Our Wednesday News Analysis | Palestinian Resistance Tore Down the Green Line Long Ago

Up against the wall: Young Palestinians climb the separation barrier to attend prayers on the last Friday of Ramadan, 2022.
(Lia Yefimovich / Picture Alliance via Getty Images)

"But the debates around what Palestine-Israel should become must not distract us from recognizing what the present reality actually is:
a robust apartheid regime between the river and the sea, driven by a settler-colonial ideology, complex in its design but simple in its purpose.

A cursory review of similar anti-colonial struggles from Vietnam to South Africa teaches us that the resistance to such regimes is never straightforward; as just as their causes are, the struggle is often messy, ugly, even violent.

These campaigns of resistance, however, are hardly as violent as the brutal structures against which they are fighting. "

HAIFA, PALESTINE-ISRAEL—My understanding of 1967—the year Israel began its occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip—was completely upended by my maternal grandfather. Born during the British Mandate for Palestine, he was 19 years old when our town, Tira, was subsumed by the newly forged Jewish state in the aftermath of the Nakba of 1948, when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled or were expelled by Zionist forces and barred from returning to their homes. Although granted Israeli citizenship, he and 150,000 other Palestinians, who became labeled Arab Israelis, were subjected to a military government that restricted their movement, expropriated their property, and suppressed their political activities. For nearly two decades, until 1966, my grandfather was trapped in a cage built in his own homeland...

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PALESTINIAN MOTHER OF 12 EXPELLED TO GAZA AFTER LIVING IN ISRAEL FOR 30 YEARS

Source: Haaretz
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-08-27/ty-article/.premium/palestinian-mother-of-12-expelled-to-gaza-after-living-in-israel-for-30-years/0000018a-3370-d700-a7ef-fbf116f10000

By Hagar Shezaf
Published August 27, 2023

Agzayeh Karan was born in Gaza but had been in Israel since 1992 after she married an Israeli citizen. A mother of 12 including four minors, Karan was not permitted to speak with her children or a lawyer once the deportation process began

Karan's daughters in the Arab Bedouin village of Khashem Zaneh in southern Israel on Saturday.Credit: Eliyahu Hershkovitz

The Israel Police abruptly expelled to Gaza a woman who was born in the Strip, the mother of 12 children with Israeli citizenship, including four minors.

Fifty-one-year-old Agzayeh Karan was deported without a hearing and less than a day after she was arrested during a routine check on her way to her workplace because she did not have a valid residency permit.

She was transferred to a police station and from there to the Erez crossing within a few hours, without being allowed to speak with her children or consult with a lawyer.

Karan’s ex-husband left the family years ago, and her underage children are now in Israel without any parents.

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ITAMAR BEN-GVIR AND HIS FASCIST ILK INADVERTENTLY ADVANCE THE APARTHEID DISCOURSE

Source: Mondoweiss
https://mondoweiss.net/2023/08/itamar-ben-gvir-and-his-fascist-ilk-inadvertently-advance-the-apartheid-discourse/?utm_content=bufferd55a7&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=buffer

By JONATHAN OFIR
Published August 28, 2023

We should be thankful for the honesty of fascist MKs Itamar Ben-Gvir and Amichai Eliyahu. Their recent statements that the rights of Jews trump the rights of Palestinians are exposing the apartheid reality.

A SCREENSHOT OF A CHANNEL 12 INTERVIEW WITH ISRAELI NATIONAL SECURITY ITAMAR BEN-GVIR. (PHOTO: SCREENSHIT/X)

This past week has been a terrific success in terms of advancing the apartheid discourse in Israel. The success was delivered by the most extreme of the fascist right.

First, it was National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir — the same MK who idolized the perpetrator of the 1994 Hebron massacre, Baruch Goldstein — when he was on a Channel 12 panel last Wednesday. The subject of security in the occupied Palestinian territories came up during the panel, which provoked an outburst by Ben-Gvir:

“My right, my wife’s right, my kids’ right to move around freely on the roads of Judea and Samaria [the West Bank] is more important than that of the Arabs,” he said, turning to the only Palestinian panelist on the program, Muhammad Magadli, and adding, “Sorry Muhammad, but this is the reality.”

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