Gaza’s Genocide and Israel’s Military-Industrial Complex

The Gaza Strip may be the world’s most relentless conflict zone. After decades of destruction and resistance, it is hard to imagine a different reality. But before the Gaza Strip, there was Gaza—a gateway city within an eponymous region with a much-neglected history. Stripped is an exploration of the Gaza borderland that aims to salvage Gaza’s past from the conceptual and historiographic shackles imposed by the current reality of the Gaza Strip, as well as to render imaginable a horizon for Gaza beyond this reality. The work is the first to methodologically depart from the common understanding of the Gaza Strip as purely a consequence of the 1948 war. Instead, Stripped situates Gaza within a century-long history of the Eastern Mediterranean’s integration into the global market economy, the Ottoman-British quest for imperial sovereignty over the Sinai-Palestine-Hijaz desert corridor, and the Palestinian struggle to overcome the urban and environmental destruction of World War I in the face of British and Zionist colonialism. Relying on little-studied sources in Arabic, Ottoman Turkish, Hebrew, English, and French, the dissertation explores how the Gaza region adapted to Ottoman agrarian reforms and gravitated into British economic orbit in the Mediterranean. As a result of these processes, Gaza of the late nineteenth century reoriented its economy from land to sea and turned to fully rely on exporting its locally cultivated barley to the British beer-brewing industry overseas. While generating promising growth for some two decades, global demand for grains diversified widely in the early twentieth century, leading to an abrupt collapse of Gaza’s new financial base. Concurrently, the very trade Gaza relied upon sliced this historic borderland into separate zones of imperial domination, turning it into a frontier between the Ottomans and the British. Gaza thus became one of the Middle East’s most devastated battlefronts during the First World War. When Palestine was made a formal political unit under the British Mandate, Gaza was both financially and physically in ruins, forced into a slower, more convoluted historical trajectory than other parts of the country. Ruins and their meanings, therefore, are central to the dissertation’s inquiry, as they turned in the interwar period into a contested ground in the struggle for Gaza’s recovery. Dwelling among the physical debris of their former city, Gazans had to marshal waqf regulations and Ottoman land legislation to restore their urban and agricultural environments against British antiquities preservation and land development schemes. Navigating often contradictory reconstruction initiatives, the people of Gaza toiled to carve themselves a space within the emerging Palestinian national collective as well. However, after a century-long “stripping” of its previous economic, social, and political centrality, Gaza could only remain peripheral to the political upheavals of the Mandate period and finally even remote from the battlefields of the 1948 war. It thus almost naturally emerged as a safe temporary shelter for wartime Palestinian refugees, around which the Israeli and Egyptian armies demarcated the Gaza Strip.

