Palestine

For Palestinians, a return to the conditions prior to October 7 is unthinkable. This past year has been one of the bloodiest in Palestinian history, with a death toll surpassing even that of the Nakba. The devastation we have endured will irrevocably shape our politics, intellectual frameworks, and approaches to resistance. It will also transform how we relate to each other and envision our collective path forward. Any meaningful discourse on Palestinian liberation must now center the reality of the ongoing genocide.

While this recognition is already beginning to shape our collective consciousness, we remain in the midst of witnessing genocide and dedicating energies toward stopping it. Our struggle will require a profound reorientation once the immediate violence ceases and a ceasefire is reached. The enormity of this experience has fundamentally altered us—as a society, as Palestinians, and as humans—and these changes will inevitably influence the trajectory of our resistance.

Moreover, the events of this past year have exposed structural realities that extend far beyond Palestine. They have underscored the profound limitations of the post-World War II international order, laid bare the hypocrisies and racism of Western liberal democracies, and shattered the illusion that we have arrived at a place of multilateral governance. For Palestinians and our allies committed to a more just and equitable world, grappling with these revelations and the urgent questions they raise is essential.

Indeed, Western liberal democracies have not only tolerated the violence but have actively armed and endorsed it. This complicity forces a reckoning with global structures of power and governance. For these reasons and more, there is no possibility of returning to the pre-October 7 world—not for Palestinians and not on a global scale. The task before us is to navigate this transformed reality, confronting the challenges and opportunities it presents as we continue our struggle for justice and liberation.

The Israel Air Force is crafting a recommendation to increase production of bombs, missiles and other ammunition at home, in an attempt to reduce its dependence on other countries, especially the United States, a senior air force officer says.

The air force’s stance echoes one by Israel in 1967. After the Six-Day War, French President Charles de Gaulle imposed an arms embargo on Israel, which included tanks, missile boats and Mirage jets.

Israel then switched over its dependence on a foreign power to the United States, which provides the air force with all of its fighter planes and some of its bombs, missiles and intelligence equipment – on top of the development of joint weapons systems for all three layers of air defense.

The senior air force official told Haaretz that without the Americans’ supply of weapons to the Israel Defense Forces, especially the air force, Israel would have had a hard time sustaining its war for more than a few months.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/19914700

By Common Dreams staff

September 3, 2024

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19090514

Britain, Israel and Australia are refusing to release evidence of the killing of an Australian aid worker and six colleagues in Gaza in April.

Vital evidence of the killings of seven international aid workers in Gaza in April is being withheld by Britain and Israel who are each refusing to release publicly electronic recordings made that fateful day.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18919386

Israeli forces stormed Tulkarem camp early on Thursday, facing heavy resistance from local factions

Imad Shraim, Muawiya Ahmad, and Wassim Anbar were the three who were killed in the bombing, according to WAFA.

Resistance in the occupied West Bank has surged to new heights in the last two years. Palestinian resistance operations against Israelis have witnessed a sharp rise, and resistance factions across the territory continue to rise in prominence.

There has also been a massive spike in army and settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since 7 October.