Why No Military Intervention Against Israel? Hypocrisy of ‘Responsibility to Protect’

The Western elite once claimed ignorance during the Holocaust. Today, Israel’s genocide in Gaza unfolds in full view, yet nothing is done. The most powerful states arm the perpetrator while the “Responsibility to Protect” doctrine they have long celebrated is now ignored, except where it continues to serve the U.S. empire.

Historian Tarik Cyril Amar joins Rania Khalek to discuss the hypocrisy of R2P, why no coalition has formed to intervene, the weaponization of Holocaust memory, Europe’s empty gestures on Palestinian statehood, and the complicity of Western media in genocide.

You can follow his work at https://www.tarikcyrilamar.com/ and his weekly analysis of world events at Syriana Analysis.

If ever there were a time for an international force to intervene to protect civilians, you’d think it would be now in Gaza.

But, as @RaniaKhalek and @TarikCyrilAmar discuss, “Responsibility to Protect” has always been a smokescreen, deployed hypocritically. So what we get instead is selective media outrage, and empty symbolic gestures.