{"id":33183,"date":"2024-05-17T08:03:50","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T06:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/?p=33183"},"modified":"2024-05-22T13:06:57","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T11:06:57","slug":"postscript-disrupting-the-colonial-gaze-gaza-and-israel-after-october-7th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/postscript-disrupting-the-colonial-gaze-gaza-and-israel-after-october-7th\/","title":{"rendered":"Postscript: Disrupting the Colonial Gaze\u2014Gaza and Israel after October 7th"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In commemoration of the 76th anniversary of the Nakba.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 1948 catastrophe, which disenfranchized the Palestinian people from their lands, livelihoods, civil rights and self-determination, is revisited in all its horrors during Israel\u2019s continuing war on Gaza and assault of the West Bank, according to leading thinkers and activists.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ivar Ekeland and Sara Roy<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Gaza experiment is ongoing, and it is taking the world further than any of us would have thought possible. In our article, \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/the-new-politics-of-exclusion-gaza-as-prologue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The New Politics of Exclusion: Gaza as Prologue<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u201d published more than two years ago, we claimed that Israel had turned Gaza into a human laboratory where entirely new conditions were artificially created. A society numbering over two million people found itself cut off from the world, confined by fences and walls to a small sliver of land and kept under constant surveillance, deprived of every right except the right to what Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben calls a \u201cbare life\u201d; that is, a life reduced to the mere biological dimension of eating and reproducing. They were even deprived of the means to exercise that right, since they were almost entirely dependent on the outside world for food, water, medicine, and fuel, like animals in a cage. We claimed that this experiment was a portent of things to come, that Western countries were creating mini-Gazas around the world to park unwanted people, mostly non-white migrants (Ukrainians are welcome in Europe, Africans are not), and we were wondering where this terrible state of affairs would lead us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now we know. The end of the Gaza experiment is no longer to ensure separation or repudiation, but elimination through genocidal slaughter, or, more euphemistically, \u201cforced\u201d or \u201cvoluntary\u201d emigration to other lands largely unwilling to accept these Palestinians. At a conference held in Jerusalem on January 28, 2024 entitled, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Conference for the Victory of Israel \u2014 Settlement Brings Security: Returning to the Gaza Strip and Northern Samaria<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the participants, who numbered in the thousands and included several government ministers and Knesset members, called <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for the resettlement of the Gaza Strip and the transfer of Palestinians who live there. Shlomo Karhi, Israel\u2019s Minister of Communications, explained what he meant by \u201cvoluntary emigration\u201d in times of war: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">voluntary\u2019 is at times a state you impose [on someone] until they give their consent.&#8221;<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">(1)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As this conference shows, the goal of \u201cexterminating the brutes\u201d and the racism underlying it, are no longer concealed, but openly justified and valorized. This is what Israel has long proclaimed, repeatedly and consistently, from top to bottom, from the Prime Minister and other members of government, calling the Palestinians \u201canimals\u201d and \u201cwild beasts\u201d to soldiers on the ground in Gaza, chanting and dancing in the ruins to the tune of \u201cthere are no innocent Palestinians,\u201d as the brief of South Africa to the International Court of Justice has convincingly documented. For Israel, furthermore, not only are Palestinians guilty, they also are criminal. Israel\u2019s President Herzog stated it thus: \u201cIt\u2019s an entire nation out there that is responsible. This rhetoric about civilians not aware, not involved, it\u2019s absolutely not true. They could\u2019ve risen up, they could have fought against that evil regime.\u201d<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">(2)<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> That is, not only are Palestinians responsible for their own justifiable deaths, they also are guilty of not struggling against Hamas to protect Israelis. They exist either to protect Israel or to destroy it.<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">(3)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This points to another critical dynamic of the post-October 7<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> world: the criminalization of context and the abandonment of history. