Haidar Eid’s "Banging on the Walls of the Tank" reveals a disturbing but irrefutable reality: the world has abandoned the Palestinian people to be annihilated as a people in the most calculated and brutal fashion possible.
In a newly released book, Banging on the Walls of the Tank, Haidar Eid’s many dispatches from Gaza from 2009 to the current genocidal operation reveal a disturbing but irrefutable reality: the world order and system of nation-states have abandoned the Palestinian people, to be massacred and annihilated as a people in the most calculated and brutal fashion conceivable.
From the siege of Gaza that began in 2007 which was essentially an incremental genocide, to the genocidal wars in 2008, 2012, 2014, 2021, to the most recent, ruthless, and intense genocidal operation, Israel has followed a singular path towards a singular goal: the total and final elimination of the Palestinian struggle for liberation and the official establishment of exclusive Israeli Jewish sovereignty on all the lands of historic Palestine, from the river to the sea.
Reading Eid’s book is a journey through a very long “Save Our Souls” distress message emanating from Gaza to the world – a message that continues to go unanswered. Though Eid’s pieces fall under the heading of “opinion articles” and “commentaries,” they cannot be that; not when you’re a Palestinian academic writing from Gaza. They are dispatches from a concentration camp, a death zone, relaying a merciless reality to audiences across the world, and asking them for urgent help and support. Defiant, clear, unwavering, without qualification on Palestinian rightful and just demands for liberation (the “full menu of rights” as he puts it), illuminating the core of the struggle, Eid’s dispatches are an illustration of a larger archive that Palestinians have produced, spanning decades, for anyone willing to listen.
From the complexity of historical, political, cultural, and social structures emerges the simple core of the struggle: Palestinians are a sovereign people, whose relationship with all the land of historic Palestine is unbreakable, unshakable, and which we, as a people, will never surrender. It is only because we refuse to surrender our basic right to live freely on our lands that the Zionist project unleashes this uninhibited genocidal violence in the hope that they can eradicate us and steal all of our lands, claiming it as exclusively theirs. (more...)
Book Review: Calling the world to account for the Gaza genocide
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