Telesure – December 29, 2023
Death Toll from Gaza Genocide Exceeds 29,000
The catastrophe in the Palestinian territory is accompanied by the destruction of homes, hospitals, schools, and other infrastructure.
From October 7 to December 27, Israeli occupation forces have murdered 29,124 Palestinians, of whom 11,422 were children, and 5,822 were women. Israeli soldiers also injured 56,122 people and murdered 101 journalists.
The figures on the genocide in Gaza were collected by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med), a Switzerland-based independent NGO.
The catastrophe in this Palestinian territory is also accompanied by multimillion-dollar damages caused by the destruction of homes, hospitals, schools, and other infrastructure.
"At least 65,600 housing units have been completely destroyed by the ongoing Israeli attacks, while 177,200 others have been partially damaged," Euro-Med pointed out.
"Another 305 schools,1,541 industrial facilities and 135 health facilities, including 23 hospitals, 56 clinics, 55 ambulances were targeted."
"Israel has deliberately targeted civilian infrastructure in Gaza in order to cause as many casualties, material losses, and destruction as possible as a form of retaliation and collective punishment," the humanitarian organization added.
The figures, however, are likely to increase until 2023's last day. Only between Dec. 28 and 29, in less than 24 hours, the Zionist army killed 190 Palestinians, the majority of whom were women, children, and the elderly. Palestinian authorities also counted 312 people injured.
On Friday morning, Israeli occupation forces attacked various areas of Gaza by land, sea, and air, indiscriminately destroying civilian homes.
The Israeli army continues to bomb large areas of the governorate of Jan Yunis on Friday, the WAFA news agency reported. Dozens of people died from airstrikes in the city of Rafah, where a significant portion of the 1.9 million Gazan internally displaced people are concentrated.
Thousands of Palestinians have arrived in Rafah in recent days, following the escalation of Israeli attacks in Khan Younis and Deir al-Balah in the southern territory.
Rafah has now become the most populated area in Gaza, with over 12,000 inhabitants per square kilometer, said the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Meanwhile, Israel acknowledged that its forces are deepening their advance in Khan Younis and are operating for the first time in the Khuza'a area on the eastern outskirts of the city. Zionist troops have also been harassing residents of the Deir al-Balah governorate.
Over the last 24 hours, 14 people also died in attacks on the Al Maghazi refugee camp in Deir al-Balah, where Israeli occupation forces used helicopters to strafe citizens' homes.
According to estimates by UN agencies, in this area there are about 90,000 people and about 61,000 Palestinians who were displaced from northern Gaza.
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Daily Sabah – December 28, 2023
Israeli advance on central Gaza causes new Palestinian exodus
A mounting Israeli military advance on central Gaza on Thursday pushed tens of thousands of already displaced Palestinian families to take flight again in a new mass exodus.
Further south, Israeli forces struck the area around a hospital in the heart of Khan Younis, the Gaza Strip's main southern city, where residents feared a new ground push into territory crowded with families made homeless in 12 weeks of indiscriminate attacks.
Israel has escalated its ground war in Gaza sharply since just before Christmas despite public pleas from its closest ally the United States to scale the campaign down in the closing weeks of the year.
The main focus of fighting is now in central areas south of the wetlands that bisect the Strip, where Israeli forces have ordered civilians out as their tanks advance.
Tens of thousands of people fleeing the huge Nuseirat, Bureij and Maghazi districts of central Gaza were heading south or west Thursday into the already overwhelmed city of Deir al-Balah along the Mediterranean coast, crowding into hastily built camps of makeshift tents.
"Over 150,000 people – young children, women carrying babies, people with disabilities & the elderly – have nowhere to go," the main U.N. organisation operating in Gaza, UNRWA, said in a social media post decrying what it called "forced displacement" under Israeli evacuation orders.
The eastern part of Bureij was a theatre of heavy fighting on Thursday morning, with Israeli tanks pushing in from the north and east, residents and militants said.
"That moment has come, I wished it would never happen, but it seems displacement is a must," said Omar, 60, who said he had been forced to move with at least 35 family members.
"We are now in a tent in Deir al-Balah because of this brutal Israeli war," he told Reuters by phone, declining to give a second name for fear of reprisals. "Israel is killing doctors, social media influencers, journalists, and civilians."