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">History did not begin on October 7<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">as Israel has argued when it claimed that the attack was unprovoked. Yet, the attempt to historicize and contextualize Israel\u2019s repression of Palestinians and the damage it has wrought on Palestinian life over seven decades, is treated as justification for the horrific murder of Israeli men, women, and children, and therefore morally reprehensible and illicit. Rather, the devastation that occupation imposed at the individual and societal level was not only ignored over the last 56 years, but also deemed necessary and justifiable by Israel and the West. As we argued in our original piece, Israel\u2019s aim \u2014 until October 7<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2014 was not the \u201cdeath of the \u2018Indigenous other\u2019 \u2014 as it is now \u2014 but his nullification, along with the counter-memories and counterclaims that otherness naturally embodies. In this way, Israel \u2026 redefined the colonial distinction between self and other, the space that Israelis and Palestinians inhabit. In this redefined space, there [could] be no approach or nearing, let alone engagement \u2026 reciprocity or redemption&#8230; Palestinians [were] erased from Israel\u2019s emotional and political landscape, precluding contestation and complexity, and restoring to Jewish Israelis a knowable, unambiguous, easily interpretable clarity.\u201d<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">(4)<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is this clarity that October 7<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> destroyed.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Invisibility of Palestinian Lives<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Consequently, the philosopher Judith Butler argues, Palestinians are \u201cdeprived of life before they are killed, transformed into inert matter or destructive instrumentalities . . . To kill such a person, indeed, such a population, thus calls upon a racism that differentiates in advance who will count as a life and who will not \u2026 Under such conditions, it becomes possible to think that ending life in the name of defending life is possible, even righteous.\u201d<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">(5)<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is this very argument that Israel now uses to justify its shredding of Gaza and the destruction of its people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hence, it is only Israeli life that is valid and consequential, innocent and civilian. Palestinians exist either as the \u201cguardian of Israeli life or colonized subject \u2026 Whether Palestinians are worthy of merely living or dying depends thus on their active acceptance or refusal to remain colonized.\u201d<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">(6)<\/span> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Any possibility of living through a shared experience has been extinguished. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The question remains why is the destruction of Palestinian life met with such \u201ccalm uninterest and lack of remorse, reflecting, what the historian Gabriel Kolko termed the \u2018absence of a greater sense of abhorrence\u2019\u201d?<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">(7)<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 So repudiated, Palestinians have long failed to enter our consciousness let alone our conscience until now, but only when Israeli lives were destroyed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another point related to the barring of context <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is the failure<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to connect the everyday nature of oppression with Palestinian actions including military escalation \u2014 a failure to account for the lived experiences of Palestinians and the misery that so deeply defines it.<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">(8)<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> This failure sees Palestinians as something separate and distant, impenetrable, unable to approximate the Other as us. Deprived of any claims based on justice, Palestinians continue to remain absent in Israeli eyes. \u201cThe real threat, therefore, lies not in acts of Palestinian violence against Israel but in understanding that those acts are responding to injustice and dehumanization. . . in making Palestinians intimate, in seeing the world through their eyes \u2026 in rejecting any endeavor that would treat them as indeterminate and notional, or consign them to abstraction.\u201d<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">(9)<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Or as Professor Ghassan Hage has argued, \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the war\/siege society, social explanation can disrupt the way both self and society are invited to define and stabilize themselves against an other that has to remain different and unknowable. Social explanation can threaten the warring self with disintegration, which is why it sometimes unleashes such passionate response. Social explanation is not merely rejected. The threat of the humanized other it carries with it is affectively feared<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u201d<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">(10)<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 Hence, it must be understood that evil resides in the conditions not in the people \u2014 what other scholars have termed \u201cstructural sin.