October 7th, 2023. A day I’m sure everyone has heard about at this point. It’s the day that’s gods chosen people were viciously attacked and kidnapped by terrorists. Or at least that’s what the main stream media tried to sell to the general population. We’ve heard about October 7th time and time again in the context of “Israel” being attacked, but never any attacks that Palestine has had to endure every single day for 76 years now. It’s been 1 year since October the 7th on the day I am posting this article. 12 months of one of the worst periods of Palestines ongoing Nakba. Let’s see October 7th and everyday since and before then in the eyes of Palestine.
Context
Zionism, according to the Oxford dictionary, is “a movement for (originally) the re-establishment and (now) the development and protection of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel.”
In simpler terms, zionism is an evil, racist, antisemitic, colonial ideology which calls for the right to “self determination” in their holy land known as Israel. Self determination meaning the genocide of Palestinians by the way. A part of this promised land that is Israel is Palestine. Israels promised land however looks a little bit more like this.
- The Israel Bible
Notice that it’s not just Palestine. What I will say is that different sources have different maps about the promised land because it’s an ancient idea. What’s for certain is that the promised land doesn’t end in Palestine. The main idea is basically that there is a land for Jewish people where they can live away from antisemitism. This land however is already occupied by indigenous Arabs. This is not stopping the Zionist entity from growing of course. Just like any other colonial entity, the indigenous mean nothing to them.
Palestine, being in the Middle East, was filled with muslims, jews, and christians before the British or Zionists arrived. The Palestinian jews were Yishuv jews which did not have any zionist beliefs. Just think about that for a second. Muslims and Jews and Christians living together in Palestine. When Zionism arrived, Palestine never got to see a day of peace again. Zionism is NOT Judaism and this genocide against Palestinians also has NOTHING to do with religion. Just felt like I had to clarify that now.
The Nakba
The Nakba, which translates to “catastrophe” in Arabic, is what is known as the beginning of Israels ethnic cleansing of Palestine. It was the forceful removal of Palestinians and massacres upon massacres to clear the land for Zionists to take over. For Palestinians, the Nakba never really ended, it just evolved. An Al Jazeera article titled ”The Nakba did not start or end in 1948” goes in depth on the Nakba and how Palestine is still suffering from it. It’s definitely worth a read if you haven’t read it already.
Palestine
The map below is a current map of occupied Palestine, the map that most people know when they think of Palestine or “Israel”. The Gaza Strip and West Bank are Palestine. The rest is “Israel”. Where it says Tel Aviv is where the Re’im music festival took place and where the October 7th attack happened.
- Brittanica
Gaza is 141 square miles holding more than 2 million people. The West Bank holds about 3 million people. Just keep that in mind for later.
- Al Jazeera
The timeline above shows the evolution of Palestines land being stolen and replaced by Israeli settlements. The green is Palestine and the blue is Israel. These are maps most haven’t seen because they don’t fit with the story that zionists want to sell. Zionists have been trying to make it look like Palestine didn’t exist and that it has always been Israel. This is colonialism, they are trying to erase the indigenous people. We saw it with Columbus who only recently we have stopped celebrating because of the genocide he caused against Native Americans. Native Americans who were wiped out because of “Manifest Destiny”. It is the SAME THING as Zionists “Promised Land”. It’s an idea that is used to justify the killing of native people. We are seeing schools in the UK removing Indias colonization from their history lessons because it paints their monarchy in a bad light. We are seeing how the mainstream media spins the story to always make it look like Israel is the victim.
This normalization of imperialism and colonialism is the reason the world is still allowing the genocide against Palestinians to be happening for 76 years now.
Still not convinced?
Music Festival + Hostages
Hamas took hostages on October the 7th. They used them as bargaining chips for Israhelli forces to release some of the thousands of Palestinian hostages they’ve been holding. But of course, most didn’t hear about that part. Around Thanksgiving of last year, there was a 3 day ceasefire. That is when one of the only hostage exchange happened. What we saw that day is all that you need to see to know who are the villains. The Israeli hostages came back looking healthy and taken care of for the most part. A video of an elderly woman waving goodbye to one of the Hamas resistance fighters went viral. At least amongst the pro watermelon community. I don’t know about you but if I was being held hostage and in bad conditions, I wouldn’t be waving goodbye to my captor. But she did. Compare that to the Palestinian prisoners that were released. They came back malnourished, having cuts and bruises, eyes sticking out of their heads in shocked. Some even with missing limbs because of infection from torture. Later, clips of concentration camps were posted of Palestinians blindfolded on the floor infant of Israhelli soldiers. I’m not going to show any of those photos here. If you haven’t seen them yet, find them. Look them up.
