Palestinian people do not tolerate occupation, apartheid

Tehran (Qodsna)- Qods News Agency (qodsna) interviewed with Gordon Duff, former UN Diplomat, former U.S. military official, advisor to the Intel Drop, senior editor of Veterans Today and military analyst about critical questions regarding the situation in Palestine and the internal dynamics of the Zionist regime. 

The interview comes as follows:

Qodsna: How long will the West Bank tolerate the crimes of the Zionist regime? Will the repeated attacks of the Zionist regime not lead to the beginning of a widespread uprising of the Gordon Duff: Palestinian people, this time in an armed form?

Tolerance implies a choice. The Palestinian people do not tolerate occupation, apartheid, and the nightly terror of settler pogroms sanctioned by the state; they survive them through a superhuman resilience that the architects of their misery can scarcely comprehend. The question is not one of tolerance, but of how long the tension wire of state-sanctioned sadism can be tightened before it snaps. Each fresh massacre, each stolen child, each demolished home is another spark carefully collected in the tinderbox. To ask if this will lead to an armed uprising is to gaze at a lit fuse and wonder if there might be an explosion. The regime, in its arrogant myopia, is manufacturing its own retaliatory fury with factory-like efficiency.

Qodsna: Given the critical situation in the Zionist regime and the continuation of protests against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and the intensification of internal disputes, how do you assess the conditions facing this regime?

Gordon Duff: The regime is experiencing a poetic, almost biblical, confluence of failings. Its prime minister, a man whose political life has been a masterclass in cynical division, now finds himself besieged by the very hatreds he cultivated. The protests are not a noble civic exercise, but the death throes of a political body consuming itself. They squabble over the shape of the deck chairs while the ship, holed by the blowback of their own barbarism in Gaza and rotting from the corruption of their supremacist ideology, takes on water. They are trapped in a paradox of their own making: unable to win their war, unable to stop it, and utterly incapable of envisioning a future that isn’t built on the graves of others. It is the definition of a failed state, merely one awaiting formal recognition of the fact.

Qodsna: In recent days, there have been talks from within the Likud party to dismiss Netanyahu and end his political life. Will a change of prime minister solve the fundamental and unresolved problems of the Zionist regime?

Gordon Duff: The internal crisis within Israel is not primarily a function of leadership. It is a symptom of a deeper structural decay. The Israeli state, as currently constituted, is built on a foundation of occupation, theft, and dehumanization. These are not policy choices. They are the pillars of its existence.

The notion that swapping out Netanyahu would "solve" anything is a darkly comic fantasy, a desperate parlor trick for an audience desperate for a miracle. Netanyahu is not the cause of the regime's sickness; he is its most symptomatic and pustulent manifestation. He is the perfect product of a system built on ethnic hegemony, permanent war, and historical delusion. To imagine that replacing him with another careerist from the same stable of extremists—men who have all voted for, designed, or enthusiastically executed the same crimes—would alter the fundamental trajectory is like believing a different pilot could make a plane fly once its wings have been torn off. The problem is not the driver of the apartheid bus; it is the destination, the route, and the very fact that it runs over people for sport. A new face would merely provide fresh makeup for the same corpse.

A change of prime minister will not solve the fundamental problems of the Israeli state. The issues at stake—occupation, displacement, and the denial of Palestinian rights—are not administrative. They are existential.

The notion that a new leader could “fix” these problems is a form of magical thinking. It assumes that the state’s policies are the result of poor governance rather than a core feature of its identity.

In reality, the state’s legitimacy is tied to its ability to maintain control over Palestinian land and resources. Any leader who seeks to relinquish this control would be seen as a traitor—not just to the state, but to the very idea of Zionism as it has been practiced since 1948.

Thus, the solution lies not in changing the man, but in dismantling the system. And that requires a level of international pressure far beyond what is currently being applied.

Conclusion:

The questions posed by Qods News Agency touch on complex and deeply entrenched issues. The answers lie not in simplistic narratives of tolerance or uprising, but in a deeper understanding of the structures that sustain oppression—and the ways in which resistance operates outside those structures.

The West Bank is not waiting for permission to break. It is already breaking. And when it does, it will not be quiet.

The true uprising is not in the streets. It is in the quiet acts of defiance: a child planting flowers in the ruins of his home, a woman teaching her daughter to read while bombs fall, a father refusing to leave his land, even as bulldozers roll in.