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Ibrahim Al-Nabulsi, A
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Martyrs pictured on front cover, from right to left

Uday Al-Tamimi—Martyred October 19, 2022 (Age 22)
Hussein Qaraqa—Martyred February 10, 2023 (Age 31)

Khairi Algam—Martyred January 27, 2023 (Age 21)

Ra’ad Fathi Khazem—Martyred April 8, 2023 (Age 29)

Ibrahim Al-Nabulsi—Martyred August 9, 2022 (Age 18)

Hussam Aslim—Martyred February 22, 2023 (Age 24)

Muhammad Abu Bakr Al-Junaidi—Martyred February 22, 2023 (Age 23)
Diaa Hamarsheh— Martyred March 29, 2022 (Age 27)
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Editors’ Note:

For those in the English-speaking parts of the world, news
about Palestine is always filtered through someone else,
whether it be NGOs academics, or imperialist news media. If
you cannot read Arabic, or you do not follow certain media
outlets that focus on resistance, then you might never even
know about the existence of groups like the Lion's Den, or
the revolutionary history taking place every day in occupied
Palestine.

Palestinian resistance is often only understood as
something that existed "back then", in the days of Leila
Khaled or more recently the first and second intifada.
Modern-day Palestinian revolutionaries are maligned and
their stories are buried. Such is part of a purposeful strategy
of information suppression designed to limit the range of
political and historical analysis.

We chose these documents to interrupt that suppression
and provide context and background for the events currently
taking place in the Levant. Rookery Press makes no claims to
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Table of Contents



Vengeful Lion by Hadis Hosseini

The Nabulsi Generation and the “New Palesti1





by Qasim S. Qassem ..



Generation Z Palestine by Mohammad Fayezi.

How a Teenager Changed the West Bank Equation
by Ehsan Ehtesham ...



Post-Tamimi is Not the Same as Before

by: Ahmed Al-Abed ....



The Phenomenon of Resistance is Growing in the Arab
West Bank: Dimensions and Consequences
by Abu Ali Hassai 24



The Enemy's Contradictions Do Not Disrupt the Unity
of the Killers by A/-Hadf News... 34



Rejoice! Israeli Counterinsurgency Is Losing

by: Dalal Zayed 37



Gaza Air Defense, Nizar Banat, and Iran Defeating the
Defeatists by Hanna Eid.





Sources and Citations.
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Vengeful Lion
by Haais Hosseini
Originally published by the Tehran Times; March 2023

Who are Palestinians? They are heroes who die young and
rise to fame quickly. Although sometimes their achievements
go unnoticed, they never give up and always continue on
their path. One of these heroes was Ibrahim al-Nabulsi, who
was as brave as a lion and martyred at the age of 18.

Ibrahim al-Nabulsi (October 2003-August 2022) was a
Palestinian militant and a senior commander of the Al-Aqsa
Martyrs’ Brigades. He served as the commander of the Al-
‘Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades in the West Bank, earning the
nickname “The Lion of Nablus”. He survived several Israeli
assassination attempts and made high-profile appearances at
the funerals of fellow Fatah militants. On August 9th, 2022,
he, along with Islam Sabbouh and Hussein Jamal Taha, were
killed in an Israeli raid on their barricaded home in Nablus.

Mr. al-Nabulsi grew up in his family's century-old house on
a hill and was an accomplished swimmer. His father, Alah, is
a junior major in the preventive security agency. Formerly
imprisoned by Israel, his father joined the force tasked with
suppressing opposition to the 1994 Oslo peace accords.

“I believed in something great: a state, the peace that
Israel never wanted to give us,” said Alah. “My son's
generation is angry with us, and their resistance is
legitimate.”

When he was a schoolboy, Ibrahim used to throw stones at
soldiers in the south of Nablus. He followed in the footsteps

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of his older brother, Adham Mabrouka. The early years of al-
Nabulsi's life coincided with Israeli military crimes in Jenin
refugee camp and Nablus between 2001-2004. In
adolescence, people called him “Namrood.”

According to those who knew him, before becoming a
resistance fighter, al-Nabulsi was a typical teenager who was
both just and fierce. As a child, al-Nabulsi was remembered
as a “Namrood,” a term borrowed from the biblical story of
Namrood to signify the spirit of a rebel that refused to submit
to authority,

Avenger

Ibrahim joined his two friends in a cell at the age of 15 in
the spring of 2019. He was wanted by Israel, and the three
told their friends that they had been tortured. Ibrahim's
mother, Houda, found him “more aggressive” when he was
released. “He wanted to take revenge on Israel.” Ibrahim
wasn't yet 16 years old and ran away. He went into hiding.

On July 24th, 2023 Israeli forces invaded the city of Nablus
and besieged a house where Ibrahim and his friends were
located, in the Old City of Nablus in the northern occupied
West Bank. Israeli forces and special forces (Yamam)
infiltrated the old city of Nablus, hidden in civilian
merchandise trucks, while large numbers of reinforcements
stormed the city from several entry points. The forces
surrounded a house in the Al-Yasmina neighborhood where
Nabulsi and a group of fighters were located.

Nabulsi managed to escape alive after heavy fighting, while
two other fighters, 25-year-old Mohammad Azizi and 28-year-
old Abdul Rahman Jamal Suleiman Sobbh, were struck by live

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ammunition in the chest and head. Both were killed on the
spot. He attended his friends’ funeral and became known as.
the “Lion of Nablus”.

Nabulsi’s appearance at that funeral alarmed the Israeli
media, and the official Israeli channel “Kan” said at the time:
“after escaping from army forces, the Palestinian wanted
man for whom the military operation in Nablus was dedicated
arrived to attend the funeral of Palestinians who were killed
during clashes.” Israeli authorities accuse Nabulsi of being
behind “dozens” of shooting attacks on their soldiers, which
led to one Israeli officer's injury and several settlers.

On August 9th, he and his friends were surrounded in the
old town of Nablus. According to the Israeli army, Israelis
used a shoulder-fired missile in their raid, leading to the
killing of the Palestinian commander. The assassination
immediately resulted in mass protests and clashes in Nablus
between Palestinians and Israeli troops. Several Palestinians
were reportedly wounded in the mass protests.

It is difficult to explain how popular Ibrahim Nabulsi was
and how many people wanted to be like him — heroic and
brave. The young commander became a national symbol for
daring to show up unmasked to funerals in defiance of the
Israelis every time they tried to kill him.

The words of al-Nabulsi's mother, Um Eyad, were inspiring.
She said, “I don't even want to afford them my tears.
Ibrahim is a martyr, Al-hamdulilah.” The words didn't console
her heart, but at least they diverted her grief to a call for
change. At the hospital, as the doctor apologetically said her
hero “was martyred,” Um Eyad told a throng of mourners:
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“They are mistaken if they think they killed Ibrahim.
Everyone is Ibrahim.”

