Ajmal Masroor argues that it is now time for a coalition of independent nations to declare war on Israel and intervene military to stop the genocide in Gaza.
Military intervention to stop Israel from committing further acts of genocide against the people of Gaza is not only necessary — it is, in my view, a moral imperative of our time.
Let me begin with a simple question: What more must Israel do to trigger a military response?
The truth is that Israel was founded through acts of terrorism and has, since its establishment in 1948, built its villages, towns, and cities by ethnically cleansing Palestinian communities.
Over the decades, it has committed a wide range of crimes against the Palestinian people — dehumanising them, occupying their land, and continually expanding illegal settlements.
These actions have included violations of basic human rights: arbitrary arrests and imprisonment without trial, documented cases of sexual abuse of detainees, the imprisonment of children, and the creation of unlivable conditions through walls, checkpoints, and blockades.
Israel has operated an apartheid regime, imposing racist and settler-colonial policies against Palestinians even within its own borders.
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Are 77 years of such abuses still not enough to justify military intervention?
Useless international institutions
Since October 7th, Israel has committed what can only be described as genocide: displacing millions, deliberately bombing hospitals, schools, homes, mosques, churches, and markets, and deploying snipers and drones to kill civilians.
These actions appear designed not only to kill but to terrorise and demoralise the population, while simultaneously starving them.
Successive Israeli leaders, from politicians to rabbis, have openly denied Palestinians the right to exist. This is not just policy — it is pure evil. And the only remaining means of stopping this genocide is through military intervention.
Though the United Nations has passed numerous resolutions regarding Israel, none have been implemented effectively, primarily because veto-holding nations — most notably the United States and the United Kingdom — block any serious moves toward accountability. These countries have been the biggest enablers of Israel’s crimes.
I no longer believe it is worthwhile to appeal to the UN. The time has come for independent nations to step up. It is time for a coalition of justice and peace-loving countries to form an alliance and carry out military action against Israel. It appears Israel only understands bombs and missiles.
As for the Arab League, I have no expectations of meaningful action. The organisation, by its very name, reflects an alliance of regimes that are largely illegitimate.
As Donald Trump once pointed out, many of these governments would not survive a single day without Western support. They will never act against their protectors. These regimes are effectively poodles of the West, lacking both the will and the capacity to challenge the powers that sustain them.
My call is not to them, but to truly independent nations. The time has come to bypass the UN and take decisive action to end this ongoing genocide.
Past military interventions
I remember the horrors of the Russian invasion of Afghanistan and its bloody aftermath. The country was devastated — thousands of lives lost, homes destroyed, entire cities reduced to rubble.
But the world responded. Western nations supplied arms, training and intelligence; Muslim countries sent fighters; and the Afghan people united to resist the occupation. The resistance fighters were known as the mujahideen — celebrated, praised and portrayed as heroes defending freedom and democracy.
As a teenager, I would go to Hyde Park Corner every Sunday, march through the streets of London, and gather in front of the Russian embassy to demand an end to the atrocities. I remember leading chants from atop a truck fitted with loudspeakers: “Down, down USSR,” “Death to Russia,” “Long live the mujahideen,” “Free, free Afghanistan.”
We wore the Palestinian kufiyya as a symbol of resistance around our necks, over our heads, and sometimes over our faces. We were applauded, supported, and encouraged. That intervention, against aggression and occupation, was necessary — and I am proud to have played a small part in it, along with thousands of other conscientious individuals.
I also witnessed the horror of the genocide in Srebrenica, where Slobodan Milošević and his army massacred around 8,000 Muslim Bosnians, simply because of their ethnicity and faith. After the breakup of Yugoslavia, Serbia sought to dominate the region, and Bosnia suffered the worst consequences. Western countries stood by as the massacre unfolded.
Later, in Kosovo, Milošević continued his campaign of ethnic cleansing against Albanians. But in 1999, NATO intervened when Milošević rejected the Rambouillet Agreement and threatened to invade Kosovo. That military intervention was morally justified, it prevented another genocide, and it set a vital precedent.
Throughout my lifetime, I have witnessed many military interventions — by NATO, the UN, and the African Union. Some were justified, others clearly illegal, such as the invasion of Iraq and the 20-year bombing campaign in Afghanistan by the U.S. and U.K.
The African Union has intervened militarily in Burundi, Darfur, and Somalia. These organisations are legally and morally obligated to act in the face of genocide, ethnic cleansing and illegal occupation.
So why, then, is there such silence and inaction when it comes to Israel? What are the so-called leaders of the world so afraid of?
I am calling for an immediate military intervention. It is, in my view, the only viable and effective solution left to end the ongoing atrocities committed by Israel in Palestine.
