By Guillermo Alvarado

If any proof was missing that the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is willing to perpetrate a genocide of great proportions against the Palestinian people imprisoned in the Gaza Strip, he himself provided it when he announced a military operation against Rafah.

Rafah is the southernmost city in the Strip, located on the border with Egypt, and is the only crossing point open for the transit of goods and, since the beginning of the Zionist attacks, for the entry of humanitarian aid on which hundreds of thousands of people who have lost everything depend.

Normally the city has about 153,000 inhabitants, of which more than half live in refugee camps, but at the moment the population has increased significantly because more than one million people from the north and center have moved there to save their lives.

A military ground or air attack on a small and densely populated area would be a butchery and this is well known in Tel Aviv, Washington or the UN to such an extent that Joseph Biden himself, Netanyahu's unconditional ally and protector, advised against carrying it out, perhaps not so much for humanitarian reasons but for political pragmatism.

Egypt has already announced that if such a barbarity occurs, the peace process with Israel, the so-called Camp David Accords, would also be blown to pieces and the whole region would be millimeters away from a generalized war which, for now, does not enter into US calculations for one simple reason: oil.

Anyone in their right mind knows what an armed conflict in such a large oil-producing area would mean for the world economy.The problem is that this condition, sanity, does not characterize the Zionist leaders who punctiliously apply everything they learned from the German Nazi regime and their theory of the "final solution", as they called the genocide of the Jews in Europe during World War II.Netanyahu and his government are doing exactly the same against the Palestinians, from which it follows that between one ideology and the other, i.e. between Nazism and Zionism, the difference is hardly a matter of nuance.

Most world leaders, with a few honorable exceptions, have generally kept their eyes averted from the massacre carried out by the State of Israel, which has already cost the lives of more than 27,000 Palestinians -most of them women and children-, wounded another 62,000 and displaced 1.7 million people.An onslaught against Rafah would multiply these figures several times over, in addition to demonstrating that in the third millennium of the modern era, humanity has evolved very little since the distant days of the Stone Age.