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Norman Finkelstein, a political scientist and the son of Holocaust survivors, debunks several talking points sprouted by Amy Schumer on her Instagram recently Norman Finkelstein, a political scientist, prolific author, and son of Holocaust survivors, talks about Israel's latest attack on Gaza and debunks some of the most pervasive talking points used to justify Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. Norman G. Finkelstein received his PhD from the Princeton University Politics Department in 1987. He is the author of many books that have been translated into 60 foreign editions, including THE HOLOCAUST INDUSTRY: Reflections on the exploitation of Jewish suffering, and GAZA: An inquest into its martyrdom, I'LL BURN THAT BRIDGE WHEN I GET TO IT! Heretical Thoughts on Identity Politics, Cancel Culture, and Academic Freedom. In the year 2020, Norman Finkelstein was named the fifth most influential political scientist in the world.
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Israeli airstrikes continued to pound Gaza between Monday and Tuesday. Among the areas hit was the densely populated al-Rimal neighborhood in Gaza City, a largely commercial and residential area with apartment buildings, businesses, and shops.
Two Palestinian journalists were killed in airstrikes early Tuesday morning. They were identified as Mohammed Subuh and Saeed Al-Taweel. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, six Palestinian journalists have been killed, and two others are missing since Israel’s attack on the Gaza Strip began Saturday.
Video footage from Gaza has shown on at least one occasion Israeli airstrikes targeting Palestinian ambulances, though local reports indicate that ambulances and medical personnel were targeted on more than one occasion. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, Israeli airstrikes have also targeted seven hospitals and health centers, killing at least five healthcare personnel and injuring ten others.
In addition to the Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza, Israel claims it has killed around 1,500 Palestinian fighters inside Israel, presumably those who broke through the Israeli barrier on Gaza’s border early Saturday morning. If the numbers are correct, that would bring the total death toll of Palestinians killed since Saturday to more than 2,270 people.
Meanwhile, the death toll in Israel from Hamas’ offensive, Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, surpassed 900. Of the 900 who were killed, the Israeli army has named 124 soldiers, while the police have listed 41 police officers. It is expected that in the coming days, the toll of Israeli military and security personnel who were killed in the operation will rise.
On Monday evening, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement that “we are just getting started” and that Israel’s current military operations in Gaza will “change the Middle East.”
“I ask that you stand steadfast because we are going to change the Middle East.”
Following what was one of the fiercest rounds of airstrikes on Gaza on Monday, Abu Obaida, spokesperson of Hamas’ military wing in Gaza, released a statement Monday night threatening to kill an Israeli hostage if Israel continued to target Palestinian civilians “without warning.”
Mondoweiss Gaza correspondent Tareq Hajjaj said that there was a noticeable decrease in Israeli airstrikes on the strip following Hamas’ threats but that airstrikes were continuing into Tuesday afternoon.
Rocketfire from Gaza into Israel continued on Tuesday, with Abu Obaida releasing a statement Tuesday afternoon warning of an impending rocket attack on the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon.
“In response to the enemy’s crime of displacing our people and forcing them to flee their homes in several areas of the Gaza Strip, we give the residents of the occupied city of Ashkelon a deadline to leave before 5 p.m.,” Abu Obaida said in a statement via Telegram.
Ground updates from Mondoweiss Gaza correspondent Tareq Hajjaj
I want to say that I’m somewhere safe, but I can’t. Every place in the Gaza Strip is on the edge of collapse. It looks like over 2.3 million people in Gaza are trapped in a cage, and Israel continues to pummel it day and night.
After my family and I evacuated our home, we settled into a place farther from the border areas, where the airstrikes are usually most intense, and where we thought we would be safe, but every place in Gaza has become a hotspot.
People in Gaza are all too familiar with Israeli terror. But this time is different. This time Israel wants to impose a complete blackout on Gaza and cut it off from the outside world.
