Banging on the Walls of the Tank

Banging on the Walls of the Tank

Dispatches from Gaza

By Haidar Eid, Foreword by Richard Falk

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Banging on the Walls of the Tank is a collection of reflections and analysis written over eighteen years in Gaza by Palestinian academic and activist, Haidar Eid. Providing an insider’s perspective on the blockade of Gaza since 2007, the Israeli attacks in 2009, 2012, 2014, and 2021, the Great March of Return, and the ongoing genocide committed by the apartheid Israeli state, Eid’s essays examine political alternatives, opportunities for resistance, and prospects for a just peace after more than a century of dispossession.

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Contents

Prologue
Foreword
Gaza 2009
Twenty-Two Days
January 22, 2009—Sharpeville 1960, Gaza 2009
February 11, 2009—Culture of Resistance vs. Defeat
November 19, 2009—From Gaza to Obama: An Open Letter
July 27, 2010—The Enduring Siege
Gaza 2012
History Repeats Itself
November 20, 2012—Gaza 2012!
May 28, 2013—Personal Reflections on the Nakba
Gaza 2014
The World’s Biggest Graveyard
February 18, 2014—The Alternative Is BDS!
July 12, 2014—Signposts on the Road to Liberation
July 31, 2014—The Rape of Gaza
August 27, 2014—The Othering of Gaza
February 12, 2015—On Gaza and Global Rage
April 2, 2015—Israel: Mainstream Western Media’s Blind Spot
April 6, 2016—Palestinian Reflections on Israel’s Hysterical Attack on BDS
June 16, 2017—One Question Left in Gaza: Death by Massacre or Lack of Electricity?
July 14, 2017—Gaza and the Failure of the National Project
October 20, 2017—Pessoptimistic Reflections from Besieged Gaza
Gaza 2018
Land Day Massacre
2018—Gaza in a World Without Walls
April 5, 2018—What Next for Gaza After Israel’s Land Day Massacre?
April 12, 2018—Standing Up to Apartheid: Contextualizing the Great March of Return
May 14, 2018—On the Seventieth Anniversary of the Nakba: Reflections of a Palestinian Refugee
May 16, 2018—Why I Marched on May 14 in Gaza near the Israeli Fence
June 14, 2018—It Is Time to Levy Sanctions Against Israel
July 22, 2018—Israel Has Finally Come Out as an Ethno-Religious State
July 24, 2018—Back to the Future: The Great March of Return
August 3, 2018—Israel’s Policies in Gaza Are Genocidal
October 12, 2018—Fragmented Thoughts from the Eastern Fence of the Gaza Open-Air Prison
November 9, 2018—What Gaza Wants
May 6, 2019—Gaza Has Made Its Choice: It Will Continue to Resist
November 20, 2019—The Only Remaining Hope in Gaza Is Knowing This Nightmare Can Be Brought to an End
June 20, 2020—What Needs to Be Done
Gaza 2021
Wedha Street Massacre
May 16, 2021—Israel’s Wehda Street Massacre Shows It Seeks to Annihilate Us. We Won’t Let It
May 27, 2021—An Apartheid Déjà Vu
December 10, 2021—The Construction of Israel’s Gaza Concentration Camp Is Complete
November 21, 2022—Reflections from Gaza After Israel’s Elections
Gaza 2023
Genocide
October 10, 2023—Our Warsaw Uprising Moment
October 15, 2023—From Gaza We Ask You to Stand Up Against Genocide!
October 30, 2023—“Demise of Official Arab Solidarity with Palestine”
November 27, 2023—A Ceasefire in a Time of Genocide
December 3, 2023—Leaving Gaza
December 9, 2023—Why Does America Hate Us?
December 30, 2023—On the Gaza “Shoah” and the “Banality of Evil”
January 12, 2024—From a Palestinian in Gaza, Thank You South Africa!
January 26, 2024—ICJ Israel Decision: A New World Order in the Making
May 1, 2024—The Genocide in Gaza Will Also Be the End of Israel
June 9, 2024—My Nuseirat
June 28, 2024—War on Gaza: The World Has Abandoned Us. What Can We Do?
July 13, 2024—Now the Anemone Flowers Will Decorate His Grave
The One Year Anniversary of October 7: Personal Reflections
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Notes