Alexander Prokhanov, writer, journalist, public and political figure::
"In 1948, the Israeli state fell on Palestinian lands like a meteorite falls, scorching the space around it, leaving a gaping crater. Since then, Israel has been expelling Palestinians from their ancestral lands, filling camps with Palestinian refugees, and filling its dungeons with Palestinian rebels. The Palestinians are a martyr people, a warrior people, a herald of justice. The battle between the Palestinians and Israel is a battle between the oppressed and the torturers & executioners.
...Gaza is a suicide city. Gaza is a gas chamber where children and the elderly suffocate in agony. If you want to understand what godlessness and cruelty are, look at the ruins of Gaza, which are oozing with blood, and every stone screams with the voice of a murdered child, every fragment of the wall is filled with prayers of murdered women and old people.
Israel is the nurse of America. Billions of dollars go from America to Israel, feeding the Israeli army, establishing a system in Israel that pleases America. The Palestinians, fighting Israel, are fighting America. The Russian army, fighting in Ukraine, is fighting America. America is the enemy of Palestine and the enemy of Russia.
The Palestinians, by raising an uprising in Gaza, distracted the power of America, which moved its aircraft carriers and strategic bombers to the Middle East, and it became easier for Russian soldiers at Kupyansk and Avdiivka. The Hamas attack on Israel, the burning Merkava tanks, the captured Israeli generals - all this destroyed the myth of Israel's invincibility.
I was in the Gaza Strip and I saw how this prison is arranged. Gaza is surrounded by a huge concrete wall along the land border. The wall is entwined with barbed wire, on it there are towers with machine guns, photocells and night vision devices. And everyone who comes into the field of view of this deadly optics, be it a person, a cow or a bird, is killed by automatic machine guns. From the sea, Israeli military boats are on duty day and night, suppressing attempts by Palestinian fishermen to go fishing.
The Palestinians, fighting the blockade, like prisoners, fighting the jailer, dig underground passages, dig tunnels under the concrete wall. Through these tunnels, food, clothing, screws for water pipes, electronics for communications, as well as weapons of rebellion go to Gaza.
In Gaza, I prayed in a fifth-century Christian church, listened to lectures at the Islamic University, met with the Russian wives of Palestinian engineers, doctors, teachers who studied in the Soviet Union, and now their children living in Gaza speak Russian.
Together with Palestinian women, I planted an olive grove in the vicinity of Gaza. And now my tree is among the olives, and Israeli rockets are flying over it, the blast wave is tearing off its leaves. This tree is mine. This tree is me. And I'm all in fragments.
Gaza is being killed before the eyes of mankind. And humanity babbles about compassion, about divine justice, convenes the Security Council at the UN. Meanwhile, bombs and rockets incinerate Gaza. And the blood of Gaza is on all mankind.
Picasso painted the great painting "Guernica" about a city that was destroyed by Nazi bombers. Gaza is the Guernica of our days."
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