Israel’s ongoing military actions across the region paint a stark picture of a state that operates as a continuous war machine, not a conventional nation. At present, Israeli forces are engaged in demolishing residential buildings in the West Bank, setting homes ablaze in Lebanon, expanding military facilities in Syria, and carrying out relentless bombardments of Gaza, all under the guise of self-defense. What the world is witnessing is not an isolated conflict but a calculated and sustained campaign of territorial expansion, ethnic cleansing, and strategic control, one that serves both Israel’s long-term geopolitical ambitions and the interests of its Western backers.
This reality exposes the hypocrisy of Western liberal elites, particularly among Democratic Party loyalists in the United States, who have now turned their attention to Donald Trump’s so-called ethnic cleansing plan for Gaza, as though Joe Biden’s 15-month-long destruction of the territory was a kinder alternative. These are the same people who, during Biden’s tenure, either ignored or actively defended the massacres, indiscriminate bombings, and forced starvation inflicted on Palestinian civilians. Now, they seek to whitewash their complicity by pretending that a Trump-led policy shift is somehow a radical departure from the same imperial agenda they helped facilitate.
Western liberals now tell Palestinians and their supporters, “See? You should have voted for Kamala! At least she would have kept up the slaughter with more eloquence and a diverse cabinet!” This argument is not just absurd, it is morally bankrupt. The differences between Biden and Trump on Palestine are cosmetic; both serve the same deep state war machine that keeps Israel armed, funded, and diplomatically shielded. The genocide in Gaza was never about “national security”, it was about ethnically engineering the Palestinian population out of existence to clear the way for Israel’s expansionist dreams.
As Israel pushes forward with its vision of Greater Israel (Eretz Yisrael), an old Zionist ambition of expanding its territory far beyond its internationally recognized borders, it has systematically targeted every obstacle in its path. From Lebanon to Syria, from the West Bank to Gaza, Israel’s war is not merely against Hamas, Hezbollah, or Iran, it is against the very existence of any sovereign Arab or Muslim-controlled land in the region. The systematic destruction of Palestinian cities and the forced displacement of millions is not a reaction to Hamas’s October 7 attack, it is the latest phase of a decades-long strategy to seize land, erase history, and secure permanent hegemony.
Meanwhile, the same Western governments and media outlets that champion “human rights” elsewhere actively suppress, smear, and silence anyone who dares to expose Israel’s atrocities. Just recently, an Australian journalist was fired for simply sharing factual information about Israeli war crimes, under the excuse that his voice was making Jews in Melbourne “feel unsafe.” This is how the empire operates, by ensuring that even discussing Israeli crimes is met with professional and personal ruin.
For decades, the Western narrative on the Middle East has been framed as a clash of civilizations, with Arab and Muslim societies painted as inherently warlike and unstable. Yet, when confronted with the historical fact that the past 500 years of global conflict, colonization, slavery, and genocide have been overwhelmingly driven by Western imperial powers, those same voices react with outrage. The reality is that the war-mongering, resource-plundering, and ethnic-cleansing machine that built the West never stopped, it simply shifted its focus, adapting to modern geopolitics.
Trump’s stance on Gaza is not surprising, his hardcore base will support him regardless of his foreign policy, as long as he continues to distract them with manufactured culture wars. The Republicans will blame Biden for “failing to handle the Gaza situation,” while Democrats will argue that “Trump is worse for Palestinians.” Both positions are distractions from the real truth: American presidents, regardless of party, are just figureheads of an empire that has always prioritized Israeli dominance in the Middle East. The idea that Biden and Trump are operating on opposite ends of the spectrum is laughable; they are simply enforcers of the same geopolitical agenda.
Israel’s rapid shift from “defensive operations” to ethnic cleansing is part of a broader strategy. First, Gaza was methodically leveled and depopulated. Now, Biden’s administration and Israel’s allies claim it is “unlivable,” laying the groundwork for a final push to permanently displace its surviving population into the Sinai desert. This is not some unexpected development, it is the next logical step in Israel’s long-standing territorial expansion agenda.
The United States facilitates this expansion based on which president is best suited for each stage of the plan. Biden, with his liberal veneer, was tasked with laying the groundwork, enabling the destruction of Gaza under the pretense of supporting Israel’s “right to defend itself.” Now, Trump may be positioned to oversee the next phase: the formal annexation of Gaza and the mass deportation of its surviving residents. The fact that the White House narrative shifted overnight, from “Israel is taking great care to protect civilians” to “Gaza is uninhabitable, so we must relocate its people”, proves that this was pre-planned genocide, not a defensive war.
Western media and politicians are now rewriting history in real time, erasing their own complicity in this genocide. When Israeli warplanes were flattening apartment buildings, they called it “precision strikes.” When Israel bombed hospitals, they claimed Hamas was using them as shields. Now that the killing phase is nearly complete, they have seamlessly pivoted to, “How can anyone expect Palestinians to stay in Gaza? The land is destroyed!” This is how imperial narratives are managed, by making the oppressors seem like reluctant humanitarians and the victims seem like burdens to be managed.
For those still trapped in the illusion of American democracy, believing that voting for the “lesser evil” could have stopped this massacre, the lesson is clear: U.S. foreign policy is dictated by deep-state interests, not the ballot box. Biden and Trump are merely faces on the same machine, a machine that has always prioritized Israel’s goals at the expense of Palestinian lives.
The notion that the U.S. is merely reacting to events, rather than orchestrating them, is the most dangerous myth of all. Israel’s relentless wars in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and beyond are not random cycles of violence, they are strategic steps in a carefully managed plan to redraw the Middle East in Israel’s favor. And every American administration, Democrat or Republican, has played its part in ensuring this outcome.
When history looks back on this era, the great tragedy will not just be the destruction of Gaza but the realization that millions of people, liberals and conservatives alike, were manipulated into believing that one U.S. president was more humane than the other, even as both oversaw the same genocidal campaign.
The machine rolls on. The question is: when will people stop being its willing cogs?
By Hon. Chimazuru Nnadi-Oforgu
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