This was made clear when Israel bombed the central company that provides internet to Gaza City. We immediately lost our internet connections in several places across the city. We can still make phone calls. I called many colleagues in Gaza, asking them about any place I could go to connect and keep reporting and sending stories about the unfolding situation. They said they didn’t have internet access either. All journalists are unable to report on what’s happening, and it’s intentional. A day in a war without the internet means we aren’t able to know what is happening around us, but it also means that the world can’t see any of Israel’s crimes.
I went down the street in the neighborhood we’re staying and asked people about any source of internet I could find. “Go home before they kill you. They killed four of your colleagues so far,” one neighbor told me.
I kept looking for internet in the area, but people were too busy with more important things, like getting enough food, bread, and milk for their children. The reason is that, in addition to water and electricity, Israel has also cut off Gaza’s food supply.
Markets are empty, and hundreds of people are lining up in front of bakeries, pharmacies, supermarkets, and small shops. But most of these shops are closed now, and most people who have not prepared for a war are unable to get enough food to meet their needs.
Israeli media has reported that Israel sent a message to Egypt, saying that if it tries to send aid to Gaza via the Rafah crossing with Egypt, Israel would target it. A serious food crisis is now beginning to unfold in Gaza.
I called a farmer in Rafah City, Jaber Abu Mallouh, who has large vegetable farms near the border, to ask about the situation. “On normal days the situation is hard for our farms, as they are on the borders, because we’re attacked by Israel. And now we’re in the middle of a war, and we won’t even think of going to our farms,” Abu Mallouh said.
“The situation is tough. We are bombed every second. Our homes are not safe. The UNRWA schools are not safe. The streets are not safe,” Abdullah Abed, a Gaza resident, said. “Yet we still have to try to go out to get food. We can’t stand watching our children go hungry. I went to the market despite the critical situation. I walk and think every second that I will be targeted. But if I don’t find what I need, and if we don’t get killed by Israel’s bombs, we may die of starvation. This is what Israel wants.”
Netanyahu coalition greenlights possible emergency government, Ben-Gvir arms civilian militias
The Israeli army claimed on Monday that it had “fully secured” and regained control over the border towns that were captured in full or in part by Palestinian fighters over the weekend, though reports from Palestinian media and Hamas officials indicated that gunfights in certain areas were still ongoing between Israeli forces and Palestinian fighters.
As of Tuesday morning, Al Jazeera quoted Israeli military sources as saying that there is a possibility that Hamas fighters “are still at large” in certain areas in southern Israel.
On Tuesday morning, Israeli military tanks and troops continued to accumulate in large numbers along the Gaza border, which has been fully evacuated of Israeli civilians. While Israel has not yet announced plans for a ground invasion, the build-up forces and the calling up of 360,000 reservists have many worried that further escalation is on the horizon.
After days of debate on forming an emergency unity government, all members of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling coalition approved on Tuesday a proposed expansion of the government to include members of the opposition, Reuters reported. The approval moves Israel’s government one step closer to forming an emergency war government.
According to Israeli media reports, one reported condition to establishing an emergency unity government set forth by former Defense Minister Benny Gantz’s National Unity Party, was that any emergency war cabinet not include two members of Netanyahu’s governing coalition – far-right ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir.
On Tuesday afternoon, far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir announced that his ministry would be purchasing 10,000 rifles in order to “arm civilian security teams,” specifically those in border towns close to the Gaza Strip, as well as illegal settlers in the West Bank, and in “mixed Jewish-Arab cities” in Israel.
Israeli media quoted Ben-Gvir as saying that 4,000 assault rifles have already been purchased from an Israeli weapons manufacturer and “will be distributed immediately.” “We will turn the world upside down so that towns are protected. I have given instructions for massively arming the civilian security teams,” Ben-Gvir said in a statement.
