Our Wednesday News Analysis | A story of a 1930s uprising against British colonialism is key to understanding Gaza today

"It was British officials who ushered Jews out of Europe, where they were unwanted by racist governments, including Britain’s, to implant them in Palestine.

There, they were actively nurtured as the foot soldiers of a coming “Jewish state” that was supposed to be dependent on Britain and assist in strengthening its imperial, regional agenda.

… an overstretched British empire hoped over time
to outsource its colonial role to a “Jewish” fortress state."

Anyone wondering why the British state and media, despite the latter’s pretension to serve as a watchdog on power, continue to cheerlead Israel’s genocidal slaughter of civilians in Gaza will find the answers in a new film.

It recounts not the current period of history, but a story from nearly 90 years ago.

Palestine 36, directed by the remarkable Palestinian film-maker Annemarie Jacir, illuminates more about the events unfolding for the past two years in Gaza than anything you will read in a British newspaper or watch on the BBC – if, that is, you can find anything at all about Gaza in the news since Donald Trump rebranded the killing and dispossession of Palestinians as a “ceasefire”.

And Palestine 36 does so, unusually for a Palestinian film, with a budget worthy of a Hollywood blockbuster and a cast that includes names recognizable to Western audiences, from Jeremy Irons to Liam Cunningham.

This is a major episode of British colonial history told not through British eyes but, for once, through the eyes of its victims.

The “36” of the title refers to 1936, when Palestinians rose up against British colonial tyranny – more usually, and deceitfully, referred to as a “British Mandate” issued by the League of Nations.

The problem for Palestinians was not just the systematic violence of those three decades of tyranny. It was that Britain’s role as a supposed caretaker of Palestine – an “arbiter of peace” between native Palestinians and mostly Jewish immigrants – served as cover for a much more sinister project.

It was British officials who ushered Jews out of Europe – where they were unwanted by racist governments, including Britain’s – to implant them in Palestine. There, they were actively nurtured as the foot soldiers of a coming “Jewish state” that was supposed to be dependent on Britain and assist in strengthening its imperial, regional agenda.

In effect, an overstretched British empire hoped over time to outsource its colonial role to a “Jewish” fortress state...

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NETANYAHU RULES OUT CREATION OF PALESTINIAN STATE

Source: RT
https://www.rt.com/news/629145-palestinian-state-israel-destruction/

By RT staff
Published December 7, 2025

© Getty Images / Nathan Howard

Editor’s Note: The Better Angels of Our Nature …

What if a growing number of people in Israel-Palestine respond to the higher calling of becoming a ‘light among nations,' which President Abraham Lincoln refers to as ‘seeking the better angels of our nature,' and act accordingly as responsible citizens in the community of men and women?

They will want nothing more than complete reconciliation with their neighbors.

When will the Israelis publicly apologize: "We can't get away with getting something for nothing. We can't get away with murder?

Let's tear down the walls between us, share the land, and break bread together; and here is earnest money, restitution, a compensatory resolve to seal the deal.”

Will the people in the Region ever greet each other with, "Welcome home?”

Do they have a choice?

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Israel will not allow the creation of a Palestinian state, since its true purpose is the destruction of “the one and only Jewish state,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said.

Netanyahu made the remarks on Sunday in Jerusalem during a joint press conference with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. While Merz reaffirmed Berlin’s commitment to the creation of an independent Palestinian state, Netanyahu openly disagreed with him, claiming that such an entity would be “committed to our destruction at our doorstep.”...

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ISRAEL HAS SHOWN HOW TO CARRY OUT A GENOCIDE AND GET AWAY WITH IT

Source: Jews for Justice for Palestinians
https://jfjfp.com/israel-has-shown-how-to-carry-out-a-genocide-and-get-away-with-it/

Hossam Shaker writes in Middle East Eye on 3 December 2025

The key challenge is finding a way to lull the world into complacency, as endless horrors are broadcast live on our screens

Palestinian children wait for a meal at a charity kitchen in the Mawasi area of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on 22 July 2025

Adopting a posture of denial is central to Israel’s modern guide to genocide. The script might read: “There is no hunger in Gaza. The heartbreaking images and videos the world sees are fabricated.
People in Gaza even enjoy luxurious seafood.”

An old restaurant menu from Gaza, or fabricated images of local children,
are produced to imply they live in abundance.

In response to the horrors of starvation seen via live broadcasts, Israel can thus plant seeds of doubt, claiming that one person’s protruding bones are actually due to “chronic illness”.

It has become clear that horrific atrocities are not a thing of the past; war crimes can be committed by modern armies using AI and other advanced technologies. A case in point is Gaza, where Israel is carrying out genocide, ethnic cleansing, mass destruction, and a campaign of starvation – all without losing its extensive partnerships with Western democracies and “human rights champions”.

And Israel’s accumulated expertise is now available to the world, a practical guide to committing genocide in the 21st century. The essential challenge it addresses is how to make the world coexist with a genocide that is broadcast live to our mobile devices.

Media and propaganda efforts must serve the adopted strategy of aggression, not the other way around. They must help facilitate the execution of genocide in all its horrific stages, by justifying strikes, diverting attention from war crimes, and attempting to obscure facts whenever possible.

The goal is not to “win hearts and minds”, but to distract the public from grasping the ongoing horror, and to discourage sympathy with Palestinian victims.

This strategy of obfuscation requires Israel to manufacture developments. Responding to allegations of genocide and war crimes before the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court, Israel and its US patron launched a smear campaign, targeting the United Nations and its respected humanitarian agencies in an attempt to silence them.

The incitement campaign against UNRWA is an ideal example of this pattern of counterattacks. It achieved strategic and tactical gains sought by the Israeli occupation, while undermining the foundations of life for the Palestinian people and refugees’ right of return...

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