AN INEVITABLE RUPTURE: AL-AQSA FLOOD AND THE END OF PARTITION - By Tareq Baconi

November 2023 AN INEVITABLE RUPTURE: AL-AQSA FLOOD AND THE END OF PARTITION By Tareq Baconi Hamas’s surprise offensive on October 7th, 2023, To achieve this reality requires a sophisticated structure dealt the most lethal blow to the Israeli military and of demographic engineering—one premised on the public since the establishment of the state in 1948. [...] By breaking out of its prison, the Al-Qassam Brigades–Hamas’s military wing–revealed the strategic “Gaza has historically presented poverty at the heart of the assumption that Palestinians the most extreme manifestation of would acquiesce indefinitely to their imprisonment and subjugation. [...] On the other hand, in the absence of a political project What Hamas does bear responsibility for, and what that can champion this decolonial struggle, the collapse Palestinians must hold them accountable for, is the of the partition framework on October 7th accelerated extent of its planning—or lack thereof—for the day Israel’s commitment to ethnic cleansing. [...] With the knowledge that Hamas and reinforced the fascist and ethno-tribal belief that, in the others have gathered over the years, there would be no absence of partition, only Jews can safely exist in the question that the movement’s offensive would result in land of colonized Palestine, from the Jordan River to unleashed fury on Palestinians at the hands of the Israeli the Mediterranean Sea. [...] Tareq is the organization whose mission is to educate and foster former senior analyst for Israel/Palestine and public debate on Palestinian human rights and self- Economics of Conflict at the International Crisis determination within the framework of international Group, based in Ramallah, and the author of law.