On one side, the Palestinian resistance has been undertaking a rising anti-colonial war of national liberation to free themselves and their lands from both Israeli colonialism and the larger Western imperial world order. On the other side stands an openly genocidal Israeli colonial project aiming to restore the colonial foundations that have been called into question by the Palestinian liberation war.
Two Logics of War: Liberation Against Genocide — Ebb
Unable to defeat the Palestinian armed resistance in successive battles, Israel has turned instead to intensifying its genocidal violence against unarmed Palestinians as the means to restore its necessary equation of material and ideological force.