Ibrahim's last words

Ibrahim's last words were “I love you so much. If I am
martyred, guys, I love my mother, Take care of the homeland
after I'm gone, and my final will to you, on your honor: don't
let go of the rifle-on your honor. I'm surrounded, and I am
going towards my martyrdom. Pray for me.”

One journalist reflected on these words and how they
impacted him deeply. He noted that while thousands of
Palestinians have been killed by Israel, Ibrahim's death felt
different because we seldom hear the last words of our
martyrs. Instead, we are left with only their dismembered
bodies and pale faces to imagine their thoughts.

According to Ibrahim's father, he was hunting the Israeli
Occupation Forces rather than being hunted by them.
Whenever he heard about an Israeli army raid, he was the
first to go out and confront them. This was his fate, and his
family praises Allah for it.
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Ibrahim Al-Nabulsi, the Lion of Nablus, attends a
funeral for his fallen comrades in July 2022

Ibrahim's mother holds up his rifle at his
funeral in August 2022

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The Nabulsi Generation and the “New
Palestinian”
by Qasim S. Qassem
Originally published by the Al-Akhbar; 20 August 2022'
Translated by Rookery Press

Israel and the Palestinian Authority have long sought to
create a “New Palestinian”; a Palestinian who is far removed
from their cause, whose concern is making money and
accepts living under occupation, and whose only recourse to
resolving conflicts is “peace”. Israel wanted peaceful
Palestinians who would accept security coordination as a way
to preserve a fake “Palestinian state”. Palestinians were busy
securing their livelihoods or working to pay off their home
loans. A Palestinian who is only concerned with their home
and family and who does not care about what is happening
in Gaza, or in the occupied interior, or in the West Bank.

After the second intifada, Israel and the United States
developed a plan to build this “New Palestinian”. They
decided to adopt an open economic policy towards the
occupied West Bank, and to allow a large number of
Palestinians to work in the occupied interior. In addition they
restructured the Palestinian economy to facilitate access to
housing loans by offering economic and financial incentives,
These “New Palestinians” would not start a new intifada and
they would reject military activities because they would lose
much more than they would gain.

After the assassination of the martyr Yasser Arafat and
after the Palestinian Authority disbanded the military arms of

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Fatah and imprisoned its top military leaders (Marwan
Barghouti and Ahmad Sa’adat), the authority then helped to
tame the other part of the military leadership of Fatah, such
as Hussein Sheikh. Then in 2009, the Palestinian Authority
brought in former World Bank employee Salam Fayyad to
transform the Palestinian economy from a war economy to
‘one based on begging and aid, which he largely succeeded in
accomplishing.

These policies ensured a golden period of calm for the
Israeli enemy in the occupied West Bank, but with the
beginning of 2015, a new generation of Palestinians
emerged.

This young generation had lived through the four major
Israeli wars on Gaza (2008-2009, 2012, 2014). They realized
that resistance and armed struggle could achieve results.
This generation was not heavily influenced by Israeli
propaganda or the Palestinian Authority's promotion of
“peaceful conflict resolution”, This new generation differs
from those who came before it, and social media has helped
increase their political awareness. The amount of information
they receive, and the events they see taking place in their
homeland, have radicalized them. This generation grew up
seeing the Israeli settlements surrounding them, growing and
prospering, while they live in ghettos besieged by enemy
soldiers who impose arbitrary blockades whenever they
please.

In 2015, anger brewed and exploded, in what was known
as the “Knife Intifada”, which expressed the new generation's
objection to the Palestinian reality: there is no Palestinian
state, Israeli crimes continue, attacks against the Al-Aqsa

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Mosque are increasing, and Israeli military power is growing.
All of this made it imperative for them to act.

This new generation of commandos and revolutionaries is
more politically aware than its predecessors. They lead the
Palestinian factions to where they want, set their policy, and
force them to communicate and coordinate with each other.
In the past, joint statements and joint operations between
factions were considered a great achievement. Today,
however, this coordination exists on the ground, cemented in
blood, without the need to return to a factional decision for
coordination between fighters.

For example, the factions used to take credit for solo
operations, but after the 2015 uprising, this policy changed
and they adopted a politics of ambiguity and mystery. The
factions did not claim responsibility for stabbing or shooting
operations except in rare cases, such as on May 2, when the
Al-Qassam Brigades claimed responsibility for the “Ariel”
operation after its perpetrators were arrested, and the
occupation forces discovered during the investigation that
they had communicated with Al-Qassam in Gaza before
carrying it out.

The new politics of mystery and misdirection continues
today as the new generation's commandos and fighters differ
from their ancestors. You might find one of them wrapped in
a banner of “Islamic Jihad,” and in another picture, carrying
the flag of “Fatah,” and in an audio recording, you might hear
them cheering for the general commander of the Al-Qassam
Brigades, Mohammed Deif.

The youth in Nablus and Jenin today have transcended the
division that the Israeli enemy sought to entrench, and they

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are a living example of “field unity”. The biggest evidence of
this is the coordination between the “Al-Aqsa Brigades", “Al-
Qassam” and “Saraya Al-Quds” in several areas of the West
Bank which has changed the reality on the ground. The new
fedayeen is no longer geographically isolated. When the
Israeli enemy storms Jenin, the youth of Nablus shoot at the
Huwwara checkpoint, and when Nablus is invaded, the youth
of Jenin and Tulkarem rush to shoot at the checkpoints there.
What is happening heralds the wresting of several areas in
the West Bank from the security control of the Palestinian
Authority. This forces the Israeli enemies to come out of their
strongholds and makes them vulnerable to attack.

On August 9th 2022, after two previously failed attempts,
the Israeli enemy succeeded in assassinating the martyr
Ibrahim Al-Nabulsi. In the first failed attempt last February,
his comrades, Muhammad al-Dakhil, Adham Mabrouka (a
Chechen), and Ashraf al-Mabaslat were martyred. In the
second attempt, he succeeded in escaping their clutches. But
in the third attempt, the enemy was able to assassinate him
and his two companions, after a battle that lasted several
hours.

Al-Nabulsi, who was only 18 years old, bewildered and
‘outmaneuvered the enemy and forced the occupiers to carry
‘out several operations before his martyrdom. He is from the
generation that Israel and the Palestinian Authority sought to
tame and domesticate, the “conflict resolution” generation. A
generation who were infants during the second intifada, and
children during the Knife Intifada. A generation that has

1 “field unity" refers to the military strategy where all Palestinians are
unified against the enemy on all battlefields are there is no infighting
‘among factions or groups.

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proven to be more politically aware than those who preceded
it, a generation that takes action and follows the
commandment: “never lay down the gun.”



Lion's Den founding members Wadi Al-Houh and Ibrahim Al Nabulsi

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Generation Z Palestine
By Mohammad Mohsen Fayezi
Originally published by the Tehran Times; March 2023"

Generation after generation, Palestine seems to follow a
predetermined path towards its destiny, a destiny of support
and betrayal, defeat and victory, politics and opportunities,
leaders and legends.

