The horrors of the Israeli assault on Gaza and its people are beyond words. Yet as we watch hundreds of thousands of Palestinians make their way across the ruins of Gaza to return to where their homes once stood, we cannot help but admire their resilience and their refusal to be displaced from their land and country.
Israel failed in its stated objective to put an end to armed resistance in Gaza. It failed to terrorize the people of Gaza into exile. But the killing and theft of land continues in the West Bank, and Israel cannot be trusted to hold to the cease-fire in Gaza in good faith. The conditions under which the Palestinian people are subject to merciless oppression remain. The world order in which Israel, the West, and its various proxy states are granted impunity for criminal and even genocidal conduct endures.
Things could get even worse. With Donald Trump in the White House and Elon Musk and other tech barons at his side, many of them fanatical Zionists, the dangers facing Palestine have intensified to unprecedented levels. A brutal convergence of authoritarianism, corporate profiteering, and unbridled imperial arrogance is underway.
Trump’s recent comment, echoing a previous statement by his son-in-law, that he wants to “just clean out” Gaza with the help of Jordan and Egypt is a clear indication that, like the most right-wing elements in Israel, he aspires to the complete destruction of Gaza as a Palestinian territory. His presentation of the land of an oppressed people, in the language of the real estate huckster, as a “phenomenal location on the sea” is utterly chilling.
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Auteur: Ronnie Kasrils
