Guerilla Warfare Lessons from Gaza: Why Resistance Survived Genocide, w/ Justin Podur
- Rania Khalek
- Saturday 1 Feb 25
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The Palestinian resistance has defied overwhelming military force in Gaza, adapting and surviving despite Israel’s strategy of genocide and starvation.
What does this war teach us about asymmetric warfare, military resilience, and the future of anti-colonial resistance? Why has Israel failed to eliminate Palestinian fighters despite its apocalyptic destruction of Gaza? And how has the regional Axis of Resistance, from Yemen to Lebanon, reshaped the battlefield?
To discuss all this and more, Rania Khalek is joined by author and host of the Anti-Empire Project Justin Podur on Dispatches.

Rania Khalek
Rania Khalek is a Middle East-based journalist for Breakthrough News. . Her journalism has appeared at The Grayzone, Jacobin, The Nation, The Intercept, FAIR, Vice, The Electronic Intifada, Al Jazeera and more. .
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“Only the truth hurts”
Cuban president Miguel Diaz Canel has put things exactly how they are:
“I believe the ceasefire in Gaza aims to polish the image of those who supported this genocide”
“We must continue to condemn [Israeli actions], I am convinced that the enemies will continue their attempts to eliminate the Palestinian cause.
No good can be expected from United States or “Israel”, they are not to be trusted.”
Now what is the situation following October 7 2023?
1/ Gaza: Gazans are returning en masse BUT there are zero infrastructures, buildings, sanitary, energy facilities, hospitals to sustain them there. For the moment they will survive on foreign aid until the zionist criminals block it again.
What about the near future?
2/ West Bank
The genocide has been displaced from Gaza to the West Bank where the zionist criminals are killing, destroying, razing and burning houses in order to remove people and replace them with settlers.
The “west” with at the forefront the USA and UK are helping, funding and organizing this genocide. Trump has blocked all foreign aids except for weapon sales to Israel with 2000 pounds bombs now allowed to be given with US taxpayer money to the genocidal zionists.
Trump has also nonchalantly suggested to “clean” Gaza and deport its natives to Egypt, just like that, in passing, making himself complicit of a genocide.
The real US president, Netanyahu will be welcomed by his servant Trump on February the 4th in DC, the first “head of state” to visit new Pdt Trump is a madman and a criminal vs humanity charged with genocide.
The israelis, of course, will start the aggression against Gaza as soon as the world is not watching.
3/ Lebanon: despite the propaganda served by Middle Eastern outlets and Resistance supporters, Hezbollah signed a surrender on Nov. 27 2024, not a ceasefire.
How was Hezbollah defeated and forced to surrender remains to be explained but various betrayals could explain the assassinations of their leaders and their sudden surrender when, according to them, they were winning.
Since then, Israel occupies southern Lebanon, violate the false ‘ceasefire’, destroys, kills, bombs at will with just meek complaints from the complicit new Lebanese government subservient to the US. Hezbollah has been reduced to a political party without military power while the zionists destroy everyday what is left of their military infrastructures.
Ceasefire Monitoring Committee Adheres to Israeli Demands in South Lebanon: Report
https://english.almanar.com.lb/2327437
Martyrs, Injuries as Israeli Enemy Strikes Lebanon’s Bekaa in a New Ceasefire Violation
english.almanar.com.lb/2327173
Tulkarm: Six Days of Israeli Aggression Leaves Trail of Destruction and Displacement
english.almanar.com.lb/2328053
4/ Syria: Following Hezbollah surrender, one of the pillars of the resistance was suddenly attacked by takfiri terrorists, Turkey and Israel. The 300 000 Syrian army capitulated in ten days against a 15 ot 30 000 strong foreign rag tag gang of Islamic terrorists. We are supposed to believe the official versions of this absurdity from Iran, Russia, the West and whoever had a vested interests in this.
The fact is that Russia betrayed Syria, Iran did nothing, Hezbollah neither, Turkey, Russia, Iran negotiated some mysterious ‘deal’ in Doha, and right after Assad fled and the country fell.
http://www.businessinsider.com/iran-top-general-russia-bombed-empty-desert-instead-rebels-syria-2025-1
The main winner is Israel, suddenly victorious while they were losing on all fronts 15 days before.
It tells us who really serves who in this pathetic world.
So, presenting the destruction and genocide in Gaza as a “victory” is verging on the obscene.
Destroying Hamas has never been Israel real, goal, but destroying all life and infrastructures in Gaza was, so as to make sure to render it inhabitable and have the Gazans go somewhere else.
The only victory and it might be temporary is that Gazans are back on a desolated land, but they are still there and the world should praise them for that.
I Can’t Handle All This Winning, Can You?
https://slavlandchronicles.substack.com/p/i-cant-handle-all-this-winning-can\\\
Inna Vilenska
Here is the (dire) situation tonight in the Holy land:
Syria: 15 People Killed in Aleppo Car Bomb Attack
https://english.almanar.com.lb/2329714
Fifteen people, including 14 women, have been killed in a car bomb attack on a vehicle transporting agricultural workers in northern Syria on Monday.
The explosion is the second in three days. On Saturday, four civilians were killed and nine more were injured in another car bomb attack in Manbij.
The city lies in the Aleppo countryside, some 30 kilometers (19 miles) south of the Turkish border, with the Euphrates river to the east.
In the last weeks, Manbij has been the scene of fighting between the Kurdish US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and Turkish-backed fighters.
SO NOW WE KNOW WHO IS BEHIND THESE TERROR ATTACKS: THE TURKS (OR THEIR ALLIES).
The genocide continues: 70 martyred in West Bank since start of year, majority from Jenin
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/70-martyred-in-west-bank-since-start-of-year–majority-from
The Israeli occupation has killed 70 people in the occupied West Bank since the start of the year, the majority of whom in Jenin.
Meanwhile, Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, condemned Israeli actions in the West Bank as “criminal.” She warned that “the intent of genocide is clear in the way Israel is targeting Palestinians.”
Lebanese Southerners Determined to Liberate Their Villages Despite Israeli Attacks
https://english.almanar.com.lb/2328933
THANKS TO WHO? THANKS TO THE US AND THEIR WESTERN LACKEYS:
Trump admin. seeks $1Bln arms sale to ‘Israel’ as ceasefire holds: WSJ
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/trump-admin–seeks–1bln-arms-sale-to–israel–as-ceasefire
Gaza Health Ministry says northern hospitals in dire need of equipment
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/gaza-health-ministry-says-northern-hospitals-in-dire-need-of
‘Israel’ hindering humanitarian operations, martyrs rise to 47,518
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/-israel–hindering-humanitarian-operations–martyrs-rise-to
FORTUNATELY, THERE ARE THOSE WHO COLLABORATE WITH GENOCIDE AND THOSE WHO FIGHT THEM:
West Bank Resistance uses multiple IEDs on IOF in Jenin, Nablus
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/west-bank-resistance-uses-multiple-ieds-on-iof-in-jenin–nab
The Palestinian Resistance in the West Bank continues defending its cities and people against the Israeli aggression.
West Bank Resistance inflicts losses on IOF amid Tulkarm, Jenin raids
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/west-bank-resistance-inflicts-losses-on-iof-amid-tulkarm–je
IRAN, HEZBOLLAH, YEMEN AND ALL OTHER RESISTANCE GROUPS MUST RESUME THE WAR AGAINST THE ZIONISTS.