Raj-Hindustani
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Israel’s Genocide in Gaza | 2023- till present
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Don't go to religion debate!!!
God from any religion is not above to any other religion.
All are equally important for people who believe on them.
It's a foolish discussion and believe - my God is better than other one.
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OCTOBER 11, 2024
A Year of Genocide
RAMZY BAROUD
Image by Ian Hutchinson.
No one had expected that one year would be enough to recenter the Palestinian cause as the world’s most pressing issue, and that millions of people across the globe, would, once again rally for Palestinian freedom.
The last year witnessed an Israeli genocide in Gaza, unprecedented violence in the West Bank, but also legendary expressions of Palestinian sumud, or steadfastness.
It is not the enormity of the Israeli war, but the degree of the Palestinian sumud that has challenged what once seemed to be a foregone conclusion to the Palestinian struggle.
Yet, it turned out that the last chapter on Palestine was not yet ready to be written, and that it would not be Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who would write it.
The ongoing war has exposed the limits of Israel’s military machine. The typical trajectory of Israel’s relationship with the occupied Palestinians has been predicated on unhindered Israeli violence and deafening international silence. It was largely Israel that alone determined the timing and objectives of war. Its enemies, until recently, seemed to have no say over the matter.
Yet, this is no longer the case. Israeli war crimes are now met with Palestinian unity, Arab, Muslim and international solidarity, and early, albeit serious signs of legal accountability as well.
This is hardly what Netanyahu was hoping to achieve; just days before the start of the war, he stood in the United Nations General Assembly Hall carrying a map of a ‘New Middle East’, a map that had completely erased Palestine and the Palestinians.
“We must not give the Palestinians a veto over (..) peace,” he said, as “Palestinians are only 2% of the Arab world.” His arrogance didn’t last long, as that supposedly triumphant moment was short-lived.
Embattled Netanyahu is now mostly concerned about his own political survival. He is expanding the war front to escape his army’s humiliation in Gaza and is terrified by the prospect of an arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court.
And as the International Court of Justice (ICJ) continues to look into an ever-expanding file, accusing Israel of deliberate genocide in the Strip, the UNGA, on September 18, resolved that Israel must end its illegal occupation of Palestine within a year from the passing of its resolution on the matter.
It must be utterly disappointing for Netanyahu – who has worked tirelessly to normalize his occupation of Palestine – to be met with total and thundering international rejection of his schemes. The advisory opinion of the ICJ, on July 19, declaring that “Israel’s presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (is) unlawful” was another blow to Tel Aviv, which despite unlimited US support, failed to change international consensus on the illegality of the occupation.
In addition to the relentless Israeli violence, the Palestinian people have been marginalized as political actors. Since the Oslo Accords in 1993, their fate has been largely entrusted to a mostly unelected Palestinian leadership, which, with time, monopolized the Palestinian cause for its own financial and political interests.
The sumud of the Palestinians in Gaza, who have endured a year of mass killing, deliberate starvation and total destruction of all aspects of life, is helping reassert the political significance of a long-marginalized nation.
This shift is fundamental as it runs opposite to everything that Netanyahu had tried to achieve. In the years prior to the war, Israel seemed to be writing the final chapter of its settler colonial project in Palestine. It had subdued or co-opted the Palestinian leadership, perfected its siege on Gaza and was ready to annex much of the West Bank.
Gaza became the least of Israel’s concerns, as any discussion around it was confined to the hermetic Israeli siege and the resulting humanitarian, though not political crisis.
While Palestinians in Gaza have tirelessly implored the world to pressure Israel to end the protracted siege, imposed in earnest in 2007, Tel Aviv continued to conduct its policies in the Strip according to the infamous logic of former top Israeli official, Dov Weissglas, who explained the rationale behind the blockade as “to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger.”
But a year into the war, Palestinians, due to their own steadfastness, have become the center of any serious discussion on a peaceful future in the Middle East. Their collective courage and steadfastness have neutralized the Israeli military machine’s ability to exact political outcomes through violence.
True, the number of dead, missing or wounded in Gaza has already exceeded 150,000. The Strip, impoverished and dilapidated to begin with, is in total ruins. Every mosque, church or hospital has been destroyed or seriously damaged. Most of the region’s educational infrastructure has been obliterated. Yet, Israel hasn’t achieved any of its strategic objectives, which are ultimately united by a single goal, that of silencing the Palestinian quest for freedom, forever.
Despite the unbelievable pain and loss, there is now a powerful energy that is unifying Palestinians around their cause, and the Arabs and the whole world around Palestine. This shall have consequences that will last for many years, long after Netanyahu and his ilk of extremists are gone.
Ramzy Baroud is a journalist and the Editor of The Palestine Chronicle. He is the author of five books. His latest is “These Chains Will Be Broken: Palestinian Stories of Struggle and Defiance in Israeli Prisons” (Clarity Press, Atlanta). Dr. Baroud is a Non-resident Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Islam and Global Affairs (CIGA), Istanbul Zaim University (IZU). His website is www.ramzybaroud.net
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Masai
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Too easy for Iranians to happily clap while Syrians and Lebanese pay the real cost and die on behalf of Iranians.
I really hope Israel brings the the war to Iran mainland, let Tehran also face horrors of war what Beirut is facing.
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Al-Zakir
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I hope your wish come true.
Lets see how a punk ass baby killer perform against a real country in the battlefield.
Hamas before 7th october 2023 : 20000 soldiers.
16000 KIA so far.
it has been cut by 4.
Now remains to Tsahal to kill Sinwar.
unsurprisingly I don't agree.
There was not a single jew in Gaza these late 18 years.
Gaza received hundred millions each years.
What for? tu built tunnels, rocket factory, and train the youth in the israel hate.
Don't be surprised that Israel decide to smash Hamas and Gaza after 7th october massacre.
Mehdipersian
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It seems that you are very stupid. Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, etc. are still alive and were not occupied by jews, because of Iran's help.
This is a war between the Arabs and Israel, but we entered it because of our duty.
Jews can try.We are waiting for their attacks. In the end, it will be clear who will laugh.
hussain0216
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Meengla
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There is no 'victory' for the Resistance in short term. Only fools here would say that. I have always said a War of Attrition is the only way forward in current situation. The Resistance is not fighting the tiny babe-in-the-woods Israel: It is fighting the might of the United States and its rich powerful allies.
However, I don't think Israel can be victorious either, whether short or long term. Let's imagine a scenario: Israel keeps killing by dropping bombs. Americans neutralize some Iranian/Hezbollah/other rockets/missiles but still enough would penetrate to keep the rapidly panicking Israelis destabilized. Rinse and repeat. What do you think is going to happen when such a scenario continues? Do you and others really think that those hundreds of thousands of fighters would lay down their arms and there will be peace in the region and for Israel?? No, absolutely not.
The best case scenario for Israel is a total regime change in Iran after a total destruction of Iran AND all the militias laying down the arms. That scenario is almost impossible. Iran will destroy Israel and the GCC/American bases before it gets destroyed itself. Consider the Middle East America's new Ivo Jima but on a much much larger, lethal scale.
StrategicBear
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You are not alone my friend. Russia is with you... Who needs actual Muslims from the Sunni groups when a Non-Muslim Power like Russia is more reliable as an ally against the USA?
BHAN85
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In the first Trump administration we saw something like USA turning from empire into normal country.
Maybe we'll see something like that again but in a stronger way if Trump wins in November.
A war next to your border is always a defeat, even if you win.
And USA has already betrayed longterm allies like in Nordstream blasts. The same can happen tomorrow in Middle East.
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