to them.

Into the Abyss

This article is not about the conflict – it is about the international community .

The war – whatever you think of it – is ongoing. Israel rightly or wrongly seeks to eliminate the Hamas threat from Gaza and successfully return every single hostage (whether alive or dead). That is a given. And it is true, everyone does have a right to oppose the Israeli action and call on them to stop.

But that is only part of the equation. This war has been going on now for over 19 months. The world’s human rights NGOs argue that many of the people trapped inside are ‘refugees’. Legacy media have been running (real or imagined) massacre stories non-stop for 18 months. Yet not one of them has run a campaign to get the refugees to safety.

This is nothing to do with the Gazans. The international Palestinian solidarity movement, the hard-left, and the Islamist extremists, all want Gazans to stay in place. Not one of them, actually thought about the people of Gaza, what they wanted, or what was safest for them. Instead they wanted the civilians to remain caught between Hamas and the IDF. Just as Hamas use these people as human shields and want a high casualty count – that same accusation can equally be placed on the shoulders of the entire industry of ‘human rights’.

Israel did not want this. Israel did not seek this conflict. Hamas did. And Israel would much rather be fighting Hamas with no civilians around. So ask yourself why on earth the self titled bastions of moral virtue in the international community have done everything they can to make sure that the civilians have stayed in an area of urban conflict – and then they all express absolute outrage and pointed a finger of blame at Israel when anything happens to them?

And I will leave you with this one simple thought.

If your reflex opposition to this idea of Gazans leaving Gaza is also to reject it because ‘it is what Israel would want’ – then the Palestinian cause has turned you into an absolute monster. It really is that simple.

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