\u201d<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">(11)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As far as Israel and the West are concerned, the siege, including in its current genocidal form, was accepted and unquestioned, in effect telling Palestinians in Gaza, this is how you must live, and this is the violence you are expected to endure even if it means the eradication of your way of life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Consequently, social and political problems, which arise from poverty, dislocation and destruction and the efforts of Palestinians to address them, have consistently been treated as a threat, even as a form of terrorism. Privation remains unexamined and unfamiliar and disconnected from action and understanding, where justice is removed from and irrelevant to context. Consequently, Israel\u2019s struggle against Gaza, which is also a struggle against Palestine, must be sustained and unbroken no matter the cost as we see in Gaza today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The level of inhumanity that is revealed is unprecedented since the Holocaust and the colonial wars. The Gaza experiment has now reached the point where Palestinians are removed from human society, but also from history, deprived of the only right left to them, the right to a life, however \u201cbare.\u201d How then are we to think of Gaza? As a place of non-life? Where does this leave any of us? \u201cOnce again,\u201d writes the historian Jean-Pierre Filiu, \u201cwhat is happening in Gaza goes far beyond this ravaged enclave.\u201d<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">(12)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Western Indifference and Collusion<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The declarations by Israeli government officials, and the massacres they lead to are even more terrifying against the complete indifference with which they are met by Western governments and media, an indifference and neglect that have a long history in this conflict. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2019, Michael Lynk, who was then the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, captured the essence of Western disregard:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The \u2026 Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territory \u2014 Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem \u2014 is a bitter illustration of the absence of international accountability in the face of the systemic violations of Palestinian rights under human rights and humanitarian law \u2026 Israel, a relatively small country in terms of geography and population and with a particular dependence on the international community for both trade and investment and diplomatic cooperation, could not have sustained such a prolonged and repressive occupation in clear violation of international law without the active support and malign neglect of many in the industrialized world. While the international community has issued numerous resolutions and declarations critical of the unending occupation by Israel and its steady designs for annexation, such criticisms have rarely been matched with any meaningful consequences \u2026 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is therefore necessary to ask whether it is simply to be accepted that, with this occupation, international law is closer to power than it is to justice.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14px;\">(13)<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(emphasis ours)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The question posed by Mr. Lynk reveals a position on the part of the international community that legitimizes Israel\u2019s occupation as long as there is no collective agreement to end it. The recent interim ruling issued by the International Court of Justice in South Africa\u2019s case against Israel for its horrifying assault on Gaza<\/span><b>,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> repudiates, at its core, Western acquiescence to Israeli violence against Palestinians. The court found \u201cplausible evidence that Israel has the intent to commit genocide; and . . . plausible evidence that Israel is committing genocide\u201d and ordered Israel \u201cto stop committing those acts that appear to be genocidal, and to preserve any evidence that bears on this matter, obviously for the trial ahead.\u201d<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">(14)<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> To our knowledge, this is one of very few legal decisions to hold Israel accountable for its crimes, challenging the impunity with which it has consistently violated the rights of Palestinians.<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">(15)<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Unsurprisingly, Israel\u2019s Western allies, notably the US, have condemned the Court\u2019s decision. Even before the ruling was made, the US found the charge \u201cmeritless, counterproductive and without any basis in fact whatsoever.