GAZA (Analysis) — On Monday, October 30, Israel fired five missiles at a tunnel under construction in Gazan territory east of Khan Younis. Seven Palestinians were killed and nine wounded during the attack. Israel asserts that the tunnel had reached the Israeli side of the perimeter wall it has built around Gaza, but it attacked the tunnel on the Gaza side, thus resulting in the 16 casualties.
The Nabil Test
In order to grasp the way in which contemporary solidarity terminology operates to deceive and derail the Palestinian cause, we will look at a few theoretical simulations that will help to clarify the corrosive nature that is the contemporary pro Palestinian discourse.
The smell and the sights we saw were shocking. The moment we parked and I got out, a very strange smell hit us—the smell of dead bodies. That smell will never leave me; it is still stuck in my nose. We saw totally flattened houses and other houses partially destroyed. It reminded me of pictures from war-torn areas where years of fighting erased a village
Image above: The ruins of the Palestinian village of Najed in the western Negev of Israel. The Palestinian villagers of Najd were expelled and herded to the Gaza Strip by soldiers from the Jewish Negev Brigade on 12–13 May, 1948 . The Israeli city of Sderot was founded in 1951 on village land, a few miles to the south of the village site, while Or HaNer was founded in 1957 also on village land, to the northeast.
Image above: Palestinians gather as rescue workers search for victims under the rubble of a house which witnesses said was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip July 25, 2014. (REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa)
by Thomas Adamson Associated Press
