There is a demonstration in DC today at 1 PM. I encourage folks to come through. Its a bit pathetic that we have little way of intervening in this incessant attack on Palestinians in Gaza (again) besides our showing of internet outrage, novel media interventions (because bringing on Palestinians to speak for themselves is still bold), and of course our mass gatherings in public spaces to assert moral claims about the massacre of civilians, absurdly framed as self-defense. Israel continued its attack overnight and struck a center for the disabled in the middle of Gaza, killing two women and seriously injuring four (not shocking that I cannot find their names). It also struck another home in Jabaliya refugee camp killing 3 Palestinians (not shocking that I cannot find their names) bringing the total number of residential homes directly targeted to 12 - all with families inside. It has deployed its reservists to the West Bank and deployed its regular troops to the Gaza Strip in preparation for an imminent incursion and what Yuval Steinitz has said will be a temporary re-occupation of the besieged area. Thats very dumb because the occupation of Gaza has never ended. Whats troubling about this nonetheless is that I believe the long-run objective is to concentrate Palestinians into truncated areas just as it has steadily and successfully done in the West Bank for over four decades now and certain maps Ive seen show that this is also the case within Israel itself. The end result will be the establishment of tiny, isolated, and discontiguous enclaves of Palestinians throughout all of Mandate Palestine surrounded by Israeli settler infrastructure and with limited autonomy (sound familiar?) This is a long-term projection but kinetic violence offers Israel the perfect veneer under which to accelerate its project. Otherwise, Israel steadily continues it under the veneer of a peace process and other diplomatic overtures. The end of this current massacre will not end the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Palestine. We need to keep saying that now and we need to keep organizing against it well after it is over.
Posted on: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 15:32:03 +0000
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