The ceasefire illusion: Managing genocide under the “Board of Peace”

For two years, images of dead Palestinian children, flattened neighbourhoods and starving civilians flooded television screens and social media feeds around the world. What once shocked global audiences gradually risked becoming routine. The war in Gaza — from October 2023 until the ceasefire of October 2025 — left behind extraordinary destruction and an uncomfortable question: had mass suffering itself become normalized? Is the world now witnessing, in near silence, the live-streamed genocide of the Palestinian nation simply because it feels powerless to stop it? Or because global attention has shifted elsewhere, particularly toward the US-Israeli confrontation with Iran? Whatever the answer, one disturbing reality has emerged: many governments appear willing to believe that Washington has genuinely pursued peace and reconstruction […]