The Palestinian genocide, also known as the Nakba[1][2][3] and wrongly called the "Israeli"-Palestinian conflict by the West,[4] is the ongoing systematic genocide and oppression of the Palestinians by the "State of Israel". It is defined by the settler colonial project of the "Israeli state" known as Zionism and has pushed for the cultural destruction of the Palestinian people.[2][3][5][6] The genocide has led to the rise of Palestinian resistance groups such as Hamas, the PFLP and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).[7] Resistance to the genocide has led to the Zionist Entity enacting a siege on the Gaza Strip with the goal of eliminating all Palestinian resistance as well as the population, so that it may be settled as well.[8]
History
First World War
See main article: First World War
During the First World War, two of the main combatants on the Middle Eastern front were the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (UK), alongside its vast British Empire, and the Sublime Ottoman State.[9] The region of Palestine was under the rule of the Ottomans as part of Ottoman Syria prior to the outbreak of the First World War.[10] Under Ottoman rule, both Muslim Palestinians and the Jewish people recieved a level of relative equality as the Islamic Ottomans were open to sheltering Jewish communities that faced oppression by European powers, especially the French Republic.[11]
The Ottomans entered the First World War on 2 November 1914 when the Russian Empire declared war on them due to their naval activities and their close ties to the German Empire, Russia's war-time enemy.[12] Almost immediately upon Ottoman entry into the war, the British took advantage of their colonial power in Kuwait and Egypt to invade both Ottoman Iraq and Ottoman Syria. The Ottomans, which had placed their early war-time capabilities on trying to fight off the Russians in the Caucasus, failed to hold Palestine, losing the region by 1918.[13] With British control in Palestine secured, they issued the Balfour Declaration on 2 November 1917. This declaration promised the Zionists, a political movement of Jews in Europe hoping to settler colonize Palestine, all of the Palestinian territory.[14] As a result, Zionists began stepping up their activities in Palestine and officially launched their settler colonial project.[1]
Nakba
The United Nations accepted Resolution 194 on 29 November 1947, which divided British Palestine into a Jewish and Arab state, with Jerusalem administered directly by the UN.[15] Under the initial plan, Zionists controlled 54% of Palestine's territory but only made up a third of its population.[16] Zionist forces soon began an ethnic cleansing campaign and forced almost a million Palestinians off their land.[15] During and after the 1948 Arab–"Israeli" War, over 750,000 Palestinians (75% of the population)[17] were dispossessed and became homeless in an event known as the Nakba.[18]
In March 1948, more than 95% of Palestinians still lived on their original land. As part of Plan Dalet, implemented by the Zionist Entity's leader David Ben-Gurion, Zionist forces and their allies attacked peaceful Palestinian villages. On 9 April 1948, the Irgun militia killed almost the entire population of the Deir Yassin village near Jerusalem. Between December 1947 and January 1949, the "Israeli" military and Zionist militias committed at least 29 massacres of Palestinians.[19]
After the withdrawal of British troops from the city of Haifa on 21 April 1948, the Haganah, the Zionist Entity's military, rolled barrel bombs filled with dynamite and gasoline into the city and shelled it with mortars. The army played screaming noises on loudspeakers and only 4,000 Palestinians out of the original 65,000 remained in the city.[19]
By the early 1950s, 80% of Palestine was occupied by settlers and the rest was divided into the West Bank and Gaza Strip.[15]
Six Day War
In 1967, "Israel" attacked Palestine, Syria, and Egypt and occupied the West Bank, Gaza, Sinai Peninsula, and Golan Heights within five days. Due to the Six Day War, the Zionist Entity drove 300,000 more Palestinians off their land[19] and occupied East Jerusalem, the capital of Palestine.[20] Zionist forces used napalm with U.S. support.[16]
First Intifada
In 1987, a group of Islamic mutual aid groups in Gaza united to form Hamas. In 1992, the occupier exiled hundreds of Hamas members, violating international law. The UN Security Council condemned the expulsions.[21]
Oslo Accords
In 1993, the Palestine Liberation Organization signed the Oslo Accords in an attempt to make peace with the Zionist entity. Zionists immediately violated the agreement by occupying parts of the West Bank and creating hundreds of checkpoints to limit Palestinian movement.[16]
21st century
Second Intifada
- In 2006, after the Palestinian people in Gaza elected Hamas in a fair election, the occupier blockaded Gaza.[22]
- In 2008, the United Nations Human Rights council mandated a report delving into the situation between Gaza and "Israel".[23] It found many crimes committed by the Zionist Entity against the Palestinians, including:
- that the blockade does not exonerate the Zionist Entity from providing humanitarian aid to Gaza (which they don't do),
- inadequate warnings against bomb strikes, including the use of white phosphorus weapons against hospitals which are not military targets,
- indiscriminate bombing in Gaza in retaliation for pinpointed strikes from Hamas (Hamas gives advance warning of their rocket fires which gives ample time for "Israel" to evacuate the population in shelters, most of which will be caught by the Iron Dome, both of which Gaza does not have),
- violent, degrading, and arbitrary detentions of Palestinian civilians,
- deliberate military disproportion used in retaliation.
- Over the course of seven weeks 2014, "Israel" killed over 500 Palestinian children and 850 adults in Gaza. Four boys playing at a beach in Gaza were killed by navy precision missiles, although the Zionist Entity claimed this was an "honest mistake."[24]
- In October 2015, the Institute for Middle East Understanding shared quotes from senior Zionist Entity government officials[25] depicting supremacist and racist statements against the Palestinian people in particular.
