Palestine has been the custodian of absolute human suffering and human struggle for the last 100 years. The Zionist apartheid state of Israel has been the custodian of evil that is pure and absolute. The world is complicit in this human tragedy, helping and participating in the genocide and the extermination of Palestinians. This is not Netanyahu’s genocidal war or Hamas’s October 7 attack. The Zionist movement ideology was built on the ethnic cleansing of native Palestinians from early on. Terrorist groups like
The Haganah and The Irgun (Etzel) founded by Yitzhak Ben Zvi and David Ben-Gurion as the first paramilitary formation that raised the slogan “Judaea was lost by blood and fire and will rise again by blood and fire; committed 12 massacres in Palestine during the British occupation of Palestine, and 13 massacres after the British left. This Genocide didn’t begin on October 7, it goes back to the Balfour Declaration, to Europe’s early 20th-century efforts to deal with the Jewish Question on the continent, promising them a land they didn’t own to people they didn’t deserve. In over 600 days of bombing, killing machines of over 100,000 Palestinians, many women and children, systemic destruction of homes, neighborhoods, hospitals, schools, infrastructure, and the clasped of Palestinians communities and livelihood, now forced starvation of over two million Palestinians, denial of food, medicine, and clean water. Experts and liberal pundits have been searching for historical and moral frameworks to make sense of the Zionist sick ideology; even after Piers Morgan, the British TV host, stopped asking the childish questions, “Do you support Hamas?”, performing a new art form of mental masturbation. Lots of media pundits and experts struggle to put in front of us a historical framework justifying the ongoing Israeli war on the Palestinians. However, the works of anti-colonial psychiatrist Frantz Fanon offer a historical perspective and a tool that may explain Israel’s colonization of Palestine and the Palestinians ’ ongoing resistance and armed struggle within the context of decolonization. In his book The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon explained: “In all armed struggles, there exists what we might call the point of no return. Almost always it is marked off by a huge and all-inclusive repression which engulfs all sectors of the colonial people.” From a Fanonian perspective, the war on Gaza is fundamentally a colonial war, coming decades after European Zionist settlers before even the Nakba of 1948 which marked a turning point, when Zionist militias and terrorist groups launched a campaign of terror and ethnic cleansing, destroying over 500 Palestinian villages, expelling hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes under the pretext of a “land without people for a people without land.”, degrading and dehumanizing the native Palestinians to kill them later. Fanon explained that most colonized peoples were “overpowered but not tamed”. Resistance is thus not only inevitable but also a means of reclaiming dignity and humanity in the context of anti-colonial struggles. As Ismail Patel wrote in the Middle East Eye, “If, as Fanon implies, the violent resistance of colonized peoples is proof of their humanity, then Israel’s Zionist forces are attempting to prevent the Palestinian people from regaining that humanity by waging genocide.” The question is often asked “Does Israel have the right to exist”, according to Fanon colonized people have the right to resist colonization? The world is complicit in this human tragedy, helping and participating in the genocide and the extermination of Palestinians. All my life, I was fed the narrative of looking at Palestine as an occupied land; Now and, after almost two years of Israelis’ barbaric war against the people of Gaza, the unconditional support of the Americans and the West, the Palestinians still resist and the west still justifying the Genocide and ethnic cleansing. Piers Morgan, the British TV host, finally stops asking the childish questions, “Do you support Hamas?”, performing a new art form of mental masturbation. The Palestinian narrative is finally breaking through the Western mind and heart, and the Zionist narrative is melting away under its weight and lies. The Palestinian resistance and fight are liberating the West from its racist, colonial ideology, branding anyone who resists its dominance as barbaric, terrorist, dangerous, and deserving to die. The Palestinians broke the bond between Western imperial ideology and the Zionist colonial project. The Palestinians’ resistance brought Palestine to the negotiating table after the maze of Oslo, Camp David, and the Arab Zionist normalization surrendering scheme. U.S.-based Veterans For Peace and other organizations have launched a 40-day “Fast for Gaza.” From May 22 to June 30, 600 people in the U.S. and abroad are fasting and demanding full humanitarian aid to Gaza under UN authority and an end to U.S. weapons shipments to Israel. People all over the world, in universities, Capitals, parks, streets, and workplaces are calling for a ceasefire, to stop the genocide. The Zionist project exposed, the only democracy in the Middle East, is revealing its true evil nature, the only Apartheid regime that is based on religion and racism. The Palestinian resistance and fight are liberating the West from its racist, colonial ideology, branding anyone who resists its dominance as barbaric, terrorist, dangerous, and deserving to die. The Palestinians broke the bond between Western imperial ideology and the Zionist colonial project, it brought Palestine to the negotiating table after the maze of Oslo, Camp David, and the Arab Zionist normalization surrendering scheme. U.S.-based Veterans for Peace and other organizations have launched a 40-day “Fast for Gaza.” From May 22 to June 30, 600 people in the U.S. and abroad are fasting and demanding full humanitarian aid to Gaza under UN authority and an end to U.S. weapons shipments to Israel. Israel has been using starvation as a weapon of war, blocking food, water, medicines, and any relief from entering Gaza, where over two million Palestinians live. The U.S.-based Veterans for Peace and other organizations have launched a 40-day “Fast for Gaza.” Having started May 22 and going until June 30, 600 people in the U.S. and abroad are fasting and demanding full humanitarian aid to Gaza under United Nations authority and an end to U.S. weapons shipments to Israel. Jean-Paul Sartre wrote of western colonialism: “Our Machiavellianism has little purchase on this wide-awake world that has run our falsehoods to earth one after the other. The settler has only recourse to one thing: brute force… the native has only one choice, between servitude and supremacy.”. Now, after nearly two years of Israel’s genocidal war on the Palestinians in Gaza and the unwavering support of the U.S. and Western powers, everyone is exposed. The racist and genocidal nature of the Zionist project was exposed, and the modern Western colonial settlers’ project was exposed. The Palestinian resistance and resolve are liberating not just Palestine, oppressed Arabs/Muslims, around the world, but the people in the west, liberating the Germans from the Nazi guilt, where they realize that Apartheid Israel is committing the same evil act in Gaza, they realized that Holocaust wasn’t just about the Jews and the Nazi, as Zygmund Bauman explained, in his book Modernity and The Holocaust; it was about all the unwanted, useless eaters in Europe, like blacks, Gay, Gypsy, Slavs, communists, and handicaps, etc., it was about the western fascist colonial ideology that exterminates millions of blacks in Africa and Millions of Native Americans before them. The Palestinian resistance is liberating Arabs from, as French philosopher Michel Foucault said, “Subjugated discourse,” their defeated rationalization, and ideology. Now, things are turning; the Palestinian narrative is breaking through the Zionist clouds. The Palestinian flag is rising in major cities around the globe, and people are rising against their complacent governments and against the “Bullshit Liberalism”, as Ed Feile, editor of South Side Ride coined it. Millions of people around the globe are chanting in the streets, squares, and schools, Free Palestine, which will set all of us free.
Ahmed Tharwat