Since 2010, a “post-Oslo” generation of Palestinians began
their own predetermined path. This generation had not
witnessed the path taken before the Oslo Accords or were
present for the decisions made by Palestine's leaders.
Instead, they saw Oslo as history that informed their present.
This generation did not find independence, identity, or its
rights in the Oslo accords.

The events of 2015 and 2016, known as the Third Intifada
(or Knife Intifida), were considered by some to be a complete
reflection of the post-Oslo generation in Palestine. However,
in 2022, a new generation is coming into its own in the world
of Palestine, a generation that brings new thoughts and
perspectives. They are now 20 years old and were not alive
to remember or understand Oslo or the last uprising of
Palestinians in 2000.

Some have chosen the name “Generation 2” for the new
generation, a choice that seems apt. For example, Hitham Al-
Jassmi, a columnist for the English-language Al Jazeera
website, heralds this new generation of Palestine in an article
titled “Generation Z will free Palestine,” a generation that has
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been engaged in various struggles in Nablus, Jenin, and
Jerusalem in 2022.

The Palestinian Generation Z has several prominent
features:

+ intellectual independence from leaders and political
movements

+ love for past myths and heroes

+ comprehensive struggle using many methods from
media to firearms

+ belief in the future victory of the Palestinian
resistance to win freedom and pride

The attitudes and thoughts of Palestinian Generation Z are
exemplified in various operations and events of 2022 and
2023. They are a generation that is independent from
political movements and even resists their leaders, even
those from the resistance movement.

Palestinian Generation Z is proud of its armed and
intellectual path. They are exactly like other members of
Generation Z around the world in 2022; they are fashionable,
recreational, virtual beings who see their lives as part of the
struggle. Unlike other generations before them, Palestinian
Generation Z criticizes fearlessly and follows its own separate
revolutionary path forward.

The youth of the Generation Z in Palestine are becoming
role models for their peers. Ibrahim Nablusi is an example of
this Generation Z in Palestine. They are no longer lost and
unheeded collaborators in a joint operation led by others, but
their lives, resilience, attitude, and even moments of

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martyrdom are upheld as premier examples of their struggle.
Ibrahim's images and words have been widely shared in
Palestinian media. So much so that Zionist media have
dubbed martyr Ibrahim Nablusi as the “TikTok terrorist” and
are concerned that he will become a role model for young
people.

The Generation Z in Palestine are fearless and even radical,
but on the other hand, the Sheikh Jarrah hashtags are not
alone; they keep the national liberation struggles around the
world trending on social media platforms for weeks. The
members of Generation Z in Palestine are a challenge without
a solution for Zionists; they elude suppression and conduct
their revolutionary struggle differently from _ previous
generations. They live differently, think differently, and fight
differently.

The youth of Generation Z in Palestine have found their
‘own path; they do not fight simply for ideology, or to fulfill
their duty to their homeland but to seek results, to seek
freedom — freedom divorced from some of the traditions or
political considerations of their fathers. The youth of the
generation Z in Palestine will create a new horizon for their
future, free from any fear or hesitation.
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How a Teenager Changed the West Bank
Equation
By Ehsan Ehtesham
Originally published by the Tehran Times in March 2023”

Ibrahim Nabulsi's martyrdom is the beginning of the end of
Israeli occupation.

At such a young age, the 18-year-old understood Israel's
ethnic cleansing campaign more than the Palestinian
Authority did in the occupied West Bank and he launched the
West Bank's armed resistance.

While the Palestinian officials hold talks with Israel or
through mediators, more recently in Jordan with a view to
defuse the escalating tensions in the West Bank, Israel has
carried on with its massacres and land grab policy. Nabulsi
comprehended these facts much more than the Palestinian
leadership did, who continue to believe that talking with
Israel, the international community, or any third party will
end the killings in the West Bank. Decades of negotiations
between the West Bank's political leaders and Israel failed to
achieve that goal. The Palestinian leadership is not even
effectively negotiating for the end of the occupation
anymore, only the de-escalation of violence. Nabulsi's life and
martyrdom made the West Bank youth realize that dialogue
with the Israeli regime only leads to one thing and that is the
expansion of settlements.

Expanding the West Bank settlements will not only wipe
out the future of the younger generation but the Palestinian
Authority along with them. If Nabulsi did not take part in the

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armed struggle there would be no Palestinian Authority left in
five or ten years’ time.

This is why he took the lead in armed resistance, which led
to his death in August last year. But he left behind a vast
number in the younger generation across the occupied West
Bank that have also accepted this fact and followed his lead
The goal of Israel is clear: the regime is planning to
ethnically cleanse all the Palestinians that reside in Palestine.

The measures that Israel takes to make Palestinians leave
their native land and replace them with settlers to squat in
their homes come in many forms.

Sa'd Nimer, a Professor of Political Science at Birzeit
University in Ramallah, told Tehran Times that Israel is
pressuring the Palestinians “economically, socially, politically
and in every sense and every aspect in our lives to force us
to leave our country.”

“[Far-right Israeli finance minister Bezalel] Smotrich and his
party made a paper that was discussed to form the fragile
Netanyahu coalition majority in the Knesset, which put three
options in front of the Palestinians. The first option for the
Palestinians is that they must accept to live under total Israeli
military control in so many areas separated by the Israeli
army. The second option under the paper is that Palestinians
must leave their country and Israel will help them immigrate
from their country even by obtaining visas for us and giving
us some money to facilitate our departure. The third plan is if
the Palestinians refuse the first two options, then there will
be violence, according to the paper if the violence didn't
work, more violence will work.” Nimer explained.

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However, the perspective of the young men, inspired by
Nabulsi, is to put those options in the dustbin of history and
expand the armed resistance instead. In other words, they
will not accept money and visas to leave their homeland.
Rather they resist and die for their homeland.

The new young resistance factions are growing across the
West Bank and according to Nimer this is not just limited to
areas like Jenin, Nablus, the Balata refugee camp, Tulkaram,
and Aria (Jericho) but “there is now even talk of the armed
resistance even including al-Khalil (Hebron)."” “In the face of
more violent attacks by Israel, there will be more resistance
by young Palestinians until the end of this regime,” he says.

Nabulsi like the younger resistance generation he left
behind, have no hope for the future in terms of job
opportunities or living in peace.

The daily and deadly Israeli attacks Nabulsi witnessed left
him with no option but to take up arms. His legacy will be
felt by the Israelis in the short and long term as he changed
the equation in the West Bank and the entire occupied
Palestinian territories.

No attacks or massacres under this new extremist Israeli
cabinet will force the younger generation to leave their
country. On the contrary, according to experts, the younger
armed Palestinian generation will happily face the raids of the
occupation forces and take them on with their own bullets.

The new generation matured quickly, that's why they are
the Lions' Den and not the Cubs Den. Nevertheless, as young
and as heroic as they may be, they are also on a learning
curve. Despite pledging no allegiance to more globally well-

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known and popular resistance movements, officials with the
Palestinian resistance in the besieged Gaza Strip have been
offering them advice and guidance on how to confront the
regime's forces.

