Our Wednesday News Analysis | ‘We Die, So They May Live’: Struggling for Survival amid Gaza’s Rubble

Scenes of devastation in Gaza as entire neighborhoods are reduced to rubble amidst relentless bombardment. (Photo: Donya Abu Sitta, The Palestine Chronicle)

How many hours can you survive under the rubble of your own home? Two, three, or even six hours?

Here in Gaza, we are forced to endure a marathon of being trapped under debris.

Lara, Yara, and Naama have all endured unimaginable lengths of time—six, eight, and sixteen hours, respectively.

Do we deserve to have the weight of our own homes crushing us, suffocating us as we struggle to survive?

Are these hours truly ours, or are we still trapped under the rubble of our own lives?

In Gaza, when a house is bombed, the civil defense and civilians rush to save any survivors.

However, even the civil defense was targeted by the Israeli occupation. How was this allowed by international law?

Are those who are still alive under the rubble not also dying?

We sacrifice ourselves a thousand times over so that others may live. But even when they are rescued, something inside of them dies...

Read more: ‘We Die, So They May Live’: Struggling for Survival amid Gaza’s Rubble

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ISRAELI HISTORIAN ILAN PAPPE: ‘THIS IS THE LAST PHASE OF ZIONISM’

Source: Al-Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/14/israeli-historian-ilan-pappe-this-is-the-last-phase-of-zionism

By Anealla Safdar
Published January 14, 2025

Pappe talks to Al Jazeera on ‘neo-Zionism’, ceasefire talks, the second coming of Trump and ‘indoctrination’ in Israel.

Ilan Pappe pictured in Copenhagen ahead of a conference aimed at networking to boost aid into Gaza [Anealla Safdar/Al Jazeera]

"We need international intervention not only in Palestine but for the whole Arab world, but it has to come from the Global South and not from the Global North.

The Global North has left such a legacy that very few people would regard anyone from the Global North as an honest broker.

I’m very worried about the short term; I don’t want to be misunderstood.
I cannot see any forces stopping the short-term disasters awaiting us.

When I see a broader perspective,
I think we are at the end of a terrible chapter in humanity,
It’s not the beginning of a bad chapter.

I can see a long process.
I’m talking about 20 years, but we are at the beginning of this process.

It’s a process of the decolonization of a settler-colonial project."

Copenhagen, Denmark – On a freezing Saturday morning in Copenhagen, Ilan Pappe warmed up in a cinema hall, chatting and joking in fluent Arabic with one of the organisers of a conference he was soon to address between sips of black coffee from a paper cup.

Unlike other Israelis, Pappe said, he learned the language “of the colonised” by spending time in Palestine, surrounding himself with Palestinian friends, and taking formal Arabic lessons.

Hundreds of academics, officials, international rights activists, and everyday Danes aghast at Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza attended the event in the Danish capital, hosted by the European Palestinian Network...

Read more: Israeli historian Ilan Pappe: ‘This is the last phase of Zionism’
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PENGUINS, ZIONISM, AND THE INSTINCT FOR SURVIVAL

Source: IslamiCity
https://www.islamicity.org/103854/penguins-zionism-and-the-instinct-for-survival/

By Muhammad Shahid Alam
Published January 11, 2025

Zionists have sought to delegitimize Palestinian opposition to Zionism or Jewish settler-colonialization of their lands by accusing them of antisemitism, that is, of harboring hatred for Jews as such, not because of what they had/have been doing to Palestinians.

Notes on the wailing Western Wall in Jerusalem Israel Credit: BrasilNut1

It is as if the Whites in the United States were to accuse the Blacks of anti-white racism whenever they demanded their human rights.

It appears that the Whites in the USA have not thought to be this creative when defending their apartheid, their exclusion of Blacks from the rights of citizenship.

That is not to say that they have not been nearly as creative in other ways.

Yahweh gave Palestine to the Jews in perpetuity: thus the story goes in the ancient literature of the Hebrews as recorded some 2,500 years ago in Genesis. Why would the Palestinians refuse to hand over their country to the "original" Ashkenazi title-holders to Palestine: if not for their hatred of Jews—if not for their inveterate hatred of Jews?

Is there any merit to this accusation? Could it be that, in fact, this accusation is a smear—one instance of the weaponization of antisemitism—employed by Zionist Jews to malign their Palestinian victims? Indeed, this smear is hurled at anyone with the temerity to disagree with the narrative that Zionist Jews have constructed to justify their European exclusionary settler-colonialism in Palestine, now ongoing for more than a century.

It is as if the Whites in the United States were to accuse the Blacks of anti-white racism whenever they demanded their human rights. It appears that the Whites in the USA have not thought to be this creative when defending their apartheid, their exclusion of Blacks from the rights of citizenship. That is not to say that they have not been nearly as creative in other ways.

Consider a simple test to discover where the truth might lie in this matter, with the Jewish accusers or the Palestinians accused. Imagine a replay of the history of Palestine starting with the announcement of the Balfour Declaration on November 2, 1917...

Read more: Penguins, Zionism, and the Instinct for Survival