Great March of Return
- The "Israeli" Defense (or Occupation) Force, the Zionist Entity's military branch, receives and executes orders to shoot children with live ammunition. It was made most apparent during the 2018 Great March of Return, during which Palestinians peacefully marched towards the fence isolating Gaza, and were fired at with live ammunition including an as-of-yet unidentified chemical agent. Zionists snipers wounded several thousand Palestinians and murdered 223, including 46 children.[22] As whistleblower Eran Efrati explained,[26] soldiers do not decide by themselves to fire live ammunition—the order has to be decided, then given out to the soldier who executes it, then relayed back to command. Therefore, these can not be the acts of lone rogue soldiers.
- In 2019, "Israel" began an extensive facial recognition program in the West Bank. One former soldier of the Zionist Entity described it as the IDF's "secret 'Facebook' for Palestinians.'"[27]
- In 2020, "Israel" used the spyware Pegasus against six Palestinian activists. Three of them were working with human rights groups designated as terrorist organizations by the Zionist Entity.[28]
- In August 2022, "Israel" attacked Gaza, killing at least 43 people and injuring over 300.[29]
Operation Flood of Al-Aqsa (Third Intifada)
See main article: Operation Flood of Al-Aqsa
Apartheid
The Israeli state uses apartheid-like segregation in order to systematically oppress the Palestinians, treating them like lesser beings and stripping them of many human rights.[30]
Mass incarceration
Since the beginning of the Al-Aqsa Flood, the occupier has imprisoned another 5,000 Palestinians, increasing the total prisoners to 10,000, including 170 children. The occupier has arrested 40% of Palestinian men at some point in their lives and prosecutes 500 to 700 children every year. Some are as young as 12.[31]
Ethnostatism
A large part of of the Palestinian genocide is the existence of Israel as a Jewish ethnostate. Due to this ethnostatism, the Palestinians living in land occupied by "Israel" are often treated as second-class citizens in their very own homes.[30]
U.S. involvement
The USA was the first country to recognize the Zionist regime after it ocupied most of Palestine in 1948. In 1952, Zionist ruler David Ben-Gurion said that the Zionist Entity would never "explicitly contradict the wishes of the U.S. and Britain." Since 1972, the USA has vetoed 53 UN Security Council resolutions critical of Zionism.[16]
See also
Further reading
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Nakba did not start or end in 1948
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 What is Nakba?
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 On the 72nd Nakba Palestine Faces Its Biggest Threat
- ↑ The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Danger of ‘No Solution’ Messaging
- ↑ Massacres were indispensable to creation of the Israeli state
- ↑ How Israel colonized Palestine
- ↑ Israeli Soldier's Explosive Tell-All: "Palestinians are Right to Resist"
- ↑ Genocide in Palestine: Gaza as a case study
- ↑ Middle Eastern theatre of World War I
- ↑ Ottoman period
- ↑ Jewish Community in Ottoman Empire
- ↑ Page 4 – Ottoman Empire enters the First World War
- ↑ Page 5 – Ottoman Empire at war
- ↑ More than a century on: The Balfour Declaration explained
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 Miko Peled (2022-07-19). "A History of Israeli Destruction of the Two State Settlement" MintPress News. Archived from the original on 2022-07-21. Retrieved 2022-07-25.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 Joyce Chediac (2023-10-13). "Why Washington is responsible for every death in Gaza" Liberation News. Archived from the original on 2023-10-13.
- ↑ "What is Nakba?". Palestine Remembered. Archived from the original on 2021-10-06. Retrieved 2022-06-13.
- ↑ Miko Peled (2022-07-19). "A History of Israeli Destruction of the Two State Settlement" MintPress News. Archived from the original on 2022-07-21. Retrieved 2022-07-25.
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 Richard Becker (2021-05-15). "Massacres were indispensable to creation of the Israeli state" Liberation School. Archived from the original on 2022-01-03. Retrieved 2022-06-21.
- ↑ "On the 72nd Nakba Palestine Faces Its Biggest Threat" (2020-05-15). TeleSur. Archived from the original on 2022-06-01. Retrieved 2022-06-25.
- ↑ Alan Nasser (2009-01-12). "Hamas: What It Is, What It Wants, and What Israel Makes of It" Monthly Review. Archived from the original on 2021-10-24. Retrieved 2022-09-09.
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 Joyce Chediac (2023-10-31). "Refuting Israel’s lies about its invasion of Gaza" Liberation News. Archived from the original on 2023-10-31.
- ↑ https://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/12session/A-HRC-12-48.pdf
- ↑ Jonathan Cook (2021-11-26). "‘Honest Mistakes’: How US and Israel Justify Targeting and Killing Civilians" Antiwar.com. Archived from the original on 2022-04-12. Retrieved 2022-05-07.
- ↑ https://imeu.org/article/extremism-incitement-to-racial-hatred-senior-israeli-officials-in-their-own
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkxJd88xkBU
- ↑ Brett Wilkins (2021-11-10). "‘Organized State Terrorism’: Palestinians Condemn New Israeli Surveillance Revelations" Antiwar.com. Archived from the original on 2022-04-16. Retrieved 2022-05-07.
- ↑ "Pegasus used to spy on six Palestinian human rights activists, finds investigation" (2021-11-10). Peoples Dispatch. Archived from the original on 2021-11-10. Retrieved 2022-05-07.
- ↑ Arwa Ibrahim (2022-08-07). "Israel-Palestine live news: Gaza death toll reaches 29" Al Jazeera. Archived from the original on 2022-08-07. Retrieved 2022-08-07.
- ↑ 30.0 30.1 How a Zionist Defamed Me, How 'Leftist' Creators Helped Her Do It, and Why It Will Happen Again
- ↑ Sameena Rahman (2023-10-27). "Free the other hostages: 10,000 Palestinians jailed by Israel" Liberation News. Archived from the original on 2023-11-01.