Rafah stands today as the battered yet unbroken frontier of Palestinian resistance — a landscape scarred by bombardment, starvation, and betrayal. Israel calls for disarmament, Egypt proposes to mediate, and the world, as always, expects the occupied to trust their occupier. Yet Rafah’s fighters refuse to surrender their arms — not out of fanaticism, but out of reasoned distrust. They have learned, through decades of deceit, that to hand over weapons is to sign one’s own death warrant. The logic of distrust The refusal to disarm cannot be understood without recalling history’s bitter lessons. Every ceasefire in Gaza has been a mirage — a pause between massacres. Every “peace process” has been a trap of words crafted to preserve Israeli […]
