Palestinians will remain on Palestinian land

Jared Kushner joins the chorus calling for Israel to expand its occupation to Gaza’s waterfront through forced displacement, but, if history is any judge, Palestinians will remain.

By Vijay Prashad

March 28, 2024

Dear friends,

Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.

On 15 February 2024, Jared Kushner (Donald Trump’s son-in-law and former senior advisor during his presidency) sat down for a long conversation with Professor Tarek Masoud at Harvard University. During this discussion, Kushner talked about ‘Gaza’s waterfront property’, which, he said, could be ‘very valuable’. ‘If I was Israel’, he continued, ‘I would just bulldoze something in the Negev [desert], I would try to move people [from Gaza] in there… [G]oing in and finishing the job would be the right move’.

Kushner’s choice of the Negev, or al-Naqab in Arabic, is interesting. Al-Naqab, located in what is now southern Israel, has long been a place of tension and conflict. In September 2011, the Israeli government passed the Bill on the Arrangement of Bedouin Settlement in the Negev, also known as the Prawer-Begin Plan, which called for the eviction of 70,000 Palestinian Bedouins from their thirty-five ‘unrecognised’ villages. Kushner is now advising Israel to illegally shift even more Palestinians to al-Naqab, many of whom were originally pushed to Gaza from cities in parts of Palestine that are now within Israel. As Kushner might know, both a population transfer to al-Naqab and the seizure of Gaza are illegal according to Article 49 of the 1949 Geneva Conventions.

Read more: https://thetricontinental.org/newsletterissue/land-day/

PDF: VP28.3.2024

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Rights expert finds ‘reasonable grounds’ genocide is being committed in Gaza

The United Nations Office at Geneva

March 26, 2024

There are „reasonable grounds“ to believe that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories said on Tuesday.

https://www.ungeneva.org/en/news-media/news/2024/03/91946/rights-expert-finds-reasonable-grounds-genocide-being-committed-gaza

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Professor Norman Finkelstein and Chris Hedges speaking at Princeton University on the Gaza Genocide.

This is the full video of the event I did on March 21 at Princeton University with Professor Finkelstein on the genocide in Gaza. The live stream feed was cut, apparently by Zionists in the hall.

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/professor-norman-finkelstein-and

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Here We Will Remain

By Tawfiq Zayyad

1965

 

In Lidda, in Ramla, in the Galilee,
We shall remain,
Like a wall upon your chest,
And in your throat
Like a shard of glass,
A cactus thorn,
And in your eyes
A sandstorm.

We shall remain,
A wall upon your chest,
Clean dishes in your restaurants,
Serve drinks in your bars,
Sweep the floors of your kitchens
To snatch a bite for our children
From your blue fangs.

Here we shall remain,
Sing our songs.
Take to the angry streets,
Fill prisons with dignity.

In Lidda, in Ramla, in the Galilee,
We shall remain,
Guard the shade of the fig
And olive trees,
Ferment rebellion in our children
As yeast in the dough.