The hostages was the reason for all of this chaos according to Nethenyahu and his government. The way that the israhelli militants have been justifying their bombardment on Gaza is that they are doing all of this for the sake of their precious hostages. Unfortunately, it seems as though the IOF doesn’t see their hostages as very precious as they have had no problem killing them in “friendly fire”. Basically while they carpet bomb Gaza, of course some of their hostages will be killed as well. But that doesn’t matter because the only thing that matters is that Palestinians are dying and making way for Israhellis to live on their land.
This is actually the reason why protests have been happening in Israel itself of the families of hostages showing their anger for Netanyahu’s government. They don’t believe that his government is trying hard enough to get their family members back. Let me make this clear, we should all feel sympathy for those whose family members are being held hostage. That goes the same and I would even say more so for Palestinian families. This is why:
According to an article published by AlJazeera on April 17th, 2024, (Palestinian Prisinors day), “In the occupied Palestinian territories, one in every five Palestinians has been arrested and charged at some point. This rate is twice as high for Palestinian men as it is for women – two in every five men have been arrested and charged.” The number of prisoners as of April of 2024 was an estimate of 9,500. That includes 200 minors.
To see the west show so much sympathy and love for Israeli hostages but nothing for Palestinians shows what this is really about: race. It’s unfortunate but it is true that if Palestinian babies were of European dissent this wouldn’t be happening and their pain wouldn’t go unnoticed like it is now. During the Ukraine and Russian war we saw so much sympathy from the west for Ukrainian children caught in the crossfire. At school we were sent emails about meetings we could have with the guidance counselor if the sorrow of the Ukrainian children is too much for us. When thousands of Palestinian children are being killed, watching their family members becomes martyrs, being starved to death, losing their homes, being captured and held as prisoners by those who killed their parents. Not a word is spoken about them by the mainstream media. Not a word is spoken about them in school.
I don’t care if you hate Hamas or not, but to be against resistance is to be with the colonizer. That makes you a part of the problem. That makes you complicit in genocide. That puts you on the wrong side of history. Like Warsaw Ghetto, the Stonewall Uprising, The Black Panther Party, the Salt Satyagraha, The Occupation of Alcatraz, Nat Turner’s Rebellion, etc, Palestinian resistance will be remembered and honored. You cannot oppress people, steal their land, kill their families, torture them, and then expect no resistance.
Still not convinced?
Attacks
Rafah may sound familiar to you if you have been on social media at all since October 7th. Israeli forces known as the IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) invaded, as they do, and has indiscriminately bombed Gaza worse than ever since the 7th. That doesn’t sound like defense does it. For that reason, we know the IDF as the IOF (Israeli Offense/Occupying Forces). Just had to say that so there’s no confusion.
Everyday, Israhell would name a new section of Gaza “unsafe”. Leaflets would fall from the sky ordering and evacuation of all civilians to move south. When you watch the videos it looks like it’s straight out of a dystopian movie. This leaflet dropping is to show that they really care about civilian lives and only want to bomb Hamas leaders and their tunnels that Israeli officials claim they have. The weird thing is that they bomb every place that is marked as “safe” too. Nothing is a safe zone in Palestine. The IOF claimed is that Hamas tunnels were underneath schools and hospitals so they had to bomb them. They pushed this narrative of Hamas using civilians as human shields to paint them in this evil light when in reality it is all made up and is used as an excuse to continue bombing Palestinians.
There have been so many massacres in the past 76 years but the reason why this year is specifically eye catching is because it has been one of the worst periods in the ongoing genocide. The US has always stood by Israel but in the past year the US has given Israel 10s of billions of dollars. Some massacres this past year have been especially disturbing such as the Flour Massacre on February 29, 2024 and the Rafah Tent Massacre on May 26th, 2024. Again, LOOK THEM UP.
You may be wondering what is happening in the West Bank in the meantime. Land is being cleared out for new Israeli settlements. All the chaos in Gaza took away attention from the West Bank. Israhell is kicking Palestinians out of their homes for Israhelli settlers to live. More Palestinians are being taken as prisoners as well.
Still not convinced?
Every Accusation is a Confession
The bottom line is that Israel lies. Oh look that rhymes!
The IOF and Israeli government have been spewing lies left and right for years but they were on blast since October 7th. Every claim that they would make would get weirder and weirder. The infamous calendar incident was quite embarrassing I must say. The IOF posted a video pretty confidently showing a chart on a wall of a Palestinians home they invaded. The IOF soldier pointed to it saying that it is a list of Hamas militants and their schedules. Times they come in and times they go out. It was quickly debunked by people who could actually read Arabic and said it was simply a calendar. Yes, a weekly calendar. No terrorist activity on it. The video which was so widely spread was then never spoken of again. Eventually, it came out that all their accusations were confessions for their own actions.
