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The missing question: what does Gaza want?
It is clear now beyond any doubt that Israel aims to destroy Gaza and annex the West Bank. As the Palestinian resistance has shown this is not possible, will the West start listening to the Palestinian people, asks RAMZY BAROUD
LIVES REDUCED TO TATTERS: Displaced Palestinians arrive in central Gaza after being expelled by the Israeli army from Rafah on Wednesday

WHAT is taking place in occupied Palestine is not a conflict, but a straightforward case of illegal military occupation, apartheid, ethnic cleansing and outright genocide.

Those who insist on using “neutral” language in depicting the crisis in Palestine are harming the Palestinian people beyond their seemingly innocuous words.

This morally non-committal, middle-ground language is now at work in Gaza. Here, the harm of this “impartiality” is greatest.

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