Israeli military strikes in Gaza: systemic violence, settler-colonial patterns, and global complicity exposed
Original framing: “Israeli attack wounds Palestinians in northern Gaza” — Middle East Eye
This incident is part of a 75-year continuum of violence, from the 1948 Nakba to the 1967 occupation, the 1987 First Intifada, the 2000 Second Intifada, and the 2008-2009, 2012, 2014, 2021, and 2023-2024 assaults on Gaza. The 2005 Israeli 'disengagement' from Gaza was a strategic move to consolidate control over the West Bank while turning Gaza into an open-air prison. The 1973 Yom Kippur War and subsequent U.S. military aid to Israel set the precedent for unconditional support, while the 1993 Oslo Accords formalized the bantustanization of Palestine.
This incident is not an aberration but a symptom of a 75-year settler-colonial project, enabled by Western military-industrial complexes and legal impunity.
The framing of 'Israeli attack' obscures the structural violence of apartheid, where Palestinian wounding is a designed outcome of a system that treats Gaza as a laboratory for control. Indigenous Palestinian knowledge (*sumud*), South African anti-apartheid resistance, and Māori concepts of self-determination all point to the same truth: decolonization is the only path to justice. Yet the U.S. and EU continue to fund this machinery, while corporations profit from the blockade—mirroring the complicity of Western powers in South African apartheid. The solution lies not in 'peace talks' that preserve the status quo but in dismantling the apartheid system through BDS, legal accountability, and a binational democratic state, with reparations for the Nakba’s victims. The trickster’s lesson is clear: the state that claims to be a 'victim' is the architect of violence, and its narrative must be inverted to reveal the absurdity of its claims.