The Politics of Domination Behind Every Ceasefire Proposal

Israel has publicly affirmed it will not send a delegation to Qatar or Egypt to finalize a ceasefire agreement. Now that Hamas has accepted the ceasefire terms, Netanyahu will escalate the genocide.

This has been the pattern—April 2024, March 2025, July 2025, and now again. Each time the resistance factions agree to a ceasefire, Israel does not treat it as a moment to stop. It treats it as proof that genocidal violence delivers results, and so it must be continued and intensified.

True to the settler state’s imperative of domination, Netanyahu has announced Operation Gideon’s Chariots 2—an assault to occupy Gaza City—while simultaneously declaring that ceasefire talks will resume under the shadow of invasion, to secure the release of captives and end the war only on terms “acceptable to Israel.”

Selfie by @NorrieHarman

Israel will never accept any arrangement that leaves Palestinians on their land with the capacity to resist, because Zionist colonization requires Palestinian dispossession. As Ze’ev Jabotinsky, founder of Revisionist Zionism, admitted, “every native population in the world resists colonists as long as they see any hope of ridding themselves of the danger of being colonized.”

Any concession or ceasefire that leaves room for Palestinian presence sustains that hope—and it is that hope that must be extinguished. This is the essence of Jabotinsky’s “iron wall” doctrine: reject compromise and enforce submission through mass killing and collective punishment, deterrence through terror.

In 1923 he wrote:
“Only when not a single breach is visible in the iron wall, only then do extreme groups lose their belief, and the influence transfers to moderate groups. Not before then will they abandon all hope of getting rid of the Jews, and only then will the moderates come to us and offer concessions.”

The same logic is visible today. When Hamas accepts a proposal, it is not taken as a step toward ending the genocide but as proof that making the people of Gaza pay the price of resistance works—that greater violence will extract greater concessions.

Why would Israel accept any proposal when reducing Gaza to rubble, occupying Gaza City, and driving out its people all serve the expansionist aims of the Zionist project? After all, Netanyahu’s father, Benzion Netanyahu, was Jabotinsky’s personal secretary.

Paint and Concrete, Gaza by @NorrieHarman

Amid Arab collusion and global silence, every agreement is only a pause. Since Israel reneged on the last ceasefire on March 18, 2025, more than 10,500 Palestinians have been killed.

Had Hamas rejected the mediators’ proposal, the refusal would have saturated mainstream media as vindication for the slaughter, blaming Palestinians for their own suffering. Now that they have accepted, the genocide proceeds uncontested—no sustained reporting of Israeli crimes, no international sanctions, no Arab states breaking ties. Acceptance is met with indifference, refusal with blame—every path open to Palestinians is twisted to serve Israel’s colonization of Palestine.