\u201d<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">(16)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">The Smearing of UNRWA and Its Intended Result<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another striking example of Western disdain concerns UNRWA. On the same day as the ICJ ruling was handed down, Israel provided UNRWA with information about the alleged involvement of 12 of its employees (out of a workforce of around 13,000 in Gaza alone<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">(17)<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) in the abhorrent October 7<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> attack in Israel. In response UNRWA immediately terminated the contracts of these individuals and launched an investigation to determine the truth. Yet, in the absence of any investigation and in clear violation of the principles of due process, several Western countries including the United States, Britain, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, New Zealand, Finland, Australia, and Canada<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">(18)<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> froze their funding to UNRWA (amounting to around $700 million) at a time of desperate need, when the entire population of Gaza is at imminent risk of famine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) assessment, Gaza\u2019s entire population of over two million people are \u201cestimated to be acutely food insecure [meaning they are facing acute food shortages], while a quarter of its population faces catastrophic hunger and starvation, [which] is unprecedented. No IPC analysis has ever recorded such levels of food insecurity anywhere in the world.\u201d<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">(19)<\/span><\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Of the total world population facing famine, 80 percent are now found in Gaza.<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">(20)<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Against this reality of acute need created in large part by Western support for Israel\u2019s assault on Gaza, the denial of funding to UNRWA is as appalling as it is devastating. According to Philippe Lazzarini, the UNRWA Commissioner-General, \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is shocking to see a suspension of funds to the Agency in reaction to allegations against a small group of staff, especially given the immediate action that UNRWA took by terminating their contracts and asking for a transparent independent investigation. These decisions threaten our ongoing humanitarian work across the region including and especially in the Gaza Strip.\u201d<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">(21)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The decision to temporarily suspend funds on the part of Western governments reveals their contempt for Palestinian suffering, and for the ICJ, given its ruling that called for the provision of urgently needed humanitarian aid in which UNRWA plays the dominant role. Does the withholding of funding therefore make the West complicit in plausible acts of genocide? Furthermore, the unwillingness of Arab governments, particularly Saudi Arabia and the UAE, to increase their funding of UNRWA \u2014 because it is accused of having links to Hamas \u2014 is similarly shocking given the regional instability that UNRWA\u2019s collapse would precipitate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Subsequent statements by Israeli officials expose the real purpose behind the attack on UNRWA, which has long been the object of Israeli assault \u2014 to shutter and eliminate the Agency and ensure it has no role in postwar Gaza. In so doing, Israel (and the West) aims to undermine Palestinian refugee status, refugee rights \u2014especially the right-of-return \u2014and remove the refugee issue and any attendant demands such as compensation from future discussions. And as the analyst Jonathan Cook critically points out, \u201cUniquely, [UNRWA] is the sole agency unifying Palestinians wherever they live, even when they are separated by national borders and Israel\u2019s fragmentation of the territory it controls. UNRWA brings Palestinians together even when their own political leaders have been manipulated into endless factionalism by Israel\u2019s divide and rule policies . . .\u201d<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">(22) <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UNRWA has long acted as a defence against Israel\u2019s persistent efforts to eliminate the rights of Palestinian refugees. The growing demands of Israeli government officials to expel Palestinians from Gaza reflects Israel\u2019s desire to have them integrate into other countries, forever suspending the question of the right-of-return among other claims.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Israel\u2019s foreign minister, Israel Katz, \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have been warning for years: UNRWA <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">perpetuates the refugee issue<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> [meaning that it helps refugees reproduce?], obstructs peace, and serves as a civilian arm of Hamas in Gaza.\u201d<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">(23)<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (emphasis ours). Yet, it is not UNRWA that perpetuates the conflict as Katz would have us believe; it is the conflict that perpetuates UNRWA.