Our Wednesday News Analysis | Gaza’s Darkest Lesson: Exposing the True Allies and Enemies of Palestine

As solidarity with Palestine has increasingly expanded from the global South to the global majority, Arabs remain largely ineffective. (Design: Palestine Chronicle)

At a time when countries like South Africa and Colombia, among many others, take substantive legal and diplomatic steps to hold the Israeli occupation accountable and halt its genocide, while Arab countries actively sustain the Israeli economy, Palestinians now have a real opportunity to distinguish unequivocally between genuine allies and false brethren.

Though this shattering realization will not alter the Palestinian people’s identity as part of a larger Arab collective self-definition, nothing will ever mitigate the fact that the Arab regimes watched Palestinians die in masses and did nothing.

The profound repercussions of this historical realization shall echo among Palestinians for generations. It will serve as an indelible, historical witness against those regimes that opted to maintain their lucrative ties with Washington and Tel Aviv at the fatal expense of a nation being systematically eradicated.

The ultimate, tragic lesson is that Palestinians must look inward and forward, knowing that their only true and reliable support comes from the solidarity of the global freedom movement, not from compromised capitals in their immediate region.

The bizarre, yet predictable, spectacle surrounding the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) vote on Draft Resolution 2803 was not just telling—it was a devastating political exposé. This resolution, which effectively granted the Israeli occupation legal cover for its ongoing military presence in Gaza, demonstrated a profound institutional betrayal of the Palestinian people.

UNSC Resolution 2803 should have faced overwhelming global censure and a swift, principled Russian-Chinese veto. Yet, neither materialized. The facile explanation—that Russia and China feared being blamed for the resumption of the genocide—is a deliberate smokescreen.

The reality is starker: the Israeli genocide in Gaza has never paused; it has merely morphed. Crucially, the resolution’s demand, which conditions Israel’s supposed “gradual withdrawal” upon the complete disarmament of the Palestinian resistance, is a chilling invitation for the inevitable, full-scale return of mass extermination to the utterly destroyed Strip.

The true enabler of this political tragedy was the covert diplomatic capitulation of regional powers. The lack of a veto and the absence of any formidable Arab opposition were premeditated, cemented when key Arab and Muslim States issued a collaborative statement on November 14, 2025, calling for support of the Trump Gaza plan and the subsequent UNSC resolution...

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ANALYSIS THE VISIONARY PALESTINIAN PEACE PLAN FOR ISRAEL AND GAZA THAT YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF

Source: Haaretz
https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/palestinians/2025-11-26/ty-article/.premium/the-visionary-palestinian-peace-plan-for-israel-and-gaza-that-youve-never-heard-of/0000019a-c18d-db2f-afdf-f7bdaa2f0000

By Dahlia Scheindlin
Published November 26, 2025

A 51-page document by a group of Palestinian scholars and policy thinkers offers a much clearer path to Middle East peace than the UN resolution or Trump's 20-point plan

A Palestinian refugee holds a baby during the Gaza Children's Film Festival, organized by the Masharawi Film Fund, in Al-Shatee refugee camp, west of Gaza City, on Sunday. Credit: Omar Al-Qattaa /AFP

Together, Palestinian engineers, architects, university students, and researchers have produced a document of extraordinary scope and optimism, dedicated to the reconstruction of housing, health, education, neighbourhoods, heritage, and more. What's needed is a ceasefire and a political horizon to draw external commitments and funds.

Among Palestinians, the principles, vision, and plans are there. Nusseibeh raised one final item that the international community can provide, that the people of the region – Israelis and Palestinians alike – so desperately need. Referring to the peace process of a bygone age, he said,

"The only way that we can begin to climb out of the hole that we're in right now is to provide that hope.

And that hope is only going to come if we have a
properly constructed international drive towards a long-term peace.”

In just over one week since the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution affirming U.S. President Trump's 20-point cease-fire plan and an international stabilization force for Gaza, the worst fears of many Palestinians seem vindicated.

In response to what it claims are Hamas violations, Israel has escalated airstrikes against Gaza daily, killing hundreds – including two children per day on average –since the cease-fire went into effect. Hamas has released all the living hostages and most of the bodies of those killed on October 7. Yet the IDF remains entrenched and holds over half of Gaza; it allows or restricts aid at will, and the international force is nowhere to be seen.

Some analysts were quick to point out the flaws and holes in the UN Security Council resolution. Yet what is the alternative? The preferred Palestinian way forward wasn't immediately obvious – but it exists.

There are clear caveats to any answer. Hamas and Fatah are both widely reviled by Palestinians, and can hardly be seen to represent the people. Yet no one Palestinian can speak for a range of perspectives within civil society.

But Palestinian voices display significant agreement on some essential principles for a Palestinian cease-fire, peace and recovery plan. These principles respond to the current U.S.-led process but also reflect long-standing Palestinian positions and demands that they have expressed for years...

Read more: Analysis The Visionary Palestinian Peace Plan for Israel and Gaza That You've Never Heard Of

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ISRAEL’S COLLECTIVE AMNESIA

Source: Jews for Justice for Palestinians
https://jfjfp.com/israels-collective-amnesia/

Lee Mordechai writes in Jewish Currents on 24 November 2025

Even as Israel continues killing Gazans, its liberals are ready to forget the genocide.

Palestinians walk amid the rubble of destroyed buildings in Gaza City, 5 November 2025.

On October 13th, three days after the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took effect, the current head of the Israeli opposition, centrist liberal Yair Lapid, gave a speech in which he declared that “all those who demonstrated against Israel these past two years . . . were deceived.” Before his fellow Knesset members and visiting US President Donald Trump, he announced: “There was no genocide, no intentional starvation.” The well-documented facts—that Israel pursued a relentless policy of starvation, including entirely blocking aid from entering Gaza for 11 weeks straight—were thus rewritten on live TV. This revision of reality laid the groundwork for what was soon to come: a quiet, collective act of forgetting, which aims to make the decimation of Palestinian life in Gaza simply disappear from Israeli memory.

Even as Israel continues killing Gazans, this willful amnesia has begun taking shape in a variety of ways across liberal Israeli society, the very spheres from which one would hope to see an honest reckoning.

Proponents of brutality have been uncritically embraced. Yair Golan, rising star of the Zionist left, invited retired general Giora Eiland—who conceived the notorious Generals’ Plan, which proposed starving Gazans who would not leave their homes, and advocated for the utility of epidemics in killing Palestinians—to speak at his party’s event honoring Yitzhak Rabin.

Meanwhile, institutions and public figures have moved to assert the boundaries of acceptable memory by rendering certain narratives about the past two years unspeakable.

Haaretz, Israel’s leading left-leaning newspaper, published an op-ed by a psychiatrist who works in the public health services system dismissing accusations of genocide from Jews in Israel and elsewhere as a deluded “fantasy of morality,” a pathological form of self-harm that amounted to “moral masochism.”

This logic of denial has also found expression in the routines of public life, under the pretext of a return to normalcy.

As the Israeli academic year commenced, the country’s two leading universities put out joyful messages, noting with relief the return of the Israeli captives and reiterating their support for students who have been serving as reservists in the military, but saying nothing about the losses of Palestinian students with families in Gaza.

This consolidation of forgetting builds upon widespread Israeli indifference to Palestinian suffering over the past two years. Many Israeli liberals have spent this time trying to look anywhere other than at the devastating consequences of Israel’s actions: A June 2025 poll found that two thirds of Israelis—including 44% of opposition voters—thought that Israeli media did not need to cover the humanitarian crisis in Gaza...

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