[Mazin Qumsiyeh] Complicity and negative and positive news

This post and its references can be found at my bog
https://popular-resistance.blogspot.com/2024/01/negative-and-positive-news.html

2,269 massacres committed by the occupation army, 33,751 martyrs and
missing persons (26,751 arrived in hospitals), 11,500 child martyrs and now
some These are not numbers. These are people with dreams and aspirations
and no different than any other area on earth where indigenous people also
struggled to stay on their lands. People like renowned Palestinian
psychologist Fadel Abu Hein [1].  Western Media under pressure of public
opinion are starting to show what is going on which is horrific [2]

The International Court of Justice ruling that there is sufficient evidence
to order Israel to halt the genocidal acts was important even though the
ruling was weak basically saying Israel may continue its war on Palestine,
but without killing a lot of Palestinians. What was the Zionist regime’s
(and the Western governments) response to the ruling. Rejection and
intensification of the genocide and also trying to liquidate a UN agency
that takes care of 5 million Palestinian refugees and whose constricted
help to Gaza which will is already diminishing will mean acceleration of
genocide [3]. As Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur to the
Palestinian Occupied Territories stated “Western governments have suspended
#UNRWA funds due to serious ALLEGATIONS against 12 staff. Same governments
have not suspended ties with the state whose army has killed 26k ppl in
Gaza in 3.5m,though ICJ said it may plausibly constitute GENOCIDE. Double
standards? Yes, big time.”

The genocide in Gaza is supported by many governments including Egypt, UAE,
Saudi Arabia and Jordan [4]. Palestinians uncovered a mass grave in the
yard of a hospital that was besieged by Israeli forces where 30 bodies were
found buried of people blindfolded, hands tied behind their backs and
executed by the occupation army. You can see atrocities documented at the
website of Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor [5]. But the endless genocidal
attacks on the local people also carry an environmental cost [6].

The carnage is also in the West Bank, for example the was an illegal
Israeli raiding of Jenin hospital dressed as doctors and nurses to engage
in extrajudicial execution of three young men [7]. Imagine if this happened
in any other hospital in the world! collaborators likely informed about
them being in hospital and where is the so called Palestinian authority?)

The history of the colonial Zionist project in Palestine needs to be told
and retold in the Western World because it is hidden intentionally [8].
Bottom line is, through Zionist terror and massacres, Palestine was and
still is being transformed from a  thriving multi-ethnic, multi-cultural,
multi religious and even multi-lingual society to become a “Jewish state of
Israel”. Hence 8 million of us are refugees or displaced people and
colonizers now “own” (stole) 92% of historic Palestine and those of us
remaining are squeezed in 8% under an apartheid occupation regime.

We Palestinians teach life [9]. We resist the hate and death cult of
colonial racist ideas like Zionism. Over 105 years of colonization and
oppressions, we engaged in all forms of resistance to try and get our
inalienable rights of return and self determination. Most of our resistance
has been non-violent – we prefer to call it Popular Resistance [10].  We in
the one Democratic State proposed our plan for a post colonial Palestine
[11]. The Islamic resistance movement presented its post-war preferred
scenario: election / self determination for the Palestinians people to
counter the US/Israeli plans for post-war (of ethnic cleansing, continued
slaughter and continued occupation and strangulation) [12]. This struggle
for freedom and dignity against a ruthless enemy that tries to dehumanize
and liquidate us (and the two go hand-in-hand). This struggle is now joined
by hundreds of millions of people around the world. Non-Zionist and
anti-Zionist Jews also joined this struggle in the thousands (e.g. see
Jewish Voice for Peace). More than 500 staffers of Jewish groups, most of
them progressive, appeal to Biden to press for ceasefire [13]. But even
some Zionists are speaking out [14].

Palestinians speak out also regularly so listen to us. Just today
(Wednesday) I was honored to see some of my friends speaking including Dr.
Haidar Eid [15]. I have not heard his voice for months. Many of us
Palestinians reflect on our duties and responsibilities in this genocidal
epoch [16].  The highly respected group of Elders call for ceasefire and
immediate implementation by Israel of ICJ ruling [17].

Demonstrations around the world are astounding. Half a million in London,
hundred thousand in Washington DC and large numbers in over 200 cities
world wide. Over 50 cities in the USA defied the Zionist hegemony of the
federal government and the media and issued resolutions to ceasefire.  Most
gratifying, over 11 million Yemeni citizens filled the streets and their
government obeyed International law by trying to stop the genocide [18]. We
shall overcome someday. The refugees will return and Palestine will be free
but we have to get rid of collaborators, and collusionists and awaken more
people.

Notes/references
[1]
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/war-gaza-prominent-professor-al-aqsa-university-killed-israel
[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68006607
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2024/jan/30/how-war-destroyed-gazas-neighbourhoods-visual-investigation
[3]
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israels-allies-accelerate-genocide-freezing-unrwa-funds
[4] see the land bridge to supply Israel exposed in an Israeli channel
https://www.facebook.com/mazin.qumsiyeh.9/posts/pfbid0tqR6Ld3vjF4pADa637wsq2YvguqGaihzpzuijydvGMKZdZ5QiLmE9wguPKSFHkuNl

[5] https://euromedmonitor.org/en/country/1/Israel-Palestinian-Territory
[6]  War and Climate Change
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/09/emissions-gaza-israel-hamas-war-climate-change
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/09/emission-from-war-military-gaza-ukraine-climate-change
Waste in Gaza
https://www.passblue.com/2024/01/23/gaza-is-cleaning-up-its-piles-of-garbage-from-the-war-including-human-waste/
[7]
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-mustaribeen-undercover-agents-history-dressing-arab-palestine
[8]  see Edward Said’s book The Question of Palestine and my book
http://qumsiyeh.org/sharingthelandofcanaan/ and Dr. Ramzy Baroud: on How
Palestinians have become the victims of Zionist history
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2438011
[9]  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKucPh9xHtM
[10]  see http://qumsiyeh.org/popularresistanceinpalestine/
[11]  https://onestatecampaign.org/en/
[12]
https://mondoweiss.net/2023/12/hamas-official-calls-for-palestinian-elections-national-unity-in-the-day-after-the-war/

[13]
https://www.jta.org/2023/12/07/politics/more-than-500-staffers-of-jewish-groups-most-of-them-progressive-appeal-to-biden-to-press-for-ceasefire-in-israel-hamas-war
[14]  E.g. ore than 50 Israeli soldiers speak out
https://youtu.be/tirugvJc_ag
[15]  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQbN8rfem6U
[16] What Does It Mean to Be Palestinian Now?
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/what-does-it-mean-to-be-palestinian-now/
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[17]
https://balfourproject.org/the-elders-call-for-immediate-compliance-by-israel-with-icj-provisional-measures/
[18]  Yemen position with interview/letter to Europeans
https://www.defenddemocracy.press/message-of-yemenis-to-europeans/

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Mazin Qumsiyeh
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