"Antonio Gramsci wrote in his Prison Notebooks about an interregnum, a transition between the old order that was dying and a new order that had yet to be born. That in-between time was, he wrote, a time of monsters. Those words, a time of monsters, could be used to describe the period of death and destruction unleashed in the two years since 7 October 2023, in the narrow strip of land comprising the Gaza Strip."
"So what is next? The continuation of the apartheid regime? A two-state solution where one state has no or limited capacity to function? More Israeli military occupation? An accelerated Nakba that more methodically expels Palestinians from the land? A new colonial presence where some foreign entity or individuals are the de facto interim rulers? Or, eventually, something else something requiring a transformation of existing relationships through a new process, one taking us firmly beyond our time of monsters."
Antonio Gramsci’s concept of an interregnum frames the Gaza situation as a 'time of monsters' after intense death and destruction since 7 October 2023. A ceasefire deal brokered by Donald Trump raises urgent questions about the future of the land between the river and the sea, where Israeli government and settlers dominate an apartheid-based one-state reality. Possible paths include continued apartheid, a weakened two-state outcome, renewed occupation, accelerated Palestinian expulsion (Nakba), a foreign colonial interim, or a deeper transformation that rebuilds political and social relationships beyond current violence. Calls for new faces and narratives appear amid difficult historical constraints, and moments of rupture can enable change.
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