The Systematic Destruction of Palestinian Memory, 2024

A DEAL OR NO DEAL? 04/06/2024 Genocide, Urbicide and Ecocide ?16/02/2024 What is al-Mawasi and why did Israel attack a ‘safe zone’?11/09/2024 D. Noha Khalaf: Mahmoud Darwish and the “butterfly effect that never goes away” in Gaza! 31082024 Over the past fifteen years, Gaza has suffered five punitive expeditions: 2006 (“Summer Rain”); 03/02/2024 South Africa presents its case against Israël at the ICJ GENOCIDE CR 2024/1 International Court Cour internationale of Justice de Justice THE HAGUE LA HAYE YEAR 2024 The guerrilla is stronger than an occupying army 12/11/2023 SCANDALEUX ENLÈVEMENT DE MARIAM ABU DAQQA PAR LA POLICE FRANÇAISE HIER SOIR A MINUIT A PARIS 13ème 09/11/2023 L'article dans son intégralité: Enzo Traverso : la guerre à Gaza « brouille la mémoire de l’Holocauste » la « guerre génocidaire » menée par l’armée israélienne à Gaza. 08/11/2023 l'arrestation de la militante Ahed Tamimi 06/11/2023 Some images of the disaster in Gaza 31102023 Amnesty International is calling on 31102023 Palestinians storm a UN-run aid supply center 30102023 Mondialisation de la Colère ATLANTA ETATS UNIS SOURCE LE FIGARO 27102023 Je suis palestinienne Et ma demi- sœur est israélienne 21102023 Ons Jabeur recalled that Palestinians had been subjected to injustice for the past 75 years. 16102023 Jean-Paul Sartre : the only weapon of the Palestinians is terrorism (1972) It is a terrible weapon but the oppressed do not have one other 13102023 Jose Luis Garcia Vigil 13102023 WHO asks Israel to reverse evacuation order, says it amounts to 'death sentence' for vulnerable patients 13102023 WHY a big win for Hamas? 12102023 War and Natural Gas: The Israeli Invasion and Gaza’s Offshore Gas Fields by Michel Chossudovsky 11102023 War and Natural Gas: The Israeli Invasion and Gaza’s Offshore Gas Fields 10102023 In New York, we speak with Rashid Khalidi, author of The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine, 10102023 10 h 30 | L'ambassade d'Israël à Washington affirme que le nombre d'otages israéliens à Gaza s'élève à une centaine 08102023 Selon un dernier bilan publié sur X par l'ambassade d'Israël à Washington, plus de 300 Israéliens ont été tués et 1800 blessés. Elle affirme également qu'une centaine de civils et soldats israéliens ont été kidnappés par le Hamas. Le leader de la branche militaire du Hamas, Mohammed Deif, a déclaré que 5 000 roquettes avaient été tirées sur Israël tôt samedi pour lancer l’opération « Déluge Al-Aqsa » 07102023 Le Freedom Theatre pleure une de ses adolescentes 27062023 Violente bataille lors d'un raid israélien à Jénine, cinq Palestiniens tués LE 19 JUIN. 2023 À 08H08 (TU) Cette femme palestinienne n’existe pas: voici son portrait 15062023 En direct de Gaza Il est 12h à Gaza ce vendredi 12 mai 2023 08/04/2023 ALERTE La population de #Gaza est actuellement bombardée par l’aviation israélienne. #GazaUnderAttack 06/04/2023 MASSACRE A AL-AQSA 26/03/2023 À Gaza ou en Cisjordanie, la situation est totalement désespérée pour les jeunes Palestiniens 19/03/2023 International campaign to spread the historical map of Palestine from the river to the sea 13/03/2023 La mère palestinienne origine de notre savoir 08/03/2023 8 mars 2023 en Palestine Femmes palestiniennes 01/03/2023 Israelis still expect the Palestinians will surrender. They've never been more wrong Haaretz 28/02/2023 expédition punitive dans la ville d’Howwarah par des colons 24/02/2023 Nablus hit by deadly Israeli raid 26/01/2023 une dizaine de Palestiniens tués lors d'un raid israélien à Jénine The Palestinian and Levantine cuisine that Israel tries to appropriate Pourquoi la France doit-elle protéger le peuple Palestinien? Un projet qui commence par un rêve à Jénine et tente de devenir une réalité, rejoindre Gaza Femmes Palestiniennes en Résistance 020123 The Systematic Destruction of Palestinian Memory (NEW) 26122022 Christmas in Bethlehem, where it all started (NEW) 19122022 What in the World Is Happening in Israel? The New York Times (NEW) 08122022 Case Study: Har Homa (NEW) 04112022 « Gaza est un homme qui pleure et qui ne veut pas le dire » : l’enclave traversée du Nord au Sud, entre mer et mur Par Louis Imbert (Gaza, envoyé spécial) "أنا بنت القدس، وأحب أن أراها سعيدة"... أحدث لقاء إعلامي عفوي مع شيرين أبوعاقلة على درجات باب العامود نهاية رمضان الماضي REQUIEM POUR SHERINE par Noha Khalaf ASSASSINAT DE LA JOURNALISTE PALESTINIENNE A JÉNINE PAR L’OCCUPANT ISRAÉLIEN 11/05/2022 Emma Watson pro-Palestinian post sparks antisemitism row Palestinian prison break: Israel has every reason to fear this bold move Jonathan Cook I - Palestine Peace Movement (PPM) Creating One State for Palestinians and Jews in Palestine Mohamed Rabie II - Palestine, the Birthplace of Civilization When and where Civilization was born Prof. Mohamed Rabie III - APOCALYPSE IN WEST BANK IV - I cry my eyes out when I write about Gaza V - La suspension par Israël de la distribution de courrier en provenance et à destination de Gaza est une punition collective inacceptable VI - GAZA RECONSTRUCTION: TOWARD A SELF-DETERMINED MECHANISM VII - Alain Gresh présente « La Palestine n'a pas disparu », par Edward Said VIII - Guerres sans fin contre les Palestiniens - Une domination israélienne toujours plus brutale