Yamen Hamad, living in a school in Deir al-Balah since fleeing from the north, said the new refugees arriving from Bureij and Nuseirat were setting up tents wherever there was open ground. Some had fled areas where Israel had warned them to go, others had come without waiting to be told.
With food running out, he said he had made a perilous trip to Rafah near the Egyptian border to buy a 25-kilogram sack of flour for his family.
https://www.dailysabah.com/world/mid-east/israeli-advance-on-central-gaza-causes-new-palestinian-exodus
Anadolu Agency – December 29, 2023
Palestinian resistance groups agree Gaza must have unity govt.
The five Palestinian resistance factions agreed Thursday on a national solution involving the formation of a unity government. They all rejected "solutions and scenarios for the so-called future of the Gaza Strip" after the end of the war waged by Israel.
During a meeting attended by representatives of Hamas, the Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command in the Lebanese capital Beirut, they emphasized the "necessity to stop the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip before achieving any prisoner exchange deal," according to a statement issued by Hamas.
The statement also said, "The factions agreed on the necessity of confronting the results of the war on our people with a unified struggle strategy, repositioning our cause as a national liberation issue."
In this context, the factions agreed to "present several proposals to the national collective, the first of which is to call for a comprehensive and binding national meeting that includes all parties without exception to implement what has been agreed upon in previous national dialogues and to address the consequences of the war."
According to the statement, they also agreed "to develop and enhance the Palestinian political system on democratic foundations through general elections involving everyone, according to the full proportional representation system."
The Palestinian Territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip have been politically divided since June 2007 due to sharp disagreements between the Fatah and Hamas movements. Hamas won a majority in the legislative elections of 2006. Since then, it has controlled the Gaza Strip, and Fatah has governed the West Bank.
Regarding the war on Gaza, the statement said the participants discussed "immediate and urgent tasks, starting with an immediate end to the war of genocide, scorched earth (policy) and ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip."
"The attendees stressed breaking the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip, starting to bring in relief and medical aid and fuel, supplying our people with all the necessities of life, and transporting seriously wounded cases abroad for treatment."
According to the statement, the attendees also "stressed the importance of the Arab, Islamic and international commitment to the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip and the necessity of launching an international initiative for reconstruction and providing urgently prepared housing pending reconstruction to strengthen the steadfastness of our people in their land."
In this context, the assembled factions reiterated their position on the necessity of "a final cease-fire and (end to) all acts of Zionist aggression and the withdrawal of the occupation forces from the Gaza Strip as a condition before carrying out a prisoner exchange and on the basis of all for all."
In recent days, official and private Israeli and Arabic media outlets have reported on negotiations between Israel and Hamas under the auspices of Egypt and Qatar regarding a hostage swap deal between the two parties. However, no official statements or positions have been issued by Hamas, Egypt or Qatar regarding the negotiations or proposals presented to the factions and Israel.
https://www.dailysabah.com/world/mid-east/palestinian-resistance-groups-agree-gaza-must-have-unity-govt
World Socialist Web Site - December 28, 2023
Israel guns for war with Lebanon and Iran
By Thomas Scripps
Another 210 Palestinians were killed and 360 injured by Israeli forces in Gaza in the 24 hours to Thursday 3pm, according to the Gazan health ministry. More than 21,300 people have now been reported killed in the assault, and over 55,600 injured, with roughly 7,000 more missing, likely buried under rubble.
The United Nations reports that 85 percent of the population of the enclave has been displaced, and 40 percent face famine. UN shelters are at over four times capacity.
While the genocide in Gaza continues, Israel and its allies are looking to expand the scope of the war. Defense Minister Yoav Gallant declared earlier this week, “We are in a multi-front war. We are being attacked from seven fronts—Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Judea and Samaria [the West Bank], Iraq, Yemen and Iran.”
He added Thursday, “This is the end of the era of limited conflicts,” continuing, “We operated for years under the assumption that limited conflicts could be managed, but that is a phenomenon that is disappearing. Today, there is a noticeable phenomenon of the convergence of the arenas.”
When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu makes comments along the lines of Monday’s, “We are not stopping. The war will continue until the end, until we finish it, no less,” it is the wider Middle East more than the already ruined Gaza Strip he is referring to.
