Toufan: The road to a Palestinian state is not paved with roses

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The road to a Palestinian state is not paved with roses

By Ali Al-Baazawi

What is certain is that the Al-Aqsa Intifada has put the Palestinian issue back on the agenda of the international community—its institutions, regimes, and peoples—after it had been on the verge of being lost amid waves of normalization, Zionist arrogance, and unconditional support for the Zionist entity by imperialist powers, primarily the United States and Europe. This is considered a significant gain for the Palestinian people, their just cause, and the resistance forces that have persevered and fought with all their strength and determination to achieve their goals. This round of resistance, which lasted for nearly a year and a half, has exposed the fragility of this entity, considered a paper tiger that lives off aid, donations, and imperialist military and political support, and thrives on the complicity and betrayal of the client and normalizing Arab regimes. Facts on the ground have also confirmed that this entity cannot endure and continue to live without this support and official complicity. The irreversible flight of tens of thousands of settlers to Western countries and the insistence of thousands of others not to return to their homes in northern occupied Palestine for fear of strikes by the Lebanese resistance, despite the penetration of the Zionist occupation army into some villages in southern Lebanon and its formation of a kind of protective belt against the infiltration of resistance fighters into the areas of Metula, Shebaa Farms and other areas adjacent to southern Lebanon, confirms this new reality, which constitutes a strategic gain for the resistance that can be built upon on the road to liberation.

A foundling and hybrid entity

The Zionist entity is an artificial entity planted by colonial powers on Arab Palestine, which is not their own land. Cities, villages, schools, universities, and hospitals were built for it, providing it with all the means of life and prosperity in a region considered one of the most fertile and beautiful in the Arab East, overlooking the sea and boasting beautiful beaches that annually welcome millions of vacationers and tourists from all over the world. The colonial powers planned to make this usurping entity a "model" of liberal democracy that could serve as an example and a destination for the peoples of the region, so that they would emulate this fabricated state/entity tailored to the whims and whims of the Western bourgeoisie. It has become required of Arab countries to respect this "model" and emulate it, promoting the values ​​of democracy, human rights, tolerance, and coexistence within their societies in exchange for aid and material and military support. Obtaining a loan from predatory financial institutions has become conditional upon coexistence with the Zionist entity, normalization with it, and emulating its model. But this fabricated image quickly collapsed in the face of the escalating pace of resistance activity, and the Zionist “model” became a fascist and war criminal, committing massacres against children (17,000 children were martyred in Gaza and 39,000 lost one of their parents during the war on Gaza) and women, deliberately killing relief workers and journalists, demolishing hospitals over the heads of patients, bombing universities, schools and water wells, abusing prisoners and detainees, trampling on international law and human rights instead of promoting and supporting them, raping women, seizing land, erecting barriers and separation walls between regions, preventing the historical owners of the land from communicating with each other, exploiting their lands and harvesting their crops, forcing them to live in camps or emigrate. Today, an institution for “voluntary” emigration has been established that will work to provide the requirements for emigration, including grants, work contracts and other things, in order to get rid of the original owners of the land, similar to what happened to the Native Americans in America when the Europeans invaded it in the late fifteenth century. The Zionists have bared their fangs and returned to their original essence as invaders, occupiers and fascist gangs funded by colonial powers.

The Zionist entity is an arm of imperialism

The implantation of Zionist gangs in the Arab land of Palestine was planned by the extremist Western colonialists, who were forced to withdraw by the struggles of the Arab peoples in Syria, Egypt, Iraq, North Africa and elsewhere, enabling them to achieve freedom and independence. This cancerous, alien entity was necessary to ensure control over the wealth of the Arab countries and prevent their unification into a strong nation that naturally possesses the elements of progress and advancement, including vast resources (oil, gas, phosphate, fertile agricultural lands, thousands of kilometers of coastline, etc.), a vast geographic area, and the diverse and rich culture of its peoples and the capabilities of its elites, in addition to its strategic location. According to these facts, it is considered a serious competitor to the European colonial powers and poses a strategic threat to them.

