Gaza’s genocide, the Ben-Gurion canal, and the politics of reconstruction – erasure by design

“Every plan, every scheme, every initiative put forward by Israel has meant in practice, the further dispossession has meant, in practice the further dispossession of the Palestinian people” The violence in Gaza is not simply episodic slaughter; it is an engineered campaign of erasure — of lives, livelihoods, memory, and geography. The Independent UN Commission of Inquiry concluded in June 2024 that the pattern of killing, denial of life-sustaining services, and the rhetoric of some Israeli officials meet the threshold of genocide. To understand what is being lost, we must follow not only the bombs but also the canals: how water, land, and sea are being weaponised, and how grand infrastructure fantasies — above all the idea of a Ben-Gurion […]