Ben-Gvir has been a staunch proponent of establishing a National Guard in Israel, which rights groups say would effectively serve as a “private militia” of armed, ideological, and nationalistic Jewish Israelis, serving under the discretion of Ben-Gvir, a settler and former terror-convict himself. Earlier this year, Netanyahu agreed to push forward plans for establishing a National Guard, in exchange for Ben-Gvir putting a temporary pause on controversial judicial reforms.
Meanwhile, in a threatening video message to Gazan residents and Hamas leadership, an Israeli army chief and head of the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), said “Kidnapping, abusing and murdering children, women and elderly people is not human. There is no justification for that. Hamas has turned into ISIS, and the residents of Gaza, instead of being appalled, are celebrating.”
“Human animals must be treated as such. There will be no electricity and no water [in Gaza], there will only be destruction. You wanted hell, you will get hell,” Maj. Gen. Ghassan Alian added.
Alien’s statements echoed similar dehumanizing remarks by Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant one day prior when he said in a statement that he “ordered a full siege on the Gaza Strip. No power, no food, no gas, everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we act accordingly.”
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By The Saker [This analysis was written for the Unz Review]  The IDF in maneuvers, Kfir Brigade, 2012. As everyone knows, the Israelis have top-flight weaponry for all kinds of engagements. Just like in 2006, when both Ehud Olmert and George Bush declared that the “invincible IDF” had, yet again, achieved a “glorious victory” and the entire Middle East almost died laughing hearing this ridiculous claim, today both the US and Israeli propaganda machine have declared another “glorious” victory for the “Jewish state of Israel” cum “sole democracy in the Middle-East”. And, just like in 2006, everybody in the region (and in Zone B) knows that the truth is that the Zionist entity suffered a huge, humiliating, defeat. Let’s try to unpack this. First, a few numbers. The combat operations lasted two weeks. All missile numbers are in dispute. Rather than trust this or that source, I will simply say that Hamas fired many thousands of missiles into Israel. Some, probably less than 50%, were truly intercepted by the Israeli air defenses, others hit no man’s land, and some actually landed and caused plenty of destruction and at least 12 deaths. The Israelis executed hundreds of artillery and airstrikes causing massive destruction in the Gaza strip and killing about 250 Palestinians. Again, these numbers are guesstimates and they don’t really tell the full story. To understand the story, we need to forget about these numbers and look at what each side was hoping for and what each side achieved. Let’s begin with the Israelis: The Israeli scorecard To understand Israel’s goals in this war, we first need to place this latest war in its context, and that context is that Israel was comprehensively defeated in Syria. To substantiate this thesis, let’s remember the goals of the Zionists when they unleashed a major international war against Syria. These objectives, as listed in my July 2019 article “Debunking the Rumors About Russia Caving in to Israel” were— The initial AngloZionist plan was to overthrow Assad and replace him with the Takfiri crazies (Daesh, al-Qaeda, al-Nusra, ISIS – call them whatever you want). Doing this would achieve the following goals:
As we all know, this is what actually happened:
Seeing their defeat in Syria, the Zionists did what they always do: they used their propaganda machine to list an apparently neverending roster of victorious strikes on supposed “Iranian targets” in Syria. While a few civilian simpletons with zero military experience did buy into this nonsense, the truth about Israeli operations in Syria is simple: the Syrian air defenses have successfully prevented the Israelis from striking at important, sensitive, targets, and the Israelis have been forced to declare as major victories the destruction of empty barns as “destruction of important IRGC headquarters” thereby “proving” to a few naive folks in Zone A and to themselves (!) that the IDF is still as “invincible” as it “always was”. As for the Neocons, they doubled up on that and declared that 1) Russian air defenses are useless 2) that Russia and Israel work hand in hand and 3) that the Israelis are still invincible. Yet if any of that was true, why has Israel failed to achieve a single one of its goals? And why are both the Russians and the Iranians still in Syria where the Russians just finished a 2nd runway at Khmeimim and they have just deployed a group of Tu-22M3 at that air base from where they can now threaten any ship sailing in the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf, the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean? In their otherwise “free time” they can deliver tons of bombs and missiles to the remaining Takfiri forces in Syria.  IDF: Senior officer giving pep talk to new recruits. As I have been saying for many years now, the truth is that the IDF is a poor fighting force. Why? First, they have the exact same problem as the USA (and the KSA, for that matter): they rely on expensive technology, but don’t have good combat-capable “boots on the ground”. That is now how modern wars are won (see here for a list of popular misconceptions about modern wars). In its recent history, the entire gamut of Israeli “elite” forces (including the air force, the navy, the artillery and even the Golani Brigade) got its collective butt handed to them by about 1000 and only lightly armed regular Hezbollah fighters in 2006: keep in mind that the elite Hezbollah forces were deployed only north of the Litani river to protect Beirut against a possible land invasion by Israel. Instead of taking Beirut or “disarming Hezbollah” (that was an official goal!), the Israelis could not even control the small town of Bint Jbeil located right across the official Israeli border! So much for being “invincible”!
