“There will be no civil war” in Israel, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on June 18. But he might be wrong.
Nuseirat, like Gaza, is a representation of a culture that cannot be broken, no matter the firepower, or the extent of the massacres.
For some in the west, the issue is not just about the Gaza genocide. It is also about the future of the west itself.
Israel now stands in near-complete isolation, due, in part, to its genocide in Gaza but also to the courage and steadfastness of the Palestinian people, and to the global solidarity with the Palestinian cause.
Robert Inlakesh and Ramzy Baroud discusses Israel’s invasion of the southern Gaza City of Rafah and the Resistance on the ground.
The persistence of Palestinians and the massive solidarity they have obtained from countries throughout the Global South, eventually paid off.
The success, and the sacrifices of Gaza journalists should serve as a model for journalists and journalism around the world.
This reductionist thinking is now being applied to Gaza where every historical reference is intentionally pushed aside.
Despite mass arrests, starting in Columbia, and the direct violence against peaceful protesters everywhere, the movement has only grown stronger.
So when Namibia took a strong stance against Israel’s largest military supporter in Europe – Germany – it did so based on Namibia’s total awareness of its history.
The latest killing of the internationals in Gaza was done to serve the same goal: ensuring that no aid distribution mechanism is allowed.
Though many of Israel’s traditional allies in the west are openly disowning its behavior in Gaza, weapons continue to flow.
By Ramzy Baroud When the foreign policy of a country as large and significant as the United States is governed by a case of cognitive dissonance, terrible things happen. These terrible things are, in fact, already taking place in the Gaza Strip, where well over 100,000 people have been killed, wounded or are missing, and an outright […]
If Gaza has not given up, why should we? Even giving up is a privilege. Gaza does not have that privilege nor should we grant it to ourselves.
There will be consequences to all of this, and the coming years shall prove that the crisis in international legitimacy, resulting from the abuse of power, will hardly be rectified with superficial changes and reforms.
Indeed, it is now time to turn words into actions, especially when thousands of children are being killed for no fault of their own but for being born Palestinian.
All of this – the language of genocide, the genocide itself and the threats of committing a greater genocide – is rooted in Zionism.
By Ramzy Baroud Law number one in the ‘law of holes’, is that “if you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.” Law number two, “if you are not digging, you are still in a hole”. These adages sum up Israel’s ongoing political, military and strategic crises, 100 days following the start of the war […]