{"id":333724,"date":"2025-12-02T10:58:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T15:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/truthout.org\/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=333724"},"modified":"2025-12-04T16:29:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T21:29:19","slug":"here-in-gaza-we-see-our-horror-and-grief-mirrored-in-sudan","status":"publish","type":"to4_article_post","link":"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/here-in-gaza-we-see-our-horror-and-grief-mirrored-in-sudan\/","title":{"rendered":"Here in Gaza, We See Our Horror and Grief Mirrored in Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When I was a child, I used to naively invert the colors of the Palestinian flag \u2014 green in the place of red, red where black should be, and black replacing the green. Back then, I didn\u2019t realize that I was imagining an entirely different country: Sudan. Little did I know that one day both of us would be dragged into the same campaign of elimination, exposed to the same colonial ideologies, left unheeded until our erasure reached a never-returning edge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both of our countries have long been preyed upon for geopolitical interests. Sudan\u2019s counterrevolution broke out in April 2023, facilitated by the United Arab Emirates, the United States, and the United Kingdom \u2014 all for the sake of plundering its natural wealth and building invincible empires over its burnt ashes and spilled blood. In a world driven by power and profit rather than justice, Sudan\u2019s rich resources \u2014 including its oil and gold reserves and its strategic location for maritime trade \u2014 made its onslaught \u201cjustified\u201d enough for colonial powers to extract its treasures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The same hidden intentions have haunted Gaza, where the race to extract its offshore gas accelerated shortly after October 7<\/a>. Reports later confirmed that this attempt was futile, yet Israel\u2019s and the U.S.\u2019s colonial ambitions only extended further. By February 2025, President Trump openly declared his vision to turn Gaza into the \u201cRiviera of the Middle East,\u201d paired with the proposal of forcibly displacing its people to other countries outside of Palestine.<\/p>

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