The war of extermination in Gaza removed the cover from the face of the current and renewed colonial reality. It has proven impossible for Israel to do what it does without the support of Europe and America (French).

We are in direct confrontation with colonialism in all its old and new forms. Some of us realized that, and some did not realize it, either intentionally and purposefully or out of oversight and negligence. Colonialism is not satisfied with land, resources, or markets. It is not content with stripping us of all of that, but it strips us of what... What remains of the ruins of our brotherhood, our Arabism, and our humanity.

It strips us of our identity, of our awareness, of our minds, of our consciences, of our history, of our present, of all the components of our existence that preserve our survival on our earth, just as it preserves our features, the features of our faces, and everything by which we know ourselves and are known by others from our partners on the planet Earth.

Liquidation of the case

The annihilation of the Palestinian resistance since October 2023 AD until the writing of these lines in February 2024 AD is not just an episode - like previous episodes - in the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict, but the liquidation of the Palestinian issue as it is a chronic conflict between two parties, between aggressor invaders and landowners. They defend their rights and resist their enemy, an elimination based on logic from three angles:

1 - The largest part of the conflict was liquidated, with the exit of the Arab and Islamic worlds - that is, the Arab and Islamic governments - from the conflict, a long exit, which began with Turkey’s recognition of the State of Israel in 1950 AD, then Egypt’s recognition in 1979 AD, then the doors of recognition gradually opened, until there was no longer any conflict between Arabs and Muslims are those who resist or object. Whoever recognizes is eliminated from the conflict, and whoever does not recognize is waiting for the appropriate timing.

Israel was reassured by this collective Arab and Islamic exit from the conflict, reassured in a practical and experimental way, as it was committing the most horrific crimes against an Arab Muslim people, without much anger from all Arabs and Muslims, so it took comfort in extermination with the intention of liquidation.

2 - Then the Oslo Accords of 1993 gave Israel official Palestinian recognition, and on the basis of this recognition the Palestinian National Authority was established, and from that date recognition - not resistance - became the source of legitimacy for a large sector of the Palestinian struggle, the struggle of realism that is satisfied with national liberation as it allows. Existing force equations without a radical collision with them.

3 - The Arab-Islamic world not only emerged from the conflict by considering the Zionist project a direct aggression against Arabism and Islam, but it emerged from what is no less important: it emerged from its very independence. It was not patient with the consequences of national independence - for which previous generations had fought and stood in the face of Western colonialism with complete determination. Its types and forms - then it rested to be included under the new colonialism.

He was not expressing himself - just - the one who said in the 1970s that 99 percent of the Middle East's cards were in America's hands. He was speaking in the mood of the moment. The difference between him and others was in two things: his frankness, and then his early vision of the future.

American umbrella

This logic, with its three angles, resulted in two things: the margins of a broad and absolute movement that Israel enjoyed, free from every restriction, and it practices the highest levels of violence against the Palestinian resistance.

In contrast, margins are very limited, restricted, and shackled in the case of the Arab-Islamic countries, including the major countries, including those with significant regional weight, those with a declared position against Israel, those with a history of wars against Israel, and those with Arab national references, and those with Islamic references between Shiites and Sunnis.

Subsuming - whether by free will, coercion, or out of greed for some immediate benefit - under the umbrella of neo-colonialism has caused these countries to lose the weight and prestige they had in the eyes of themselves, the region, and the world, until they became weightless and ineffective in the bloody winter on the bridge between the end of 2023 AD and the beginning of 2024 AD. . Not only did it lose its effectiveness in the region and the world, but it also lost its internal vitality, the vitality of the people, their forces, their organizations, their unions, their elites, and their ideas.

The war of extermination in Gaza removed the cover from the face of the current and renewed colonial reality. It has been proven that it is impossible for Israel to do what it does without Europe’s support, and it is impossible for European support for Israel to have meaning without American protection, which reaches the limits of guarantee, guarantee, and complete care for Israel’s security and existence. Its superiority over all its Arab and Islamic neighbors combined, and not just superiority over the Palestinian resistance.

Encirclement and siege

This genocide - whether we realize it or ignore it - is an advanced act of colonialism, old and new, in which all the characteristics of colonialism in all its stages came together. The sign of this is that those who stood up to it, after the Palestinian resistance, were the countries of Latin America and South Africa, the first peoples to I tasted the bitterness of the arbitrariness and depravity of all forms of colonialism from the first moments in which Europe began to emerge from its bottle and put its feet outside its soil.

It set foot in Ceuta on the Moroccan coast in 1415 AD, then the adventurers of the Spanish and Portuguese rushed into Latin America, then the Dutch, followed by the British in South Africa. It is not a coincidence that Latin America and South Africa are the support, voice, and conscience of the Palestinian resistance, not the Arabs, and not the Muslims.

