A-Infos (en) Italy, FAI, Umanita Nova #31-25 - Palestine. Genocide without respite (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

News about the truce are piling up, and while the poor remains of the 
deceased hostages are gradually being returned to their loved ones, 
between one bombing and another, the cold and cynical mass media 
accounts record hundreds more deaths among Gazans, mostly boys and 
girls: just simple numbers without identity, without image, dehumanized 
as always. ---- As I write, news is arriving of the US proposal for a 
security corridor for the transfer of Hamas militants from areas 
controlled by the Israeli army and those temporarily abandoned by the 
IDF, along with a further commitment by the Trump administration to 
establish a new Palestinian police force to control the Strip-trained 
and controlled by the US, Egypt, and Jordan-supported by a military 
force made up of soldiers from Arab and Muslim countries such as 
Indonesia, Azerbaijan, Egypt, and Turkey, under the aegis of a "Peace 
Council" led by Trump and his followers. On the one hand, these news 
signals US recognition-beyond bellicose declarations-of Hamas's 
existence as a political entity, and no longer just a terrorist one. On 
the other, they demonstrate how the US itself wants to force the 
situation to make the Tel Aviv government accept Turkey's role in the 
area, an increasingly invasive presence in an area rich in energy 
resources, but also a hub for digital interconnections between 
continents. It is no coincidence that the issue of the division of 
Cyprus and Turkey's alert in defense of its enclave have resurfaced.

At the same time, the United Nations reports that 24,000 tons of aid 
have entered Gaza since the ceasefire began. However, although aid 
volumes have increased considerably compared to before, the NGOs present 
continue to denounce their inadequacy, the lack of funding, and the 
difficulties in relations with the Israeli authorities. Only two of the 
six crossings are open; Furthermore, the water network is practically 
destroyed, and drinking water is only available from cisterns, which 
meet 20-30% of the population's needs. Ninety percent of the population 
has lost all sources of income and depends exclusively on humanitarian 
aid. With the arrival of winter, finding housing solutions becomes 
increasingly urgent-at least 300,000 tents are estimated to be needed to 
shelter those who have lost everything-while healthcare facilities, with 
very few exceptions, are out of order.

Meanwhile, in Israel, the families of the hostages, awaiting the bodies 
still under the rubble, are calling on the government to resume its 
offensive until all are returned. Meanwhile, a large demonstration of 
200,000 ultra-Orthodox youth in Jerusalem is vigorously protesting 
against compulsory military service, from which they have so far been 
exempted for religious reasons. Even as they support the most extreme 
wings of the plan-Bible in hand-for a greater Israel, from the Nile to 
the Euphrates, including Damascus and Baghdad, including the destruction 
of the al-Aqsa Mosque-a sacred site for Islam-on whose ruins the Third 
Temple of Solomon will be built.

In this context, the truce is showing all its fragility, with harsh 
Israeli reprisals, the fluidity of the borders and occupation zones, and 
Hamas's resistance to the planned disarmament, especially after being 
appointed by the Americans as police. Fragile, but holding. In the 
background are the "Abraham Accords," pushed by Trump during his first 
presidency, along with the recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. 
These agreements were designed to continue and intensify business ties 
between himself and his son-in-law Jared Kushner, with Arab partners 
from the Emirates and Saudi Arabia, and with the collaboration of Tony 
Blair, a consultant to British Petroleum, who went down in history for 
his false justifications for the West's attack on Saddam Hussein's Iraq. 
The Abraham Accords are keystones for the long-awaited "cotton route" 
that would connect India to Europe, passing through the Israeli ports of 
Haifa and Ashdod, an alternative to China's "Silk Road," sealing the 
growing antagonism between the US and China, the full impact of which 
the recent meeting between Trump and Xi highlighted for world trade and 
the respective, albeit incomplete, division of spheres of influence.

Trump's business-minded pragmatism was certainly needed to reach a truce 
and the 20-point 'peace' plan, after seeing his role in the region 
called into question with the Israeli attack on Qatar and forcing 
Netanyahu to apologize to the emir.

His diktat regarding the Knesset's decision to annex much of the West 
Bank, as well as his withdrawal from the proposal to expel Palestinians 
from the Strip and his mention of Marwan Barghouti's name, also indicate 
that the game is too big to slavishly follow the dreams of Bibi and his 
henchmen. But that's not all.