This will only make them stronger and the facts show that
this young West Bank resistance movement welcomes
martyrdom and refuses to surrender under Israeli arrest
campaigns. Israel will never be able to kill all of them. The
facts on the ground show they are on the path to achieving
something that a regime with nuclear weapons and the most
advanced conventional weapons coupled with a fascist
approach is frightened of. Nabulsi's martyrdom was just the
start of a new chapter in what is set to be a long and difficult
path ahead for Israel.

This is a path that Netanyahu and his far-right coalition of
extremist religious ministers did not anticipate.



A Palestinian fighter shoots at Israeli troops in Jenin
7, 2023

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Post-Tamimi is Not the Same as Before |
The Shuafat Fedayeen Reverse the
Equation: We Are Now the Ones Who
Chase the Enemy

by: Ahmed Al-Abed
Originally Published in Al-Akhbar Magazine in October 2022”
Translated by Rookery Press

On October 8, Uday Tamimi stormed the Shuafat
checkpoint, attacked Israeli soldiers, and killed a female
soldier before withdrawing unscathed. For ten days, the
Israeli security and intelligence system was operating at full
throttle, driven by hysteria caused by its failure to find the
young Uday Tamimi. While the occupying state was utilizing
all its security, intelligence, and technological resources to
locate Tamimi and erase the blow he had dealt to its army,
Tamimi was living in Jerusalem as a “porcupine”.? He later
became the “flea” and attacked the settlement of “Ma‘ale
Adumim’, the jewel of the Zionist project in the city. This
second strike against the entity tore apart the Israelis’
deterrent and security prestige, once again proving that it is
“weaker than a spider's web”? In less than two weeks,
Tamimi changed the equations of the conflict, with the
Palestinian militant becoming the one chasing Israeli forces

2. Referring to the text by the martyr Basil Al-Araj 'Live Like a Porcupine,
Fight Like a Flea -- RP

3. Referring to Sayyed Nassrallah's famous "Spider Web” Speech in 2000
in which he said "Jsvae/ possesses Nuclear weapons and the strongest
air force in the region. I swear to Allah, it is weaker than a spider's
web." - RP

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and pursuing settlers, and not the other way around, as he
was able to launch a double strike on the enemy: first by
infiltrating a sensitive security stronghold equipped with all
technological and military means and then withdrawing
unharmed, and secondly by disappearing for a long time and
carrying out another operation in an unexpected location,
demonstrating his high ability to camouflage and hide.

Over the past few days, the Israeli occupation has sought
to achieve a security achievement that it can market in
exchange for its failure and hide the shame that befell its
soldiers after they hid during Tamimi's attack on the
checkpoint. Therefore, the number of reserve soldiers in
Jerusalem has been doubled, and elements of the army,
police, and intelligence agencies have been mobilized to
gather any information that may lead to the arrest of Tamimi.
They also deployed special forces and elite assassination
units, using every technological means available from
surveillance and espionage tools, drones. They tightened
checkpoints and closed others, all while intensifying
incursions into the camps. However, Tamimi evaded all these
measures and launched a new attack, in which he fought a
fierce battle with the security forces. The attack clearly had
political and security ramifications for the enemy. Soon,
criticism and ridicule began pouring in from military
correspondents and settler leaders.

The leader of religious Zionism, Betzalel Smotrich, attacked
the Minister of War Benny Gantz, saying, “He smiles and
mocks, but the attacks are ongoing one after another. Thank
God that the attack that took place tonight in Ma’ale Adumim
also ended with a miracle, relatively minor. Gantz neglects
Israel's security.” Hillel Beaton Rosen, the military

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correspondent for Channel 14 said: “It is obligatory to ask
the question: How did the entire Israeli security
establishment fail to apprehend the perpetrator of a bloody
operation, only to have him carry out another one so far
away from where they claimed he was hiding?”

The Hebrew site “Wallah News” accused the security
establishment of “enabling Tamimi to move freely, like a time
bomb,” saying, “while the army, police, and the Shin Bet
were searching for him, the one who killed the recruit Noa
Zilberstein planned to carry out his second operation, which
ended miraculously with only minor wounds. The settlement
of Ma'ale Adumim is a wake-up call for the security
establishment to look for new ways to combat the growing
terrorism on the ground”.

The Israeli military institution opened an investigation into
how the martyr was able to escape despite the siege
imposed on Shuafat camp, where it was believed he was
hiding. Meanwhile, Channel 12 revealed details of the second
operation, which began after one of the settlers driving a car
outside Ma‘ale Adumim noticed a person moving on foot
towards the checkpoint and alerted the guards. As a result,
the guards were alerted, but Tamimi quickly fired his pistol at
them and began to approach the checkpoint through the
nearby trees, reaching a distance of three meters, where he
wanted to hit one of them. The latter quickly responded,
causing Tamimi to fall to the ground, while another guard
also tried to fire, but one of the bullets fired by Tamimi hit
the magazine of the guard's rifle, disabling it. After
announcing the operation, the enemy quickly broadcast a
video clip of it, thinking that it might reduce the criticisms
directed at it for failing to find Tamimi. They also hoped to
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demoralize the Palestinians, however, the opposite effect
occurred and the Palestinians celebrated the martyr's
bravery, courage, and cunning in attacking the occupation.

Organically and without anyone telling them to do so,
Palestinians took to the streets in cities, villages and camps,
following the announcement of Tamimi's martyrdom. The
entire West Bank erupted in a night of confrontations that
began in Shuafat camp in particular and Jerusalem generally
but soon extended to other locations. Thousands of young
people gathered in front of Uday's house to support his
family, while massive marches from Jenin in the north to
Hebron in the south, and headed to confront military
‘outposts and checkpoints. Armed clashes also broke out in
Issawiya, Silwan, Al-Nabi Saleh, Husan, Al-Ram, Halhul
Bridge, Bab Al-Zawiya in Hebron, the northern entrance to Al-
Bireh, the entrance to Beitah town, Huwara, Qalandiya camp.
checkpoint, Al-Fawwar camp, Al-Arroub camp, Nillin, AF
Eizariya, and the northern entrance to Bethlehem. Against
this backdrop, militants carried out shooting operations on
military checkpoints, the most prominent of which was a
deluge of bullets and homemade explosive devices on the
Jalama military checkpoint in Jenin. Resisters also targeted
the “Beit EI” settlement checkpoint north of Ramallah, and
others opened fire on the “Ofer” camp located west of
Ramallah.

