Behind the Holocaust it is committing in Gaza, Israel aims to displace the Palestinians and seize its natural resources, the most important of which is oil and gas (Al Jazeera)

This book, which was published in Cairo by “Dar Merritt” and entitled: “Gaza Under Genocide... Tales of Those Who Did Not Leave,” was a battle waged by the “resistance camp” among Egyptian intellectuals, after it had waged a previous battle with a book entitled: “What Gaza Said.” ".

The difference between the two books is that the first was the result of the “green wound” and the bleeding blood in the Gaza Strip, and its impact on the hearts and minds of poets in Egypt, Algeria, and Yemen, and the second was written by two Palestinian intellectuals, namely: “Ziyad Abdel Fattah” and “Adel Al-Osta.”

Their motive was to open a front in the battle, which it is correct to call the “Resistance Culture Front,” because the Palestinian struggle was not a “gun” struggle. Rather, the word was another gun, and it had a well-known martyr, “Ghassan Kanafani,” the storyteller, novelist, and journalist who was assassinated in Beirut in the year 1972 by decision of Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel, after Ghassan was able to wage the battle of the word against the Zionist entity, at home and abroad.

In the same context, the martyrdom of Naji Al-Ali, the Palestinian fighter, was a satirical caricature.

The Palestinian struggle has many symbols, including Mahmoud Darwish and Moin Bseiso, and many poets who made Palestine the issue of their lives and fought with the word until their last breath.

In the first days of the Gaza War, which broke out on October 7, 2023, the day of the Al-Aqsa Flood, resistance intellectuals who believed in Palestinian rights had to express their pain and rejection of the genocide committed by Israel and America against the Palestinian people in Gaza. With European American sponsorship.

This book was published, and it is divided into two parts:

The first section was a political documentation of the Palestinian issue, and the second section was a documentation of the struggle role played by the creators since the emergence of the “Zionist gangs” through the “1948” war, and all the confrontations and battles in which the Palestinians sacrificed their lives in unequal wars, waged against them by British colonialism, and then colonialism. The American, the German, the French, and his aides.

Betting on Oslo

The book is a memoir written by the two authors, under the Israeli air strikes on the Palestinian people in Gaza. He - Ziad Abdel Fattah - wrote something like an elegy mixed with remorse for what happened in Oslo, which he said about;

It was an attempt to create coexistence between Arabs and Jews on the land of Palestine, and from what he said on the pages of the book:

“We tried our best and sought peace and coexistence with open hearts, and the Israeli left accepted it appropriately, while the fanatical and religious right, who carried out the nascent experiment, did not like peace and did not comply with its rules and mechanisms, so they proceeded to undermine its manifestations and assassinate Rabin, who was its guarantor on the Israeli side. Later, they assassinated Yasser Arafat, who risked his significant reputation with the Palestinian people and the entire world, and brought this criminal, Benjamin Netanyahu, to abort coexistence, reconciliation, and peace.

These lines, which were given by Ziad Abdel Fattah, one of the participants and bettors on “Oslo” that resulted in the so-called “Palestinian Authority,” carry a tone of regret and pain for entering the path of peace with the Zionists, but he distinguishes between the “Israeli left” and the “Israeli right,” and these are Misplaced distinction;

Because "Zionism", which is the doctrine of those who came from their first country in Europe, obliges them to defend the "Hebrew state" or the "Jewish state."

This story of “the right and the left” cannot be believed by anyone other than the naive Arabs. For the Zionists who believed in this bloody doctrine that despises the “gentiles,” it is not right for us to apply to it what we apply to other political doctrines.

In the second section of the book: “Gaza Under Genocide,” Adel Al-Osta - an academic specializing in literature and criticism - cited an excerpt from the book: “The Forgotten Palestinians” by Israeli historian Ilan Pappé, which indicates the arrogance and arrogance of those who believe in the “Zionist” doctrine since the confrontations. The first during the establishment of the State of Israel:

"The Palestinian residents provided these newcomers with some comforts, such as accommodation and food, and not only that, but also provided them with advice on matters of agriculture and tillage. The knowledge of the people of Zion on this subject was little if not non-existent. The settlers did not reciprocate this generous treatment. In In the evening, when they were about to write their first entries in their diaries by candlelight, they referred to the Palestinian citizens - as strangers - roaming the land that belongs to the Jewish people, and some of them came up with the idea that the land was empty, and they claimed that the residents they found were nothing but foreign invaders! ".

Oil and gas in Gaza

Adel Al-Osta comments:

“We hired strangers, and when they were able, they did to us what they are doing now, strangers who must be displaced to Ireland and the desert. What was said by Amichai Eliyahu was more dangerous, which was the use of the atomic bomb to eliminate the resistance in Gaza.”

Throughout the book's three hundred and four pages, the two writers recount, in the form of memoirs, everything that happened to the Palestinian resistance in the past and present, but what Ziad Abdel Fattah mentioned about the real reasons for the war on "Gaza", the most important of which is the presence of "oil and gas" in the interior of the Gaza Strip. , and other minerals, which is what makes the rulers of Washington and Tel Aviv insist on the idea of ​​“displacing the population of Gaza,” and in return, the “Ghazawis” insist on staying or dying on the homeland.

Because the lesson of “immigration” in 1948 was harsh on the Palestinians.

They believed the seven Arab governments that sent their armies to fight the “Zionist gangs,” and they believed what they were told, and they were told;

The matter will be resolved within days. Days turned into decades, and generations of Palestinians lived in “camps” that did not have the minimum means of life.

Speaking of camps, the Israeli air force singled out “Jabalia Camp” for heavy bombing.

Because it is the camp from which the “resistance” began after the defeat of June 1967. This camp was the cradle of the revolution, according to what Yahya Al-Sanwar mentioned in his novel: “Thistles and Cloves,” in which he told about the game “Arabs and Jews” that he played in his childhood. Inside the camp, Adel Al-Osta linked what Yahya Al-Sinwar told about his childhood, and what the Egyptian poet Amal Dunqul said in his famous poem “No Reconciliation”:

“And tomorrow someone will be born wearing the full armor

He lights the fire completely

“The truth is born from the ribs of the impossible.”

The symbolism of its release from Cairo

The importance of this book, “Gaza Under Genocide - Stories of Those Who Did Not Leave,” lies in the symbolism of its publication, from Cairo, by “Dar Merritt,” a publishing house that has a supportive position on the Palestinian cause, despite its weak financial capabilities, and lies in the fact that its authors are considered among the great Palestinian intellectuals, in their insistence on writing under bombardment and killing, and their keenness to create a memory of the struggle of the Palestinian intellectual, who fought with pen, word, tone and image, throughout the past years.

Although the Arab cultural scene was devoid of great poets who embraced the issue and conveyed it to the Arab street, then Wael Al-Dahdouh - the heroic Palestinian journalist who lost his children and wife as punishment for speaking the truth on Al-Jazeera - and dozens of journalists who were martyred under the bombing and who... They are still exposing the Zionist entity and its criminal acts. They have succeeded in conveying the full facts to the new generation. Today in Egypt, young people continue to boycott the products of companies that supported Israel, a successful and effective boycott, even though the media does not care to follow up on its details.

This book is important for everyone interested in the Palestinian issue, as it summarizes the Palestinian struggle and documents the crimes Israel has committed against the people of Gaza since October 7, 2023 until the writing of these lines.

The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the editorial position of Al Jazeera.