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SvennoJ on 20 September 2024
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Israeli strategy always to control region and ‘neutralise’ opposition

Israel’s “consistent strategy” for the past few decades has been to “dominate Palestine and the surrounding area to the point it neutralises any opposition to it,” Rami Khoury, a professor at the American University of Beirut, said.

“But it just doesn’t work … human beings who are subjugated will resist,” Khoury told Al Jazeera.

Israel’s violent policies have pushed groups to become “more proficient at resistance”, both politically and militarily, he said.

Some 80 percent of the world is supporting the Palestinians because “they understand that what’s going on now is the last colonial uprising and colonial struggle for independence in the entire world”.


‘This is an ethnic cleansing campaign’ in Gaza

Mohamad Elmasry, a professor at the Doha Institute, says American officials are not working as hard as they suggest at securing a lasting truce deal in Gaza.

“If they were really adamant about a ceasefire, then they would exert pressure on Israel,” Elmasry told Al Jazeera, adding the United States holds “all of the leverage over Israel”.

“Those who are waiting for the US to finally apply pressure are in for a rude awakening,” he added.

Elmasry said Washington has been funding “Israel’s genocide” and consistently shielded its government at the United Nations. “The plan all along was to destroy Gaza … This is an ethnic cleansing campaign,” Elmasry said.

While Israel has failed to achieve all of its “objectives”, the war on Gaza will likely continue, he said.


Muslim-American coalition urges support for pro-Palestine candidates, not Harris

A coalition of Muslim-American groups announced it will not endorse Democratic candidate Kamala Harris in the November presidential election.

Instead, it encouraged Muslim voters to support pro-Palestine candidates such as Green Party nominee Jill Stein, Justice for All nominee Cornel West, or others who back a ceasefire in Gaza and an arms embargo on Israel.

“After extensive consultation, discussion, and deliberation, the American Muslim 2024 Election Task Force has decided to encourage American Muslims to vote for any presidential candidate of their choosing who supports a permanent ceasefire in Gaza,” it said in a statement.

Explaining the reason why the groups cannot endorse Harris’s candidacy, the coalition cited her refusal to consider cutting off weapons shipments to Israel for its war on Gaza, which has killed more than 41,000 Palestinians, mostly children and women.

“As a matter of principle, we simply cannot support a presidential candidate who participated in enabling a genocide and then refused to lay out any concrete plans to end that genocide, all while refusing to even acknowledge that a genocide is occurring.”