The “Lions' Den” group recognized what was occurring and
called on Palestinians to go out to the rooftops and streets to
perform the Takbir’ at midnight—an invitation that was
accepted by many Palestinians. The Lions Den pledged to
4 The Takbir is the name for the Arabic phrase “Allahu Akbar", meaning
“God is the greatest". -- RP
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respond within hours to the martyrdom of Tamimi, and
announced only hours later the implementation of three
operations against the occupation soldiers, indicating that its
fighters targeted an occupation patrol near the “Jarzim”
military checkpoint and rained a heavy barrage of bullets
upon the enemy, resulting in injuries. Another group of its
fighters also ambushed a patrol of soldiers in the vicinity of
the military checkpoint “17” and opened fire on them, also
achieving confirmed injuries on the enemy. Near the town of
Deir Sharaf, which witnessed the death of an Israeli soldier
last week, fighters from the “Lion's Den” were able to target
a group of soldiers, inflicting casualties. After all this, the
“Lion's Den” announced that their response was not over and
that they would not stop their confrontations.

Following the night filled with clashes, a general strike
swept through cities in the West Bank and Jerusalem, and
their villages, mourning the soul of Tamimi. At the same
time, the masses in Ramallah came out to mourn the young
martyr Mohammed Nouri, who died from injuries he
sustained last month. Many areas of the West Bank also
witnessed confrontations with occupation forces.

Palestinians circulated the will and last words of Uday, in
which he said: “I am the ‘Stalker’ Uday Tamimi from the
Shuafat Camp of martyrs. The operation I carried out on the
Shuafat Checkpoint was a drop in the roaring sea of
resistance. I know that I will be martyred sooner or later, and
I know that I did not liberate Palestine with this operation,
but I carried it out to accomplish this main goal: that this
operation would mobilize hundreds of youths to take up arms
after my martyrdom.”

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The Phenomenon of Resistance is Growing
in the Arab West Bank: Dimensions and
Consequences

by Abu Ali Hassan
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, December 2022”
Translated by Rookery Press

Over the past months, Palestine has been ablaze with a
struggle against the occupation and its settlers. The West
Bank witnessed a turning point in the confrontation, which
may suggest even more profound changes in the speed and
growth of the resistance. This is driving the future of the
West Bank and the Palestinian issue into a new era that goes
beyond the perspective of settlement through Oslo, which
was proven to be an absolute failure.

The forms of confrontation have changed and developed
tangibly. Stones turned into knife stabbings, and stabbings
turned into car-ramming operations. Car-ramming and
courage turned into an armed confrontation, and weapons
are now in the hands of the capable resistance fighters.
Israeli army sources speak of the presence of more than
three hundred thousand weapons in the hands of the
Palestinians, and the same sources say that more than a
hundred thousand bullets have been stolen from the army's
warehouses!! The number of Israeli casualties has ballooned
in recent months, Israeli security has lost its credibility, and
there is no longer a safe place within the Zionist entity, At the
same time, the number of Palestinian martyrs has increased,

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and there have been multiple confrontations and home
invasions. Palestinian youth have shown extraordinary
courage in the unequal confrontation in weapons. However,
there is a superiority in will and courage, and there is a
nurturing strength for this will and courage from the
Palestinian mother who blesses and approves her son's
confrontation with the occupation and rejoices in his
martyrdom. The phenomenon of funeral processions of
martyrs remains a renewed incentive and enthusiasm in
confronting the occupation. The current conflict represents a
qualitative elevation in the confrontation, and it may turn into
a new stage of uprising with its new characteristics that are
shaped by the current reality.

Dialectic of consciousness-resistance

In light of this, the question arises: how do we understand
this shift in the confrontation, and what are the reasons,
motives, and factors that have led to this shift in the
confrontation with the occupation? What has changed to
cause the resistance to take this higher form?

Any attempt to analyze and interpret this shift and growth
in confrontation apart from the Palestinian consciousness is a
superficial one that only sees the dazzling image without
delving into the content and substance of the transformation.
Resistance does not grow and develop from a vacuum, but is
a reflection of the growing Palestinian awareness. The
Palestinian society is not a static one, nor is it isolated from
the political, military, and economic developments around it.
Recent events have confirmed that Palestinian society is
more energized and responsive to political developments and
changes than the Palestinian Authority or the resistance

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factions. Palestinian Society is the most affected by the fire of
the occupation, it is the most vulnerable to the inhuman daily
violations of the practices of the occupation. And it is the
most aware of and sensitive to the political failure that has
extended over more than a quarter of a century of losing
strategies.

The dialectic of consciousness-resistance is the logical,
scientific, and objective explanation for the escalation of
national and resistance action. There is no resistance without
awareness, and no awareness without resistance in its
comprehensive concept. National awareness in all its
manifestations is nothing but a reflection of the dialectic of
reality with all its social, political, cultural, and economic
contradictions, including the reality of the existing occupation
and its aggressive and settlement aspects.

The question remains: “why now, this explosion of
resistance, and not before?”.

However, the answer is logical when the explanation is that
the revolutionary national action does not happen suddenly,
but it is an accumulative path that is subject to the law of
accumulation in order to reach the qualitative and superior
transformation in the confrontation. This transformation does
not stop at the end of the confrontation, but it opens the
door in the near future for more superior and widespread,
violent, and comprehensive transformations on all levels
related to the dynamics of the open conflict with the
‘occupation.

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The failure of settlement is an incentive to resist

The Palestinian consciousness is a strong motivator for the
rise of the phenomenon of resistance, Palestinian awareness
is not abstract from the political reality. The belief that the
settlement has reached the peaks of its failures, that the
pioneers of settlement have reached the end of their failed
policies and bets, and that their options have become
corrupted in front of the Palestinian society, all of this has
contributed to a hard scientific research for strategies that
are not Oslo strategies. This led to strategies such as forming
the Jenin Brigades—the Lions' Den—and others in cities and
camps.

The sanctity of blood and martyrdom

The sanctity of Palestinian blood in the Palestinian society
played a role in shaping the Palestinian consciousness. The
blood is not just a surplus flowing in the tributaries and
labyrinths of political settlement, but it is a sacred blood that
deepens feelings, emotions, and resolve. It addresses the
spirit of belonging to the homeland and the cause. Those
thousands of mourners at the funerals of martyrs are an
indication of the sanctification of martyrdom for the sake of
the homeland and the sanctification of the blood. The blood
was not in vain and it always flows like a tributary towards
the homeland and the right of return.

Resistance in the West Bank and Resistance in Gaza

It goes without saying that resistance against the
occupation takes various forms. It varies from place to place,
from form to form, and each of them has its own

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characteristics, methods and tools. This begs the question of
“what is the same and what is different between the
resistance of the West Bank and the resistance of Gaza?”

The resistance in Gaza is shaped by the calculated politics
of the Palestinian factions present there, specifically the
calculations and decisions of Hamas due to their advanced
military capabilities on the one hand, and on the other hand
by virtue of their political and security authority in Gaza. This
makes the form of resistance take the shape of regular
warfare, exchanging shells, rockets, and other types of
weapons, making it more threatening and deadly. For
‘example, in the 2014 battle, more than 2,180 martyrs fell.
Therefore, resistance is subject to many considerations and
different calculations, which means that resistance is more
factional than popular, and ultimately Gaza is subject to the
rules of the political game.

