Our Palestinian Situation on Day 697
TRANSCEND MEMBERS, 8 Sep 2025
Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service
3 Sep 2025 – My friends in Gaza city are messaging me with desperate messages as they prepare to be forced out yet again (or killed). The scenes are apocalyptic as Israeli forces are leveling whole neighborhoods and leaving no witnesses to the slaughter. Famine is officially declared in the Gaza Strip [1]. While most governments with notable exception of imperial powers want the killing to end [2], the horrific genocide continues and no one is spared [3]. Lest we forget, this did not start
October 2023 (only accelerated using the pretext of the Gaza Ghetto uprising as justification for destroying 2.3 million lives). This week we commemorate the massacre of Sabra and Shatila 1982 among hundreds of massacres [4]. What of the US/Israeli plans of reducing the population of Gaza via extermination and eliminating resistance to build the “Gaza riviera”? This is real and historically has happened.
A good example is the U.S. government’s backing of the 1965–66 genocide (0.5-1 million murdered) which enabled Suharto’s dictatorship which created the “investment-friendly” climate that corporations exploited. Bali’s resorts for example, marketed as paradises, were built on the social and political ruins of that violence—where mass killings had destroyed opposition and allowed the state to commodify land and culture for tourism. As for the West Bank, the fate of the Gaza strip awaits us [5].
The Zionist history is one of massacres, ethnic cleansing, and false flags and blame shifted to their victims including labeling resistance as terrorism [6]. Most of the US public support Palestine and reject US government partnership with Israeli genocide of our people [7]. The power of the Zionist lobby is weakening everywhere. Yet the gangsters running the US government violate US law by supporting Israel against the Leahy amendment and signed global conventions. And the genocide
continues and even intensifes. The US is also blocking Palestinians from entering including treatment seekers and the entire UN delegation (illegal according to UN charter) all in service of the rogue zionist project. This will further isolate the US and we saw rising powers.
But the struggle continues and we are heartened first and foremost by the resilience and resistance (Sumud) of our people [8] and second by the global awakening. is escalating globally (the global intifada is spreading). The flotilla is sailing with over 50 ships [9]. There are calls for military interventionto stop the genocide [10]. A Gaza tribuna is convening this Thursday and Friday [11]. Zionists are losing ground globally. The only question is how fast the collapse of the US/Israeli empire will happen? It does matter if it is one month or 2 years because lives are lost every single day and the environment also suffers [12]. That is why we must all work harder.
NOTES:
[1] https://www.ipcinfo.org/ipcinf
https://genocidescholars.org/w
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?
[3] reporting here https://www.aljazeera.com/ and here https://betterworld.info/GazaW
[4] See about that massacre http://qumsiyeh.org/sabraandsh
[5] https://www.ochaopt.org/ https://www.btselem.org/topic/
[6] https://www.thenorthstar.com/p
http://qumsiyeh.org/chapter6/
[8] Examples of heroism https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/
https://youtu.be/twIyGIQZDiI
[9] Flotilla sails:
https://youtu.be/_1ACIYyf0Pk (Greta!)
https://youtu.be/NG2zrG6CX9A
https://www.youtube.com/live/x
https://youtu.be/zvOd_JVbIE4
[10] Way that we could confront this regime by a legal military intervention. https://protect-palestine.com/
[11] https://www.youtube.com/watch?
[12] https://www.bethlehem.edu/2025
https://theecologist.org/2025/
and also https://www.ppesydney.net/ecoc
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Mazin Qumsiyeh, associate professor of genetics and director of cytogenetic services at Yale University School of Medicine, is founder and president of the Holy Land Conservation Foundation and ex-president of the Middle East Genetics Association. He won the Raymond Jallow Activism Award from the national Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee in 1998. He is co-founder and national treasurer of Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, and has written extensively about the Middle East. Qumsiyeh is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment, author of Sharing the Land of Canaan and Popular Resistance in Palestine, a professor at Bethlehem University and director of the Palestine Museum of Natural History in Bethlehem. http://palestinenature.org
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