I wrote this back in late February or early March but I never sent it. Not sure why. Probably because I thought “what’s the use, it’ll change nothing…” I was also thinking about my novel then so it might have fallen through the cracks. But I was cleaning out my old drafts and came across it and liked it. It’s good, essential history. So I figured why not…might as well publish it. History is important, no matter if we’re powerless to change the present in which it lives.
So here it is…
I know people were intrigued by the mostly forgotten military history of the kibbutzes near Gaza I wrote about a last month. Well there’s been some great reporting that has gone deeper on this topic — and the more you learn about this history the more damning and less innocent it gets.
David Sheen and Ali Abunimah — in an article looking at the murky issue of October 7 “friendly” fire — briefly get into the backstory of the kibbutzes along Gaza’s border and how they relate to the displacement Palestinians who would wind up concentrated in Gaza and whose children and grandchildren are being massacred today.