What the IDF is very experienced at is terrorizing Palestinian civilians and executing what could be called a slow-motion genocide of the Palestinian people. The problem with Gaza now is the same that the failed invasion of Lebanon in 2006 has revealed: just like the Lebanese in 2006, the Palestinians of 2021 are not afraid of the Zionists anymore. Furthermore, with a great deal of help from Iran and others, Hamas in Gaza is now much, much better armed than in the past. True, some of its missiles are decidedly low tech and not very effective (low accuracy, small warheads, simple trajectory, limited range), but Hamas also has shown some pretty decent UAVs too. Most importantly, from now on for Hamas it is only one way: up the “quality ladder” (just like the Houthis did in Yemen, starting with modest drones but eventually getting very capable ones). The other major goal of the Israelis in this war was to prove to the world (and, even more importantly for the always narcissistic self-worshiping Israeli cowards, to themselves!) that their “Iron Dome” air defense network was the “super-dooper most bestest” in the world (no doubt, due to the famed “Jewish genius”!). It now appears that at best, the Israelis intercepted somewhere around 30-40% of the Hamas missiles. The way the Israeli hid this is by claiming that their fancy shmancy Iron Drone did not even try to engage missiles which were not deemed dangerous. But in the age of the ubiquitous smartphone, that kind of silly nonsense can easily be debunked (including by showing the total chaos in the Israeli skies or, for that matter, the missile strikes on Israeli military objectives). While the full Iron Dome air defense system probably works marginally better than the quasi-useless US Patriot, the Israeli air defenses are clearly at least a generation behind the Russian ones, including the S-300s the Russians sold to Syria (again, in the age of of the ubiquitous smartphone, this is not hard to prove). It is crucial to remember that Hamas’ missiles are much inferior to those of the Houthis and the Syrians, and even more inferior when compared to Hezbollah or Iranian drones and missiles! In other words, the “invincible” IDF can’t deal with even its weakest, least sophisticated enemies (Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad) and the grotesquely expensive Iron Dome cannot protect the Zionists from any determined missile attacks by the Resistance coalition (Palestine, Yemen, Syria, Hezbollah, Iran and Russia). In their utter despair, the Zionist entity did what the AngloZionists always do when they fail to defeat a military forces: they will turn their wrath on the civilian infrastructure and murder as many as they can. They will also strike highly symbolic targets such as the International Press Center in Gaza or a Red Crescent hospital (under the pretext that Hamas, which is the democratically elected local government) has offices there (this is clearly a F-you to those who condemn Israel for violating international law). To a normal human being, this sounds both obscene and ridiculous. But remember, the Israelis are first and foremost narcissists and they have no means of imagining how normal human beings think or feel. All these guys can feel is self-worship and hatred for all “others”. We could say that in this war, the Palestinians defeated both military high tech and truly medieval type of genocidal hatred. In other words, far from showing how “invincible” the Zionist entity is, this latest war against the Palestinians has shown beyond reasonable doubt that the IDF cannot deal with any of its enemies. Besides missiles and bombs, the Israelis love to use terror, as their ideology has convinced them of two things: the Arabs only understand force and we, the Israelis, are invincible. But this begs the question of why the Israelis did not dare to move into Gaza, not even symbolically. Yeah, I know, the official doxa of Zone A is that “Biden called Netanyahu and told him to stop”. As if “Biden” could give orders to the Israelis! The truth is that even with a casualty rate of 10:1 in the IDF’s advantage and no armor or artillery, the Palestinians are much more willing to engage in street battles than the IDF. Would the IDF eventually win a ground battle against Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad? Maybe, probably, the objective advantages in everything (except courage!) for the Israelis is so huge that no amount of skills and courage can forever negate the immense superiority in means of the Israelis. However, as most people in the West tend to forget, wars are but means towards a political goal. If the IDF decided to basically flatten Gaza and kill many thousands of Palestinians at the cost of casualties probably in the hundreds, then this would be politically suicidal for the Zionist regime. This is why I offer this very basic conclusion: During the latest Gaza war, deterrence did work. But only in the sense that the Palestinians successfully deterred the Israelis from launching a ground attack against Gaza.  Members of Hamas' Kassam Brigade, in Gaza.