<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">(24)<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> What then is the alternative to UNRWA? Will Israel or the Arab states be willing to assume responsibility for over two million refugees in Gaza and the West Bank and millions more beyond, providing them with food, education, healthcare, housing, and employment?<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">End of the International Rule of Law<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite Western derision, Gaza has powerfully disrupted the colonial gaze. Gaza is evidence of a future that is already here, bereft of humanity, law, and human rights. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are at a crossroads where, as Antonio Gramsci states in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Prison Notebooks<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[t]he crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.\u201d<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">(25)<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0In Gaza, this morbidity speaks to gross insecurity, famine, disease, economic disintegration, physical destruction, displacement, and ecological collapse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If Israel, with Western support, achieves its aims in Gaza, it will constitute the end of fellowship among inhabitants of this planet, forcing a confrontation between the rules-based international order in which the West predominates and prioritizes its own interests, and international law \u201cwhich has governed the behavior of states for over 500 years.\u201d<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">(26)<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It will be clear to everyone that Western societies, meaning the US and its allies, consider themselves apart and exceptional, where rules they apply to others do not apply to them, and where advocacy of democracy and the rule of law is no more than a means to preserve their historic hegemony, no matter the cost. Global institutions, such as the UN, which were created after WWII to foster diplomacy over force, peace over war, will fall into disrepute and irrelevance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The global South and large segments of public opinion in the Western world see the danger and are organizing to pressure Israel, the US, and Europe to recognize that the Gaza experiment has failed, that it is immoral and unacceptable. This brings to mind something the American writer, James Baldwin, once said about being Black in America and it has particular resonance for Israelis and Palestinians: \u201cEvery white person in this country . . . knows one thing: they may not know . . . what I want but they know they would not like to be black here. If they know that, they know everything they need to know &#8230; We are all, in any case, here.\u201d<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">(27)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(1) Nir Hasson, \u201cNetanyahu Ministers Join Thousands of Israelis in \u2018Resettle Gaza\u2019 Conference Calling for Palestinians\u2019 Transfer,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Haaretz<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, January 28, 2024<br \/>\n<\/span>(2) <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Guardian<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, October 16, 2023<br \/>\n(3) Ruba Salih, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/allegralaboratory.net\/can-the-palestinian-speak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Can the Palestinian speak?<\/a>\u201d <i>Allegra Lab<\/i>, December 2023<br \/>\n(4) Sara Roy, \u201cI wish they would disappear,\u201d <i>Postcolonial Studies<\/i>, Volume 21, Number 4 (December 2018), <i>Postcolonial Studies<\/i>, p. 531<br \/>\n(5) Judith Butler, <i>Frames of War: When is Life Grievable<\/i> (London: Verso, 2009), pp. xxix-xxx<br \/>\n(6) Salih (December 2023)<br \/>\n(7) Roy (December 2018), p. 534<br \/>\n(8) Some of these points appear in Sara Roy, \u201cGaza: Can you hear us?\u201d <i>Cambridge Journal of Law, Politics and Art,<\/i> Forthcoming.<br \/>\n(9) In this regard also see Roy, <i>Postcolonial Studies<\/i>, p. 532<br \/>\n(10) Ghassan Hage, \u201c\u2018Comes a Time We Are All Enthusiasm\u2019: Understanding Palestinian Suicide Bombers in Times of Exighophobia,\u201d <i>Public Culture<\/i>, Volume 15, Number 1(2003), p. 87<br \/>\n(11) Hage, <i>Public Culture<\/i>, p. 89<br \/>\n(12) Jean-Pierre Filiu, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/international\/article\/2024\/01\/29\/american-christian-zionists-crusade-against-palestinian-evil_6476239_4.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Christian Zionists Crusade against Palestinian \u2018Evil<\/a>&#8216;&#8221; <i>Le Monde<\/i>, January 30, 2024<br \/>\n(13) Michael Lynk, <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/documents\/country-reports\/2019-situation-human-rights-palestinian-territories-occupied-1967\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Territories Occupied by Israel since 1967<\/a> (A\/74\/507)<\/i>, UN General Assembly, October 21, 2019, pp. 10 and 21<br \/>\n(14) John J. Mearsheimer, <i>Israel\u2019s Day of Reckoning<\/i>, January 27, 2024, online: mearsheimer@substack.com<br \/>\n(15) The others are the 2004 ICJ advisory opinion on the illegality of the separation wall (and Israeli settlements), and the 2009 Goldstone report that accused Israel of various war crimes and referred to the criminality of the blockade. See Norman Finkelstein\u2019s comments <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Kj7mqGVg554&amp;list=RDCMUCUsMkDtVyel9USjCTaM42rw&amp;start_radio=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n(16) F<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/analysis\/2024\/01\/05\/u-s-rejects-meritless-south-africa-icj-case-against-israel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">oundation for Defense of Democracies, U.S. Rejects \u201cMeritless\u201d South Africa ICJ Case against Israel<\/a>, January 5, 2024<br \/>\n(17) Over 130 UNRWA employees have been killed in the war. The Agency employs a total of 30,000 people region wide.