Dedication
For the one with whom I endured the long night –
whose witness became part of mine,
whose leaving still echoes like a vow.

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Never Again for Anyone
Memory, Gaza, and the Collapse of Moral Distinctions
A Prophetic Call for Universal Justice
By Paul Alexander Wolf

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Introduction: A Wake-Up Call to Our Shared Conscience

There are moments in history when silence is not neutrality- it becomes complicity. Today, Gaza is such a moment.

As we witness children starving, hospitals reduced to rubble, families buried beneath the ruins, and an entire people systematically dehumanized, we are confronted with a question as old as Cain: Am I my brother’s keeper?

Did Netanyahu ever ask: Am I the gatekeeper of the ancient Jewish promise to the Hebrew God? The God who will deal with both the just and the unjust?

What can we say?

What is unfolding for quite some time is no longer merely a political crisis. It is a spiritual and moral catastrophe – escalated by the Netanyahu government – and, at large, an urgent collective test of whether we truly recognize the sacred worth of every human life.

The cry of Gaza is our collective moral call: “Never Again” must not be an echo of the past, but a living imperative – for Gaza, for all oppressed and vulnerable peoples, and for the conscience of humankind.

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1. Moral Clarity Begins Here: Every Life Is Sacred

Throughout history, justice has been rooted in the immutable truth: every human life bears inherent dignity. “Reverence for Life” was the principal formula articulated by Dr Albert Schweitzer. But it seems lost throughout the ages by the many, only hold by the few.

When a civilian population is starved, bombed, and driven into despair – these acts are not mere miscalculations or collateral damage. They are moral breaches – violations of international law and the moral law inscribed in every faith and conscience. Israel should have been the least suspected culprit.

When we rationalize atrocities in the name of security or dismiss them as necessary, we erode the moral fabric that binds us.

As Holocaust survivor Dr Hajo Meyer declared:
“The lesson of Auschwitz is: Never again – for anyone.”

Let us not forget: the systematic targeting of children, women, and families – these are acts that threaten the very heart of our shared humanity.

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2. A People Under Siege: The Evidence Is Overwhelming
   • Over 90% of Gaza’s families face severe food shortages, with children dying of preventable malnutrition. (OCHA, March 2025)
   • More than 30,000 civilians have been killed, including over 13,000 children. Entire neighbourhoods flattened. Water, healthcare, and power infrastructure deliberately destroyed. (UNICEF, Jan 2025)
   • Major hospitals like al-Shifa and al-Nasser lie in ruins; ambulances are bombed; medical teams are killed while saving lives. (WHO, MSF, 2024–2025)
   • The “Flour Massacre” – civilians shot while queuing for food aid – etched cruelty into public memory.
   • Investigations reveal the military’s use of AI kill-list systems like Lavender, targeting civilians with minimal oversight. (+972 Magazine, Dec 2023)

These are not statistics. These are people:
Children with dreams. Doctors holding the line. Families crushed under the weight of global indifference.

All those people killed or starved in German concentration camps had dreams as well – some of them representing the best of what humanity had to offer.

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3. Memory as Witness: The Holocaust and Our Moral Responsibility

The Holocaust remains the most profound horror in human history – a singular warning.
But invoking “Never Again” only for one group while ignoring the suffering of others is a betrayal of that sacred promise.

Memory must be a tool for justice, not a weapon of selective amnesia.

Theologian Marc Ellis reminds us:
“The Holocaust demands a theology of liberation – one that includes the oppressed of today, not only the victims of yesterday.”

To honour the memory of past atrocities is to resist the repetition of evil – whether in Nazi camps or in Gaza’s besieged neighbourhoods. Because dehumanization is the gateway to atrocity, and it erodes the moral soul of our civilization.

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4. Dehumanization and the Collapse of Moral Boundaries

When entire groups are portrayed as expendable or enemies to be destroyed, moral accountability collapses.

The targeting of civilians in Gaza, the systematic destruction of infrastructure, the threat of starvation – these are acts rooted in a dangerous logic of dehumanization.

Technological advances – drones, algorithms, AI – risk turning death into impersonal, remote acts that numb our moral senses.

Our spiritual traditions warn us:
“Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees… to deprive the needy of justice.” – Isaiah 10

This is not merely politics. It is sacred protest against a lie that dehumanizes our neighbours and makes atrocity possible.

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5. A Prophetic Voice in the Age of Moral Collapse

We are summoned -not merely to predict the future, but to speak boldly about the present.

History demands that we name the cruelty, condemn the silence, and stand with the wounded, the vulnerable, and the discarded.

