Normalmente, una pequeña manifestación antibélica no sería noticia de portada, a menos que ocurra en algún lugar como Moscú, donde pocos se atreven a presentar oposición abierta a la agresión del Kremlin contra Ucrania. El riesgo sería aún mayor en Gaza, devastada por la guerra. Incluso antes de este conflicto, la respuesta de Hamás a cualquier crítica a su mal gobierno era represión brutal y tortura. Pero el 25 de marzo, cientos de personas salieron a las calles en Beit Lahiya (norte de Gaza) para protestar no sólo contra la guerra, sino también contra Hamás. Coreando «basta de guerra», «fuera Hamás», «Hamás terroristas», los manifestantes enviaron el mensaje correcto: la guerra no terminará mientras Hamás, que la inició, siga en el poder.… Seguir leyendo »
After Hamas and Israel signed a ceasefire deal in January, I returned from Khan Younis to my home in Gaza City to find that only one room was still standing. Just enough, I thought, to start piecing my life back together. In March, the bombs started falling again.
The resumption of hostilities is a crushing blow to everyone in Gaza — except for Hamas, which cynically sees it as an opportunity to further entrench itself and resist being removed from control. With nothing left to lose, many of us Gazans in the past week have taken what little power we have to protest in the streets against the group that has dictated every aspect of our lives for 18 years.… Seguir leyendo »
Five weeks ago marked 300 days of the war on Gaza. Such levels of mass killing, destruction, forced displacement and starvation of our people are unprecedented in recent history.
In Gaza, fear and despair dominate as bombs relentlessly fall. Families huddle together in makeshift shelters, their homes reduced to rubble. Schools and hospitals, once havens, have become targets. Children’s cries of terror pierce the night as parents struggle to protect them. The stench of death hangs in the air, with hurried burials offering little dignity. Starvation and privation intensify, with food, clean water and medical supplies scarce and dwindling. War crimes and massacres weigh heavily on a people who have suffered far too long.… Seguir leyendo »
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The national unity agreement signed by Hamas and Fatah in Beijing on 23 July will not put China on a par with the United States in the Middle East or establish it as an alternative mediator.
Washington has no role in this game, as it can’t speak directly to Hamas. Similar conditions facilitated the China-brokered Saudi-Iranian normalization of March 2023. China’s aims in brokering the declaration are more strategic and long-term.
In this case, negotiations have only achieved broad principles, not a comprehensive agreement. True Palestinian unity requires a structural change in the Palestinians’ political and ideological heritage; deep reform and inclusion of all factions in their institutions; democratic elections; and, above all, an end to the war in Gaza.… Seguir leyendo »
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La guerre israélienne contre la bande de Gaza fait rage depuis 270 jours, avec un bilan d’au moins 38 430 morts et 86 969 blessés depuis le 7 octobre, selon le ministère de la Santé de Gaza. Nous assistons en direct à ce que plusieurs éminents juristes considèrent déjà comme un génocide en cours.
Cette guerre a aussi porté gravement atteinte à l’environnement, avec des conséquences sur l’air, l’eau et la terre, ainsi que sur tous ceux qui en dépendent. Les émissions immédiates de carbone dues à la guerre sont stupéfiantes, avec une estimation moyenne de 536 410 tonnes de dioxyde de carbone au cours des 120 premiers jours de la guerre, dont 90 % sont attribuées aux bombardements aériens et à l’invasion israélienne terrestre de Gaza.… Seguir leyendo »
Antes de la reciente cumbre del G7, la secretaria del Tesoro de Estados Unidos, Janet L. Yellen, en una poco frecuente reprimenda a Israel, le advirtió que sus planes de dejar a las instituciones financieras palestinas fuera del sistema bancario global amenazarían la estabilidad económica de Cisjordania. Pero su advertencia tal vez llegó demasiado tarde para frenar al ministro de Finanzas de extrema derecha de Israel, Bezalel Smotrich, quien parece decidido a socavar los últimos vestigios del autogobierno ya limitado de la Autoridad Palestina (AP) en Cisjordania.
Las sanciones que quiere imponer Smotrich -específicamente, revocar la exención que les permite a los bancos israelíes facilitar transacciones con los palestinos por temor a una acción legal- son una respuesta al reconocimiento formal de un estado palestino por parte de Irlanda, Noruega y España.… Seguir leyendo »
Two months ago, my family opened the first soup kitchen in Beit Lahia, my hometown in northern Gaza. We served a simple vegetable stew — a spin on traditional Gazan recipes like fogaiyya and sumagiyya — made with whatever vegetables we could get our hands on. On our first day, we fed 120 families. A local photographer snapped photos, and we even made the local news.