The West Bank is one focal point of an already expanded conflict, with Israel tightening its military dictatorship over the occupied Palestinian territories. On Wednesday night, Israel carried out its most intense raids of the war to date in the region, sending large numbers of troops and vehicles into ten cities, killing at least one person and injuring 15 others, while at least two dozen were detained, and seizing $2.5 million from money exchanges.
Over 500 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) or settlers since October 7, and over 4,700 arrested—among them journalists and politicians.
Middle East Journalist Mouin Rabbani told Al Jazeera, “They are out to deliberately provoke the Palestinians to seek to create as much conflict as possible,” adding that this was part of a plan “to permanently consolidate” Israeli control of the West Bank.
The UN released a 22-page flash report Thursday on “The human rights situation in the occupied West Bank including East Jerusalem” up to November 20.
The paper lists: “Increase in the use of unnecessary or disproportionate force by Israeli security forces (ISF), resulting in unlawful killings”; “Mass arbitrary arrests, detentions and reported torture and other ill-treatment by ISF, raising concerns of collective punishment”; “Exponential increased in attacks by armed settlers leading to displacement of Palestinian herding communities”; and “Ongoing discriminatory movement restrictions affecting daily life and choking the local economy.”
A line from the summary reads, “Palestinians live in constant terror of the discriminatory use of State force and settler violence against them and, while the situation is already dire, all indications are that it may further deteriorate.”
Conforming the threat of a wider war, to the north a full-scale conflict with Hezbollah in Lebanon is on a hair trigger. Israel’s forces are in a “state of very high readiness” and escalating strikes on Lebanon’s southern territory, in a trade of fire with Hezbollah forces.
More than 150 people have been killed on the Lebanese side of the border since October 7, including over a dozen civilians, three of them journalists. Three more, one a Hezbollah member, were killed Tuesday by an Israeli airstrike on Bint Jbeil. Nine soldiers and four civilians have been killed in Israel by return fire.
Al Jazeera journalist Ali Hashem, reporting from Bint Jbeil, explained, “Israeli warplanes are currently targeting towns that are even very far from the border. The fact is that this area is now becoming a complete warzone, it’s becoming very dangerous, very risky, to go around, with the fact that you’re always anticipating an Israeli drone.”
Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen used a visit to the Lebanese border to threaten Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who Cohen said “must understand that he’s next. If he doesn’t want to be next in line he should immediately implement the U.N. Security Council’s resolution (1701) and keep Hezbollah away from the north of Litani.
“We will work to exhaust the political option, and if it does not work, all options are on the table in order to ensure the security of the State of Israel.”
Netanyahu’s spokesperson Eylon Levy added the same day, “We are now at a fork in the road. Either Hezbollah backs off from the Israeli border, in line with U.N. Resolution 1701, or we will push it away ourselves.”
War cabinet triumvirate member Benny Gantz was most explicit, saying Wednesday, “The situation in the northern border necessitates change. The time for a diplomatic solution is running out. If the world and the government of Lebanon don’t act to stop the fire toward northern communities and to push Hezbollah away from the border, the IDF will do that.”
The ultimate target is Iran, in service to the broader imperialist war aims of Israel’s US patron. Referring to the seven theatres in which the IDF is waging its war, Gallant declared, “Iran is the driving force in the convergence of the arenas. It transfers resources, ideology, knowledge and training to its proxies.”
Israel drastically escalated this confrontation on Monday by assassinating Iran’s Brigadier-General Seyed Razi Mousavi, a senior commander of the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, in Syria. Omar Rahman, fellow at the Middle East Council of Global Affairs, told Voice of America, “Israel’s decision to assassinate a high-ranking member of the Iranian military in Damascus is a huge provocation.
“Iran has stayed out of direct involvement so far, but if its commanders are being targeted, it will have trouble continuing along a path of restraint.”
Senior Iranian officials, including President Ebrahim Raisi, have pledged to retaliate. It is only one week until the fourth anniversary of America’s assassination of General Qassem Suleimani, considered second only to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, which Iran has repeatedly threatened to avenge.
