On the Various Possibilities for the ‘Day After’ the Siege on Gaza Ends

By Benay Mix

There are numerous exterior plans for Gaza on “the day after,” most of which take no discover of Palestinian company or want.

Simply as there are numerous potential outcomes, there are a number of methods to explain the horror that “Israel” has inflicted on Gaza over the previous roughly 130 days.

“Siege” matches properly into the title, nevertheless it has been a 75-year siege culminating in an escalation of the violence over the previous three months. Genocide extra precisely describes the scenario, intensified ethnic cleaning that has been the Zionist’s aim since 1948.

The “day after” trope has loved a few years of recognition, together with proposed outcomes of main wars in addition to cinematic themes. World Conflict I used to be labeled the struggle to save lots of democracy; World Conflict II was the battle that may enshrine self-determination within the constitution of the United Nations.

As current occasions have proven, neither have come about. In 1948 the United Nations created the state of “Israel,” which has been known as “the one democracy within the Center East,” however partly due to the Nakba adopted by 75 years of occupation, it has by no means lived as much as that identify. There was no self-determination for Palestinians, who even right this moment are denied company by “liberals” who ought to know higher.

After the USA dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the finish of World Conflict II, there have been numerous movies that confirmed the horror that follows the explosion. In 1959, On the Seashore portrayed a world wherein everybody has died apart from residents of Australia, who discover out that the radioactive cloud will quickly attain them, signaling the tip of their lives too.

The movie for many people was horrifying, however for world governments not a lot, as the specter of nuclear struggle stays a difficulty up till right this moment. In newer movies, similar to Oppenheimer,  the creator of the bomb is portrayed as a hero. Not a lot for my neighbors throughout the road, who’re a part of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Affiliation, a corporation composed of a number of generations of victims of the July 16, 1945 Trinity check in South-Central New Mexico.

In every technology of their household there was most cancers attributable to testing of the bomb. They have been by no means advised concerning the contamination of their water provide, their land, and their very our bodies. Now, many a long time later, these households are looking for to inform the reality in addition to to acquire compensation for his or her loss. Nonetheless, how does the federal government compensate for the lack of a brother, a mom, a son?

What does this should do with Gaza in 2024? As of January 4, 2024, “Israel” had dropped greater than 45,000 bombs on Gaza weighing greater than 65,000 tons, in keeping with the Gaza Media Workplace. Greater than the burden and energy of almost three nuclear bombs like these dropped on Japanese cities, about 2/3 if these gadgets have been “dumb bombs,” which means unguided and imprecise, they usually have been dropped on residential areas of the Gaza Strip.

In previous wars, “Israel” confronted accusations of utilizing shells that contained depleted uranium, a radioactive materials that continues to be within the atmosphere probably inflicting most cancers and start defects for generations to return. Environmentalists who ignore these information are complicit in whitewashing “Israel’s” scorched earth coverage geared toward additional ethnic cleaning.

There’ll little doubt be penalties from the hurt carried out to Palestinians for a few years to return, and it’s as much as this technology and people who come after to make sure that the hundreds who’re deceased won’t have died in useless.

This implies exposing the ways in which the media has lied concerning the carnage. In a current exposé in The Guardian, Chris McGreal revealed the ways in which CNN runs biased information that depends on “Israeli” propaganda whereas censoring Palestinian views. Sadly, different mainstream information sources, apart from the right-wing New York Submit, have remained silent on this story.

On the masthead of the Palestine Chronicle are the next phrases:

“We Inform the Fact on Gaza. All the time. On the Palestine Chronicle, we don’t beg mainstream media to inform the reality about Gaza. We inform it ourselves.”

In different phrases, expose mainstream media for what it’s, however be taught to take heed to Palestinians inform their very own tales, for who is aware of it higher than the supply?

There are numerous exterior plans for Gaza on “the day after,” most of which take no discover of Palestinian company or want. For instance, a particularly offensive advert on the streaming platform Hulu portrays an imaginary “Gaza with out Hamas.” It ends with the plea “free Gaza from Hamas now,” a imaginative and prescient maybe of “the day after” that completely ignores the destruction that solely “Israel” has precipitated.

The advert assumes that with out Hamas Gaza might have been a vacationer attraction replete with pristine seashores, nightclubs, meals and tradition, the latter Center Jap however ideally cooked by “Israeli” cooks. There is no such thing as a room in these visions for resident Palestinians as a result of the aim is extermination and/or compelled switch to yet one more refugee camp on some else’s land.

In early January, Protection Minister Yoav Gallant outlined “Israel’s” plans for the “day after.” Whereas he claims that there isn’t any place for Hamas in post-war Gaza, he known as as a substitute for “Palestinian our bodies” to be in management, as long as they harbor “no hostile actions or threats” towards the state of “Israel.” In different phrases, a governing physique just like the Palestinian Authority, ruling in identify solely whereas subservient to the instructions of the entity.

Nobody is aware of what the day after will appear like, with out not less than a crystal ball. However there are some conclusions that may be drawn from historical past that continues to play out even till right this moment.

What are Palestinian priorities after the struggle? In response to Ramzy Baroud, the primary aim, apart from digging the our bodies of the useless out from underneath the rubble and bringing support to hospitals and the folks, is to make sure that “Israel”doesn’t declare any victory over the Palestinians. For the primary time, Baroud explains, Palestinians are on the heart of the dialog relating to the Center East, and as soon as there, they need to proceed to carry onto their hard-earned company that permits them self-determination over their very own affairs.

Furthermore, Baroud explains that the problem won’t be one state, two state, or any state, however slightly the Zionist state of “Israel,” who can be free to do what they need if Palestinians are unarmed. Additionally of concern are the Palestinians who reside as second-class residents throughout the ’48, what is going to occur to them? The issue, he concludes, has at all times been Zionism, and till it’s dismantled, there can by no means be a simply a lot much less sustainable peace.

– Benay Mix earned her doctorate in American Research from the College of New Mexico. Her scholarly works embody Douglas Vakoch and Sam Mickey, Eds. (2017), “’Neither Homeland Nor Exile are Phrases’: ‘Located Information’ within the Works of Palestinian and Native American Writers”. She contributed this text to The Palestine Chronicle.