Intimidation...and disgust: two Israeli weapons for ethnic cleansing

The Palestinian people, whether in the areas of 1967 or 1948, who suffer from Zionist atrocities, have proven that they cling to their soil, just as their number on their land is increasing. The new Palestinian generation, which the Israelis bet on “forgetting or despairing,” embodies multiple resistances from time to time that surprise the Israelis, such that the youth of this generation have become able to find a kind of mutual balance of power, even if it is unequal, in the face of the Israeli occupation practices. This steadfastness is achieved despite the continued killing, persecution, starvation, and siege, whether in the West Bank or the Gaza Strip, and whether with the spread of organized crime in Palestine 1948, where the Zionist state adopted a policy of continuing ethnic cleansing, behind which it “hopes” to force the Palestinians to leave, whether through intimidation or disgust as weapons of ethnic cleansing.

In the West Bank, the monster of colonialism/settlement continues to dispossess lands with the intensification of settler attacks with clear support from the occupation army and security services. According to the report issued by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Palestinian Territories (OCHA): “More than 1,100 Palestinians have been displaced from their residential areas in the West Bank due to Israeli settler attacks since 2022, in light of the increase in settler violence throughout the West Bank over the past years.” “There were three settler-related incidents per day on average during the first eight months of 2023, compared to an average of two incidents per day in 2022 and one per day in the previous year.” The report stated that this is the highest daily rate of settler-related incidents affecting Palestinians since the United Nations began recording this data in 2006.

As for the Gaza Strip, there is no problem! The severe sea, land and air blockade that has continued since 2007, which has turned the Gaza Strip into “the largest prison in the world,” has made the situation in it a place unfit for living. The Gaza Strip, according to several parties, is likely to witness an increase in the number of young people wishing to immigrate despite the risks of travel and the lack of clarity about the future in the country of immigration, insisting on leaving, in search of better opportunities that they did not find in the Gaza Strip. Indeed, the sea swallowed dozens of them, not to mention the continuous bombardment of every stray and incoming person, which made life in the entire Strip almost impossible.

In Palestine 1948, the Zionist state facilitates organized crime in Arab society, which is an old/new policy towards the Arabs, whom it deals with as a hostile community. The catastrophe of violence and weapons chaos is caused by the Israeli president and his facilities, his spread of mafias and drugs, and the ease of obtaining weapons, leaving the line open to further bleeding of Palestinian blood without following up on these crimes or arresting their perpetrators. It is noticeable the large quantity of weapons in Arab society, which, according to the Israeli press, are of the type available to the occupation army and Israeli security forces, which are difficult (close to impossible) to obtain.

Intimidation... and disgust... are two Israeli weapons for ethnic cleansing in historic Palestine, leading to “more Jews and fewer Arabs”! However, awareness and resistance are, at the same time, Palestinian weapons for survival and steadfastness.