You may remember the beheading babies claim that Israel made. What a crazy one that was. They claimed that Hamas had beheaded babies they captured on October 7th. There was no proof of this it was all speculation. Shortly after, videos upon videos upon videos of babies with severed and burned off heads were posted for the world to see. Just like all the videos of bombs exploding their homes and their children being run over by tanks, it wasn’t given any attention by our government our media. Claims that Israeli women were raped by Hamas. Of course to show how Muslims care so little about women. A few weeks later Israhelli officials were debating on whether or not it is legal for IOF officers to rape Palestinian hostages. Yeah, that actually happened. A CBS News article I found is LITERALLY titled “Israeli lawmaker defends alleged rape of Hamas prisoner as far-right protesters rage over IDF troops’ detention”.
Still not convinced?
Antisemitism
Of course, protests bloomed all over the world for Palestine. And of course, Zionists did what they did best and attacked. Protests against genocide is now labeled as antisemitic. Jewish people protesting for Gaza are now labeled as self-hating jews. It’s sad because it’s not a new problem, it’s just affecting more people. It’s been happening. Zionists have been targeting people. The movement is growing. The whole world has decided to rise up. Zios are taking it up a notch to though.
More people are being doxxed and fired. Most people nowadays wear masks to protect themselves at protests. People are being beat up on the street, kids are being chased, all by the police. Then you wonder why people say “fuck the police”.
Student encampments at universities which have ties with zionist companies who directly funding the genocides have been particularly strong. Suddenly, the quads have new rules like “no camping”. Yeah, definitely not targeted. Students are getting their scholarships taken away. For what? To protect Zionists feelings.
Zionists are often compared to Nazis. Now people call them Zio-Nazis. I’m sure you can tell why. If you can’t tell why, you’re no better than the Zio-Nazis I’m talking about.
Still not convinced?
Lebanon + Yemen + Syria
Israel is not only bombing Gaza but it is simultaneously bombing Lebanon, Yemen, and Syria. This is by the way a violation of international law but Israel never cared about international law so I guess it doesn’t really matter.
Remember what I said about how hostages are the only reason for this “war”? Well, there aren’t any hostages in Lebanon, nor Yemen, nor Syria. But right, they are fighting other terrorist groups like Hezbollah. Israhell is doing what Israhell does best: it slaughters. Thousands of children, thousands of parents, thousands of people like you and I are suffering at the hands of Israhell and the US’s full undeniable support.
Still not convinced?
Bloodlines
Israel is wiping out Palestinian families. As of October 2nd, 2024, 902 Palestinian families have been wiped out by Israel according to statistics from the Humanti Project in one year. Further more, 1,364 families have been fully killed except for one survivor and 3,472 families have been killed except for two members.
This leads us to the final chapter,
Why?
Why on earth is this happening and the world is allowing it? To answer that, think back to Israhells promised land. Thats one reason. Another is bloodlust. The US government does love to kill people around the world. Most of our government is also paid off by AIPAC but that’s for another article. Another reason is one of the OGs: racism. Like I said earlier, Palestinians are brown people. Israelis are not. It’s just that simple. The Islamophobia in the west is the reason that people were so easily sold on the story of Israhell being the victim. Muslims are already seen as terrorists so to describe Hamas in the way that the mainstream media did was not that hard for people to believe.
Now of course, if you still see Israel as the victim and if I’m being honest ANYTHING other than a genocidal entity, I recommend you read this article twice more and see posts and news articles by these sources (List will be updated):
- Al Jazeera News
- Democracy Now!
- ZIRAFA Media
- Middle East Eye
- Eye on Palestine
- BDS Movement
- CODEPINK
- Humanti Project
- So Informed
Documentaries to watch (many of these are available to watch for free for a limited time):
- Israelism (2023)
- The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel’s Public Relations War in the United States
- Edward Said: On Orientalism
- Constructing the Terrorist Threat: Islamophobia, the Media and the War on Terror
- Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Villifies a People
- Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land: US Media and the Israeli Palestinian Conflict
- Norman Finkelstein Teach-in on Gaza, Israel and Hamas
- Edward Said: The Myth of ‘The Clash of Civilizations’
- Understanding Israel/Palestine: Dispossession, Resistance and Human Rights
- Not Backing Down: Israel, Free Speech and the Battle for Palestinian Rights