Prevent Nakba, We Must Take Out Netanyahu and Hamas, Carry Each Other

The beheading babies thing have been fake, but the Israeli destruction of Gaza is all too real. 100 Palestinian killed in last 8 hours, 1,700 Palestinians killed in last 150 hours.

Monstrous crime. It's happening in plain view, with US support. Are those 1.1 million people responsible for Hamas' barbarism? In Gaza, nearly everyone has grandparents who were expelled or fled combat in 1948 and never allowed to return. Palestinians have good reason to believe this will be a second Nakba. May God forgive us.

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There are political questions and fault lines that have been simmering under the surface in our organization—especially in the Jewish left and or progressive peace pro Palestine narrative within Israeli—exploding to the fore, gumming up the works at a time when urgency feels paramount. Last week was the first time that Gazans have actually been able to see the rest of their Palestinian lands. They broke out of prison that has been imposed on them by a 16 year-long air, sea and land blockade by the Israeli military forces.

The international community has unanimously agreed on the extermination of the people in Gaza by letting Israel cut off electricity and water and collapsing the entire health system,' says the director of Al-Shifa Hospital. Israel is dropping in less than a week what the U.S. was dropping in Afghanistan in a year, in a much smaller, much more densely populated area, where mistakes are going to be magnified,” said Marc Garlasco, a former UN war crimes investigator. For the last 75 years Palestinians have been begging the world to see the mistreatment and terror that's been upon them and the world still sides with the oppressor. Hamas says 13 hostages taken from Israel, including some foreigners, were killed during Israeli bombardments of Gaza in the last 24 hours.

Humza Haroon Yousaf, Scotland’s new First Minister, to become the first ever racial minority and Muslim to lead the country. First ever Muslim to be leader of Western Nation.

Jordanian Air Force C-130 military transport plane arrives in El-Arish International Airport, carrying the first shipment of relief aid that will be delivered to Gaza through Rafah border crossing and in coordination with the Egyptian authorities. Turkish Air Force A400 Atlas military transport plane landed in El-Arish International Airport, carrying on board a shipment of medical and relief aid that will be delivered to Gaza through Rafah border crossing. Mass exodus of Palestinians from Gaza city to the south after Israeli warning.

As Western politicians line up to cheer on Israel as it starves Gaza’s civilians and plunges them into darkness to soften them up before the coming Israeli ground invasion, it is important to understand how we reached this point – and what it portends for the future. Biden administration is quick to cancel a highly qualified human rights expert withdrawing his nomination to serve on a regional human rights body over tweets about Israel/Palestine. Very troubling decision that sends a dangerous message and chills speech critical of Israel.

As Israelis count their dead, politicians in Israel and the US call for Palestinian blood in direct, genocidal language. “We are fighting human animals and we will act accordingly,” said Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant yesterday. “Finish them, Netanyahu,” said former Ambassador to the United Nations and Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley. “Neutraliz[e] the terrorists,” said Democratic senator John Fetterman.

Jews share memes about the highest number of Jewish casualties since the Holocaust, not bothering to ask who, right now, is being ethnically cleansed, or how many massacres of this size Gaza has seen in the last dozen years. This language deploys the bombs that fall on Gazans from the sky, leveling whole neighborhoods, wiping out families without warning, huddled in their homes because they have nowhere to flee. “There are body parts scattered everywhere. There are still people missing,” one man north of Gaza City told CNN. “We’re still looking for our brothers, our children. It’s like we’re stuck living in a nightmare.”

On Sky news ex Israeli PM Naftali Bennett was asked"What about the babies in incubators in Gaza who's life support has been turned off because the Israelis have cut off the power"

His answer - Are you serious asking about Palestinian civilians? What's wrong with you?

Naftali Bennett was responsible for the Qana massacre of 102 Lebanese civilians at a United Nations facility in 1996. People don’t forget. Naftali already join reservist since Saturday noon.

