[News] Legitimate resistance is the key to a Palestinian victory

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Legitimate resistance is the key to a Palestinian victory
Middle East Monitor
January 25, 2024The genocidal Zionist war against the Palestinians in the
Gaza Strip has been ongoing for nearly four months without the occupation
state achieving any of its stated goals. It has not eliminated Hamas, and
has not been able to liberate the Israelis held hostage by the movement.
Instead, some of them have been killed by Israeli bombs and bullets during
the brutal onslaught against the Palestinians.

The occupation forces have even failed to force the Palestinians to flee
from their homes across the border into Egypt, despite Israel’s murderous
“encouragement to leave voluntarily”. The displacement of Palestinians from
Gaza has been a dream of the Zionists since the time of David Ben-Gurion,
Israel’s first prime minister. The Palestinians learned their lesson from
the first Nakba
<https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20170515-remembering-the-nakba/> and
know that if they leave their blessed land they will probably never be
allowed to return, despite it being the right of all refugees to return
<https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20201211-palestinian-right-of-return-un-resolution-194/>
to their land; a right that Israel has never allowed the Palestinians to
fulfil. They have also learnt that the Israeli enemy is not invincible.

Moreover, Israel has failed to win the media war; its propaganda has been
exposed as lies time and time again, and its killing of tens of thousands
of civilians — most of them children and women — has disgusted people
around the world. And despite the huge difference in weaponry and military
technology in favour of the apartheid
<https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210112-israel-is-apartheid-state-concludes-major-human-rights-group/>
state, it has been unable to defeat the stubborn resistance of the
Palestinians who are using largely self-developed weapons and have an
unshakeable faith in the Almighty, their legitimacy and their rights. Video
evidence of the fighting, as well as of the captives, intensifies the
psychological and popular pressure on the far-right government of Benjamin
Netanyahu, killing his hope of creating the impression that Israel is
winning.

*READ: **Israel attack on UN compound in Gaza prompts rare rebuke from
Washington*
<https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240124-israel-attack-on-un-compound-in-gaza-prompts-rare-rebuke-from-washington/>

Hundreds of Israel Occupation Forces officers and soldiers have been killed
and wounded.

The IOF announced earlier this week the largest number of soldiers lost in
a single day since the start of the offensive in October. This prompted
Israeli President Isaac Herzog to write
<https://x.com/Isaac_Herzog/status/1749672512034673110?s=20> on X: “An
unbearably difficult morning [but] Even on this sad and difficult morning,
we are strong and remember that together we will win.”

Officially, Israel admits to losing just 219 soldiers, but the real death
toll is much higher. The army is afraid to reveal the exact figure in case
it loses public support, which is actually happening. Restrictions have
been placed on international media embedded with Israeli troops. Even media
outlets such as *CNN* and the *Washington Post* must send all output past
the military censor.

If at least 1,000 military vehicles of various types have been knocked out
of service since the beginning of the war — military experts estimate that
this is the equivalent of three complete army divisions — then a huge
number of casualties must have resulted. What’s more, there are reports of
serious psychological trauma among poorly-trained Israeli conscripts,
especially, after the terror of coming face to face with the Palestinian
resistance.

According to Western military analysts, the Israeli campaign has failed and
the human losses exceed all expectations. In the face of determined
resistance and the destruction of many tanks, the IOF was forced to
withdraw the Golani Brigade after 60 days of fighting in which it suffered
heavy losses. Isn’t this a tacit — albeit honest — admission of defeat?

*READ: **US rejects Israel’s plan for ‘buffer zone’ in Gaza*
<https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240124-us-rejects-israels-plan-to-for-buffer-zone-in-gaza/>

The recent withdrawal of Division 36 from Gaza will not be the last. With
the start of the Israeli ground offensive 20 days after the launch of
Operation Al-Aqsa Flood by Hamas, which shook the Zionists, the angry
frenzy of revenge to destroy all of Gaza and its inhabitants had around
120,000 Israeli soldiers involved, many in elite brigades. Today, this
number has been halved, after killing and wounding around 100,000
Palestinians, including more than 11,000 children. Thousands are still
missing under the rubble of their homes, and two million have been
displaced, many more than once.

This hateful neofascist entity has created enemies for life in every
Palestinian and Arab home. Nobody will ever forget the death and
destruction of this genocide. With many Palestinians seeing family,
relatives and friends killed before their eyes, the images will stay with
them forever. “Never again” will be replaced by “Never forget” as Gaza
2023/24 joins the long list of massacres, destruction and oppression
carried out by Zionists since the 1940s. The 1948 Nakba is ongoing. The
desire for revenge against the oppressors may be unpleasant, but it is
entirely understandable. Israel has become the best recruiting sergeant
that the resistance could have wished for.

Nevertheless, the Palestinian resistance fighters will continue to struggle
and fight for the sake of The Almighty and the liberation of their land.
With international law on their side as well, they are the key to a
Palestinian victory, and stronger than the nuclear weapons that at least one
Israeli minister
<https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240124-israel-minister-renews-call-for-striking-gaza-with-nuclear-bomb/>
wants to use against Gaza. Such weapons are the weapons of last resort.
Israel knows that it can’t win.
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