This post is also available on my blog where you can leave comments:
https://popular-resistance.blogspot.com/2024/02/what-surprises.html

First thank you to the many of you who wrote to us about the annual report
(and many who decided to donate or contacted us about helping in other
ways). Many in the world were surprised that we do such great environmental
work in very difficult circumstances to say the least (plus the genocide in
Gaza). But we Palestinians are resilient, we do resist oppression on the
one hand and build for a better future on the other (even when Zionists
keep destroying). We have and cherish our life. For those who did not have
a chance, please do read this and do contact us:
https://www.palestinenature.org/annual-reports/2023-PIBS-report.pdf

Many people in the west were surprised at events and news. This week I
highlight eleven:

1) That there is an American base in Northern Jordan and that sadly 3 black
soldiers were killed (usually the rich get richer and the poor poorer or
killed). But the US has over 1400 bases in 80 countries to control and
subjugate and act against the will of people in those countries. While
spending hundreds of billions annually on this military and enriching <1%
of ts people, infrastructure and education and healthcare in the US suffers
and the 99% suffer. The US then bombed (illegally) many targets in Yemen,
Syria and Iraq in supposed "retaliation" (but really to sustain the
genocide ongoing against the Palestinians.

2)  That 1.5 million of its 2.3 million people are now squeezed into the
area around Rafah which is <15% (about 50 square kilometers) of the
enclave. Famine and death is everywhere.

3) That the Israeli leadership is losing the war against resistance
fighters 120 days/4 months after 7 October and the onslaught in Gaza, the
resistance fighters are winning against tanks, airplanes, navy ships etc.
All Israel can do is destroy more civilians and civilian infrastructure
with US weapons and US cover.

4) That genocide and mass graves are allowed to continue for months and
ethnic cleansing for decades as if we humans learn nothing from history.
Some of us who are awake watch videos like this
https://www.facebook.com/reel/2076517426040497 and are stunned by the
horrors.

5) Yemen while bombed illegally by the US and the UK continues to defend
itself and abide by its obligation to do something to stop the genocide of
Palestinians

6) Dozens of US cities passed resolutions in support of cease fire (the
Zionist lobby having spent millions is losing in its strongest hold the US.
Here is Chicago just after San Francisco
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nni9vyTKrkE

7) Within a week of of the ICJ ruling, not only did the axis of evil led by
the US/UK/Israel shut off funding to UN refugee and work agency and started
threatening other agencies like the Red Cross and Red Crescent to
exacerbate the genocide but continue to do (or fund and arm) the genocide.
See
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/2/one-week-after-icj-ruling-is-israel-following-the-courts-orders
and And after the ICJ ruling bodies of ‘torture victims’ found at Gaza
school. The killing of dozens of people whose bodies were found at a Gaza
school was a clear war crime, according to a Palestinian human rights
lawyer who spoke to Al Jazeera.
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/2/1/bodies-of-torture-victims-found-at-gaza-school

8) The US government placed mild sanctions on 4 colonial settlers
terrorizing Palestinians and asked Israel to look into its own army
violations of human rights in the West Bank. And the UK government says it
is considering recognizing a "Palestinian state". These hypocritical and
cynical statements intended for public relations are not working anymore.
Hundreds of thousands of Israelis engaged in racist attacks against
Palestinians before 7 Oct 2023. Recognition of a Palestinian state could
have been done in 1948, 1967, 1988, 1993 etc. But more important
implementing peace could have been done based on human rights and equality
any day in the past 76 years by simply stopping the support of the
apartheid genocidal regime (the Israeli regime cannot maintain its
colonization and oppression one day without that western support)

9) That social media is 95% supportive of Palestine/human rights while
corporate mainstream media (CNN, BBC, AP, Reuters, FoxNews, New York times
etc) is 95% supportive of genocide.  See how mainstream media kills the
truth
https://popular-resistance.blogspot.com/2023/11/mainstream-media-kills-truth.html
and Western coverage of Gaza: A textbook case of coloniser’s journalism
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/2/2/western-coverage-of-gaza-a-textbook-case-of-colonisers-journalism.
Some western media under pressure (which must be increased) are starting to
do some marginal stories, e.g. CNN CATCHES IDF Cemetery Atrocity Lie
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UoNCuwc5eU
But they are still not coming close to telling the truth about the
resistance, what happened 7 October etc (see ongaza.org and links therein
of sites where you can get real information)

10) that free speech in supposedly democratic Western Countries does not
exist when it comes to Palestine. Someone once quipped tat if you want to
know who really has control in any country, watch who you cannot criticize.
You cannot criticize Zionism (the racist idea of a Jewish state created by
ethnic cleansing of indigenous people). Here is just one of millions of
examples: How Power Creates and Entrenches Health Inequities
https://scheerpost.com/2024/01/31/silencing-the-messenger-how-power-creates-and-entrenches-health-inequities/

11) that colonial regimes lie incessantly. See ongaza.org item #9 and
http://qumsiyeh.org/liesandtruths/

I do not know why the surprises. What is happening here in Palestine has a
cause and has effects that are easily predictable. You find one of my
lectures where I explain this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHUgFIEWr1g
and ere are links to cause and effect:

CAUSE
https://www.facebook.com/mazin.qumsiyeh.9/posts/10160919216451181
(Netanyahu long before this genocidal action)
https://www.facebook.com/reel/308177298660625
https://www.facebook.com/reel/344969104608291
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1011580826776519
https://www.facebook.com/639657926/videos/278246188002507
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1064433681228536
https://www.facebook.com/reel/878806363683585
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1251209615555565
https://www.facebook.com/reel/352778063985760
https://www.facebook.com/reel/301757522765342
https://www.facebook.com/reel/247973378257499
https://www.facebook.com/reel/680580910501209
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1366276930991636
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20160213-the-wild-beast-of-israeli-racism/
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/israel-defense-minister-human-animals-gaza-palestine_n_6524220ae4b09f4b8d412e0a
https://thewire.in/world/northern-gaza-israel-palestine-conflict

EFFECT
see this visual impact of numbers from the UN
https://www.ochaopt.org/content/hostilities-gaza-strip-and-israel-reported-impact-day-118
Then view some of these videos for personal impact
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1347070282669691
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1005924534038932
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1028640151677022
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1036127130871914
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1064396378055298
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1064433681228536
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1140383236935021
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1409846396240215
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1446631016070266
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1498305100905240
https://www.facebook.com/reel/171654876013486
https://www.facebook.com/reel/193003723844677
https://www.facebook.com/reel/219322117715756
https://www.facebook.com/reel/2492508067598176
https://www.facebook.com/reel/267515342935773
https://www.facebook.com/reel/295754560044998
https://www.facebook.com/reel/342182358463855
https://www.facebook.com/reel/342910481573714
https://www.facebook.com/reel/343736248313472
https://www.facebook.com/reel/354972273758525
https://www.facebook.com/reel/358677136723546
https://www.facebook.com/reel/616704703797190
https://www.facebook.com/reel/622474083189011
https://www.facebook.com/reel/821410706397348
https://www.facebook.com/reel/848844680040608
https://www.facebook.com/reel/858262825800295
https://www.facebook.com/reel/865675955015882
https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=235642535962085
https://twitter.com/jacksonhinklle/status/1722049139465154862

Stay Human and keep Palestine alive

Mazin Qumsiyeh
A Bedouin in cyberspace, a villager at home
Professor, Founder, and (volunteer) Director
Palestine Museum of Natural History
Palestine Institute of Biodiversity and Sustainability
Bethlehem University
Occupied Palestine
http://qumsiyeh.org
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