On the other hand, resistance in the West Bank today is
subject to different considerations. In the West Bank, the
occupation is present in every city, village, street, and
neighborhood. This elevates the daily friction in more than
one way. In the absence of the role of the (Palestinian)
authority in defending citizens or confronting the settler
gangs and army when they invade cities and villages, the
confrontation turns into a struggle between the people and
the occupation. This confrontation is not subject to the
calculations of the authority or the factions; it transcends the
authority and the factions. In this context the idea of
resistance, and taking extraordinary measures to liberate
oneself from the PA (and its relationship with the
occupation), has taken root in the Palestinian society in the

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West Bank. Popular and armed resistance has become an
option for the entire society, not just the factions and the PA.

Therefore, the resistance that has been ignited today and
for over a year in the West Bank is an expression and
reflection of a growing societal awareness that the
settlement process and the Oslo agreements have reached a
dead end. That reality demands action, and the option of
resistance is the most responsive choice to the aspirations of
the entire people.

The differing approaches to resistance does not boil down
to two cultures or two states of awareness. But instead to
two different states of reality and specificity, each of which
imposes another form of resistance. The shared reality
between them is the necessity of that resistance.

Meanings and consequences

1. This escalation of the quality and quantity of acts of
resistance is a renewed process among the Palestinian
people. This process follows a spiral pattern of both
advances and setbacks, but the curve and general
trend is upwards and forwards. Such is the state of
Palestinian society and its successive generations.

Therefore, this progress and its manifestations require
an understanding of the internal situation and content
of the Palestinian society, including national and
cultural identity, national memory, martyrs, suffering,
the sanctity of the land and holy places, etc. This is
the psychological and social content that constitutes
the source of resistance.

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2. This reading of the situation leads us to conclude that
the act of resistance is not subject to the decisions of
the authority or factions, but rather to the internal
contradictions of all aspects of the Palestinian society.
Therefore, it is impossible for the entity to monitor or
defeat the psychology of resistance. This conclusion
does not mean that the factions no longer play any
role in struggle, but rather serves as a motivation for
them to organize the resistance. They should engineer
the conflict towards escalation and turn the
spontaneous acts of resistance into organized action.

3. The scenes of young people enthusiastic about
martyrdom and resistance action-who are bold and
‘courageous in confronting the occupation-reflects that
resistance as an act and a vision is a conscious
psychological property inherited from previous
generations. The warrior generation today is the only
‘one that can actualize the mechanisms and forms of
confrontation according to the nature and
characteristics of its current circumstances. They have
inherited the previous Palestinian generations struggle
and resistance. One generation bequeaths another,
and there is a gradual transition towards grasping the
ultimate goal and defending it.

4, In light of this awareness of the psychology of the
Palestinian society and its internal worlds of
resistance, the phenomenon of resistance will continue
to surge and rise in spiral patterns. The Palestinian
Authority in Ramallah will not be able to stop its
course or halt its impulses, no matter how many
security apparatuses it possesses or how much it

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coordinates with the occupation. The youth's
enthusiasm and patriotism in confronting the
occupation has proven the inability of the authority
and its security apparatuses to stop this trend. The
authority and its media outlets have attempted to
market the role of its forces in resisting the occupation
in Nablus and elsewhere during the incursions. It
attempts to polish its image and showcase its
patriotism. However, the truth is that the PA still
engages in security cooperation with the occupation;
its apparatuses hinder the resistance and are an
obstacle to the elevation of struggle to a
comprehensive uprising.

. One of the most important messages of the
phenomenon of resistance, and its intensification, is
that it has proven the Israeli security theory has failed
and will not be able to prevent resistance. Neither are
the cities within the entity safe from being targeted by
the Palestinian youth filled with faith in the Palestinian
cause, nor are the settlements and their fences
capable of defending them, nor can the soldiers or
settlers protect themselves. This indicates that the
“Israeli security crisis” is widening and worsening at
both the institutional and individual levels, as part of
the existential crisis of the entity that becomes clearer
every day with the dynamics of internal Israeli issues
and the dynamics of resistance. Perhaps the results of
the recent elections that allowed the old-new fascism
to achieve successes in holding the reins of the
confrontation with the Palestinian people is one
manifestation of the existential crisis. The rise of

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fascism is nothing but a headline for the disintegration
of the entity and the escalation of its crises.
Palestinian resistance and its continuation will
reinforce this disintegration and escalation.

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Ibrahim Al-Nabulsi and his parents, July 2022

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Palestinians wave the Lion's Den flag at Al Aqsa during Ramadan 2023



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The Enemy's Contradictions Do Not
Disrupt the Unity of the Killers

Published in Al-Hadf News March 2023"
Translated by Rookery Press

In our Palestinian camp, there is talk about the “infighting
of the occupation” and the internal crises and contradictions
within the enemy's society. There are high hopes that these
contradictions will cause the collapse of the enemy. The
problem with this discourse is that it requires many examples
to prove that this entity is an unnatural state. Meanwhile, it
assumes that this entity is expected to go through the same
natural contradictions that other societies have gone through
in their unique contexts of development.

The current crisis over the Judicial System of the Zionist
entity is one event in which the Zionist entity merely
resembles other natural states and societies where there are
disputes and clashes over the system of governance and the
distribution of wealth. While this situation reflects significant
changes in the social base of the Zionist system and its
political machinations, and it may change some aspects of
the conflict between us and the enemy, it should not hide the
most important reality. From our perspective, The enemy's
debate today is not really about something fundamental,
because no one in this entity is discussing the foundations
upon which it was built and the premises that make everyone
inside it our enemy.

The Zionist settlers may see themselves in a position of

contradiction and disagreement with each other. But for us
who receive bullets in our chests, who are uprooted from our

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land, and who have our people slaughtered in the streets, all
these diverse factions remain united in aggression by
targeting and killing us. Even if we desire to see and
understand these variations within the line of rifles aimed at
our heads, it is important that we do so without selling
ourselves any illusions. Because, unlike what some may
imagine, these contradictions have much less impact than we
think, especially when it comes to the fundamental function
of this colony.

Human contradictions and their role and presence in any
community cannot be denied. But we must not ignore the
role of systems in controlling these contradictions, and we
must place them within certain frameworks related to what
binds these societies together. In the Zionist entity, we are
talking about a base of invaders who fought and killed
everyone around them for over a hundred years. It only
survives each day thanks to the disciplined organization and
clear commitment to the goals they came for, goals that were
determined by the nature of the relationship between this
entity and its sponsors. This makes the entity more like a
military base than anything else. Despite all that we have
been able to resist against it and the damage we have
inflicted on its human and material resources, the entity is
still active and aware of its goals.

The Zionist entity is still a system specialized in murder and
displacement, while building military technologies of
repression, killing, domination, and surveillance. It is a
system of invasion, displacement, settlement, and maximum
security. It cannot abide deviations of the individuals inside it
and their relationship with the group from the perspective of
these functions.

