Dutch artist Peter de Wit just won the Inktspotprijs—the award for the best political cartoon in the Netherlands—for this piece titled "Gaza Beach 2030." Take a long look at it.
It shows a sun-drenched beach. Tourists are lounging under umbrellas, checking their phones, and staring at the sea. In the foreground, a child plays in the sand. But he isn't holding a beach ball. He’s holding a human skull. Behind him, a pile of skeletons sits where sandcastles should be.
It captures exactly what happens when you "internationalize" a genocide and call it "reconstruction." It’s what happens when you put war criminals on a "Board of Peace" to manage the ruins. The goal is to pave over the bodies until the beach is "integrated into the regional economy."
De Wit is showing us the final stage of the "Peace to Prosperity" plan: the normalization of a massacre. A world where people can vacation on the same sand that was sieved for bone fragments, as long as the "management" is efficient and the "investors" are happy.
“Gaza Beach 2030” asks the question: What does normal look like after genocide?
A future built on erased bodies, mass graves turned into tourist attractions, and a world that learned to relax beside the dead.