<br \/>\n(18) Japan and the European Union also froze their funding but Norway and Ireland did not, drawing a needed distinction between possible criminal activity of individual staffers and UNRWA itself.<br \/>\n(19) <a href=\"https:\/\/civil-protection-humanitarian-aid.ec.europa.eu\/news-stories\/news\/gaza-joint-statement-high-representative-josep-borrell-and-commissioner-crisis-management-janez-2023-12-22_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Gaza: Joint Statement by Hight Representative Josep Borrell and Commissioner for Crisis Management Janez Lenarcic on the risk of famine \u2013 European Commission,<\/i><\/a>\u00a0December 22, 2023<br \/>\n(20) Sharon Zhang, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/80-percent-of-global-famine-is-currently-in-gaza-un-expert-warns;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eighty Percent of Global Famine Is Currently in Gaza, UN Expert Warns,<\/a>\u201d <i>Truthout<\/i>, January 3, 2024 and Isaac Chotner, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/q-and-a\/gaza-is-starving\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gaza Is Starving<\/a>,\u201d <i>The New Yorker<\/i>, January 3, 2024. Also see, Human Rights Watch, <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2023\/12\/18\/israel-starvation-used-weapon-war-gaza\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Israel: Starvation Used as a Weapon of War in Gaza<\/a>,<\/i> December 18, 2023. and Leanna First-Arai, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/famine-in-gaza-is-a-culmination-of-israels-long-war-on-palestines-food-system\/#:~:text=War%20%26%20Peace-,Famine%20in%20Gaza%20Is%20a%20Culmination%20of%20Israel's%20Long%20War,a%20result%20of%20the%20war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Famine in Gaza Is a Culmination of Israel\u2019s Long War on Palestine\u2019s Food System<\/a>,\u201d <i>Truthout<\/i>, January 10, 2024.<br \/>\n(21) Philippe Lazzarini, <i>UNRWA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unrwa.org\/newsroom\/official-statements\/unrwa%E2%80%99s-lifesaving-aid-may-end-due-funding-suspension\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lifesaving Aid May End Due to Funding Suspension<\/a><\/i>, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, January 27, 2024. Also, Reuters, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/britain-italy-finland-pause-funding-un-refugee-agency-gaza-2024-01-27\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More Countries Pause Fund for UN Palestinian Agency,<\/a>\u201d January 27, 2024.<br \/>\n(22) Jonathan Cook, <i>I<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/2024-01-30\/war-un-refugee-israel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">n waging war on the UN refugee agency, the West is openly siding with Israeli genocide<\/a><\/i>, January 30, 2024.<br \/>\n(23) Mehul Srivastava and Neri Zilber, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/8576a0f1-a57c-4935-899b-84026f9efc5e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UN Chief Urges Countries Not to Pull Funding Over Israel Attack Allegations<\/a>,&#8221; <i>Financial Times,<\/i> January 28, 2024.<br \/>\n(24) Marilyn Garson, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/forward.com\/opinion\/578104\/unrwa-gaza-united-states-funding-withheld\/?utm_source=The+Forward+Association&amp;utm_campaign=4a2be78128-AfternoonEditionNL_%2A%7CDATE%3AYmd%7C%2A_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_-878b15fee9-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">With Gazans starving and freezing, the US withholding funds from UNRWA is unconscionable,<\/a>\u201d <i>The Forward<\/i>, January 30, 2024.<br \/>\n(25) There are many references to the popular statement. See, for example, Gilbert Achcar, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/brill.com\/view\/journals\/powr\/1\/2\/article-p379_379.xml?language=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Morbid Symptoms: What did Gramsci Really Mean<\/a>?\u201d <i>Notebooks: Journal for Studies on Power<\/i>, February 14, 2022<br \/>\n(26) John Dugard, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/leiden-journal-of-international-law\/article\/choice-before-us-international-law-or-a-rulesbased-international-order\/7BEDE2312FDF9D6225E16988FD18BAF0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The choice before us: International law or a \u2018rules-based international order\u2019?<\/a>\u201d <i>Leiden Journal of International Law<\/i>, Volume 36 (2023), p. 224<br \/>\n(27) J<a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?c4609979\/user-clip-james-baldwin-berkeley-1979\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ames Baldwin, Address, University of California, Berkeley<\/a>, January 15, 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