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What is happening today in Tel Aviv is not the essential
contradiction of the enemy, but instead, what is happening in
Jenin, Nablus and on the borders of Gaza. The extermination
system is operating there, and our resistance to it is located
there, not in the squares of Tel Aviv. Our bullets are the
guarantor of creating real contradictions in this entity, and
our steadfastness is the one capable of dispersing the
masses of the enemy and tearing apart his battalions. Our
people realize this and continue to prove it daily. Far from
buying into illusions about the nature of the enemy, our
people are betting on the unity of our own guns and not on
the disagreements among the ranks of the murderers.



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Israeli ‘antifascist’ patriots in Al Quds protest Netanyahu
surrounded by a sea of Israeli flags, March 2023

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Rejoice! Israeli Counterinsurgency is
Losing

by: Dalal Zayed
Originally published by Al Mayadeen in January 2023

With the new Netanyahu regime and the ongoing protests
by settlers inside the Zionist entity, we must return to an
understanding of what “Israel” really is. “Israel” is a settler
colony created by the United States and Britain to establish a
foothold in West Asia.

It is an occupation.

Counterinsurgency, or COIN, is the military doctrine that is
dedicated to maintaining an occupation. According to the
United States official COIN military strategy website:

“An effective COIN operation will utilize all instruments of
national power to integrate and synchronize politcal,
security, legal, economic, development, and psychological
activities carried out by the host nation and applicable US
government and multinational partners to create a holistic
approach aimed at weakening the insurgents while
simultaneously bolstering the government's legitimacy in
the eyes of the contested population.”

Modern Counterinsurgency: Assimilation for Some
Genocide for the rest

The Zionist entity “Israel” has been engaged in a
protracted COIN operation since its inception and even
before then when the British soldiers and Zionist settlers
worked together to crush the 1936-39 Palestinian revolution.

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The “Oslo accords”, after the second Intifada, which fractured
the PLO and created the PA, should be understood as the
United States and “Israel's” most successful achievement in
counterinsurgency. The puppet Palestinian Authority has
been their greatest asset in weakening the Resistance.

The so-called liberal Zionist movement and their western-
backed NGOs also contribute to the COIN strategy of Oslo.
Theirs is the “legal struggle” which demands “equal rights”
for (some) Palestinians but makes no challenges to the entity
as a political and economic force. Of course, sometimes they
make pithy statements that “resistance is justified,” but this is
never to promote national liberation, only to sideline it. They
would see the Palestinian national liberation struggle—and
the larger struggle for the Arab Nation—perverted into
nebulous calls for “accountability”.

This is also the strategy promoted by the likes of Azmi
Bishara and his sponsors in Qatar. It would after all be much
easier for Arab monarch's normalization if “Israel” kept a
lower profile. Saudi Arabia openly says that it wants a “two-
state solution” before full normalization with “Israel”.

The United States is likely the most compelling example of
this strategy. Following the militant Black Liberation
Movement of the 60s, the occupation government moved to
grant “Civil Rights” and other pittances to Black people that
served to rebuild the “legitimacy” of the government and
imperialist economic system. We see the success of their
strategy today. They have fully integrated a privileged group
of (some) Black people into the economy and the
government. In the United States, Black politicians and
policemen and Black-led NGOs have replaced Black

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Liberation. OF course, none of them have stopped the
lynchings, prison slavery, or Black genocide. In fact, the
compradors participate in it as willing collaborators.

We could imagine this nightmare scenario in Palestine. A
“new Israel” that stops forced evictions only to replace them
with land buyouts— economic displacement—facilitated by
the PA and Gulf tycoons; or where there are no more
incursions into Al Aqsa, but there are also no more
Palestinians to worship there.

"Israel" nearing end

Today, the Israeli regime is backed into a corner for many
reasons. The Palestinians defeated the IOF in Seif Al-Quds and
forced negotiations during the Unity of Fields battle. The IOF
are facing daily confrontations in the West Bank. Hezbollah,
with their missiles, forced Israeli concessions over the Kharish
gas fields, The Resistance has never been more powerful than
it is today. All of this compounded because “Israel's” main
supporter, the United States, is no longer the undisputed
hegemon of the planet.

Thanks to Hajj Qasem, the Palestinian Resistance is armed,
and their rockets have changed the equation. The regional
Resistance is unified like never before. When the battle
begins, it will be nothing like the catastrophe of Al-Naksah.

In light of this, a COIN strategy of bolstering the PA and
accelerating the assimilation of a privileged class is the only
available counterinsurgency strategy that could sustain
“Israel” and the American project. In order to survive, it
would need to create a “fake” Palestinian state. However, the
new Netanyahu regime is doing the exact opposite. Rather

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than relying on its best weapon, the regime is abandoning
the PA and resorting to a strategy of naked terror.

Earlier this month, the Netanyahu regime announced
seizing PA revenues. Another new law that is being proposed
will revoke Israeli “citizenship” for the Palestinians who
receive financial assistance from the PA. This law will only
further isolate and de-legitimize the PA in the eyes of
Palestinians. The Ben-Gvir-led police ban on the Palestinian
flag, too, is a practice that further de-legitimizes itself. We
should not be so foolish as to think that being Palestinian has
ever been “legal” except for a privileged few.

Lessons for the Solidarity Movement

If someone wants to scare us with Netanyahu, with the
new (Israeli) Minister of War [Yoav Galant] or with anyone
else, (he is wasting his time because) we have already
dealt with them in the previous years... Of course, such a
government does not scare us, and never such
governments have been able to scare us in any way. And
more than that, we can even be optimistic about it,
contrary to what most (analysts) say: when a new
government is composed of corrupt and crazy people,
with the grace of God, it will only accelerate the end of
this temporary entity.

-Hezbollah Secretary General, Sayed Hassan Nasrallah

The “human rights defenders”, “journalists” and
“intellectuals” who are working overtime to present
Netanyahu and Ben-Gvir as exceptional or unique “neo-
Zionists” are doing the work of the enemy. There is no such
thing as leftist, centrist, or rightist in the Israeli government.

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The recent escalation of violence is quantitative, not
qualitative. A quantitative increase in violence and attacks
and assassinations are a natural consequence of the
escalation of a conflict. Those who decry this are denying the
very legitimacy of the Palestinian armed struggle.

What will they do when the fighting truly escalates? What
will they do when Palestinians, because of the ascent of
regional allies, gain a military-technological edge in important
fields like drones? What will they say when the Palestinians
are no longer murdered a hundred to one for every occupier
eliminated but have flipped the ratio? What will they do when.
American and European economic and military investments
are turned to dust, endangering the globally segregated “way
of life” of the “consumer society” in the imperialist center?

What will they do when confronted by a new political equation
Where Palestinians and their popular Resistance organizations
dictate the terms? The answer is plain to those who understand
the class leadership and political ambiguity of the present
“solidarity movement" in the imperialist countries.



