More than a million Gazans wait as they are being starved and executed within a day’s walk from the Gaza south gate called Erez Crossing. Beyond that locked gate (locked by Israel on the outside) where this writer waited to enter Gaza 21 years ago, is the highway to Cairo Egypt, about 80 miles west.

All the information I will discuss here is available to anyone willing to look. (Make an appointment with this author if you want to discuss it.) What I share appears to be forbidden in both Tel Aviv and Washington DC, probably because it involves the planned and already ongoing murder of up to 2.3 million Gazan citizens most of Arab lineage, extermination by starvation, and resultant diseases. About half this number are children.

A few TV news programs in the US have shown adults burying their dead in a 200-yard-long bulldozed trench along the road south to Aris crossing. The only road out of south Gaza leads to Cairo about 80 miles to the West. It is unlikely survivors will be welcome there. Egypt states it does not need more hungry people.

As I write, Gazan large families are weakened by hunger and thirst, they are now falling victim to diseases or starving. Sadly, nothing written by others has attempted to explain why Gazans have lost their right to their lives, homes in Gaza, and all property they cannot carry on their backs.

The purpose of this paper is to examine why US political leaders are allowing the secular Jewish government of Israel to systematically exterminate these souls. This writer will look for the real reason for this act of abject cruelty that otherwise seems to follow the pattern of past mass exterminations.

Let us now examine the plainly visible but almost totally ignored reason. Now, after 80 or more days in exile, many without sufficient food or shelter, are walking the narrow line between life and death by starvation.

The answer to “why” is, who should enjoy the swelling wealth from a 25-year-old, Natural Gas discovery field called Tamar? Gaza or Israel? It is only now, after much exploration and development revealed it is a major discovery.

Part of this well-documented undeveloped deposit is on the sea coasts of Gaza in shallow water. Israel’s part of the field is already producing and is known to be very large. The Natural Gas trend has been proven to bend inland from Israel production on the north toward the beaches of Gaza on the south.  Israel’s covetousness for the entire Tamar gas field is the only clear motive for forcing virtually all its rightful owners, the Palestinians, to depart.

Part of the Tamar Natural Gas field is all but proved to be the property of tiny Gaza. Why Israel’s obvious effort to exterminate many of the 2,300,000 Palestinians, about half of whom are women and children should be obvious. So, Israel can become the owner of the South end of the Gas deposit. Israel’s intent seems clear. It is to force the Gazans to abandon the Gaza Strip. This would probably rid Israel of the legal responsibility to share this wealth.

Can this writer prove Israel’s intent? No, but what else makes sense? The result of the depopulation of Gaza is a land without people, and a destroyed infrastructure…a country up for grabs.

Netanyahu’s goal of total depopulation of Arabs in Gaza has a demonstrated purpose and goal.  Whatever the faults of the secular Jewish majority of Israel, lack of business acumen is not one of them! Israel exists on its business expertise in the absence of natural mineral wealth. This acumen might well call for the elimination of the Gazans. Why would Israel not covet Gaza? It is already selling substantial natural gas to Arab countries from its developed part of Tamar. Petroleum engineers have traced the gas trend up to the shores of Gaza, clearly in recognized Gaza waters. Israel has a clear motive to kill for oil.

Tens of thousands of unmarked graves should not be the only record of Gazans’ experience in the Israeli-dominated Middle East. We Americans are also guilty if we choose not to look.

Charles E Carlson

NOTES:
(1) Gaza does exist as a viable and substantial Natural Gas field.
(2) Israel has avoided any development or negotiation for the part that is on Gaza-controlled and owned waters.
(3) Israel is already producing and selling Gas in substantial joint ventures from that part of Tamar that is probably Israeli waters.
(4) The Gas trend onto Gaza-owned waters has been proved by exploratory drilling by others and is known to extend near to the and possibly under beaches of Gaza.
(5) “Israel approves Gaza Marine gas development, wants security assurances” energy-pedia news, 20/June 2023: https://www.energy-pedia.com/news/general/israel-gives-nod-to-gaza-marine-gas-development–wants-security-assurances-191859
(6) “Israel Just Shut a Gaz Field Near Gaza. Here’s why that Matters” CNN Busines, 10/20/2023: https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/10/energy/israel-gas-field-shutdown-explainer/index.html