Geographies of resistance against the US-enabled and funded Israeli genocidal war and ethnic cleaning in Palestine

Keywords: Israel, genocide, ethnic cleansing, US veto power, Palestinian resistance
Abstract Type: Virtual Paper Abstract

Abstract

Day 471 of the US-enabled and funded Israeli genocidal war in Gaza: 46,913 Palestinians killed, 110,750 injured (including 4,500 amputees), 11,000 missing, and 1.9 million (90% of Gaza population) displaced. Those killed include 17,385 children, 11,891 women, 2,421 elders, 183 journalists, 85 emergency responders, 1,054 medical staff, 496 education staff, and 203 UNRWA staff. In the first two months, Israel wreaked proportionally “more destruction on Gaza than the Allied bombing of Germany in World War II.” Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon killed 3,768, wounded 15,699, displaced 1.2 million, and caused 300,000 children to flee to Syria.
This paper argues that the Palestine-Israel conflict has reached a point of no return once the US vetoed Palestine’s UN membership and ceasefire in Gaza, while the International Court of Justice, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch, have found “reasonable grounds” for genocide in Gaza, and the ICC has issued arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. Meanwhile, Israel has rejected a Palestinian state, banned UNRWA, and authorized the deportation of relatives of Palestinian attackers.
This tragedy has only encouraged the Palestinians and their allies (a) to continue their heroic resistance, (b) to delegitimize Israel by exposing and refuting its “big lie” about the alleged Semitic ancestry of contemporary Israelis, (c) to explain “the big truth” about Israel’s unconstitutional domination over the American government via COP and AIPAC, and (d) to condemn the unconstitutional pressure put on American university professors and journalists who teach/disseminate these telling facts.