At last, someone in Europe found the courage—or perhaps just the vocabulary—to state the obvious. Italy’s Defense Minister Guido Crosetto has broken ranks with the chorus of mealy-mouthed “both sides” diplomacy and declared that the Israeli government has “lost its sanity and humanity.”
Well, congratulations, Minister. You win the award for saying what millions of ordinary people have been screaming for nearly two years as Gaza’s children are starved, bombed, and buried under rubble.
But let’s not kid ourselves. This sudden revelation that Israel has “lost humanity” is a little like walking into a crime scene at the hundredth body and whispering, “Something seems off here.”
Humanity Lost? Or Humanity Sold?
Crosetto tells us that Israel’s actions have crossed a “critical moral line.” That’s cute. Which line was that exactly? The 15,000th Palestinian child killed? The 200th aid worker blown up? The 10th time ambulances were turned into coffins? Or maybe it was the live-streamed famine, the one beamed straight to our phones while diplomats sat on their manicured hands.
Apparently, Israel had “humanity” right up until the point Italian officials could no longer spin it without choking on their own words. Before that, it was all “self-defense” and “shared values.”
The Sanity Defense
Crosetto went further, suggesting the Israeli government has lost not just humanity, but sanity. One wonders: was Israel “sane” when it bombed UN schools? When it denied cancer patients exit permits? When it marketed spyware to dictatorships worldwide? If that was sanity, may we never see it again.
The Real Shield
But here’s the real kicker: Crosetto carefully distinguished between Israel’s government and its people, urging sanctions not against Israel as a whole but to “rescue its people” from their leaders. Noble words. But we’ve heard this play before. The truth is, Western governments are far less interested in rescuing Israelis from Netanyahu than they are in rescuing their arms deals, tech investments, and NATO talking points from uncomfortable scrutiny.
For decades, Israel’s most powerful shield has been the claim that its bombs, blockades, and bulldozers all speak in the name of world Jewry. Now, Jewish anti-Zionist groups—Neturei Karta, JVP, IfNotNow, IJAN—are stripping that shield bare, chanting “Not in our name.” So perhaps Crosetto sensed the cover story unraveling and decided to jump off the sinking ship of moral credibility before it took Italy down too.
Europe’s Delayed Outrage
Let’s be clear: Italy’s rebuke matters. Words from a NATO defense minister are not nothing. But the bitter sarcasm writes itself:
- When Gaza’s morgues overflowed? Silence.
- When famine spread like wildfire? Silence.
- When Israel bombed aid convoys, journalists, and hospitals? Silence.
Only now, after global disgust makes silence untenable, do we hear whispers of “lost humanity.”
Better late than never, I suppose. But tell that to Gaza’s orphans.
The Club of Cowards
Crosetto’s words may sound brave in Rome, but in Gaza they sound like an echo—another Western politician declaring the obvious with no consequences attached. No sanctions yet. No weapons embargo. No suspension of trade. Just words. Words that burn brightly in headlines but extinguish into ash when the next shipment of U.S. or EU-made bombs crosses the Mediterranean.
So yes, Minister, Israel has lost its humanity. But don’t forget: the world lost its own long ago, when it decided neutrality in the face of genocide was an acceptable foreign policy.
Judaism stands with Gaza. Justice stands with Palestine. And history will record who stood aside, shrugging, while a government lost its humanity and the world applauded the show.
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