From this perspective, the colonial powers defined the goal of implanting this illegitimate entity and outlined the roles it must undertake to ensure its survival and continuity on the one hand, and to secure the interests of the colonial powers and their major plundering companies and financial institutions in the region on the other. Within this framework, the entity's attacks on the nuclear reactors in Iraq and Syria, the assault on Nasserist Egypt, and the destruction of its military capabilities were carried out with the aim of subjugating it and forcing it to normalize relations. This occurred during the era of the late President Anwar Sadat and continues to this day. Within the same framework, the strike on Hammam al-Shatt in Tunisia, the repeated attacks on southern Lebanon were carried out to undermine the foundations of the resistance's rise, and finally, the invasion of Syria after the overthrow of the Assad family regime and the destruction of its military arsenal. The invasion of Gaza, waging a war of extermination and displacement of Palestinians, aimed at realizing the Greater Israel project, which covers all of historic Palestine and nibbles away at parts of Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia, are all part of the New Middle East project in which American imperialism dominates the entire region by relying on its agent, the Zionist entity. For this reason, it supplies it with the most modern weapons of mass destruction to ensure its military superiority and provide it with the means to withstand the escalating and growing resistance, both geographically and humanly, in addition to the incubating and supportive environment that continues to expand.

Client regimes are an obstacle to the liberation of Palestine.

The client Arab regimes constitute a stabilizing force for the Zionist entity. They support it financially, logistically, and militarily, confronting resistance missiles directed from Yemen and Iraq toward the occupied territories, providing it with water, fuel, goods, and all the necessities of life. They normalize relations with it secretly and publicly, allowing ships carrying weapons to dock at their ports before reaching Israeli ports, besieging the resistance in Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen, and wherever else, preventing their people from expressing support for it. They refuse the flow of aid and essential goods into the Gaza Strip, and reluctantly accept the blockade and the closure of the crossings, thus contributing to the policy of starvation and genocide of the Palestinian people. The Zionist entity's participation in its crimes against the Palestinian people is achieved in return for support from the colonial powers that sponsor the entity through aid, loans, investments, and guarantees of its continued rule. Imperialism has, on more than one occasion, rushed to the aid of these regimes against attempts to overthrow them and the threats to their strategic interests in the region. It intervened in Tunisia in 2011 to maintain the change in the form of power without compromising its class essence, which is subservient to and protects the interests of the major corporations and institutions of the colonial powers. It intervened in Syria to divert the revolution from its natural course and achieve its goals. It divided Yemen, helped bring about the overthrow of Gaddafi's regime, and enabled King Mohammed VI to annex Western Sahara to the Kingdom of Morocco in exchange for normalization.

The client and normalizing Arab regimes have posed a real obstacle to the liberation of Palestine and have prevented the undermining of imperialist interests in the region, which conflict with the interests of the Arab peoples yearning for independence, liberation, and emancipation.

The liberation of Palestine depends on liberation from imperialist domination.

Zionist settler colonialism poses a threat to everyone. It is primarily a threat to the Palestinians, as it continues to subjugate them, confiscate their lands, exploit their resources, and attempt to humiliate, displace, and kill them. It is also a threat to the Arab peoples who yearn for independence and sovereignty over their countries' resources and to free themselves from the imperialist hegemony that hinders their independent advancement and development. It is also a threat to the client regimes themselves if they do not fully respond to the demands of imperialism and refuse to submit to and serve the Zionist-imperialist agendas. The liberation of Palestine and the defeat of the Zionist gangs inevitably requires the liberation of the remaining Arab peoples from neo-colonial hegemony and its local tools, the client big bourgeoisie. This liberation and independence open the way to liberation and emancipation for the Palestinian people, because an environment free from imperialist dependency and hegemony will constitute an incubator for resistance, supporting it financially, militarily, politically, and morally. Conversely, it is an environment hostile to Zionism and imperialism, the enemies of the people. The Zionist entity, in this new environment, will be unable to survive and continue. It will be like a foreign entity called to vanish and collapse, like a hybrid plant that cannot germinate, grow, and blossom in an environment that does not accept it or provide it with the necessary conditions for survival.

The liberation of the Palestinian people from Zionist settler colonialism depends on the liberation of the Arab peoples from neo-colonial hegemony and the establishment of their own independent, democratic, and popular states dedicated to national sovereignty and social justice. Outside this framework, a radical and lasting solution to the Palestinian issue, the central Arab issue, remains difficult to achieve, if not impossible. The struggles of the Arab peoples are interconnected and integrated and cannot be separated from one another. The liberation of historic Palestine is linked to the liberation of the remaining Arab countries. On this basis, the Arab peoples are called upon to continue the struggle on two fronts: the struggle against imperialist hegemony over their countries and supporting the Palestinian people and assisting them in their efforts to achieve their independence and liberation from the domination of the Nazi Zionist gangs.