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Wed 30 Jul 2025 9:06 am - Jerusalem Time

Insistence on survival

Hamada Faraana

Hamada Faraana

Opinion Writer

While the colony’s war minister, Israel Katz, threatens to turn the Gaza Strip into hell, as if he, his colony, his soldiers and his apparatus have not done so, and have not exceeded all humanitarian, moral and legal standards, in killing Palestinian civilians, martyring tens of thousands, wounding many times that number, the majority of whom are children, women and the elderly, and destroying more than two-thirds of the Gaza Strip, he and his fascist extremist president, and their alliance with Ben-Gvir and Smotrich, and their foreign settlers in the Palestinian West Bank, its camps and villages, continue to commit all kinds of atrocities. Netanyahu boasts that he opened the gates for the entry of food, water, essential supplies and medicine to the Gaza Strip, even though he was forced to do so, submissive to the hunger, pain and steadfastness of the Palestinians, and he yielded to them because of the extent of the European pressures and protests: popular, official, parliamentary and partisan, in solidarity with Palestine and in rejection of the colony’s behavior, policies and crimes. These countries that created the colony and adopted its Zionist project on the land of Palestine: Britain, France, Germany, Italy and others, are Leading protests against the colony and its crimes against Palestinian children.

In light of these facts, the Palestine Conference, initiated by Saudi Arabia and France, is being held. This is a unique initiative that has brought all countries of the world, or a majority of them, to express their position, support, and solidarity with Palestine from the podium of the United Nations. It was truly a remarkable day: Monday, July 28, 2025, as Palestine Day, recalling the suffering of its people, supporting their struggle, and affirming their right to freedom, independence, and the end of the occupation.

The struggle of the Palestinian people will not achieve a decisive victory over the Israeli colonial project on Palestinian land, nor will it defeat it. Rather, it is a continuous, gradual struggle, with cumulative achievements in two directions:

The first is the decline of the colony’s status and the exposure of its true nature as a racist, expansionist, colonial colony with fascist behavior, apparatuses, and tools.

Secondly, to advance the status of Palestine and reveal the truth of its cause as a just cause deserving of support, backing, sympathy for its people, and solidarity with their struggle.

In both cases, it proceeds in a gradual, multi-stage manner, as in the case of the Palestinian struggle, which began with its first stage: the birth of the PLO as a national front comprising factions, parties, professional and popular unions, and independent entities, before 1967, and the Battle of Karameh in 1968, in which and during which the Jordanian Arab Army achieved victory, in favor of Palestine and its revolution, and which reaped its results and outcome.

The second stage: the 1987 Intifada, which forced the colonial government to recognize the Palestinian people, the PLO, and the political rights of Palestinians through the 1993 Oslo Accords, which achieved the transition from exile to homeland and the birth of the first Palestinian Authority on Palestinian soil.

The third stage: The Second Intifada in 2000, which forced Sharon to leave the Gaza Strip in 2005, after dismantling settlements and removing Israeli military bases.

The fourth stage: the October 7, 2023, struggle and its repercussions. Just as the three stages had their price, including the assassination of resistance leaders: Yasser Arafat, Ahmed Yassin, Mustafa al-Zubari, and other first-class leaders, here is the unprecedented fourth stage, with the Palestinian people paying a heavy price for what has been achieved, and what could be achieved, in terms of national accomplishments on the road to the fifth stage.

Israel Katz clearly states that the agreement and ceasefire will have strategic consequences. This is why Netanyahu, along with US President Trump, is working to transform Israel's failure in the Gaza Strip into a political victory, following the military failure on the ground and in the field. This explains the intensity of the political confrontations, the hesitation to implement the ceasefire, and the delay in providing the essential needs of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.

The Palestine Conference at the United Nations would not have taken place without:

1- The suffering and pain of the Palestinians, which stirred the world’s feelings, emotions and sympathy, and the transfer of this to political action through this conference, which was initiated by Saudi Arabia and France, and with the approval of the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

2- The extremism and criminal behavior of the colonial government.

Countries of the world are increasingly recognizing the State of Palestine, with France at the forefront, and other countries will follow, which confirms that the struggle and sacrifices of the Palestinian people have results, and the conference

Palestine, which made a memorable day in its favor, is the culmination of these achievements and the political price of these sacrifices.

Journalist Lina Yousef Alian, in a radio interview on Hawa Amman Radio, insisted on describing what is happening between Gaza and New York as: “an insistence on survival,” in response to all the massacres the Palestinian people are being subjected to, and in response to attempts at liquidation and elimination.


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