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🇵🇸 Putting Palestinians "On a Diet": Israel's Siege & Blockade of Gaza | IMEU – 2014
Israel’s siege and blockade of Gaza are central pillars of a policy of economic warfare intended to punish the entire population of the tiny, occupied coastal strip in the hopes that Palestinians living there will blame Hamas for their predicament and reject the organization as well as any resistance to Israel’s continued control of the territory.
As noted by the UN and human rights organizations such as Amnesty International, this amounts to collective punishment, which is a violation of international law. (Read the article for more on the legal status of the blockade and siege.)
#Gaza #Blockade #UN #Hamas #InternationalLaw #HR #EconomicWarfare #Siege #CollectivePunishement #IMEU
Israel’s siege and blockade of Gaza are central pillars of a policy of economic warfare intended to punish the entire population of the tiny, occupied coastal strip in the hopes that Palestinians living there will blame Hamas for their predicament and reject the organization as well as any resistance to Israel’s continued control of the territory.
As noted by the UN and human rights organizations such as Amnesty International, this amounts to collective punishment, which is a violation of international law. (Read the article for more on the legal status of the blockade and siege.)
#Gaza #Blockade #UN #Hamas #InternationalLaw #HR #EconomicWarfare #Siege #CollectivePunishement #IMEU
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🇵🇸 Turning Point: Gaza Blockade
On 26 January 2006, a significant shift in the balance of power began.
The surprise triumph of Hamas in the Palestinian legislative elections shattered four decades of Fatah's rule, split the West Bank and Gaza between the groups and caused the indefinite blockade of Gaza.
In this episode of MEE’s history explainer series Turning Point, we take a look at how this moment led to Israel's implementation of a land, air, and naval blockade on the Gaza Strip. A siege confining 2.2 million Palestinians in the world's largest "open-air prison".
#Palestine #Gaza #Fatah #Hamas #Elections #Blockade #GazaBlockade
On 26 January 2006, a significant shift in the balance of power began.
The surprise triumph of Hamas in the Palestinian legislative elections shattered four decades of Fatah's rule, split the West Bank and Gaza between the groups and caused the indefinite blockade of Gaza.
In this episode of MEE’s history explainer series Turning Point, we take a look at how this moment led to Israel's implementation of a land, air, and naval blockade on the Gaza Strip. A siege confining 2.2 million Palestinians in the world's largest "open-air prison".
#Palestine #Gaza #Fatah #Hamas #Elections #Blockade #GazaBlockade
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🇵🇸 Instrumentalized activism: When Palestine becomes a showcase for foreign agendas
Amid the Israeli assault on the new #FreedomFlotilla—whose unarmed activists were arrested and ridiculed by the IOF—it is necessary to discuss who is spearheading solidarity with Palestine and from what ideological frameworks they do so.
One of the most emblematic cases is that of #GretaThunberg, whose image has been linked in recent years to multiple causes, including the Palestinian cause. However, her record shows a worrying trend: she has conflated support for Palestine with other causes such as the LGBT agenda or Western environmentalism, and has supported mobilizations in #Syria and #Iran that have clearly been promoted and financed by foreign agencies, such as the #Mossad and the #CIA, to destabilize the #resistance movement.
Thunberg has consistently condemned armed resistance and promotes a liberal, secular vision of human rights based on institutions like the #UN, disregarding the strategies that oppressed peoples have legitimately chosen to defend themselves. This isn't just political naiveté: it's a way of imposing alien ideological conditions on causes that have their own history, identity, and framework of struggle.
Their activism to impose restrictions on developing countries under the pretext of climate change has been applied to #Palestine: should they rebuild #Gaza with green energy while Israel destroys it with drones? Should the industrialization of occupied countries be halted in the name of the "ecological transition"? This demand is a modern form of domination that prevents colonized peoples from recovering and resisting.
The seizure of the flotilla is yet another example of #Zionist contempt for any act of solidarity, even symbolic. The IOF distributed food and water to the #activists as a mockery, even though those same products cannot enter Gaza due to the #blockade. Still, not everyone on board consistently represents the Palestinian cause. Along with Thunberg, there were MEPs who have supported the unrest in Iran, and none of them recognize the legitimacy of armed resistance.
Not every alliance or support is welcome if it weakens the ideological clarity of the struggle. We cannot support the Palestinian cause while condemning those who defend it with weapons.
The Palestinian cause doesn't need Western icons to "correct" it from a liberal perspective or to be used as a platform for foreign agendas. Confusing symbols, such as mixing the Palestinian flag with LGBT flags or decontextualized slogans, dilutes the anti-#colonial, spiritual, and revolutionary character of the struggle.
True solidarity is not posturing or spectacle. It does not replace organized resistance nor does it present itself as a moral alternative to combat. Only those who respect the nature of the struggle—including its armed dimension, its religious identity, and its rejection of imperialism—can truly say they are on the side of Palestine.
Liberating Palestine will not be an act of cosmopolitan morality, but of organized struggle.
@anaqtella
Amid the Israeli assault on the new #FreedomFlotilla—whose unarmed activists were arrested and ridiculed by the IOF—it is necessary to discuss who is spearheading solidarity with Palestine and from what ideological frameworks they do so.
One of the most emblematic cases is that of #GretaThunberg, whose image has been linked in recent years to multiple causes, including the Palestinian cause. However, her record shows a worrying trend: she has conflated support for Palestine with other causes such as the LGBT agenda or Western environmentalism, and has supported mobilizations in #Syria and #Iran that have clearly been promoted and financed by foreign agencies, such as the #Mossad and the #CIA, to destabilize the #resistance movement.
Thunberg has consistently condemned armed resistance and promotes a liberal, secular vision of human rights based on institutions like the #UN, disregarding the strategies that oppressed peoples have legitimately chosen to defend themselves. This isn't just political naiveté: it's a way of imposing alien ideological conditions on causes that have their own history, identity, and framework of struggle.
Their activism to impose restrictions on developing countries under the pretext of climate change has been applied to #Palestine: should they rebuild #Gaza with green energy while Israel destroys it with drones? Should the industrialization of occupied countries be halted in the name of the "ecological transition"? This demand is a modern form of domination that prevents colonized peoples from recovering and resisting.
The seizure of the flotilla is yet another example of #Zionist contempt for any act of solidarity, even symbolic. The IOF distributed food and water to the #activists as a mockery, even though those same products cannot enter Gaza due to the #blockade. Still, not everyone on board consistently represents the Palestinian cause. Along with Thunberg, there were MEPs who have supported the unrest in Iran, and none of them recognize the legitimacy of armed resistance.
Not every alliance or support is welcome if it weakens the ideological clarity of the struggle. We cannot support the Palestinian cause while condemning those who defend it with weapons.
The Palestinian cause doesn't need Western icons to "correct" it from a liberal perspective or to be used as a platform for foreign agendas. Confusing symbols, such as mixing the Palestinian flag with LGBT flags or decontextualized slogans, dilutes the anti-#colonial, spiritual, and revolutionary character of the struggle.
True solidarity is not posturing or spectacle. It does not replace organized resistance nor does it present itself as a moral alternative to combat. Only those who respect the nature of the struggle—including its armed dimension, its religious identity, and its rejection of imperialism—can truly say they are on the side of Palestine.
Liberating Palestine will not be an act of cosmopolitan morality, but of organized struggle.
@anaqtella