Gaza, Nakba: Zionism’s Hubris
HEIKE SCHOTTEN
Abstract
This article reflects on attempts to make sense of the vast atrocity of Israeli violence against the Palestinians since October 7, 2023, arguing that this violence is not only comprehensible but an inevitable outcome of the colonial world order that birthed Zionism and which its violent onslaught exemplifies. Urging a reconsideration of both ‘Gaza’ and ‘Nakba’, the article contends that both violation and resistance are constitutive of the Palestinian condition. Recognizing this interconnection reveals that Israel’s vicious campaign of eliminatory violence in Palestine will not conclude in heroic triumph, and that this ‘war’ is better read as the symptom of a decadent power tragically/inevitably failing to accomplish its impossible, inhuman dream of a world without others.
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Gaza, Nakba, Arendt, violence, genocide, Zionism
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2-23