Dispatch #177 White Lesbian Age 73 Considers That Israel Imprisons 2M Palestinians in 1/2 of Gaza Where All Needed for Life Is Buried Under 61M Tons of Rubble Courtesy of Israel's US-Funded Genocide

November 10^th 2025 Day 293 White Supremacist Misogynist Christian Nationalist Regime 1235 Days Since SCOTUS Ruled American Women Don’t Have Human Rights 765 Days Since Israel Began Genocidal Campaign on Palestinians in Gaza

Fears Gaza ‘temporary’ ceasefire line could become permanent new border. Yellow markers installed by IDF entrench divide that cuts strip in two, as hopes of moving to next phase of truce fade. | Seham Tantesh and Julian Borger │The Guardian │26 October 2025. 

Under the terms of the US-brokered ceasefire, which came into effect on 10 October, the IDF withdrawal to the yellow line would leave it occupying 53% of the Gaza Strip, but a BBC satellite analysis of the new yellow markers suggested they had been placed several hundred metres beyond the proposed line, representing a further substantial land grab.

            An IDF spokesperson said there was no official comment on the BBC report. An earlier IDF statement said only that work had started on marking the yellow line with a “concrete barrier with a pole painted yellow, standing 3.5 meters high”, intended “to establish tactical clarity on the      ground”.

What is becoming clear is an ever-sharper partition of Gaza, with most of the surviving 2.1 million population crammed into half the territory, amid the ruins left by two years of Israeli bombardment.  “The yellow line, as far as we have been told, lies about 1km past Salah al-Din Street,” said Ayman Abu Mandeel, referring to the main thoroughfare running from south to north through the middle of the Gaza Strip.

Abu Mandeel is 58 years old, with nine children. The remains of his house are in eastern al-Qarara, but he has little hope of returning there any time soon. “The Israeli army has set up cranes, watchtowers and tanks there. They monitor every movement and open fire on anyone who gets close. We haven’t seen the yellow markings ourselves, because anyone who tries to reach those areas is immediately targeted,” he said. “The quadcopters don’t hesitate to shoot at anyone who moves toward them, as if getting close to our own land has become a crime.”  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/26/fears-gaza-temporary-ceasefire-line-could-become-permanent-new-border

The Ceasefire Has Not Ended the Genocide. As Israel continues to launch air strikes on Gaza, the weakness of both the ceasefire and Trump’s 20-point plan are becoming ever clearer. | The Nation │Phyllis Bennis and Khury Petersen-Smith│20 October 2025.

The ceasefire’s weaknesses have been evident from the beginning. There was always a strong possibility Israel would resume its pulverizing assault on Gaza once the living hostages were released. The Israel-Hamas agreement—signed only after the narrow ceasefire and hostage exchange were separated from the rest of Donald Trump’s 20-point plan—did not call for the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza. It provided no guarantees that the promised 600 daily truckloads of humanitarian aid would be allowed to enter. And while it called on Hamas to return all bodies of deceased hostages within 72 hours, it imposed no consequences if Israel refused to allow in the heavy equipment needed to dig them out from under Gaza’s rubble. Crucially, it provided no protection for Palestinian civilians if—or when—Israel resumed its killing spree.

Crucially, the plan does not call for the immediate withdrawal of the Israeli military from Gaza, only redeployment slightly eastward in phased steps, ultimately ending with a wide buffer zone. It provides no Palestinian control of borders, water, economy, airspace, coastal waters and their resources (including massive gas reserves), or even foreign policy. It offers nothing more- and perhaps much less—than a return to the grim reality of Gaza on October 6, 2023. www.thenation.com/article/world/ceasefire-has-not-ended-the-genocide/

Experts estimate that removing 61 million tonnes of rubble from Gaza – a necessary predicate for rebuilding -- will take 5 years.  How can human beings possibly remain and try to live in such a hellscape? No, they cannot.

What’s behind Israel’s new plan to divide Gaza in two. While Trump hails "peace," Israel is entrenching a new regime of fortified borders, proxy rule, and engineered despair — with expulsion still the end goal.│Muhammad Shehada│+972 Magazine│October 31, 2025.

Israel is still restricting aid to West Gaza, with an average of around 95 trucks entering per day during the first 20 days of the ceasefire — well below the 600 per day stipulated in the agreement between Israel and Hamas. Most residents have lost their homes, but Israel is still preventing the entry of tents, caravans, prefabricated housing units, and other essentials, with winter approaching.