Any retaliation would serve as a pretext for Israel, whose government is seeking a war it otherwise could not seriously contemplate because it has been assured in advance of US support.
Washington has deployed two aircraft carrier strike groups to the Eastern Mediterranean, adding to the thousands of soldiers it already has stationed across the Middle East. Since October 7, US forces have carried out multiple strikes in Syria and Iraq against Iran-aligned militias, most recently Kataib Hezbollah, following a drone attack on America’s Erbil Air Base. US Central Command commented that the strike “destroyed the targeted facilities and likely killed a number of Kataib Hezbollah militants.”
The government in Baghdad condemned the “hostile act” and violation of its sovereignty.
US and allied forces are also heavily engaged in the Red Sea, where Iran-aligned Houthi rebels have launched attacks on shipping in retaliation for the genocide in Gaza. Washington is attempting to form a coalition navy to police the waters and considering strikes on Houthi bases in Yemen, with Iran placed squarely in the crosshairs.
“We know that Iran was deeply involved in planning the operations against commercial vessels in the Red Sea,” US National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson said last Friday.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/12/28/ieuo-d28.html?pk_kwd=wsws
Mondoweiss – December 28, 2023
Hamas leader praises Palestinian steadfastness against Israeli aggression
In his first public message since October 7, Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar said that the Izz al-Din Al-Qassam Brigades are waging a fierce and unprecedented battle against Israeli occupation forces in the Gaza Strip in a letter published by Al-Jazeera Arabic on their website.
Sinwar’s letter was addressed to members of the Hamas political bureau amid talks of Egyptian-Qatari mediation efforts to reach a ceasefire and a hostage exchange deal with Israel. Later on Monday, however, Al-Jazeera removed the letter from its website.
Sinwar said that resistance fighters inflicted significant losses on Israeli forces, targeting no less than 5,000 soldiers, killing a third of them. The Hamas leader added that resistance fighters attacked a total of 750 military vehicles, which according to him resulted in their complete or partial destruction.
He added that Palestinians in the Gaza Strip “provided unparalleled examples of sacrifice, heroism, chivalry, solidarity, and interdependence” during the war, in which Israeli forces killed more than 20,000 Palestinians and injured nearly 55,000.
Israel’s official numbers indicate that 156 Israeli soldiers have been killed in battle as of Monday. However, these figures may be higher, as the Israel army has reportedly placed a gag order preventing Israeli media from reporting on Israeli casualties in the Gaza Strip, based on independent sources.
Countercurrent - December 29, 2023
‘We Will Come to You in a Roaring Flood’: The Untold Story of the October 7 Attacks
by Dr Ramzy Baroud
The dramatic, earth-shattering events in Palestine starting on October 7 have taken many people by surprise. However, attentive observers are not.
Few expected that Palestinian fighters would be parachuting into southern Israel on October 7; that instead of capturing a single Israeli soldier – asﾠdone in 2006 – hundreds of Israelis, including many soldiers and civilians, would find themselves captive in besieged Gaza.
The reason behind the ‘surprise’, however, is the same reason that Israel is still reeling under collective shock, which is the tendency to pay close attention to political discourses and intelligence analyses of Israel and its supporters – while largely neglecting the Palestinian discourse.
For better comprehension, let us go back to the start.
The Spark
We entered 2023 with some depressing data and dark predictions about what was awaiting Palestinians in the new year.
Just before the year commenced, the United Nations Mideast envoy Tor Wennesland,ﾠsaid that 2022 was the most violent year since 2005. “Too many people, overwhelmingly Palestinian, have been killed and injured,” Wenneslandﾠtold the UN Security Council.
This figure – 171ﾠkilled and hundreds wounded in the West Bank alone – did not receive much coverage in Western media. The mounting Palestinian victims, however, registered among Palestinians and their Resistance movements.
As anger and calls for revenge grew among ordinary Palestinians, their leadership continued to play its same traditional role – of pacifying Palestinian calls for resistance, while continuing with its ‘security coordination’ with Israel.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, 88, carried on rehashing the old language about a two-state solution and the ‘peace process’, while cracking down on Palestinians who dared protest his ineffectual leadership.
Defenseless in the face of a far-right Israeli government with an open agenda to crush Palestinians, to expand illegal settlements and to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state, Palestinians were forced to develop their own defensive strategies.
