Where is the Gaza ‘peace process’ really going? | Ahmad Ibsais

Israel turns the violence up and down at will, maintaining full dominion over Gaza and the West Bank, then calls each pause a generous ceasefire'

If you started attending one funeral a day beginning 1 January 2025, you would finish in the year 3887. That is how long it would take to mourn every life lost in Gaza. By then, your grandchildren's great¹⁰ grandchildren would be dust, and still you would be burying Palestinian bodies from a war" Israel insists was about self-defense. Even then, this number does not tell you about the thousands of ways these bodies were burned, torn, crushed and made anything but whole.

And yet here we are, watching world leaders gather in Egypt for a peace summit" last month where the only people absent were Palestinians. The banner read Peace 2025", while Palestine's representatives were barred from the room.

Ahmad Ibsais is a first generation Palestinian American, law student and poet who writes the newsletter State of Siege