By now, the daily routine is dignifying and familiar. Our mother wakes at the crack of dawn to peel and prepare produce, my father sources spices, and I work as operations manager. By 7 a.m.,… Seguir leyendo »
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Easter marks the resurrection of Jesus, but this year the holiday comes with a twist: Jesus resurrected as Palestinian. Never mind that Jesus was born and died a Jew in Judaea. From the pronouncement of a member of Congress to the pages of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Jesus is now heralded as a “Palestinian” or, more delicately, as a “Palestinian Jew”.
Jesus made an appearance on social media as a “Palestinian” around Christmas, and the meme has flourished since then. The gambit casts 1st-century Jews in the role of an occupying power and “Palestinians” as their victims. Just as Herod, the king of Judaea in Jesus’ time, persecuted the “Palestinian” holy family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph, so, too, goes the claim, is modern Israel an occupying power persecuting Palestinians today.… Seguir leyendo »
Recientemente, el Gobierno de España ha declarado que reconocerá en el futuro próximo al Estado de Palestina. Pedro Sánchez, que siempre ha antepuesto el interés nacional a cualesquiera intereses electorales, está detrás de esta sabia y valiente decisión.
Obviamente estaba siendo sarcástico.
El asunto de Palestina para los intereses españoles representa un cero a la izquierda, mientras que las relaciones industriales de Defensa y seguridad y las económicas con Israel sí tienen relevancia en determinados ámbitos, de los que sólo el de la seguridad puede ser considerado estratégico. Al menos hasta que llegaron los Acuerdos de Abraham con Marruecos y la crisis del procés, en la que el Gobierno de Netanyahu se hizo de rogar antes de declarar que, al igual que el resto de la comunidad internacional, no reconocía ninguna república en Cataluña.… Seguir leyendo »
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In one of my earliest memories, I am sitting in my teta’s (grandmother’s) lap. The scent of ripe figs fills the air with the calm satisfaction of late summer. We’re in the shade of our cool limestone veranda surrounded by the family’s verdant mountain farmland in a village that is now in Israel but to me has always been Palestine.
Our hands work together to pull apart grape leaves we had picked from the vines in her garden. My teta would use the leaves to cook my favorite dish: warak enab, or stuffed grape leaves. My grandparents were fellahin (farmers). They worked the land, and the land worked them.… Seguir leyendo »
I got into politics when I was 15, joining Fatah Youth in Jerusalem during the first intifada in 1987. Several years later, and with other young Fatah leaders, I met Mahmoud Abbas in his office in Ramallah, West Bank. He was the No. 2 in the Palestine Liberation Organization back then. He was in his 50s; we were in our 20s. Despite the age gap, we always enjoyed spending time with him. “You are tomorrow’s leaders”, he would tell us.
Today, Mr. Abbas is in his late 80s, we are in our 50s, and that tomorrow never came.
Thirty years after the Oslo Accords, the Palestinians who led the first intifada — and helped bring some of their exiled leaders back from Tunisia — feel they have been betrayed.… Seguir leyendo »
I keep waiting for someone to wake me up.
As I witness the surreal and staggering devastation on the streets of Gaza, where my parents live, and the tragic loss of more than 10,000 Palestinian lives unfolding in real time, my heart keeps sinking.
I hold on to the hope that something, or someone, can end this nightmare. But that never happens.
Instead, I find myself mourning every day for the families affected and grieving for the profound injustices that permit such a horrifying loss of life to persist.
My wife and I wake up each morning in Virginia knowing we won’t find any good news some 6,000 miles away in Gaza.… Seguir leyendo »
Remarking on the Israel-Gaza war in a news conference Wednesday, President Biden declared, “When this crisis is over, there has to be a vision of what comes next. And in our view, it has to be a two-state solution”. There will likely be much more fighting before any such arrangement can start to take shape. But when it does, the warring parties and international facilitators will need to learn from past mistakes.
The fractured Palestinian elections in 2006 led to a bitter and tragic schism between two factions, Hamas and Fatah. When Israel says it has no one with whom to negotiate a two-state solution, there is a degree of truth to that.… Seguir leyendo »
Me he mudado dos veces a Estados Unidos desde que nací. Una vez fue de niña, tras la invasión iraquí de Kuwait. Y después otra vez, para estudiar el posgrado. Tuve el privilegio de vivir una juventud —la adolescencia y los primeros años de la edad adulta— en países donde ser palestina era bastante común. La identidad podía pesar mucho, pero no estaba en tela de juicio. No había tenido que aprender la política de la respetabilidad de ser una adulta palestina. Aprendí rápido.
La tarea del palestino es ser aceptable o ser condenado. La tarea del palestino, como hemos visto en las dos últimas semanas, es pasar una prueba para obtener empatía y compasión.… Seguir leyendo »
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