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In the past two decades, Israel has moved toward a form of warfare that attempts to remove the battle from the war, in which Israel has opted to keep its soldiers and army at a distance while relying on its potent airpower as a means of offensive action. It has employed this strategy during its past wars in Gaza with the effect of preserving the lives of its soldiers while killing hundreds of Palestinians, mostly civilians. In 2021, Israel actually tried to deceive Palestinian fighters by announcing a ground operation, aiming to target underground tunnels and eliminate numerous Palestinian fighters. The so-called “metro operation” failed partially due to Palestinian disbelief that Israel would actually enter the Gaza Strip. For years, the reliance on airpower alongside intelligence turned Israel into a one-dimensional army that uses air control for counterinsurgency operations, with all its operational limitations and limited efficacy in targeting fighters, while wreaking havoc in Palestinian civilian spaces.

Israel has chosen a mode of killing without the peril of being killed. This strategy has spurred its adversaries to develop alternatives in response to Israel’s apparent reluctance for ground engagements — if you won’t come to us, we’ll come to you. War, as Clausewitz suggests, is inherently dialectical, akin to a “duel” in which each side employs technical expertise, determination, organizational structure, command and control, and intelligence to secure an upper hand. This is what happened on October 7; it was a Palestinian response to the tactical status quo that Israel had imposed.

It is crucial to understand that Palestinian resistance in the Gaza Strip initiated the planning for this operation in 2022, merely a year after Israel’s “metro operation” failed to achieve its intended outcomes. Palestinian military planners took into account several significant factors in their planning. One of them was Israel’s recurrent reluctance to engage directly in Gaza, but there were also political and social pressures that pushed in the direction of October 7. They included the sluggish and limited improvements in living conditions on the strip and the absence of a clear political path forward. In other words, it was the exhaustion of political, diplomatic, and legal avenues.
Abdaljawad Omar, Hopeful pathologies in the war for Palestine: a reply to Adam Shatz

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I was at a Palestinian solidarity gig last night & the one Palestinian artist who was going to perform had COVID so the organisers asked around to see if there were any Palestinians who’d like to say a few words instead.
A local guy who was born & raised in Gaza offered to speak. He started with “I’m an engineer. i’m not a poet or a politician. I don’t… do public speaking… I had no idea what to say when I came up here. So i’m just going to tell you about the street I grew up on.”
And then he did! He went down the street building by building. He told us about the ice cream shop on the corner, the grocery shop, the charity that supports people with intellectual disabilities. He told us about the people who he knew growing up, the families who still live in the different houses. He told us about the university buildings and about his friends who quit being accountants to start a band together. All on that street.
All of which is gone now, by the way. Bombed to dust.

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“Le repos du fakir” (2003), Stéphane Argillet and Gilles Paté

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probablyasocialecologist:

The whole history of the Zionist project can be distilled down into a single exchange among the country’s leadership in those fateful days of 1967. At a meeting of the leftist Mapai party, Golda Meir asked what on earth Israel was going to do with “a million Arabs” after occupying the remaining Palestinian Territories. Prime Minister Levi Eshkol replied, “I get it. You want the dowry, but you don’t like the bride!” This has been the essential contradiction of the Zionist project from its inception: that even successful territorial ambitions in an already-inhabited land bring non-Jews under their political control. Apartheid is merely a holding pattern, a means of deferring this Palestinian question that results. This contradiction is only ultimately resolved within Zionism via expulsion or extermination of the native inhabitants.
Mason Herson-Hord, A Second Nakba: Paving the Way to Genocide

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hassibah:

Jenin Jenin - The full movie
Directed by: Muhammad Bakri
About Jenin massacre committed in April, 2002 by the Israeli army

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sivavakkiyar:
a classic recording. Worth listening to for a number of reasons: musically, historically and of course as something small on the course that will win.
Listen on YouTube here
The liner notes here
[ID: An album titled :فلتيا فلسطين: أناشيد من كفاح بشعب فلسطين"
Palestine Lives! Songs from the struggle of the people of Palestine.“
A flowing, abstract, sketchy illustration in white on a grey background shows a caged bird; an uplifted woman’s face shown in profile with hair that flows to become another woman’s head covering, and then a barbed wire fence; a plant shooting straight up; and various abstract shapes in positive and negative space. Text at the top left reads "Paredon P-1022”; text at the bottom left reads:
“فيا أني: أ كفاني”
Next image is a screenshot of text reading ’“What you hear on this record is an echo—the echo of a very important phase in the long struggle of the people of Palestine.” So writes Kamal Boullata in the liner notes to this 1974 recording, spoken (in English) and sung (in classical and colloquial Arabic) by members of the Palestinian Liberation Movement following the Six-Day War of 1967. The liner notes contain a history of the Palestinian people, background on the singers and the genesis of the songs, lyrics in Arabic and English, several of Boullata’s line drawings, and a glossary.’
Final image is printed text on a page reading "In the future, when it will be of little use to the victims, the world will undoubtedly correct its bizarre and outrageous misjudgement of the Palestinian situation. In the future, historians and sociologists and psychologists will find reasons to explain not simply how an injustice came to be perpretrated against an entire people – for this is common – but also how the victims came to be seen as the aggressors, and their aggressors as the victims.” End ID]

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linsaangs:

selling a pixel art piece for charity! all proceeds will be donated
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tamarrud:

This is what genocide looks like. These are the 2913 Palestinian children killed by the Israeli military this month, as of Thursday, October 26. As the Israeli airstrikes on Gaza intensify, we recognize with horror and grief that this death toll is already inaccurate.
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probablyasocialecologist:

We urgently need to cut the excess purchasing power of the rich using wealth taxes and maximum income ratios. Right now millionaires alone are on track to burn 72 percent of the remaining carbon budget to keep the planet under 1.5°C of warming. This is an egregious assault on humanity and the living world, and none of us should accept it. It is irrational and unjust to continue diverting our energy and resources to supporting an overconsuming elite in the middle of an ecological emergency.
Jason Hickel, The Double Objective of Democratic Ecosocialism

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gowns:
Happening right now in NYC - massive protest, hundreds of arrests at an emergency sit-in calling for an immediate ceasefire (10/27/23)
i knew they were a jewish org soon as i saw the pics but i felt gaslit yesterday when like none of the reports would put in the headline that they were in fact, jewish. Nightmare USA

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probablyasocialecologist:

Gaza is now the perfect laboratory for Israeli ingenuity in domination. It is the ultimate ethno nationalist dream, keeping Palestinians indefinitely imprisoned. The barrier around the territory was first built in 1994 and has undergone a range of upgrades since (though it was destroyed by Palestinians in 2001). Today its population has been placed in a forced experiment of control where the latest technology and techniques are tested. However, what is happening in Gaza is increasingly occurring globally. The Palestinian architect Yara Sharif said that “the Palestinianization of cities is happening worldwide. It’s happening by destruction and erasure, but also with dramatic climate change.”
Antony Loewenstein, The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World

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