As a fragile ceasefire takes hold in Gaza, Palestinians are welcoming their prisoners home and cautiously celebrating the possibility of an end to two years of relentless violence. However, they are acutely aware that, having retrieved the last of its prisoners of war, Israel is eager to resume its aggression.
It’s important to note that it has been less than six months since Israel broke the January ceasefire in one of its worst single-day massacres. In Lebanon, they have committed over 4,500 violations of the ceasefire concluded with Hezbollah less than a year ago. Their strategy often involves using the pretence of negotiations as a cover for further acts of aggression, as seen in their audacious attack on Hamas negotiators in Qatar and the joint US-Israeli deception operations that preceded their conflict with Iran.
In all of this, the actions of the Zionists mirror those of their US patrons, who are well-known for making and breaking treaties with Indigenous nations. In its first century, the US government entered into nearly 500 agreements that nominally respected the territorial sovereignty of Native peoples. Yet, from Fort Pitt in 1778 to Fort Laramie in 1868, it systematically violated every single one in its genocidal quest for continental dominance.
The legacy of broken treaties stretches uninterrupted from 1776 to 2025, but so too does the resistance and steadfastness of the rightful owners of the lands, from Turtle Island to Palestine.