We will likely soon see this genocidal impulse spread, as the Israeli government hands out automatic weapons to West Bank settlers, many of whom were already armed eliminationists. In this way, Jewish grief is routed back into the violence of a merciless system of Palestinian subjugation that reigns from the river to the sea. It is mobilized by US politicians who support Benjamin Netanyahu and his extremist government, which has intensified Palestinian death and displacement and disappeared any hope of a diplomatic solution. It is marshaled to drum up support for sending weapons to Israel, even as we know that, as Haggai Mattar wrote in +972 Magazine, “there is no military solution to Israel’s problem with Gaza, nor to the resistance that naturally emerges as a response to violent apartheid.”

We can’t let our grief be bent to these purposes, but it’s not clear where else to put it. Anyone who has been working in this space knows that our movements are not prepared to manage the emotional and political fallout. We watch as Jewish people and groups begun to move politically, suddenly close ranks, profess support for the IDF, retreat into despair. Already complex and fragile relationships between Palestinian and left-wing Jewish activists—as well as factions within both of these groups—are being challenged as we struggle to derive the same meaning from the images coming across our screens.

Friends and colleagues on all sides find themselves hurt by one another’s public reactions, or by their silence. A veteran anti-Zionist activist I spoke to wondered if a “chasm” was opening up between Palestinian and Jewish activists, especially as the current moment has made visible diaspora Jews’ tangible connections to that place and those people that are, inconveniently, not just the stuff of Israeli propaganda.

Over the weekend, many avowed anti-Zionist Jews found they could not join solidarity protests because they needed something the protests could not provide: a space to grieve the Israeli dead, to struggle with their own place in the coming political process. It is a situation none of us have ever before confronted in earnest, amid a long history of vastly disproportionate death tolls. And now, when we need it most, we find ourselves struggling with a lack of emotional and political vocabulary.

More than a decade ago, Israel started to understand that its occupation of Gaza through siege could be to its advantage. It began transforming the tiny coastal enclave from an albatross around its neck into a valuable portfolio in the trading game of international power politics.

The first benefit for Israel, and its Western allies, is more discussed than the second.

The tiny strip of land hugging the eastern Mediterranean coast was turned into a mix of testing ground and shop window.

Israel could use Gaza to develop all sorts of new technologies and strategies associated with the homeland security industries burgeoning across the West, as officials there grew increasingly worried about domestic unrest, sometimes referred to as populism.

The siege of Gaza’s 2.3 million Palestinians, imposed by Israel in 2007 following the election of Hamas to rule the enclave, allowed for all sorts of experiments. 

How could the population best be contained? What restrictions could be placed on their diet and lifestyle? How were networks of informers and collaborators to be recruited from afar? What effect did the population’s entrapment and repeated bombardment have on social and political relations? 

And ultimately how were Gaza’s inhabitants to be kept subjugated and an uprising prevented?

The answers to those questions were made available to Western allies through Israel’s shopping portal. Items available included interception rocket systems, electronic sensors, surveillance systems, drones, facial recognition, automated gun towers, and much more. All tested in real-life situations in Gaza. 

Israel’s standing took a severe dent from the fact that Palestinians managed to bypass this infrastructure of confinement last weekend – at least for a few days – with a rusty bulldozer, some hang-gliders and a sense of nothing-to-lose. Putin, one Netanyahu best ally, already said Washington monopolized the Palestinian-Israeli settlement process and ignored the legitimate historical rights of the Palestinian people. If you cannot state this as clearly and unequivocally with regard to Israel cutting off Gaza’s water and electricity, you don’t really believe in international law, you believe in might makes right, just as Putin does in Ukraine.

Which is part of the reason why Israel now needs to go back into Gaza with ground troops to show it still has the means to keep the Palestinians crushed.

Israel expresses its "great disappointment" in the lack of condemnation of Hamas attacks in Chinese statements. Jim Fanell, a former Pacific Fleet intelligence director on China’s military, said Beijing is watching the increased need for weapons after the Hamas attack, combined with two years of demands on the US armament supply chain from the war on Ukraine. This is data the CCP will be processing in their system of comprehensive national power,” Fanell said. “Given America, the ‘arsenal of democracy,’ has not kept pace with these demands will likely be interpreted by CCP analysts as another unambiguous factor of why an invasion of Taiwan will succeed.

