When Donald Trump won his first presidency, it was a surprise. We knew nothing about him, not his personality, his ideas, or his management style. In a closed seminar, one of his close associates said: “His advantage is his disadvantage; he has a strong personality, so be careful not to anger him, or he might throw you under the bus.” He was not wrong.

Abu Ibrahim passed away in a legendary and majestic end. He became the first Palestinian president to be martyred in a battle he fought face to face on the front lines, rather than in an assassination.

It is clear that the Middle East is holding its breath. It is promised more terrible days. The interconnectedness of the firestorms threatens to turn into a hurricane. It has never experienced a war with multiple maps like this. A war that overflows the borders of its theaters and in the absence of any international policeman.

The position of the Arab peoples towards Gaza is very weak, and certainly weaker than the position of the shameful official Arab regime. The reasons for this weakness go back to the certain defeat that the Arab peoples suffered in 2011 when they sought with tremendous force at the time to build a democratic Arab regime that would unleash the energies of their peoples towards the future with strength and dignity, through the democratic system.

Israel is now carrying out an ethnic cleansing of northern Gaza, in preparation for a comprehensive ethnic cleansing of the Strip.

What if you were asked to write a book about what you witnessed of the war of extermination in Gaza and how you would convince others of your point of view? You would first start with the legal definition of genocide, and does what happened in Gaza over the course of nearly a year fall within the legal definition of genocide?