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In the estimation of the Franco-Lebanese writer and political analyst Gilbert Achcar, the declared genocide to which the Palestinian people in Gaza are still subjected is a turning point in global history. The ongoing genocide, or the new Nakba, is more horrific than the 1948 Nakba, according to the honorary professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London, and a regular collaborator with the famous French newspaper Le Monde Diplomatique. In his important book, “Gaza: Declared Genocide... A Transformation in World History” (241 pages, medium edition - Ladispot Publishing in Paris), he confirms what some of the few French writers who still refute the theses of McCarthyite media figures and writers (Alain Grech, Edouille Plinel, Jean-Pierre Filliot, Pascal Boniface, and Dominique Vidal against William Goldenell, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Eric Zemmour, Raphael Antovin and Alan Finkelkraut). Professor Ashkar has proven with evidence, analysis and historical facts what was revealed before many French writers by the Jewish historian Ilan Pappé in his book “Ethnic Cleansing in Palestine”, which was published in Paris in 2005 by the House of Vaillard, before it was withdrawn from the market in a soft form, and he reappeared again in a modest directorial guise that humbles the limited capabilities of La Fabrique House. In the introduction to his book, which should be translated into Arabic, Ashkar declares his approach that leaves no room for doubt. The writer begins by refuting Israel’s claim that its military response, which was not annihilatory in the perception of its leaders, was a response to the massacres of October 7, 2023. There is no direct relation to the annihilation of Gaza in the unprecedented manner in which the attacks of October 7 took place, the first of its kind in the history of the Palestinian-Israeli confrontation in the writer Ashkar’s estimation, and it is a confrontation that is not comparable to the genocide with which Israel responded, as he confirms. The legitimacy of its intellectual approach as a dedication to the ancient genocidal record of the Zionist state since its founding. As was expected from a prudent, intelligent, and specialized analyst who studies the subject, Ashkar returned to the historical path that led to the ongoing catastrophe, based on in-depth documentary research that enabled him to come up with dramatic conclusions that affected not only the Palestinians, but also the peoples of the Arab region in their relationship with a Western world that openly colluded with an advanced industrial country to carry out the first genocide that constituted a transformation in global history.