Gaza’s Invisible Dead: The Talk Show That Demands More Proof

A couple of days ago, I was watching the Piers Morgan show, where he was debating with Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, the president of the Palestinian Initiative. Piers Morgan, the well-known presenter, was once strongly supportive of the Israeli stance, especially in the early days of the genocide after October 7^th, fully endorsing Israel’s right to fight back aggressively and to “defend themselves,” as he put it, without considering recent history or even the immediate events that had escalated the situation.

Two years have now passed, and the world has witnessed every war crime committed by what the West has long treated as its “spoiled child.” This has been a powerful awakening for those willing to see the truth, and Morgan has been among those who began to reconsider his convictions and ultimately changed his position, something that made me truly respect him.

Yet, while watching his latest show, I realized that despite his shift in perspective, he is still not entirely neutral. This became clear to me through one particular question he asked, which left me utterly stunned

Yes… that was Morgan’s question to Barghouti, instead of asking the more logical one: Why won’t Arab and Muslim nations support the Palestinians and pressure Israel to end the war?

This would make far more sense, especially when you compare the two sides: Western governments openly backing Israel’s brutality and genocide, while Arab and Muslim countries limit themselves to verbal condemnations, yet in practice, they support Israel economically. We’ve even seen Gulf leaders hand over trillions of dollars in investment pledges and arms deals to Trump, while Israel continued its relentless bombing of Gaza with American weapons!

Here’s exactly what Morgan said:

“Why is there not more pressure from Arabs, from Muslims in the region, to force Hamas to release these hostages and to call the Israeli government’s bluff by doing so? Because after that, if Israel continues in its current policy of kicking all Palestinians out of Gaza, then the world can see what it is.”

My argument regarding Morgan’s stance is as follows:

Do Arab and Muslim leaders really need to pressure Hamas, as Morgan suggested, to expose Israel? Is the bombardment of 94% of Gaza’s hospitals not exposure enough? Is the destruction of 93% of all homes in Gaza, reducing entire neighborhoods to rubble, insufficient evidence? Is the killing or injuring of more than 50,000 children not proof? Is the systematic targeting of journalists, 234 Palestinian reporters dead, either bombed or deliberately targeted, not revealing enough? Israel has not only blocked international media access but also obstructed medical teams and international organizations such as UNRWA from operating freely. As a result, nearly all the information reaching the world comes only from Palestinian journalists, 234 of whom have already been killed, either by bombardment or deliberate targeting.

Hasn’t Israel’s propaganda machine already exposed itself? Remember the debunked lie about Hamas beheading 40 children, amplified by global media and even President Biden? Or the unsubstantiated claims of systematic sexual violence on October 7th, repeated by Western leaders and outlets before collapsing under scrutiny? Now, Israel dismisses Gaza’s starvation crisis despite overwhelming evidence. The lies never stop.

Israel’s atrocities unfold in plain sight. As Barghouti asserts, it commits three concurrent war crimes:

1. Genocide, systematic annihilation of a people.
2. Collective punishment, starving 2.3 million Gazans.
3. Ethnic cleansing, forcibly displacing Palestinians with no right of return, mirroring the 1948 Nakba that created 7 million refugees.

And I wonder, how many more crimes must the West witness before it pressures Israel to end this brutality?

Israel’s continual refusal to negotiate sincerely, while hostages remain trapped in tunnels, shows that Israeli leaders do not care about their own citizens as they claim. Netanyahu himself has admitted it. Even if Hamas releases all captives today, he vows to continue the war, insisting his aim is to "destroy Hamas." But this is another lie. If that were true, why is Israel escalating violence in the West Bank, where Hamas holds no power?

The truth is undeniable: If Netanyahu crushes Hamas, he will invent another excuse to continue the slaughter until Gaza is emptied of Palestinians. His endgame is ethnic cleansing, just as it was in 1948.

And he won’t stop there. Netanyahu has publicly voiced expansionist ambitions beyond Palestine. These aren’t conspiracy theories; they are his own televised declarations, where he expressed his sense of connection to the idea of “Greater Israel”; a vision rooted in biblical and historical interpretations that extend Israel’s borders to include parts of today’s Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia. Unsurprisingly, such rhetoric has sparked deep anger across the Arab world.

Barghouti emphasized in the same interview that Arab pressure on Hamas was unnecessary, a viable deal already existed. Yet Netanyahu, Steve Wedkov, and their allies deliberately sabotaged it. Under that deal, 10 Israeli captives and 18 bodies would have been released in exchange for around 1,300 Palestinian prisoners.

