Our Wednesday News Analysis | Why Palestinians face the same fate, weapons or not

“The Arabs will have to go, but one needs an opportune moment for making it happen, such as a war,”
wrote Zionist leader and Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion.

First, Israel’s violence is fundamentally driven by
its settler-colonial ambitions, not merely by Palestinian resistance.

Second, Palestinian resistance is a deeply rooted historical imperative —
the native population’s determined struggle for liberation from foreign occupation.

US President Donald Trump’s so-called Board of Peace is reportedly set to be announced before the year’s end. This news coincides with increasing reports that the American administration is serious about pushing ahead with the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire.

However, many critical questions remain unanswered. How can a governing council be imposed on Gaza when Palestinians are unified in their rejection of any new form of Western mandate over their lives? Furthermore, how can the proposed International Stabilization Force operate in Gaza without total clarity regarding its mission? If it ends up serving primarily as an Israeli line of defense, the entire project will collapse before it begins.

Neither Arab nor Muslim countries will seriously engage in subduing Palestinians on behalf of Israel. Any other participating troops will inevitably be treated by Palestinians as an occupation force.

The main obstacle, however, is the fact that Israel has never truly respected the first phase of the ceasefire, which began, in theory, on Oct. 10. Since that date, Israeli forces have killed more than 360 Palestinians and wounded hundreds more, while demolishing thousands of residential structures, according to satellite images verified by the BBC.

Worse, Israel has habitually bombed targets beyond the “Yellow Line,” which was designated as the Palestinian area where humanitarian aid would be allowed to flow and people were meant to return to some kind of normalcy, despite Gaza’s near-total destruction...

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WESTERN ELITES FEAR A ‘GLOBALISED INTIFADA’ BECAUSE THEY ARE ITS TARGETS, NOT JEWS

Source: Jonathan Cook Blog
https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2025-12-20/western-elites-fear-globalised-intifada/

By Jonathan Cook
Published December 20, 2025

While Western publics are being demonised as racists, the technology and strategies used today against Palestinians will become the walls of tomorrow’s prisons for us all

Many of us sense, too, that this is where our own societies are heading.

The ultimate destination of the technological developments – from smartphones to social media – that have atomised and pacified us over the past two decades is absolute control over our lives through surveillance, facial recognition, and more militarised and robotic policing, and our ever-greater redundancy and powerlessness in the face of artificial intelligence and greater mechanisation.

Western establishments’ fear of the phrase “Globalise the intifada” has little to do with any danger supposedly posed to Jewish populations from its use.

The threat is posed by the slogan’s central idea, not by some specific target.

“Globalise the intifada!” is the modern equivalent of “Power to the people!” – a slogan long used by anti-colonial movements, by revolutionary socialist parties, by the ANC in its fight against South African apartheid, and by the Black Panthers in their struggle against white supremacy in the US.

The emblematic anti-colonial struggle of our times is in Palestine. It is hardly surprising that any emerging, popular mass movement against oppressive, unaccountable, increasingly anti-democratic western elites should look to the language of that struggle.

“Intifada” refers to “shaking off” a system of oppression.

We can all see where Israel’s ethnic supremacist agenda has led for the Palestinians: to military occupation, apartheid and genocide...

Read more: Western elites fear a ‘globalised intifada’ because they are its targets, not Jews

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A SMALLER CAGE: ISRAEL’S ‘TWO-STATE SOLUTION’ ON GAZA’S RUINS

Source: Jews for Justice for Palestinians
https://jfjfp.com/a-smaller-cage-israels-two-state-solution-on-gazas-ruins/

Muhammad Shehada writes in The New Arab on 11 December 2025

Israel is redesigning Gaza's territory to entrench fragmentation and indefinite occupation, paving the way for future depopulation and settlement building

West Gaza, 42% of the enclave where two million people are caged and overcrowded, will be a “permanent refugee camp in ruins for the indefinite future,”
a European diplomat stationed in Israel told The New Arab.

More than a month after the ceasefire went into effect, little has changed in Gaza. Promises of tents, caravans, and prefabricated homes have failed to materialise, while only limited food and aid are entering, with the Rafah crossing closed in both directions.

Over 360 Palestinians, including 136 children, have been killed by Israel since the ‘truce’ went into effect, leading Amnesty International to conclude that the genocide in Gaza “continues unabated”.

While the ceasefire plan promised reconstruction, humanitarian relief, and a political horizon, what has instead emerged is a new blueprint for perpetual subjugation, one in which Gaza’s territory is being architecturally redesigned to normalise fragmentation and indefinite occupation, foreclosing on any future for Palestinian self-determination.

Red zone/green zone: Keeping Gaza in ruins

Since the ceasefire was announced, Israel has bisected Gaza along what was meant to be the initial withdrawal line of the Israeli army.

The “green zone” of eastern Gaza is where reconstruction and aid would, in theory, flow more freely, and where international delegations would be allowed (but escorted by the army), whereas the “red zone” of western Gaza would remain beleaguered, devastated, and increasingly bombed.

This is what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s close confidant and strategic affairs minister Ron Dermer called “the two-state solution… inside Gaza itself”.

The separation between those two halves is cemented through an entrenched barrier called the “Yellow Line” that has become deadlier than the Berlin Wall, where Israeli soldiers shoot to kill anyone who even comes close. The line is also elastic; the Israeli army has been incrementally moving it deeper and deeper into western Gaza to squeeze the population into less territory.

East Gaza (58% of the enclave), where “prosperity” is promised, is fully occupied by the Israeli military with no plans of withdrawal for the foreseeable future and has been thoroughly depopulated, with all inhabitants driven out by force.

Only five proxy gangs recruited and cultivated by Israel are allowed to exist there under army protection. Furthermore, Israeli troops and settler contracting companies are still systematically razing and demolishing any homes left in the very areas where supposed reconstruction is planned.

West Gaza, 42% of the enclave where two million people are caged and overcrowded, will be a “permanent refugee camp in ruins for the indefinite future,” a European diplomat stationed in Israel told The New Arab...

Read more: A smaller cage: Israel’s ‘two-state solution’ on Gaza’s ruins