Israeli may have assumed that years of providing China with advanced technology would change Beijing’s stance on Israel. This was a serious miscalculation. Israeli civilian even know that the Israeli government try to eavesdropping every Palestinian [civil, militia, full-job soldiers, HAMAS, PLO, etc], and even not only using Pegasus. Netanyahu nurtured a zillion-dollar industry selling spying tools to despots that use them to break into the iPhones of critics, elected opponents, human rights lawyers, and even students (these are all real examples). Turns out they're not very useful for spying on Hamas, tho. There are now hundreds of "former" Israeli spies working at high levels in companies like Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Amazon. Again, the fact that until [now] 83 hours of war, a lot of Palestinian fighters still in Israel soil, although [just from IDF side] informed already killing 1,500 fighters [which dont know this is myth or real stats].

For people who feel like their pain is being devalued, it’s because it is; and that devaluation is itself a hallmark of the cycle of the diminishing value of human life. As the abolitionist geographer Ruth Wilson Gilmore has said, “Where life is precious, life is precious.” We are seeing the ways that Jews as the agents of apartheid will not be spared—even those of us who have devoted our lives to the work of ending it. (I am thinking of Hayim Katsman, zichrono l’vracha, killed by Hamas, an activist against the expulsion of the West Bank community of Masafer Yatta, and Vivian Silver, a hostage in Gaza, who is known to many of its residents as the person they meet at the Erez Crossing who advocates for and facilitates their transfers to Israeli hospitals for treatment.)

That question of how we recuperate this humanity is ultimately an organizing question. People have repeated over and over again over the last few days that you “cannot tell Palestinians how to resist.” To me, it seems there is a very literal dimension to this axiom: They are not asking. Part of what has made the experience of this event feel so different from the status quo—and so different to Palestinians and Jews—comes from the fact that Palestinians were undeniably the actors, for once, not the acted upon.

The protagonists of the story. I consider it an enormous failure of our movements that we have not been able to build a vehicle for that kind of reversal in any other way thus far. Our Jewish movements for Palestine were not powerful enough to stop other Jews from gunning down Palestinians in peaceful marches at the Gazan border fence, or to keep Palestinians from being fired, harassed, and sued for speaking the truth about their experience or—God forbid—advocating the nonviolent tactic of boycott. And now, we do not have a shared struggle able to credibly respond to these massacres of Israelis and Palestinians.

With all of the work that many Jews and Palestinians have done to reach toward each other over the years, I believe at heart it is this failure that is now driving us apart. There is no formidable political formation that I know of that can hold the political subjectivity of both Jews and Palestinians in this moment without simply attempting to assimilate one into the other. No place where Jews and Palestinians who agree on the basics of Palestinian liberation—right of return, equality, and reparations—are poised to turn the synthesis of these two subjectivities into a coherent strategy.

On the left, I hope we do not mistake the inevitability of the violence for an inescapable limit on our work or the quality of our thought. Even if our dreams for better have failed, they must accompany us through this moment to the other side.

One of the most terrible things about this event is the sense of its inevitability. The violence of apartheid and colonialism begets more violence. Many people have struggled with the straightjacket of this inevitability, straining to articulate that its recognition does not mean its embrace. Place where the very idea of the nation-state, which has so harmed both peoples, could be remade or destroyed entirely. And it was Palestinians who opened my thinking to multiple visions of sharing the land.

But, one day, after [all hostages] back to Israeli soil or Israeli sides again, imagine that, they are told to each other ‘I may be killed by your [Israel] bomb, so please stop bombing Gaza again, forever.’

Türkiye President Erdogan has initiated a negotiation process for the release of civilian prisoners held by Hamas. President Erdogan has instructed the related institutions to lead the negotiation process. The released an Israeli woman and 2 kids is 2nd batch. First ever hostage released is elderly [around 85 years old] women. Very healthy, get food and water during kidnapping time from Palestinian, and the footage, get again water from the IDF.

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