Love is not love if it turns away from suffering.

The path of Christ, the prophets, and moral traditions calls us to proclaim the truth – that these acts are state-sponsored cruelty, rooted in systemic injustice.

Our moral purpose is clear: to awaken our hearts and our societies from the slumber of complacency.

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6. What Justice Demands: Action in a Time of Moral Reckoning

This is the moment to act – full of disciplined hope, grounded in love and moral clarity:
• Demand accountability for violations of international law and human rights.
• Amplify the voices of victims, survivors, and moral leaders in Gaza.
• Challenge narratives that silence critique in the name of security.
• Support humanitarian efforts, nonviolent resistance, education, and principled diplomacy.
• Remember: silence is complicity.

We are called to respond – not react out of despair, but out of moral courage rooted in love for our neighbour.

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7. A Universal Call: Never Again—for Anyone

Our shared faith, conscience, and moral duty compel us:
Every life is sacred.

And allowing one group to be treated as expendable – the Palestinians in Gaza, or any oppressed people – undermines the dignity of us all.

“Never Again” must be a cry that reverberates beyond history’s tragedies – a universal call to stand against hatred, dehumanization, and violence – for Palestinians, Jews, and all peoples threatened by injustice.

It is not a matter of choosing sides but standing unwavering for humanity.

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Conclusion: A Moral and Spiritual Awakening

Hope without action is empty.
Prayer without justice is hollow.
Grief without response is abandonment.

We must act.
With clarity.
With compassion.
With courage.

Our highest calling is not to preserve comfort – but to honour the sacred worth of every life, especially those crushed under rubble, waiting for the world to care.

The moment is here.
The time is now.
Because loving and protecting the innocent – without exception—is the true measure of our shared humanity.

I remain with you – through distance, silence, and all that remains unsaid.

And regarding Netanyahu – the man whose policies have led to the deaths of countless civilians – let us hope his days are numbered. Let us hope he will be held accountable before the International Tribunal of Justice in The Hague, like many others. And that a new generation of Israeli leaders may take over, those who know that – eventually- two states can live peacefully together. Those who realise out of Jewish faith, that there is no moral objection to overthrow this current government.

Why?

🔥 Because We Have Seen This Before – The Truth We Dare Not Unsay.

We have seen this before.

Yes!

Not in metaphor. In method.
Not in distant myth. In the pages of our grandparents’ memories.

Starvation as a weapon.
Civilians sealed in ghettos.
Children punished for who they are, not what they did.
Doctors killed. Hospitals levelled. Culture erased. Aid denied. Language of extermination.

This is not just atrocity.
This is not just war.
These are Hitler-like methods being used again – this time, by Benjamin Netanyahu.

Let the world hear it without euphemism:

Netanyahu’s government is using the tactics of 20th-century fascism – starvation, collective punishment, dehumanisation, and siege – to eliminate an inconvenient population.

Yes, the numbers are different.
Yes, the tools are updated – airstrikes instead of gas chambers, drones instead of death squads.
But the logic is the same:

Seal them in. Starve them. Bomb them. Say they are not fully human. Call it defence. Call it necessary. And wait until there’s no one left to bury.

Gaza today is not a death camp.
But it is a modern-day concentration zone – and for tens of thousands of Palestinians, a death sentence by siege.

Let us be clear:
• This is not “Hamas’ fault.” It is state-directed mass killing.
• This is not “complicated.” It is morally catastrophic.
• This is not “border security.” It is ethnic elimination.
• And this is not “unintentional.” It is deliberate, systematic, and broadcast in full view of the world.

If we cannot speak plainly when the methods of Hitler re-emerge – used not against the Jews but now by a Jewish-led state – then remembrance has failed.Then we are on the wrong side of history.
Then “Never again” was never true.

History is watching.
So are the children of Gaza.
And when they ask what we called it, let us not answer with cowardice.

This is genocide in motion, and the comparison to Hitler is not only justified – it is necessary.

Because if we cannot name it now, we will have no moral right to weep over it later.

Why?

Because what seems now a concentration zone of starvation – ignored by many- is becoming a deliberate death camp of destruction, which it already is!