 No navy, no tanks, no air force, just lightly armed militias, but they are developing their missiles, and in time they may match or surpass even the extremely resourceful Houthis.
There is another crucial political development which should also be noted: while both Iran and Hezbollah did give their full political support to Hamas+Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the latter did not request any assistance. In other words, not only did the Palestinians defeat the Israelis, but they did so absolutely alone, with no help from the other Resistance members. Again, those Zone A civilians who believe that Israel is scoring huge victories in Syria on a quasi daily basis won’t get it, which is par for the course. But you can be darn sure that at least most of the IDF top commanders know the true score and for them it is yet another huge disaster. There is also a political factor to consider. While there have been coordinated resistance actions by the Palestinians in Israel proper (as defined by the UN), this is the first time when the Palestinians from Gaza, those from the Occupied Territories and those in “Israel” truly fought, if not side by side (yet!), then at least at the same time and in a common cause. This is a major political victory for Hamas+Palestinian Islamic Jihad and a major problem for Fatah and the Zionists. Now let’s look at the rest of the Palestinian scorecard: The Palestinian scorecard: Let’s start by the obvious one: the Palestinians were not defeated. This victory can be further subdivided in the following:
It is interesting to note here that the famous Israeli journalist Gideon Levy has written an article for Ha’aretz entitled “Israeli Propaganda Isn’t Fooling Anyone – Except Israelis” which was further subtitled “’Hasbara’ is the Israeli euphemism for propaganda, and there are some things, said the late ambassador Yohanan Meroz, that are not ‘hasbarable.’ One of them is Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians.” This is how Levy’s article began:
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BOOKS: Decolonizing Palestine – Hamas Between the Anticolonial and the PostcolonialReviewed by Jim Miles What is missing from the title is one of his fundamental themes, that of liberation. Not only is Hamas caught between the anticolonial and the postcolonial, but the idea of liberation, of freeing Palestine from the Israeli colonial-settler context is also caught between the two ideas. In short, liberation is not a point in time, not a date in a history book, but an ongoing process that precedes that noted timeline and succedes the same. Liberation then becomes not only just Palestine, but Palestine as a liberating idea within the global network of postcolonial acts of liberation. Hamas The focus is on Hamas, but does not cover its full history as a grassroots organization that in its early formation provided much needed social services to the refugees and victims from the 1948 nakba. Sen concentrates on Hamas’ current predicament of being both a resistance force to settler-colonialism and a governing force in an area nominally ‘liberated’ from Israeli settlements, while still carrying the burden of both forwards. One of the more striking ideas was the concept that even as Hamas is criticized for its sometimes coercive and violent control of Gaza, those very acts create and sustain the idea of ‘Palestine’. The inhabitants of Gaza recognize Hamas not just as Hamas but as the government, as the nation - as Palestinian. Even earlier than Hamas’ takeover of Gaza’s government, Sen discusses the idea that the the postcolonial moment began with the Oslo Accords, and in spite of all its flaws and the poverty of its intentions, it put into writing the concept of ‘Palestine’ - undefined and subject to many onerous conditions, but still - Palestine. Liberation in this context starts well before Oslo. Palestine has been seeking liberation since the end of World War I: first from the British empire and its League of Nations imposed mandate; and subsequently from Jewish settler-colonialism during the mandate and on into the establishment of Israel. What is occurring in Gaza today is the ongoing struggle for liberation within both an anticolonial and a postcolonial set of ideas and actions: “Hamas’ persistence with the simultaneous roles of resistance and assumption of governmental authority confirmed that the anticolonial and postcolonial can indeed exist in the era of colonial rule in service of the liberation struggle….