Leaked audio reveals Israeli general calling for 50-to-1 death ratio for Palestinians, including children
By isabelle // 2025-08-18
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  • A leaked recording reveals Israel’s ex-military intelligence chief admitting 50,000 Palestinian deaths, including children, are "necessary" for deterrence, echoing genocidal rhetoric.
  • He openly invokes the Nakba as a recurring tactic to traumatize Palestinians, framing mass civilian slaughter as deliberate state policy.
  • More than 61,000 Palestinians have been killed since October, with Israel’s own data confirming most are civilians, exposing a strategy of collective punishment.
  • Haliva’s comments expose Israel’s intent to sabotage peace by empowering Hamas, preferring endless war over negotiations with Palestinian leadership.
  • Western powers continue funding Israel’s military despite officials openly advocating ethnic cleansing, while media downplays the genocide unfolding in Gaza.
Imagine, for a moment, if a Hamas leader stood before the world and declared that for every Palestinian killed by Israel, 50 Israelis must die, and it didn’t matter if they were children. The global outcry would be instantaneous. Heads of state would demand war crimes tribunals. Mainstream media would scream “genocide.” Yet when a former chief of Israeli military intelligence says the exact same thing about Palestinians, the world yawns, the corporate press buries the story, and Western governments keep sending billions in weapons to fund the slaughter. That’s exactly what happened last week when leaked audio recordings of Aharon Haliva, the disgraced ex-head of Israel’s Military Intelligence Directorate, surfaced on Israel’s Channel 12. In cold, calculating terms, Haliva, who resigned in April after failing to prevent the October 7 attacks, openly admitted that the mass death of Palestinians is not just justified but required. “ The fact that there are already 50,000 dead in Gaza is necessary and required for future generations,” he said. “For everything that happened on October 7, for every person on October 7, 50 Palestinians must die. It doesn’t matter now if they are children.” Let that sink in. A high-ranking Israeli official, tasked with protecting his nation’s security, is advocating the premeditated massacre of children as a “message to future generations.” And he’s not alone. His rhetoric mirrors the genocidal language we’ve heard from Israeli ministers like Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, who’ve called Palestinians “human animals” and demanded the total destruction of Gaza. But Haliva’s comments are worse because they’re not just hateful rants. They’re a blueprint for ethnic cleansing, delivered with the chilling detachment of a bureaucrat discussing budget cuts.

An open policy of collective punishment

Haliva didn’t stop at justifying the slaughter. He explicitly invoked the Nakba, the 1948 ethnic cleansing of 700,000 Palestinians to make way for Israel, as something that needs to happen “every now and then” to keep Palestinians in line. “They need a Nakba from time to time to feel the price,” he said, calling for state-sanctioned terror in a deliberate strategy to traumatize an entire population into submission. And the numbers back it up. Gaza’s health ministry reports that more than 61,000 Palestinians have been killed since October 7, the vast majority women and children. Israel’s own data admits that only about 20,000 of those were militants, meaning Haliva knows full well that his “necessary” death toll is overwhelmingly civilian. This is the logic of a monster, not a military strategist.

The real goal: Sabotaging peace by empowering Hamas

If you think Haliva’s genocidal ramblings are just the ravings of a bitter ex-official, think again. His leaked recordings reveal a deliberate Israeli strategy to undermine any chance of a two-state solution. According to Haliva, Israel’s leadership—including Finance Minister Smotrich—wants Hamas to take over the West Bank because it’s easier to wage war against a “terrorist” group than negotiate with a legitimate Palestinian Authority. Haliva’s resignation was supposed to be an act of accountability. Instead, his leaked comments prove it was a hollow PR stunt. He took no real responsibility, showed no remorse, and, judging by his tone, seems proud of the slaughter. This is the rot at the core of Israel’s military-industrial complex: a culture where war crimes are not just tolerated but celebrated. The most sickening part is that the West is funding this. The U.S. has sent billions in military aid to Israel since October 7, even as Israeli officials openly brag about their genocidal intentions. The EU turns a blind eye. Mainstream media downplays the death toll. And when a former Israeli intel chief explicitly calls for a Nakba 2.0, the story gets buried under headlines about Netanyahu’s political troubles. Well, here’s the truth: This is genocide, plain and simple. The same people who rightfully condemned Hamas’ October 7 attacks must also condemn Israel’s industrial-scale slaughter of civilians. There is no moral high ground in body counts. There is no “self-defense” in starving children, bombing hospitals, and declaring that 50,000 dead Palestinians are “necessary.” If the roles were reversed, would the world stay silent? Sources for this article include: MiddleEastEye.net TheGuardian.com JPost.com
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