The indifference of Israeli and U.S. leadership is further exposed by Edan Alexander, the freed Israeli-American hostage who refused to meet Netanyahu, shaming him for destroying the Hamas deal. And what did Trump do in return? Nothing, the bombing continued more ferociously than ever.

While the world obsesses over Israeli hostages, who speaks for the Palestinians?

• 400 Palestinian children languish in Israeli prisons across the West Bank.
• 3,650 detainees rot in Israeli jails without trial or charge, hostages under the guise of "administrative detention."

Morgan condemns the release of videos showing Israeli hostages in fear, emaciated, and starved, yet ignores the overwhelming evidence emerging from Israeli prisons, videos of torture, testimonies of starvation, and systemic abuse of Palestinian captives.

And still, we’re told Israel, a state built on colonization, mass displacement, and open calls for genocide, has a "right to defend itself." But what exactly is being defended? Its right to slaughter?!

Should Palestinians lay down their arms while Netanyahu’s government vows to erase them? While tanks roll over refugee camps and snipers target children? There is no "self-defense" in genocide. Resistance is not terrorism; it is the inevitable cry of a people sentenced to death.

At the advent of the 21^st century, Western media relentlessly pushed the same manufactured question: “Why do they hate us?”; where “they” meant Muslims and Arabs. The implied answer was always some variation of “They envy our democracy and progress.” But this deliberately ignored the truth: We never hated ordinary people; we resisted oppressive policies. The West’s endless interventions, illegal invasions like in Iraq, and Afghanistan, the implantation of Israel on stolen land, and its relentless arming to destabilize the region; these are the roots of anger, not some imagined “civilizational jealousy.”

Yet even today, Western media glorifies its so-called supremacy while whitewashing its governments’ crimes. This racism is glaring in Morgan’s argument that by releasing hostages, we’ll show the world Israel’s true intentions. His “world” is limited to the West, or at least the shrinking portion still swallowing Israeli propaganda. The actual world includes Latin America, the Arab world, Asia, Africa, who already sees Israel’s brutality clearly. Even figures like George Galloway have dismantled Morgan’s narrow worldview, as seen in past debates on Iran.

Palestine as a state is recognized by around 146 UN member states, or over 75% of the UN, highlighting a significant consensus over its state legitimacy. People worldwide are increasingly realizing who the real terrorists are even in the West itself.

Morgan’s bias reaches its peak when he dismisses Barghouti’s comparison of today’s Western complicity to the cowardice that enabled the Nazis. Yet, as Jewish critics affirm in the following video, the parallel is both relevant and undeniable.

Morgan gave Barghouti space to speak, until the facts became inconvenient. When Barghouti stated clearly, “There’s no need to pressure Hamas; it has already declared readiness to release all captives, alive or dead, in exchange for a complete halt to the genocide,” Morgan interrupted, insisting this was disingenuous, claiming Hamas had recently demanded a Palestinian state as a precondition for releasing hostages.

Barghouti clarified: “That statement was about ending the genocide, not the hostage deal.” Morgan refused to acknowledge his error, instead falling back on his tired refrain: “Why won’t Arab and Muslim leaders pressure Hamas to release the hostages?”

Morgan’s narrow framing invites far more urgent questions that deserve to be answered, such as:

1. Why does the "international community" mainly the Western power, pressure victims instead of Israel, the aggressor waging a genocide?
2. What is the purpose of the UN and international law if they crumble before Israeli impunity?
3. Why do Western governments ignore their own citizens’ demands for a ceasefire while claiming to be democratic?
4. Why are aid ships blocked and solidarity marches banned, while arms shipments to Israel sail freely?
5. Why do Arab leaders continue to serve their strategic enemy?
6. How can one criticize Israel's crimes without being accused of antisemitism?
7. When will we reject dehumanizing rhetoric, and the censorship of those who resist it?
8. What would it take to build a world that protects all lives equally, not just those deemed "worthy"?
9. Doesn't the systematic annihilation of Gaza sound the final alarm on our collapsing world order?
10. Isn’t this the moment to change systems built on colonial violence?

These aren’t rhetorical. They’re a roadmap to justice, if the world dares to answer honestly.

What is happening today is nothing less than a declaration that international law is dead. These laws appear to have been written only to protect a privileged few. Yet, even in this darkness, hope persists, for humanity is still alive. Across the globe, people are protesting, raising their voices to break the siege, demanding the establishment of a single Palestinian state and the reclamation of its land. The growing number of Jewish voices condemning the genocide, even from within Israel itself, affirms that conscience and humanity still breath. A new generation is rising, one that rejects colonial lies and recognizes Gaza as our collective moral test.

But survival alone is not enough. What meaning does “humanity” hold when stripped of dignity, equality, freedom, and the most basic rights to speak and exist?