East Gaza, once the enclave’s breadbasket, is now a desolate wasteland. Colleagues and friends who live nearby describe the constant sound of explosions and demolitions: Israeli soldiers and private settler contractors are still systematically flattening all remaining buildings, except the small camps designated for the gangs living under Israeli army protection. Israel has no intention of leaving East Gaza anytime soon.

And in a press conference last week, Trump’s envoy Jared Kushner announced that reconstruction would only happen in areas that are currently fully controlled by the Israeli army, while the rest of Gaza will remain rubble and ash until Hamas fully disarms and ends its rule. This is not post-war rebuilding but rather engineered despair, imposed through walls, the constant threat of military violence, and networks of collaborators. Gaza is being remade not for the benefit of its people, but to entrench permanent Israeli control and advance its longstanding objective: forcing Palestinians out of the Strip.

Israel spent over 740 days, close to $100 billion, and lost about 470 soldiers to reduce Gaza to dust. As Netanyahu bragged in May, Israel has been “destroying more and more houses [in Gaza, and Palestinians accordingly] have nowhere to return,” adding, “The only obvious result will be Gazans choosing to emigrate outside of the Strip.” 

Even after failing to achieve mass expulsion through direct military assault, Israel’s leadership is now pursuing the same outcome through attrition and engineered despair, using rubble, siege, and periodic bombing as instruments of demographic redesign. The prospect of ethnic cleansing has not disappeared with the ceasefire; it has merely evolved into a new policy, disguised and normalized through bureaucratic planning. https://www.972mag.com/trump-israel-plan-divide-gaza/

Can Palestinians possibly live indefinitely in Gaza under Israel’s ruthlessly engineered despair meant to achieve ethnic cleansing? No, this is not possible. 

In dismantling the United Nations, international law, and the so-called “rules-based” order, US and Israel reestablish the era of colonialism and imperial mandate where European powers and now the US dictate the contours of countries and the governance of their citizens. Speaking to reporters on his flight back from Sharm el-Sheikh, Trump said, “I’m talking about something very much different. We’re talking about rebuilding Gaza. I’m not talking about single state or double state or two state…. A lot of people like the one-state solution. Some people like the two-state solution.… At some point I’ll decide what I think is right.” He felt compelled to add that “I’d be in coordination with other states”—but certainly not in coordination with any Palestinians. He will decide.

The Ceasefire Has Not Ended the Genocide. As Israel continues to launch air strikes on Gaza, the weakness of both the ceasefire and Trump’s 20-point plan are becoming ever clearer. | The Nation │Phyllis Bennis and Khury Petersen-Smith│20 October 2025.

The plan violates a host of rulings by the International Court of Justice, ignores resolutions of the United Nations General Assembly, and ultimately ignores international law. It sweeps away eight decades of the vision—with all its limitations and inadequacies—of the United Nations and even goes beyond the so-called “rules-based order” that has replaced international law in far too much political discourse in the United States and Europe. Instead, it inaugurates a new order that seems to be based on the notion that the US president’s prerogative includes the power to declare that “the war is over now,” on his own terms, regardless of whether the genocide has really ended. It’s beyond a rules-based order; it goes straight to the rule-by-fiat of a crime boss.

And that sense of absolute power and entitlement—handpicking how a war ends, deciding who’s in charge, choosing what roles his real estate friends and family might play—extends to what the post-genocide Gaza governance might look like. 

And at the very bottom of the [governance] hierarchy, the plan calls for the creation of a committee of US-vetted Palestinian technocrats (no indication anyone in Gaza will have any say in choosing them) to run day-to-day affairs in Gaza. That committee would be completely under the control of layers of bureaucrats right up to the GITA at the very top. It is, essentially, equivalent to the imperial mandates handed out by post–World War I European powers as they redivided their colonial empires. And it means continuing occupation of Gaza.

www.thenation.com/article/world/ceasefire-has-not-ended-the-genocide/

While this excellent article frankly describes the context, content and consequences of the so-called cease-fire and Trump’s 20-point plan that has no points, Bennis and Petersen-Smith also offer an impassioned discussion about how the mobilization of civil society and social movements can build a movement powerful enough to demand accountability and bring an end to Israeli genocide and apartheid.

We have a model in the 1980s anti-apartheid mobilizations against South Africa. The United States vetoed resolutions at the Security Council, dismissed General Assembly resolutions as unenforceable, until enough individual governments, under pressure from growing anti-apartheid movements in their own countries, acted on their own. They ended arms sales, imposed sanctions, cut off trade relations, moved to cancel apartheid South Africa’s right to speak or vote in the General Assembly. And eventually, especially when US allies joined the movement, the US was forced to follow along. Our movements became the enforcers of international law.

We can do it again. We have no choice but to try