Nepal, April 23 -- It is possible to be pedantic about the plausibility of the term, but Israel has made no attempts to hide its genocidal intentions in Gaza. The Israeli military's relentless campaign is an exemplar of the textbook definition of genocide: "the deliberate and systematic destruction of a group of people because of their ethnicity, nationality, religion, or race".

The geoeconomics-the interplay of international economics, geopolitics and strategy-of fossil fuels prevents Western powers from speaking against the country they helped create and sustain in the middle of the Arab World to protect their long-term interests. Volatile West Asia holds almost half of the known fossil fuel reserve globally.

In the early 1970s, the O...