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.
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 |