War in Gaza Is Revealing America's Moral Depravity

 

PLUNGING INTO THE ABYSS

How Israel's Genocidal War in Gaza Is Revealing America's Moral Depravity

By Kieran Beville

The United States of America is not suffering from a moral crisis—it is basking in one. Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza is not tearing America’s soul apart. It is exposing what lies at its core: a brutal, calculating indifference to human life when that life is Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, or inconvenient to its interests. As you read this article bear in mind that America has the power to stop this war in an instant but instead it aids and abets genocide. Think about that.

Over 60,000 Palestinians are dead. Gaza’s cities lie in ruins. Hospitals have been reduced to piles of dust. Doctors have been executed in their operating rooms. Families buried under the rubble. Children burned, starved, dismembered. And the bombs that made this possible—the bombs that keep falling even now—are American. The funding is American. The diplomatic protection is American.

This is not passive complicity. This is active, deliberate participation in genocide. The United States is not standing by while horrors unfold—it is bankrolling them. It is providing the weapons, writing the checks, vetoing the ceasefires, silencing the protests, and demonising the victims. There is no neutrality here. There is no misunderstanding. There is only raw, open-eyed depravity, broadcast live, and justified with the language of democracy and defence.

Genocide with U.S. Branding

Gaza has become a graveyard for international law and human decency. Entire families have been eradicated. Tens of thousands of civilians—many of them children—have been slaughtered with impunity. Famine is being weaponised. Refugee camps are bombed in broad daylight. Journalists are executed. Humanitarian workers are targeted.

And the United States has not only tolerated this—it has underwritten it. American-made bombs are dropped by Israeli jets over schools and hospitals. American taxpayer dollars fund the very munitions that tear through bodies and buildings. American vetoes at the United Nations are used to block even the faintest international rebuke.

This is not support for a defensive war. This is not alliance. It is unambiguous sponsorship of extermination. It is what happens when the political machinery goes unchecked—when American power is wielded not to prevent slaughter, but to guarantee it.

America – Where is Your Soul?

To suggest that this is “tearing America’s soul apart” is to imply a rupture from moral ideals. But America is not deviating from its principles—it is executing them. This is the same country that obliterated Fallujah, that napalmed Vietnamese villages, that supported juntas, coups, death squads, apartheid, and blockades wherever it served its interests. Gaza is not a break from America's tradition. It is its continuation.

This is not a crisis of identity—it is a confirmation of identity. America has always rationalised its atrocities through the language of security, civilisation, or God. It has always chosen power over justice, profit over people and domination over peace. What we are seeing in Gaza is not an exception—it is America, unmasked.

A Delusional Aspiration

And yet, as Palestinians are crushed beneath concrete and starved behind barbed wire, there is a grotesque movement among some Americans to nominate Donald Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize. Let that sink in. In a time of genocide—one he helped embolden and architect—millions of Americans worship a man who represents the most vulgar expression of American imperial arrogance. Trump has openly talked about turning Gaza into a holiday resort, a playground for the wealthy. He is so depraved that he sees Gaza as real-estate and thinks the forced dispossession and displacement of Palestinians is a good idea!

Donald Trump is not a peacemaker. He is not an honest broker. As president, he moved the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem in defiance of international consensus, gutted aid to Palestinian refugees, sanctioned the annexation of occupied territory, and proudly pushed the Abraham Accords—hollow agreements between Israel and Gulf dictatorships that bypassed Palestinians entirely. He empowered the worst elements of the Israeli far-right and dismissed Palestinian suffering as background noise.

To suggest that Trump deserves a peace prize is not just delusional—it is obscene. It is the logic of empire turned inward: to reward aggression, ethnic cleansing, and apartheid as long as they serve U.S. interests and flatter American egos. It is evidence that America has lost its moral compass—if it ever had one.

The Americans who cheer for Trump’s faux diplomacy while Gaza is being levelled are not misinformed. They are indoctrinated, intoxicated by the delusion that domination equals peace, and that colonised people must either submit or be erased. This is not ignorance. It is supremacist ideology, wrapped in the flag and blessed from evangelical pulpits.

Empire's Mirror Image

Israel functions as a mirror of American empire. It is a settler-colonial project, a fortress state built on the ruins of another people’s homeland, justified through exceptionalism, sanctified by religious myth, and maintained through overwhelming violence. The United States supports Israel not in spite of these features—but because of them.

Let’s be crystal clear, the notion of “justification through exceptionalism” refers to actions—no matter how extreme or oppressive—being defended by the belief that a particular country or group is inherently special, superior, or entitled to behave differently (often more harshly or aggressively) than others. In the context of Israel’s policies, "justified through exceptionalism" refers to how Israeli leaders and many supporters argue that Israel’s actions—such as military occupation, settlement expansion, and harsh measures against Palestinians—are acceptable or necessary because Israel sees itself as a unique, chosen, or exceptional nation with a special destiny or security concerns that outweigh normal international laws or human rights norms.

