Our Wednesday News Analysis | After Gaza: Four Roads, One Destination

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Design: Palestine Chronicle)

"Gaza has revealed the true strength and resilience of Palestinians, exposing the costs of collusion.

It highlights a regime weakened by bombing hospitals and starving families to stay in power.
The four scenarios aren't steps toward Zionist victory but stages in its decline.

The goal is to accelerate progress by creating a worldwide movement that aligns with the crimes and hope. This includes supporting people in remaining on their land, restoring their lives, lifting the siege, releasing prisoners, bringing perpetrators to justice, and dismantling oppressive systems.

Justice is not a gift; it is the highest value. Freedom is more than just a slogan—it is a fundamental goal. Independence isn't optional; it is a duty. Self-determination isn’t an illusion but the ultimate aim. Return isn’t merely a dream; it is a right.

When these truths guide us, what once seemed impossible becomes the only logical path. The Palestinian people have upheld these truths through countless tragedies, and now the world is starting to listen."

The Israeli genocidal war in Gaza that followed on October 7, 2023, was meant to break the Palestinian people. It was meant to force surrender, to empty Gaza, to terrify the West Bank, to erase a nation by fire, fear, and hunger. It failed. The Palestinians did not break. They buried their dead, tended to their wounded, and held fast to the land and to the truth that their cause cannot be extinguished by blockade or bombardment. The world watched a saturation campaign of annihilation and destruction unfold, livestreamed into every phone, and with it the bankruptcy of an international order calling itself civilized. At the same time, it arms a settler colonial state that kills and starves children.

That failure presents the Zionist regime with a strategic choice it has long tried to ignore. It can no longer pretend that domination will be accepted as peace, that apartheid will be tolerated as security, or that mass displacement will be considered a humanitarian operation. That mask has been stripped bare. The question now is not whether the Zionist regime will change course, but which course of action it will attempt, and how each path ultimately accelerates the end of the Zionist enterprise as a system of racial domination and supremacy over an indigenous people.

There are four scenarios that now shape the horizon. Each exposes the inner contradiction of a project that wants to claim democracy while denying fundamental rights, that wants land without the people of that territory, and that wants international legitimacy without international law. Each road points to the same destination: the dismantling of structures of domination and control in order to restore justice for the Palestinians and a genuine peace for the region...

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ANALYSIS PEACE AND WAR: TRUMP'S GAZA PLAN WILL EITHER MOVE AHEAD SOON – OR DIE

Source: Haaretz
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-11-04/ty-article/.premium/peace-and-war-trumps-gaza-plan-will-either-move-ahead-soon-or-die/0000019a-4f87-df58-ad9e-df9f56d00000

By Amir Tibon
Published November 4, 2025

The U.S. administration seems serious about moving towards the next phases of the Israel/Hamas cease-fire deal – but that means there's no more room for convenient ambiguity. Forming and deploying Trump's International Stabilization Force is an imminent test of its commitment, and it means making hard choices

U.S. President Donald Trump speaking to journalists aboard Air Force One on Sunday. Credit: Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters

"Will Egypt, which neighbors Gaza from the south, send its troops there?
Will Israel accept the presence of Turkish soldiers in Gaza?
And what will it take to persuade countries like Indonesia and Pakistan?"

The U.S. is moving ahead with plans to create an International Stabilization Force that will take over parts of the Gaza Strip. The Trump administration's focus on the ISF is a sign that Washington is serious about implementing the next phase of the cease-fire agreement in Gaza.

It's been almost a month since the deal to end the war between Israel and Hamas was signed, but after the release of the Israeli hostages and the IDF withdrawal to the so-called yellow line, the situation froze in place, and the fate of U.S. President Donald Trump's broader 20-point plan became uncertain.

In the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, there is rarely a status quo that can hold over time. For this reason alone, the introduction of the ISF is crucial. Until this force is ready for deployment, Israel will not withdraw further from the approximately 50 percent of Gaza still under its control.

Such a reality will make it much more complicated politically for Arab and Muslim countries to take part in the reconstruction of Gaza, and to improve their own relations with Israel – two of President Trump's top priorities in the Middle East. Absent this kind of positive momentum, the war could eventually be renewed and tear apart Trump's regional peace ambitions...

Read more: Analysis Peace and War: Trump's Gaza Plan Will Either Move Ahead Soon – or Die

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‘I’M HAPPY AND SAD TO SEE YOU’: THE PARADOX OF SURVIVING THE GAZA GENOCIDE

Source: Mondoweiss
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/10/im-happy-and-sad-to-see-you-the-paradox-of-surviving-the-gaza-genocide/

By Hassan El-Nabih
Published October 26, 2025

A chance encounter with one of my past students at the Islamic University of Gaza highlighted the paradox of surviving the Gaza genocide: feeling joy in surviving the war and sorrow in witnessing what our survival has cost us.

Dr. Hassan El-Nabih during the war and genocide in Gaza. (Photo courtesy of the author)

When I hear international leaders speak of “Israel’s right to defend itself,”
I wonder: against whom? Against mothers with their babies?
Against teachers with their board markers?
Against students with their books?

The global silence — or worse, complicity—amplifies our grief.

As I was walking slowly down a street in Gaza, I moved past debris, shattered storefronts, and bombed-out buildings. My steps were burdened by exhaustion, grief, and hunger. My once-firm stride, the stride of a university instructor who hurried between lecture halls, had turned into a limp. My shoes were worn and coated with much dust, my clothes tattered and stained, and my face—once animated by ideas and humor—had grown pale and gaunt. My body felt decades older.

Suddenly, a young man stopped and stared at me.

In a trembling, disbelieving voice, he called out, “Dr. Hassan!”

I turned toward him. He stood motionless for a moment, then hurried forward to shake my hand before pulling me into a warm embrace. “I’m happy to see you,” he said softly, “and also sad to see you.”

The young man was Ahmed, one of my former students from the Department of English at the Islamic University of Gaza (IUG).

We talked briefly about the gravity of the situation in Gaza and then parted. Yet his simple statement—“I’m happy and sad to see you”—lingered in my mind. It captured perfectly the paradox of Gazans’ lives—joy in surviving war and sorrow in witnessing what survival has cost us. At that moment, I realized that even recognition between teacher and student, survivor and survivor, had become an act of defiance...

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