[it] is also a microcosm of the entirety of the Palestinian long moment of liberation….it is the Palestinian coastal enclave that exemplifies the long moment before the withdrawal of the colonizer in its entirety, consolidated under a single leadership….” “Despite the their faults and inadequacies, both resistance and governance somehow evoked the colonized’s retort, “We are here, we exist, we are organized”...And even though actual liberation is far from being realized [it] has already begun under the auspices of Hamas’ rule over Gaza.” Global perspective and liberation When Sen extends his arguments to global comparisons his ideas take on a more powerful significance. His arguments are well founded as he incorporates examples from around the world. Sen’s correlations with other liberation struggles cover much of the rest of the world. South Africa, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Cuba, India, Ecuador, Algeria, and North America are mentioned in his discussions. Early in the work he writes “...characterizing the socioeconomic crisis as extreme overlooks the reality that the treatment meted out to Gaza is the norm under settler colonial rule.” If I take my home country Canada as an extended example of North American settler-colonialism, all Sen’s arguments are applicable. Canada (and the U.S.) were attributed as being “empty land”, a “land without people.” The indigenous people were removed from the land by various devices - wars, starvation, forced removal - and the remnant populations were placed on “reservations”, the North American system of apartheid. Those that were not removed from settler society were subject to racist and discriminatory legislative and judicial action. Physical genocide/ethnic cleansing was accompanied by cultural ‘cleansing’. The indigenous celebrations were forbidden (here on the West Coast, the tradition of the Potlatch was outlawed) and children were forcibly removed from their families in order to “civilize” the “savages”, without granting them even then the right of equality. Under the concept of liberation, the indigenous people of Canada are still resisting colonization and all its depredations and are undergoing a “long liberation”, claiming their rights, protecting their land against militarized police forces, and still seeking equality before the law even as their inequality is written into the constitution. Sen’s description becomes universal as in the end he suggests “that the nature of the (settler) colonial endeavor, and its ability to alienate their sense [of] self, is such that the struggle for liberation from the legacies of colonial rule may persist perpetually.” Society itself is changed, and the liberation process includes the adaptation to those changes, “the colonized are undone from their sense of self in a way that they do not have any memory of an identity sans the legacies of the colonization.” Society is changed, there is no reset button, liberation involves finding a national identity, part of that being “the national anticolonial struggle itself.” Sen's work, "Decolonizing Palestine - Hamas Between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial" is a powerful and well argued presentation on Hamas' actions in Gaza. At the same time he very thoughtfully extends his arguments as being part of the global system of settler-colonialism. These arguments my sound rather esoteric in light of the brutality and racist attitudes of the colonial projects around the world, but ultimately they find the truth: no person is free, no person is liberated until all are liberated, until all the constructs of colonial settler activities, all the racism, the economic dominance, the cultural denials are deconstructed and remade into a society that provides equality in all areas to all the people of the world. We are, in that sense, all Palestinians. All image captions, pull quotes, appendices, etc. by the editors not the authors.
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