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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Legitimate resistance is the key to a Palestinian victory</h1>
<div class="gmail-credits gmail-reader-credits">Middle East Monitor</div>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.</div><div class="gmail-content"><div class="gmail-moz-reader-content gmail-reader-show-element"><div id="gmail-readability-page-1" class="gmail-page"><div>
<p>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 <a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20170515-remembering-the-nakba/">Nakba</a> and know that if they leave their blessed land they will probably never be allowed to return, despite it being the <a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20201211-palestinian-right-of-return-un-resolution-194/">right of all refugees to return</a>
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.</p>
<p>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 <a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210112-israel-is-apartheid-state-concludes-major-human-rights-group/">apartheid</a>
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.</p>
<p><b>READ: </b><a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240124-israel-attack-on-un-compound-in-gaza-prompts-rare-rebuke-from-washington/"><b>Israel attack on UN compound in Gaza prompts rare rebuke from Washington</b></a></p>
<blockquote><p>Hundreds of Israel Occupation Forces officers and soldiers have been killed and wounded.</p></blockquote>
<p>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 <a href="https://x.com/Isaac_Herzog/status/1749672512034673110?s=20">write</a>
on X: “An unbearably difficult morning [but] Even on this sad and
difficult morning, we are strong and remember that together we will
win.”</p>
<p>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 <i>CNN</i> and the <i>Washington Post</i> must send all output past the military censor.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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?</p>
<p><b>READ: </b><a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240124-us-rejects-israels-plan-to-for-buffer-zone-in-gaza/"><b>US rejects Israel’s plan for ‘buffer zone’ in Gaza</b></a></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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 <a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240124-israel-minister-renews-call-for-striking-gaza-with-nuclear-bomb/">one Israeli minister</a> wants to use against Gaza. Such weapons are the weapons of last resort. Israel knows that it can’t win.</p><br></div></div></div>
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