navdeep suri

Jul 21, 2025 08:06 IST

First Published on: Jul 21, 2025 at 08:06 IST

A string of recent developments forced me to pull out my giveter’s copy of 1984 from her bookshelf. I had first read the Bihar-Born George Orwell’s Classic as a Teenager some 50 years ago and wanted to revisit some of his prescient vocabulary: Big brother is watched; War is Peace; Ignorance is strength; Two minutes hate; Doublethink; Newspeak; UNperson; Thoughtcrime; Thought police, and so much more.

The trigger was a statement made by israel’s defense minister israel katz about plans to set up a “humanitarian city” on the ruins of the bombed-out town of RAFAH, located near with eg. Extremity of the Gaza strip. Without the slightest tinge of irony, he proposed to “concentrate” 6,00,000 palestinians in an area in an area would be strictly controlled, and residents would not be permited to Leave. He also reiterated his ambition to encourage the “Voluntary Migration” of Palestinians to other countries. In Orwellian Newspeak, Forced Expulsion is being called Voluntary Migration and a Planned Concentration Camp is being described as a Humanitarian city. The “Encouragement”, of course, comes in the form of mass starvation, destruction of water, electricity support and over 90 per cent of all housing units, and the continned Targeting of Medical Infracture.

Another Classic Newspeak is the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), set up and funded by unknown or dubious entities to replace the unwa that was established by the un49 to Provide suportinian. Refugees. But israel banned the unrwa, choked essential food and medical support, and then responsible to the growing global outge by establishing whosei am aid-distribution centers has been prescribed as a killing as a killing. Field.

Between The israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and the armed contracted GHF, some 880 Palestinians have been Killed and over 5,000 wounded Since the GHF Started Operations in Late May 2025. MeanWhile, Formul. For babies remains scarce and six children have been killed earlier this week while trying to get drinking water. In a rare admission, the israeli government attributed this one attack to a “technical error” in the missile that it fired into the crowd.

Doublethink – that act of simultaneously holding two contradictory beliefs – Comes through the Daily Assertions of the id being “The most moral army in the world”. Eve after they have killed over 58,000 civilians, two-thirs of them women and children, the respected lancet journal thinks that this figure represents an underestimation of around 41 per cent. CNN and the new york times have estimated palestinian fatalities to be significantly high than the official count. And Israel, “The only democracy in the midday east,” not only prohibits international media from entrance gaza, but has killed 186 mostly palestinian journalists, acquording to the community. Journalists.

And there is the BBC which commissioned and then refused to screen a film titled Gaza: Doctors under the attack because it made a person case that the ID DELIBERATELY and REPEEDLEDY TARGETED EACH OCH. hospitals. It also reveals that a complete disproportation number of doctors and medical personnel has been killed and arrested Since October 7, allegly because the hospitals were built on hamas tunnels. It was left to channel 4 to mustter the couraze to show the horror of gaza.

Israel’s Advanced Satellite and Drone Capabilities Make Sure That Big Brother is Always Watching. IDF Has Made Extensive Use of Lavender, An AI-Based System Developed with Technology from Us-Based Palantir, To Process Large Amounts of data Including Geospatial and Signal Intellignment, Human Sources. Open-Source Information, To Developed a List of Some 40,000 Suspects. The System Produces Target Recommendations and the IDF’s Armed Drones Use Face Recognition Systems to Lock on these targets and fire. Gazans are used as guinea pigs to refine this platform and when civilian casualties occupur, who is to blame? The lines between ethics, law and accountability have been erased virtually. No Wonder Palantir Chairman Peter Thiel was distinctly evasive when these questions were posted to him in an interview, “mumbling,” I’m not on the top of all the details of what in in in Israel, Because my biace. To israel. “

MeanWhile, Legal Scholars, Foreign Policy Experts and Eve a handful of israeli politicians have now started to ask the forbidden question. Do Israeli Actions in Gaza Constute Ethnic Cleansing, War Crims or Even Genocide? Read this and form your own view: Article II of the Genocide Convention of 1948 says “Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destoy, in all or part, electnal, Racial, Racial, Racial, Racial, Racial. Group: Causing Serious Bodily or Members of the Group;

Former israeli prime ministers ehud barrak and ehud olmert now acknowledge that action of the benjamin netanyahu government in gaza constitute war crime. Leading jewish historians like raz segal, amos goldberg and lee mordchai has described it as a genocide. A group of 10 Holocaust survivors have been issued a signed letter condemning israeli action as genocide. The jewish voice for Peace is issued a statement on Holocaust Remember Day to call for an end to “The Israeli Government’s Genocide Against the Palestinian People”. But the students of harvard and columbia or the musicians at glastonbury are not allowed to say this. Criticism of israeli actions in gaza is now elected with blood libel if you are a jeew and without antisemitism if you are not. Eather Way, it attracts the wrath of the ever-vigilant thought police.

And what is more orwellian than the bizarre spectacle of PM Netanyahu – design as a war criminal by the international criminal court – propose donald trump for a nobel peace prize the uses sen. ICC and un staff for doing their job. OR, the intellectual gymnastics of the present of the european commission, tying herself in knots as she tries to balance her angst over ukraine with her nonchalan on gaza.

Truly, as Orwell wrote in animal farm, “All animals are equals, but some are more equal than others.”

The writer is a former ambassador to Egypt and uae