The Lions’ Den – a multi-factional Resistance group which firstﾠappeared in the city of Nablus in August 2022 – grew in power and appeal. Other groups, old and new, emerged on the scene throughout the northern West Bank, with the single objective of uniting Palestinians around a non-factional agenda and, ultimately, producing a new Palestinian leadership in the West Bank.
These developments sounded alarm bells in Israel. The Israeli occupation army moved quickly to crush the new armed rebellion, raiding Palestinian towns and refugee camps one after the other, with the hope of turning this nascent revolution into another failed attempt to challenge the status quo in occupied Palestine.
The bloodiest of the Israeli incursions occurred inﾠNablus on February 23,ﾠJericho on August 15 and, most importantly, in the Jenin refugee camp.
The July 3 Israeliﾠinvasion of Jenin was reminiscent, in terms of casualties and degree of destruction, to the Israeli invasion of that very camp in April 2002.
The outcome, however, was not the same. Back then, Israel had invaded Jenin, along with other Palestinian towns and refugee camps, and succeeded in crushing armed resistance for years to come.
This time around, the Israeli invasion merely ignited a wider rebellion in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, creating a further schism in the already deteriorating relationship between Palestinians, on the one hand, and Abbas and his PA, on the other.
Indeed, just days after Israel concluded its attack on the camp, Abbas emerged with thousands of his soldiers toﾠwarn the bereaved refugees that “the hand that will break the unity of the people .. will be cut off from its arm”.
Yet, as the popular rebellion continued to build momentum in the West Bank, Israeli intelligence reports started talking about aﾠplan composed by the deputy head of Hamas’ political bureau, Saleh Arouri, to ignite an armed Intifada.
Theﾠsolution, according to the Israeli newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, citing official Israeli sources, was to kill Arouri.
Indeed, Israel’s attention and counterstrategy was focused intently on the West Bank, as Hamas, in Gaza at the time, in Israel’s viewpoint, seemed disinterested in an all-out confrontation.
But why did Israel reach such a conclusion?
Miscalculation
Several major events, the kind that would have pushed Hamas to retaliate, have taken place without any serious armed response by the Resistance in Gaza.
Last December, Israel hadﾠsworn in its most right-wing government in history. Far-right ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich arrived on the political scene with the declared objectives of annexing the West Bank, imposing military control over Al-Aqsa Mosque and other Palestinian Muslim and Christian holy sites and, in the case of Smotrich,ﾠdenying the very existence of the Palestinian people.
Their pledges were quickly translated into action under the leadership of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Ben-Gvir was keen on sending a message to his constituency that the seizure of Al-Aqsa Mosque by Israel had become imminent.
He repeatedlyﾠraided or ordered raids on Al-Aqsa at an unprecedented frequency. The most violent and humiliating of these raids occurred on April 4, when worshippers wereﾠbeaten up by soldiers while praying inside the mosque during the holy month of Ramadan.
Resistance groups in Gaza threatened retaliation. In fact, several rockets were fired from Gaza toward Israel, merely serving as a symbolic reminder that Palestinians are united, regardless of where they are in the geographic map of historic Palestine.
Israel, however, ignored the message, and used the Palestinian threats of retaliation, and the occasional ‘lone-wolf attacks’ – likeﾠthat of Muhannad al-Mazaraa at the illegal Maale Adumim settlement – as political capital to ignite the religious fervor of Israeli society.
Not even theﾠdeath of Palestinian political prisoner, Khader Adnan, on May 2 seemed to have shifted Hamas’ position. Some even suggested that there is a rift between Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad following Adnan’s death as a result of hunger strike in the Ramleh Prison.
On the same day, the PIJﾠfired rockets into Israel, as Adnan was one of its most prominent members. Israel answered by attacking hundreds of targets inside Gaza, mostly civilian homes and infrastructure, whichﾠresulted in the death of 33 Palestinians and the wounding of 147 more.
A truce wasﾠdeclared on May 13, again with no direct Hamas participation, giving further reassurance to Israel that its bloody onslaught on the Strip had achieved more than a military purpose – often referred to as ‘mowing the lawn’ – but a political one, as well.
