Summary
Co-author, with Sai Englert, of Chapter 18 of From the River to the Sea, “The enemy trinity” (29 November 2023), which applies Ghassan Kanafani’s analysis of the 1936-9 revolt to the regional and imperial alliance facing Palestinian liberation in 2023 (From the River to the Sea: Essays for a Free Palestine, lines 1344-1449).
Details
- Kanafani’s trinity is quoted as: “the local reactionary leadership; the regimes in the Arab states surrounding Palestine; and the imperialist-Zionist enemy.” (line 1356)
- Normalization, from the Qualified Industrial Zones to the Abraham Accords, is presented as the spread of US economic influence under the guise of peace, with changing relations with Israel as a test of fealty to the neoliberal order (lines 1400-1415).
- Operation Al Aqsa Flood shattered the “new Middle East” status quo two weeks after Netanyahu’s 22 September 2023 UN map in which Palestine had entirely disappeared; Iran and Hezbollah, the chapter argues, made clear they did not intend to intervene beyond existing exchanges (lines 1419-1435).
Related pages
From the River to the Sea: Essays for a Free Palestine, Sai Englert, Ghassan Kanafani, Abraham Accords, Normalization