Students carry a logo of the Lion's Den armed group
(Areen Al-Asood), during a university election rally
Hebron, March 2023
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Gaza Air Defense, Nizar Banat, and Iran
Defeating the Defeatists
By: Hanna Eid
Originally published by Al Mayadeen in March 2023"

On February 2, 2023, the Resistance Factions in Gaza
responded to Zionist air raids with surface-to-air missiles
(SAMs) provided by the Islamic Republic of Iran. As usual,
the defeatists, liberal NGO compradors, and
purveyors of fitna (sedition) condemned this as
another attempt made by Iran to cynically ‘control’
the Axis of Resistance or otherwise ‘spread SI im’.
Thankfully, a day later, videos of the martyr Nizar Banat
began to resurface online. In these videos, the martyr
explains the hypocrisy of these defeatists and liberal
elements of Palestinian and Arab society; he rhetorically asks
those who cheer on the rocket fire and condemn Iran in the
same breath "where did these rockets come from?". Next
comes another more powerful question: "Why would it [Iran]
bother with 42 years of sanctions? [And] several hundred
million of its dollars confiscated?" To this question, I believe
the defeatists have no retort. The Islamic Republic is the only
state in the world with a permanent piece of its budget
allocated to support the Palestinian Resistance “from the
budget of the Iranian people’s bread...to support the
Palestinian Resistance,” Banat continues. After 42 years, it is
clear that this support does not carry with it conditions,
especially ideological ones. According to Banat, Iran has
supported the Palestinian heroic cause through alll the years
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PI, PFLP, or Fatah, Iran has fought side by side with the
Palestinians in order to remove the Zionist stain from the
region, In this regard, and on this topic, two things matter
very little: the internal political texture of the Iranian state
and sectarian strife. Those who point to the latter argue that
it is only since the war on Syrian that Iran has supported the
Palestinian cause, and they only do so to benefit their own
civilizational project. Liars and hypocrites they are.

In regards to the defense systems and SAMs, there is
countless evidence from leaders of various Resistance
factions and from martyr Hajj Qassem Soleimani himself that
all of this defensive materiel is a combination of ready-at-
hand weaponry, as well as technical know-how in order to
improve the production and manufacture of indigenous
weaponry. According to Banat, Iran says “take, take and
become a man, and fight.” From Iran, there is no
paternalism, nor any conditions, only verbal support and
concrete solidarity... Another video that has resurfaced online
is an interview with a PFLP commando who says “we would
like to state that they [Iran] are our comrades, our friends,
our brothers in blood and arms...we fought with them against
our enemy, and we will fight with them against their
enemies", it is abundantly clear that Iran’s support does not
waver based on one ideological trend or another, but what
does this mean practically speaking? It means that the
Palestinian people are free to choose who represents them.
In these types of discussions, I am reminded of the
evergreen words of Chairman Mao who posed a simple, yet
powerful question that is key for determining any type of
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are our friends?” By asking this question and understanding
it in power-political terms, there will be clear answers.

So, we will begin by asking: “who are our enemies?”
Principally, they are the Zionists and their corrupt entity. Not
just the Zionists, but their imperial sponsors in Washington
and Brussels. Without the blank check from the United
States, the Zionist entity would be nothing. Their entire
economy is built on a castle of sand. Next in line are the Arab
regimes partaking in normalization; the Saudis, the Emiratis,
and the Kingdom of Morocco. While these states are looking
for ways to diversify their economy in a green-capitalist
fashion (NEOM, Masdar City, Rabat Technopolis... etc.), they
are also normalizing in order to keep the ‘gravy train’ coming
from their imperial sponsors. In this case, an obvious
distinction is made between the people and their
government, as evidenced by the Moroccan football team’s
flying of Palestinian flags after every win during the World
Cup. Lastly, and to be frank, the least important enemy of
our cause are the diaspora liberal Ph.D. candidates and their
Trotskyist and anarchist associates. Together, they form a
Zionist fifth column in the West with their priorities being
condemning acts of resistance as ‘futile’ or at worst ‘fascist’
because of the Islamic basis of many Resistance factions.

Next, we must ask who our friends are. As discussed
above, the Islamic Republic of Iran remains the foremost
provider of not only verbal support but also technological
know-how and weapons. Stories of Hajj Qassem Soleimani
traveling in secret to Gaza to provide tactical support and
coordinating the drop-off of submerged barrels full of
weapons in the Mediterranean are both beautiful and
powerful. The Syrian Arab Republic, after fallout and

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reconciliation with the Resistance factions, remains a
steadfast ally of the Palestinian cause and has lost its finest
sons and daughters defending itself and others from
American and Zionist schemes in the region. The people of
Yemen and Ansar Allah remain steadfast comrades in arms of
the Palestinian Resistance, even pledging their bread to the
defenders of Al Aqsa when they themselves have very little
after years of siege from the Saudi-led coalition. Hezbollah
remains unparalleled in their steadfastness against the
Zionists, serving the Zionist army defeats in 2000 and 2006,
and again in their negotiations regarding the Karish gas
fields.

So what of Russia? China? In these cases, our analysis
must be sober and unflinching.

Relations have soured between Moscow and “Tel Aviv” due
to the Zionists’ pro-Ukraine stance and their arming of groups
like the Azov Battalion, this much is true. Moreover, Russia
has supported Syria in defending its territorial sovereignty,
which is certainly laudable. Yet, the interests of the Russian
Federation are limited to survival and an end to US
unipolarity, so they will act as such. This means their
relationship with the Zionists remains strategic, and we are
likely not going to see outright Russian support for
Palestinian Resistance factions while the current government
remains.

In regard to China, it has long abandoned exporting
revolution and remains a key trading partner of the Zionist
regime while also offering to be a ‘more honest’ broker
between the two sides (they officially support a “two-state”
solution on paper). So again, the fact that China stands as an

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important and welcomed counterweight to US unipolarity
does not necessitate their agitation toward the end of the
Zionist garrison entity, nor does it mean that they are above
criticism. Our analysis must remain rock solid in regard to
principles and flexible in regard to tactics. Our allegiance
must be to liberation, first and foremost. There are those
who will help us to achieve that, there are those who will
create conditions on the world scale which make liberation
higher on the agenda, and there are those who will do
everything they can to stop our liberation. Knowing the
difference is of crucial importance.



A resistance rally in Jenin includes Palestinian fighters from
every group and faction, March 2nd 2023



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This pamphlet is a collection of articles
written about the current state of the
Palestinian revolution. In early 2021 the
Palestinian resistance "changed the
equations’ in their favor suring ths Battle

“Sword of Al Quds’. Then in 2022, Palestine
entered a new phase of struggle and
initiated what many are calling the “Third
Intifada’. Revolutionary history is being
made every day in Palestine.

However, these developments receive almost
no acknowledgement in the West. All of the
contained articles are from Arab and
Persian newspapers, including original
translations from Arabic. We are proud to
make this material accessible to an
English-speaking audience and we hope that
it is educational and informative about
current events in occupied Palestine.