The current events
have come as a result of the accumulation of long decades of colonialism,
occupation, and oppression, especially since 2008. This period witnessed
thousands of victims and injuries among our people who were trapped in the open
Gaza prison, similar to the former Nazi ghettos in Europe. These crimes were
carried out by Israeli forces, in addition to Israel's continued destruction.
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There have been
successive attacks on the Gaza Strip and its infrastructure, which has been
reconstructed more than once.
Our current national
Palestinian reality is not limited to Gaza alone; it extends to all the cities
and camps throughout the occupied land. Every Palestinian in Palestine has
witnessed the barbaric invasion and aggression of the occupation and its
settlers. These daily killings have continued at a rate of one death per day
for six months, along with the atrocities in Huwwara and other places. These
events, along with what is happening now in Gaza, have shaped our current
situation.
There's an overlapping
scene of the miracle of resistance among our Palestinian people in Gaza, the
West Bank, and occupied Jerusalem. This resistance has given new hope to our
people in their ability to defeat the Israeli occupier, especially following
the events of October 7th, which showcased heroism against the Israeli soldiers
and colonial settlers.
The Palestinian
national liberation project, with its goals of defeating the colonial project
and working to mature all the conditions and factors necessary for this
victory, involves employing all capabilities to achieve it. This requires us to
address a set of current challenges on the Palestinian, Arab, and international
levels. These challenges must be summed up with the stability of the historical
national political position and an understanding of the international changes
today that target American hegemony and observe the rise of new powers toward a
more just world. However, the United States, on the other hand, to maintain its
hegemony, wants to ignite many hotbeds of tension and wars and connect them in
a way that serves the interests of its military and financial industrial
complexes. This is happening in light of its declining economic conditions and
the imposed confrontation with China and Russia.
Realizing what we are
facing in Palestine is a complex, replacement colonialist project that
represents an extension of the West's colonial ambitions, established at the
expense of the original owners of the land in 1948. It represents, in its
multiple policies and transformations, a dimension of the new form of settler
colonialism and the West's imperial ambitions that have not ended, not only in
our reality, but also in Africa, Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the China Sea,
and their attempts in Latin America. This is happening despite their defeat by
left-wing forces there. The practice of the occupation and its multiple
policies is based on the rule of erasure, abolition, and exclusion of non-Jews,
symbolically and actually. Our Palestinian people and its declared goals are
what the Israeli occupation works to achieve through their practice of the
policy of ethnic cleansing and the crime of the Nakba, which has continued
since 1948. This is carried out by the ideology of racist exclusionary Zionism,
with the silence of the West and even its cooperation in implementing this by
protecting the occupying state from accountability and punishment.
Here I repeat what was
conveyed by the imprisoned leader Marwan Barghouti in his speech at the
solidarity demonstration in Athens: "The foundation of the Palestinian
national identity is represented by the duality of resistance and liberation.
Every setback in one or both of these foundations finds its translations at the
level of the comprehensive Palestinian national identity and opens the way for
sub-identities that may advance. This makes the unity of choice, represented by
resistance, and the unity of the goal, represented by liberation, structural
components of the Palestinian national identity."
Therefore, looking at
matters and events in isolation from all their various dimensions, which have
been represented for decades by the crimes of ethnic cleansing to the actual
practice of apartheid against our people in all of the historic land of
Palestine, is a mistake. This is especially important to note because their
project goes beyond the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and Jerusalem, as their
renegade entity's borders have exceeded those given in UN Resolution 181.
Rather, their goals of "the Greater Kingdom or Land of Israel" according
to their Biblical and Zionist beliefs extend beyond the dimensions of the map
of Palestine. They include areas broader than the geography of several
countries in the Arab region and even part of Cyprus, as indicated by their
government of Netanyahu, Ben Gvir, and Smotrich, and Gantz today after he
joined the consensus government on war and aggression. This is the project they
are pursuing today through normalization agreements with a number of Arab
countries, under American directives, according to the vision of the new Middle
East. This vision has not been dropped from their strategic plans for the
region, which primarily target our national cause. They are repeating what they
did in Latin America in the 1970s, Greece, Cyprus decades ago, and the Balkans
now. They aim to impose a reality loyal to them by striking the national
movements and their revolutionary heritage, through escalating settlement,
annexing areas, Judaizing Jerusalem, besieging it with the apartheid wall, and
carrying out daily killings in the West Bank and Jerusalem. In addition, they
are engaging in a barbaric aggression that targets our people with an amount of
bombs that exceeds all forms of weapons, including what is forbidden
internationally. So what is happening is a holocaust in every sense of the word
against our people in Gaza today for trying to implement the transfer.
"The foundation of the Palestinian national identity is represented by the duality of resistance and liberation. Every setback in one or both of these foundations finds its translations at the level of the comprehensive Palestinian national identity and opens the way for sub-identities that may advance. This makes the unity of choice, represented by resistance, and the unity of the goal, represented by liberation, structural components of the Palestinian national identity."
The definition of
their colonial project assumes the goal of defeating and dismantling it. They
are neither a partner in peace in light of the decline of their societies
toward the racist right despite their crisis, nor a neighbor seeking stability
in the region. It is difficult to imagine reaching a political settlement with
their rogue state in light of the existing racist Zionist colonial regime,
which conflicts with its components, references, methodology, constants, and
interests represented by the global Zionist movement and its tools.
The Palestinian
liberation struggle is an integral part of the world's liberation struggle for
freedom, justice, equality, human dignity, and peace. Considering the colonial
regime in Palestine as a mandate and a pillar of international colonialism, it
is natural for the Palestinian national liberation movement to find depth,
alliance, and solidarity with it in all parts of the earth. This is especially
true with the peoples, democratic forces, and the forces of freedom and
justice. This was expressed by the broad global solidarity movement and the
demonstrations of peoples in response to Israeli terrorism against our people.
We are also seeing this in the capitals of various countries, such as Greece,
where popular solidarity with Palestine is evident, especially from progressive
and leftist forces in Europe. This solidarity is important, especially in light
of right-wing governments that support the occupying state and justify its
actions under the pretext of self-defense. This calls for a liberal Palestinian
discourse and movement to foster the broadest, continuous, and growing
international solidarity between our Palestinian people and the peoples of free
countries and forces. Ending the colonial regime in Palestine and the colonial
hegemony of the West, with the United States at its head, must become a goal
for all peoples and forces that love freedom and justice, dignity, and progress
in this world. It is also a condition for global peace and security, including
in our Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean regions in particular.
Marwan Emil Toubasi,
former ambassador of Palestine to Greece
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