Source: In These Times
by Jehad Abusalim
“When Israel was established in the Nakba of 1948, it was built on top of 78% of historic Palestine, destroying more than 500 Palestinian towns and villages and forcefully displacing more than 750,000 people. But one small strip of land remained beyond the Israeli conquest. It was just a fraction of what had been taken by Zionist militias, but this small territory of 140 square miles — the Gaza Strip — would emerge not only as a site of resistance to Zionism, but as a force that would challenge colonialism, imperialism and apartheid both globally and locally. It is, as Palestinian storyteller Mahmoud Darwish would write in the poem ‘Silence for Gaza,’ translated from the Arabic by Sinan Antoon, equal to ‘the history of an entire homeland, because it is more ugly, impoverished, miserable and vicious in the eyes of enemies.'” (03/26/25)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/palestine-israel-genocide-resistance-zionism