It is true that the waves of European colonialism that trampled Latin America and South Africa are the same waves that began by crushing the Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula and then encircling and besieging them everywhere in the ancient world. All of that is true, but there is a huge difference between those who preserved their independence and were patient with its consequences and hardships and those who He joined - willingly or out of fear - under the umbrella of neo-colonialism.

With the difference that the Arab countries in the experience of colonialism are not the same, as some of them did not exist as a state before colonialism. They were entities in a pre-state state, and colonialism folded them under its umbrella under protection agreements, then left it under protection agreements, so they had no experience in combating... When colonialism entered, not when it remained, and not when it left, colonialism entered it and continued, then left, and then forms of connection between them developed after independence, which came as a grant from the colonizer.

But some other Arab countries had bitter experiences in resisting colonialism when it entered, then fighting it while it was perched on its chest, then fighting it until it left. These peoples have real experiences of suffering from colonial domination.

Cosmic network

But coordination between the old and new colonialists, that is, Europe and America, facilitated the transfer of power to elites that responded to the new colonialism, with the exception of the Nasser period, which was sufficiently aware of the reality of renewed colonialism, and - thanks to this awareness - owned its decisions and enjoyed the margins of a wide movement without guardianship and created a model in The resistance, had it not defeated itself by a number of small tactics that resulted in major defeats, would have been enough to empty the model of its inspiration and inspiration.

This renewed colonialism is not satisfied at this moment with complicity in the annihilation of the Palestinian resistance, nor with narrowing the margins of movement and possibilities for action on Arab and Islamic countries, but its capabilities have reached the point of restricting the capabilities of individuals who sympathize with the resistance if they want to write freely on social networking sites, in universities, or in the international press. Or international organizations.

Neo-colonialism - with Israel at its heart - has a massive global network that monitors its goals and undertakes to thwart them where they are, strip them of their effectiveness, and neutralize their capabilities wherever they are.

1 - In 2010 AD, when the great professor of African studies, Dr. Mr. Fleifel, wrote his book: “The Social and Economic History of South Africa,” he had a powerful and wise historical insight, when he linked South Africa and Palestine, and between Gamal Abdel Nasser and Nelson Mandela. The dedication says: “To The African human being in the South, he freed himself from the bond of injustice, freed his oppressors from falling into injustice, and freed man from the fall of racism. To Gamal Abdel Nasser, he realized the horror of racism in the South, and also realized its connection to its companion, Zionism, in occupied Palestine, so he extended his hand to Nelson Mandela and his companions. And the resistance to racism is still on the ground, both in South Africa and Palestine.” End quote.

2- In 1964 AD, when Dr. Jamal Hamdan published his book: “Colonialism and Liberation in the Arab World,” which differs from his book: “The Strategy of Colonialism and Liberation,” which was published in the early eighties of the twentieth century. The first book was published and Egypt - thanks to its exceptional awareness of the dangers of new colonialism - enjoyed With a regional weight that has never happened before, and with an international influence that has never happened before.

 A client left

In this context, the book was published in a steadfast, optimistic, and motivated spirit that sees colonialism in a moment of disappearance, but it is certain that this colonialism, which is witnessing a moment of sunset, will dissolve its spirit and be reincarnated into a new colonialism, which is Israel.

Dr. Hamdan says: “Colonialism crosses the meridian line and enters the twilight stage, and perhaps now it is the dusk stage, until it carries its stick on its shoulders and leaves.” Then he talks about the goal of the book, which is to “draw a new bright picture of the waves of liberation, its stages and drivers, its directions and the like.” Its strengths and weaknesses, how the new generation - meaning the national liberation movements - buried the old corpse of colonialism.”

Then he says about Israel that it is “the last of the ghosts of colonialism and even the reincarnation of its souls. The treacherous agent Israel is nothing but an attempt to replace the spirit of the fugitive colonialism - meaning the old colonialism - in the body of this fugitive Zionist colonialism. But from now on, we have to preach this and that - meaning the old and new colonialisms - By copying, not by reincarnation.” End quote.

3- From the above, I wanted to reach these two meanings:

1- Israel is the epitome of colonialism, its future, and its tool for controlling the Middle East. It is a continuous, renewed colonialism. The West does not accept touching it, let alone defeating or annihilating it. The opposite is accepted by its conscience. The West’s conscience accepts the defeat, annihilation, and annihilation of any resistance that represents a real threat to its security. Israel.

2- Resistance to colonialism will not be undertaken or enthusiastic about by those who willingly submit to colonialism, and vice versa. Resisting colonialism calls for turning towards all living peoples who have tasted the bitterness of colonialism, are patient with the hardship of independence, have a free conscience, and have not lost their humanity under the pressure of Western hegemony.

Colonialism and capitalism are twin brothers, which is why the major transcontinental companies stood with Zionism, while the living consciences of the educated peoples stood with the Palestinian resistance.

This is the topic of next Thursday’s article, God willing.

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