Israel’sﾠstrategic estimation, however, proved to be wrong, as attested by Hamas’ well-coordinated October 7 attacks in southern Israel, targeting numerous military bases, settlements and other strategic positions.
But was Hamas being deceptive? Hiding its actual strategic objectives in anticipation of that major event?
‘Roaring Flood’
A quick examination of Hamas’ recent statements and political discourse demonstrate that the Palestinian group was hardly secretive about its future action.
Two weeks before 2023 commenced, at a Gaza rally on December 14, Hamas leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, had aﾠmessage for Israel: “We will come to you in a roaring flood. We will come to you with endless rockets; we will come to you in a limitless flood of soldiers … like the repeating tide.”
The immediate response to the Hamas’ attack was the predictable US-Western solidarity with Israel, calls for revenge, the complete destruction and annihilation of Gaza and the revitalized plans ofﾠdisplacing Palestinians out of Gaza into Egypt – in fact, out of theﾠWest Bank as well, into Jordan.
The Israeli war on the Strip, also starting on October 7, has resulted in unprecedented casualties compared to all Israeli wars on Gaza, in fact, on Palestinians during any time in modern history.
Quickly, the term ‘genocide’ was being used, initially byﾠintellectuals and activists, and eventually by international lawﾠexperts.
“Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza is quite explicit, open, and unashamed,” associate professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Stockton University, Raz Segal,ﾠwrote on October 13 in an article entitled ‘A Textbook Case of Genocide’.
Despite this, the UN could do nothing. Secretary-General Antonio Guterresﾠsaid on November 8 that the UN has “neither money nor power” to prevent a potential genocide on Gaza.
In essence, this effectively meant the disabling of the international legal and political systems, as every attempt by the Security Council to demand an immediate and permanent ceasefire has beenﾠblocked by the US and Israel’s other Western allies.
As the death toll mounted among a starving population in Gaza – all food deprived per theﾠNovember 28 estimation of the World Food Program – Palestinians resisted throughout the Gaza Strip.
Their resistance was not only confined to attacking or ambushing invading Israeli soldiers but was, in fact, predicated on a legendary steadfastness of a population that refused to be weakened or displaced.
Sumud
This sumud continued, even when Israel began toﾠsystematically attack hospitals, schools and every place that, in times of war, are seen as ‘safe places’ for a beleaguered civilian population.
Indeed, on December 3, UN Human Rights Chief, Volker Türk,ﾠsaid that “there is no safe place in Gaza”. This phrase was repeated often by other UN officials, along with other phrases such as “Gaza has become a graveyard for children” as firstﾠnoted by UNICEF Spokesperson James Elder on October 31. This left Guterres with no other option but to, on December 6, invoke article 99, which allows the Secretary-General to “bring to the attention of the Security Council any matter which in his opinion may threaten the maintenance of international peace and security.”
Israeli violence and Palestinian sumud also extended to the West Bank as well. Aware of the potential for armed resistance in the West Bank, the Israeli army quicklyﾠlaunched major, deadly raids on countless Palestinian towns, villages and refugee camps, killing hundreds, injuring thousands and arresting thousands more.
But Gaza remained the epicenter of the Israeli genocide. Aside from a brief humanitarianﾠtruce from November 24 to December 1, coupled with few prisonerﾠexchanges, the battle for Gaza – in fact, for the future of Palestine and the Palestinian people – continues, at an unparalleled price of death and destruction.
Palestinians know full well that the current fight will either mean a new Nakba, like the ethnic cleansing of 1948, or the beginning of the reversal of that very Nakba – as in the process of liberating the Palestinian people from the yoke of Israeli colonialism.
While Israel is determined to end Palestinian Resistance once and for all, it is obvious that the Palestinian people’s determination to win their freedom in coming years is far greater.
Dr. Ramzy Baroud is a journalist, author and the Editor of The Palestine Chronicle. He is the author of six books. His latest book, co-edited with Ilan Pappé, is ‘Our Vision for Liberation: Engaged Palestinian Leaders and Intellectuals Speak Out’. His other books include ‘My Father was a Freedom Fighter’ and ‘The Last Earth’. Baroud is a Non-resident Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Islam and Global Affairs (CIGA). His website isﾠwww.ramzybaroud.net
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