par Alain Gresh IX (PART 1)THE IMPERATIVE OF CHANGING THE TERMS OF REFERENCE in dealing with the situation in Palestine 22 May 2021 By: Dr. Noha Khalaf IX (Part 2) The imperative of transforming strategic concepts and philosophical mindsets by exchanging old biased allies with a different set of reliable allies 25 May 2021 By: Dr. Noha Khalaf* XI- Marwan Barghouti président de tous les Palestiniens ? XII - في يوم الأرض: وداعا سلمان ناطور الروائي المعجون بتربة الأرض XIII - DOCUMENTAIRES DE STÉPHANE VALENTIN Chapitre XIV- New ROAD MAP FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION The Palestinian issue to where?, 2020 XV-a استراتيجية لتصفية المشروع الصهيوني XV- b - A Strategy to end the Zionist Project in Palestine XV-c- Palestine Peace Movement (PPM) - Creating One State for Palestinians and Jews in Palestine XVI - Where to on Palestine? XVII - Appointment of Palestinian to Biden leadership team sparks controversy in Israel Chapitre XVIII- L’Université Brown inaugure « La Chaire Mahmoud Darwich Chapitre XIX I Volunteered at a Natural History Museum in Palestine [World Environment Day] Chapitre XX Mahmoud Darwichطباق عن إدوارد سعيد Chapitre XXI Volunteered at a Natural History Museum in Palestine [World Environment Day] Chapitre XXII COVID-19 pandemic in the State of Palestine Chapitre XXIII https://www.academia.edu/31928086/Le_patriote_palestinien_le_moins_connu_Ahmed_Hilmi_Pasha Chapitre XXIV : Le monde doit lutter contre l’annexion israélienne – qu’elle soit formelle ou non Chapitre XXV: HISTORIQUE DE L'APRÈS AL-NAKBA Chapitre XXVI : Hommage à l’écrivain Palestinien Salmane Natour Chapitre XXVII : L'Union européenne ne peut pas et ne doit pas inviter des Israéliens en Tunisie Chapitre XXVIII : LE MYTHE CHIRAC ET LA PALESTINE Chapitre XXIX: À Gaza, un peuple en cage Chapitre XXX APOCALYPSE GAZA (NOV.2012 DOCUMENTARY) Excerpt from PPM: The following points define the most important principles on which the movement is based, and the goals it seeks: 1. Establishing a single dual-identity state on all of Palestinian soil in which all Palestinian Jews and Arabs have the right to live in it as citizens with equal rights and duties. 2. The proposed state name is The Holy Land State of Palestine. 3. Writing a constitution for the state that guarantees the participation of the two peoples in power, and the sharing of executive power between the head of state and the prime minister. L’Université Brown inaugure « La Chaire Mahmoud Darwich EXCERPT from "L'énigmatique Ahmad Hilmi Pacha": https://www.academia.edu/31928086/Le_patriote_palestinien_le_moins_connu_Ahmed_Hilmi_Pasha The original text: http://www.mlfcham.com/v1/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1727:palestine-volume-iii-1948-al-nakba-2020-la-feuille-de-route&catid=272:palestine&Itemid=2273 "Le monde doit lutter contre l’annexion israélienne – qu’elle soit formelle ou non Par Ben White, le 20 mai 2020" Les graves violations du droit international et les politiques d’apartheid d’Israël ont persisté en grande partie parce qu’il n’en est pas tenu responsable internationalement. "À Gaza, un peuple en cage" À Gaza, un peuple en cage/In Gaza, a people in a cage Olivier Pironet Alors que les Israéliens sont appelés à élire un nouveau Parlement le 17 septembre, la bande de Gaza n'en finit pas de sombrer. Depuis treize ans, Tel-Aviv soumet le territoire palestinien dirigé par le Hamas à un blocus militaire dévastateur. Combien de temps la population pourra-t-elle tenir ? • Un territoire sous contrôle israélien O. P. • Le temps du marasme O. P. En dehors de quelques poches de vie dans les grandes agglomérations gazaouies, le temps est comme suspendu dans la bande côtière. Les jeunes, en particulier, se morfondent.

2019

See ResearchGate if this doesn't upload here. The volume traces the evolution of Palestine-Israel conflict through several historically-informed and roughly chronological, yet overlapping, investigations examining, inter alia: the effects of the First World War and the efforts of the Zionist movement culminating in the establishment of the State of Israel and the expulsion of over 700,000 Palestinians from the territories therein in 1947-48; missed opportunities for peace from 1967 to 1990 by reference to official policy documents; the revitalisation of Palestinian nationalism through the PLO after the 1967 war and the establishment of the Palestinian Authority in 1994; the competing rise and evolution of Islamic nationalism in Palestine, predominantly embodied by the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas; attempts at Palestinian institution-building contextualised by the profound influence of international donors and Israel; and the ongoing evolution of the relationship between Hamas and Israel. The final chapter canvases some of the rapidly evolving issues that have arisen over the last few years, including upheavals caused by the election of the Trump administration in the United States, and the periodic and ongoing conflicts between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. The volume will be of interest to both scholars and the general public wishing to understand the historical and present drivers of the conflict in the Holy Land.

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