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There are moments in history that act as capsules and throwbacks that summarize decades or centuries of histories. The last 90 days in Gaza serve as such capsules and throwbacks.
A segment of over 2 million people locked up in the Gaza Strip, away from the eyes and ears of the world and under the shadow of the merciless thumb of a 15-year long blockade, staged a bold and daring act of violent resistance, killing and capturing hundreds of military personnel, and killing and capturing hundreds of noncombatants in the process.
Never in the 75-year history of brutality, occupation, and oppression that these people experienced since the Nakba of 1948 have they inflicted on their enemy such a blow. It was stunning to everyone in nearly every meaning of the word. It was so stunning, Benjamin Netanyahu and his cronies are still stumbling blindly in their response, exposing all their hands and cards and loudly and impudently announcing the atrocities and war crimes they have been intending on committing.
What has ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu and his band of butchers accomplished so far? Wanton destruction and industrialized slaughter of thousands upon thousands of women and children. The displacement of nearly 2 million people. The collapse of civilian infrastructure in Gaza. And the lasting image and impression of his government and army as a collection of mad murderous senseless lunatics hellbent on death and devastation.
They haven’t achieved anything else worthy of mention. They did not secure the safe release of dozens of captives through brute force. They haven’t ended the presence of armed and violent resistance in Palestine. And they haven’t successfully and efficiently capitalized on the global empathy and support they had on day one; that same empathy and support they burned through in their murderous rampage through Gaza.
Instead, they’ve lost more ground in the global arena. The pro-Palestine movement grows by the hour. The throngs marching from Sydney to Los Angeles gain support. The chants grow louder. The disrupting force grows stronger. And those who remain ardently supportive of the genocidal machine Netanyahu has unleashed upon the Palestinian people grow more isolated with each global summit.
The Palestinians, amid the bloody onslaught they have endured that has very few precedents (if any) in modern memory, have remained defiant. Huddled in what little shelter remains and in a new tent city established near their southern border with Egypt, they continue to endure manmade scarcity of food, fuel, and medicine in the heart of winter as diseases threaten the lives of those alive. And, in the face of a nuclear power backed by a nearly endless supply of arms and funding from Washington, the Palestinian resistance groups remain resilient and defiant as well, inflicting casualties and and damages to both personnel and vehicles of the invading forces.
Even after 90 days, the Palestinians remain resilient, resourceful, and defiant against insurmountable odds. Even after world leaders have proven to be useless and heartless as they failed time and again to end the barbaric genocidal Zionist crusade to eradicate 2 million people in Gaza, the people of Gaza still stand. And, even after all is said and done, these 90 days will live forever in history as 90 days and more in which the weak in supplies and force stood strong and held their own against the weak in morals and spirit.