Bipartisan Support for Genocide

Democrats and Republicans may squabble over budget ceilings and immigration policies, but they unite around the sanctity of Israeli militarism. Trump and Biden and Obama all armed the occupation, shielded it diplomatically, and insulted the intelligence of the world by claiming “concern” while sending more weapons. This is not failure. This is policy.

And in the U.S. homeland, this depravity replicates itself. Students protesting genocide are arrested. Journalists are harassed. Faculty are blacklisted. Billionaires threaten universities. The pro-Israel lobby buys off Congress while the state criminalises solidarity through anti-BDS laws and smears of antisemitism. Gaza is not just a foreign warzone—it is a blueprint for domestic repression.

Anti-BDS laws passed by some governments—mostly in the United States—seek to punish or restrict support for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. The BDS movement is a global campaign that calls for various forms of boycott against Israel until it complies with international law, ends the occupation of Palestinian territories, grants equal rights to Palestinian citizens of Israel, and recognises Palestinian refugees' right of return.

Anti-BDS laws typically do things like:

• ·    Prohibit state contracts with companies or individuals that support BDS.
• ·    Bar public institutions from doing business with entities that boycott Israel.
• ·    Penalise organisations or individuals who participate in BDS activities.

Critics argue these laws violate free speech rights by criminalising or economically punishing peaceful political protest and advocacy. Supporters claim they protect Israel from economic harm and combat what they call antisemitism. The right-thinking world is sick of the antisemitism trump card being played whenever Israel is criticised for it criminal actions.

In short, anti-BDS laws are designed to legally counteract and suppress the BDS movement, limiting people’s ability to boycott Israel as a form of political expression.

No More Illusions

To suggest that America is losing its way is to lie. The U.S. is not sleepwalking into catastrophe. It is marching proudly into it, flags waving, arms deals signed, and lies polished for prime-time consumption.

Internationally, the consequences are already severe. In the Global South, American hypocrisy is now a joke—bitter, dangerous, and deadly. In Europe, long-time allies are breaking ranks, recognising Palestine and condemning U.S. obstructionism. In the Muslim world, America’s image is in ruins. And among young people in the U.S. itself, there is a rising tide of fury, disgust, and disillusionment.

This generation does not want excuses. It wants accountability. It does not want platitudes about democracy—it wants an end to genocide. And the state is responding not with dialogue, but with riot police, mass arrests, and censorship. America’s mask is slipping, revealing the terrible truth about so called American democracy.

A Choice—But Not for Long

There is still, theoretically, time to change course. But that window is narrowing. To begin reversing this descent, the United States would have to immediately end all military aid to Israel. Not delay. Not condition. End. It would need to support international legal investigations into war crimes—no exceptions. It would need to publicly declassify intelligence, admit complicity, and take diplomatic and economic steps to hold Israel accountable.

At home, it would need to repeal laws criminalising Palestinian solidarity. Restore academic freedom. Protect protest. End the persecution of dissent. And beyond that, it would have to confront the ideological disease at the heart of this empire: the belief that some lives matter more than others.

But let’s be honest: none of this is likely to happen without mass pressure and moral revolt. The political establishment has shown itself too compromised, too cowardly and too depraved. And so the burden falls to the people—to speak, to resist, to name genocide as genocide, and to never again mistake silence for neutrality.

History Is Watching

The ultimate judgment will not come from politicians, pundits, or PR campaigns—it will come from history itself, and from the collective conscience of humanity. When future generations look back on this era, they will see a United States that chose convenience over courage, that bartered its proclaimed values for bombs and vetoes. They will see a nation that elevated a genocidal regime to the status of untouchable ally, that silenced its own people’s cries for justice with propaganda and repression. They will see a country that allowed entire communities—mothers, children, elderly—to be erased, and then looked away.

This is not a legacy to be proud of. This is a stain on the soul of any country that calls itself free and just. The American people must confront this reality—not as a distant abstraction, but as a moral imperative. To remain silent, to accept these atrocities as collateral damage in geopolitical games, is to become complicit in the bloodshed.

If America cannot stand up and demand an immediate end to the slaughter, if it cannot dismantle the systems that enable this genocide, then it has abandoned the very principles that once made it a beacon of hope. The time for equivocation has passed. This moment demands radical clarity, unflinching truth, and relentless action.

Because the lives extinguished in Gaza are not just numbers on a screen—they are a human indictment of every handshake that seals a weapons deal, every diplomatic shield that blocks justice, every voice that refuses to speak out.