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📚 Footnotes
1. WHO and UNICEF report catastrophic hunger affecting over half a million Gazans, with 21 children confirmed dead from malnutrition as of July 2025. Aid blockades and siege conditions continue (Reuters, WHO).
2. The Financial Times reports mass hunger: “There is nothing to buy. Even those with money cannot eat.” Over 1,000 Gazans were killed while trying to access food in recent months (FT).
3. According to The Guardian, skeletal children now fill hospital wards. Doctors describe this as “a man-made famine” directly caused by siege and aid obstruction (The Guardian).
4. Israeli whistleblowers revealed that the military’s AI system “Lavender” marked 37,000 Gazans for strikes with minimal human review. Entire families were often bombed based on these AI lists (+972 Magazine, Democracy Now).
5. Academic experts now argue this siege-and-starvation strategy meets the UN definition of genocide: acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group (UN Genocide Convention, Article II).

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Source Appendix continued ( Selected and Verifiable)

• United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), March 2025 – reliefweb.int
• Gaza Health Ministry (figures corroborated by WHO, UNICEF), Jan 2025
• World Health Organization (WHO), Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), UNICEF – 2024–2025 reports
• +972 Magazine & Local Call, “Lavender: How the IDF used AI to target Palestinians,” Dec 2023 – 972mag.com
• Gideon Levy, “This Is Not Defence. It Is Revenge,” Haaretz, Jan 2024 – haaretz.com
• Amira Hass, “Gaza as a Laboratory,” Haaretz, Nov 2023 – haaretz.com
• Dr Hajo Meyer, “The Lesson of Auschwitz: Never Again for Anyone,” speech, 2004
• Physicians for Human Rights–Israel, report on Dr Hammam Alloh, Oct 2023 – phr.org.il
• Interview with mother in Khan Younis, Al Jazeera, Jan 2024 – aljazeera.com
• Motaz Azaiza, Instagram witness posts, Jan 2024 – @motaz_azaiza

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Paul Alexander Wolf is a physician, writer, and moral witness whose work spans humanitarian ethics, post-conflict justice, and the spiritual cost of silence in the face of atrocity.

Disclaimer
This is a moral and humanitarian appeal. It critiques the actions of governments and military forces – not any ethnic, religious, or cultural group. All forms of antisemitism, Islamophobia, racism, and hatred are unequivocally condemned, in no uncertain terms. My/our goal is justice rooted in human dignity and the sacred worth of every life. People who defended and protected Jews during the Second World War, who risked their lives, would be horrified witnessing these repugnant events unfolding in Gaza. A crime against humanity. The manifestations are essentially Hitlerianic.

On the use of “Hitlerianic”:
This term is intentionally coined to describe actions and methods that – while modern in form – mirror the logic, cruelty, and systemic dehumanisation characteristic of Hitler’s regime. It is not used lightly, nor to provoke for effect, but to name a grave moral lineage. “Hitlerianic” refers not to identical scale or context, but to the re-emergence of tactics – starvation, siege, ethnic targeting, and collective punishment – that evoke the moral pattern of 20th-century fascism. To fail to name such patterns risks betraying the very memory we claim to honour.

We are standing in the ancient tradition of the watchman on the wall (Ezekiel 33), crying out before the city falls.

Postscript

Postscript: On Hamas, Justice, and Moral Clarity
This article does not deny the crimes of Hamas, nor does it excuse its role in the October 7 attacks or its history of authoritarian violence. These acts deserve moral and legal condemnation, as do any that target civilians or silence dissent.

But collective punishment is not justice. The starvation of civilians, the bombing of hospitals, the erasure of a people—these are not acts of defence. They are crimes against humanity.

To condemn Netanyahu’s government is not to absolve Hamas. It is to insist that state power must be held to the highest standard, especially when it claims to act in the name of democracy, memory, or law.

Let us be clear: No act of terror justifies a war on children. No rocket justifies a famine. No massacre can excuse a prolonged and deliberate campaign of siege, starvation, and erasure.

To say “Never Again for Anyone” is not to weigh evils on a scale, but to draw a moral line in our shared human sand -one that no army, no ideology, and no nation has the right to cross.

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Fact Check: On Proportionality and the Cost of “Self-Defense”
Over the past decade, thousands of Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces—estimates range from 6,400 to over 64,000 depending on the timeframe, with more than 50,000 killed in Gaza alone since October 2023. In contrast, approximately 1,200 Israelis were killed in the October 7 attacks by Hamas, including civilians and soldiers, and fewer than 300 in the preceding years combined. These numbers reveal a devastating asymmetry. While Israel has the right to defend its people, no right of self-defense permits mass starvation, collective punishment, or the indiscriminate killing of civilians. And while no act of terror by Hamas can be excused, neither can the systemic siege that turns Gaza into a prison and graveyard. Siege creates resistance. Dehumanisation births defiance. But even so, the moral law remains: no civilian – Israeli or Palestinian – should ever be made fodder for vengeance.