The genocide has not ended. The “ceasefire” is a lie. The project of annihilation continues. But it has entered a new and dire phase. One that extracts from us all an even bigger portion of our humanity.

This is the slow plodding march of death. A ceaseless suffering inflicted on an entire people. A systematic project of death through neglect, denial, disease, malnutrition, hypothermia and psychological torture.

There has been a Bondi Beach massacre committed nearly everyday in Gaza since the ceasefire was declared. Scores of children. Bombed, starved, sickened, frozen. But there are no vigils being held in the West by city governments. No moments of silence. No in depth portraits of survivors. No outpouring of sympathy from political leaders.

Gaza has changed the West forever. It has demonstrated its dearth of a conscience. Its hypocrisy. Its sadism. And we will never fully recover from bearing witness to an unthinkable crime to which our leaders gave their full stamp of approval.

Kenn Orfanos, December 2025