This post is also available in: SpanishThe United Nations has called things by their name: genocide. As that word—genocide—circulates the globe, Israel unleashes a new phase of its ground offensive in Gaza City, where hundreds of thousands of civilians still cling to survival. He knows that the images of Gaza in ruins, the mounting death toll, and the charge of genocide will isolate him. The risk for Israel is enormous. And the risk for humanity is the normalization of barbarism: a state accused of genocide choosing to answer with even more fire.