OMNI WAR
WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #156, DECEMBER 13, 2023
Compiled by Dick Bennett
GAZA
inThe Nation
The December 18, 2023 number provides five articles entirely or partly about
the eradication of Gaza and demands for a ceasefire.
D.
D. Guttenplan (for
The Nation). “Stop the War.” “An immediate cease-fire remains the
essential first step…”
Mohammed El-Kurd. “The Right to Speak
for Ourselves.” “Palestinians are denied
the freedom to tell our own story.”
Atef Abu Saif. “A Month in Gaza.” “Life and death under the bombardment.”
Spencer Ackerman. “Forever Wars. The
‘rules based international order’ is all about US hegemony.”
Elie Mystal. “Biden on the Brink.” The “Trump would be worse” argument isn’t
attractive to Biden’s supporters who oppose his Israel-Palestine policies.
Three
books on Israel-Palestinians 2000-2021: a history of hope not even yet
destroyed as Gaza is being obliterated 2023, but the contrast of Kaufman-Lacusta’s title with
Halper’s --from plans for two states to one, of increasing oppression by Israel
and increasing desperation by the Palestinians, from nonviolent coexistence to
the fight of their lives-- encapsulates the sorrowful history . Dick’s notes.
Maxine
Kaufman-Lacusta. Refusing to Be
Enemies: Palestinian and Israeli Nonviolent Resistance to the Israeli
Occuption. 2011. (But the interviews which constitute much of
the book were gathered 2003-07.) The title cries out
the great hope felt by Palestinians and many Israelis in 2011. Glance at the bios of the distinguished
contributors from Palestine, Canada, Israel, and around the world.
Mazin
Qumsiyeh. Popular Resistance in
Palestine: A History of Hope and Empowerment. 2011.
While teaching
in the US, Prof. Qumsiyeh (come-see-ya) (Tennessee, Duke, Yale) visited OMNI
twice in his Wheels of Justice bus travelling the USA telling the Palestinian
story (a difficult task against the US-Israeli/AIPAC propaganda machine). Later he returned to the West Bank to teach
biology and peace at Bethlehem Univ.
Jeff
Halper. Decolonizing Israel,
Liberating Palestine: Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and the Case for One
Democratic State. 2021. Part I “Zionism as Settler Colonial Project”; Part II
“Three Cycles of Zionist Colonial Development”; Part III “Decolonizing Zionism,
Liberating Palestine.”
END OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #156, DECEMBER
13, 2023