The growing intolerance of Jewish communities around the world (there 
are as many Jews in the US as in Israel) toward the Tel Aviv 
government's genocidal policies-the recent open letter from prominent 
Jewish figures around the world calling on the United Nations and world 
leaders to impose sanctions on Israel for what they describe as actions 
amounting to genocide in Gaza (https://jewsdemandaction.org/italiano) 
(https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/22/jewish-notables-open-letter-un-sanction-israel)-the 
ongoing demonstrations around the world, as well as the latest US polls, 
which for the first time show a negative result for Israel, must have 
had some effect on the decisions taken. How definitive and effective 
they will be, of course, remains to be seen. If for many years the 
existence - and even the creation - of the enemy (see the ambiguous 
relationship with Hamas in its anti-PNA function) provided Netanyahu 
with the weapon for the country's unity, at a time of grave internal 
crisis, and the pretext to thwart the two-state solution, with the aim 
of definitively incorporating the West Bank, today - after Trump's 
agreement with the Houthis in Yemen and the US overtures towards Iran 
following the bombings of June this year - Bibi must find a way out that 
will allow him to maintain power in a very complicated social and 
political situation. With the formal annexation of the West Bank 
postponed, the informal but effective annexation continues, with 
settlers, supported by the government and backed by the army, engaged in 
driving Palestinians from their lands by burning homes, beatings and 
murders, stealing livestock, and uprooting olive trees, their main 
source of income. This is a method used by colonizers everywhere and 
throughout history (who could forget the extermination of bison during 
the "conquest" of the West?). But how long can Israel continue its 
warlike policy, and how long can it sustain the economic burden of such 
a policy? Beyond its facade of a monolithic country, "Super Sparta," 
Israel is plagued by major internal contradictions, exacerbated by an 
unfavorable international environment: the United States is also in 
crisis, and Trump's attempts at resolution, however spectacular, must 
contend with the "internal" war he has unleashed against the opposition, 
immigrants, and so on. The international stage serves his own business, 
not the country he presides over.

The demographic growth of the ultra-Orthodox (Haredim), with their 
accompanying privileges, will increase conflict with the secular part of 
the country, just as massive Russian immigration is shifting the 
country's center of gravity to the detriment of the Mizrahi, Jews from 
Arab countries. Furthermore, there are growing signs of opposition 
within the establishment itself: very recently, news of the denunciation 
of the inhumane treatment and torture to which Palestinian detainees are 
subjected in Israeli prisons led to the resignation of the Attorney 
General of the Armed Forces. And this while the mobilization of 
refuseniks (conscription evaders and objectors), Jewish organizations 
defending Palestinian rights like B'Tselem, and opponents of occupation 
and war, who have always been targeted by government repression, 
continues unabated.

And then there is the resistance of the Palestinians, especially that of 
the population who, despite everything, resists settler attacks, land 
expropriation, the destruction of villages, and ethnic cleansing in the 
West Bank, supported primarily by Bezalel Smotrich, the Finance 
Minister, amidst the essentially passive Palestinian National Authority 
whose intelligence services collaborate with Israeli ones in controlling 
the population. And then there is the Gaza people who, despite the 
terrible conditions in which they are forced to survive, the victim of 
decisions over which they have no choice, shun any offer of exile, of 
leaving a tormented land with more than 80% of its buildings destroyed 
or damaged.

In his recent book, "The End of Israel," Israeli historian Ilan Pappé 
predicts the country's rapid collapse, due to the growing conflict 
between its two souls: one rooted in original Zionism and the other in 
the religious ultra-Zionism formed in the school of American Rabbi Meir 
Kahane, who advocated the deportation of all Palestinians and Arabs from 
the biblical territories of Greater Israel. But whatever the development 
of the situation in that devastated land, we must surely expect further 
suffering and bloodshed. Will international and internationalist 
mobilization succeed in profoundly overturning the current state of 
affairs? Will it succeed in raising the issue of a different management 
of the territories, free from borders and exclusionary identities, 
finally aware of the destructive value of nationalism and the 
constructive value of self-managing federalism?

Massimo Varengo

https://umanitanova.org/palestina-genocidio-senza-tregua/
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