Where does someone start who wants to prove that Palestine is an Arab and Islamic?

From the pages of history or from the corridors of geography?

From the current aggression on Gaza, or from the thousands of pictures and paintings that recorded the history of the land and its original inhabitants centuries ago?

The truth is that the case owners, Arabs and Muslims, do not need to prove anything.

The ongoing war is not out of ignorance, and the enemy, which is deeply brutal, does not bomb and kill day and night because of a wrong idea, if corrected, it may stop. Rather, he is fighting - alongside his military battle - a war, which is the war of vocabulary.

A linguistic war whose aim is to reverse names and then to overturn ideas, a war that is intended to obliterate history at the same time that geography is wiped out using the military arsenal.

The Zionist occupation of the land of Palestine has become in the corridors of international courts the "Israeli-Palestinian conflict," and the massacres, ethnic cleansing and genocide of millions of people has become called "the clash between the two parties," and the only resistance movements that are still fighting for the cause have become "terrorist organizations."

These different vocabulary and new words are not only concerned with removing embarrassment from the Zionist settlement of the land of Palestine, but also changing the vocabulary of the issue in the heads of its people.

Liberating Palestine from occupation has become called "the two-state solution and coexistence" on the borders of the historic setback in 1948 or 1967.

The struggle over the grand narrative

The Zionist movement was - and still is - the cornerstone upon which Israel was founded.

Zionism was not only a colonial movement, but rather a settlers' movement that aims to evacuate the land from its inhabitants (a land without a people), so that a people without a land would win it, namely the Jews.

Accordingly;

The refusal of the indigenous people to give up their land will only be met by the force of arms, and the implementation of the myth of a national home for the Jews in Palestine will not be accomplished except with violence. And even erase it completely from existence.

Hence the idea of ​​the security obsession and the siege mentality adopted by the Zionist settler.

The Zionist narrative that Palestine is the homeland of the Jews is disturbed by hundreds of poets, writers and plastic artists who were a thorn, but rather a piece of glass in the throat of the Israeli settler, who in turn does not know any limits or prohibitions for the sake of achieving his settlement goal.

Where is Naji Al-Ali?

Assassinated by Mossad;

The caricatured child was tearing the garment of the fake narrative promoted by the settlement as the persecuted victim who wanted a homeland.

The Mossad assassinated Naji al-Ali on August 29, 1987. Naji al-Ali, who drew more than 40,000 cartoons denouncing the Zionist entity and the complicity of the Arab regimes.

Handala was born at the age of ten, and he will always be ten years old. At that age, he left Palestine, and when Hanzalah returned to Palestine, he would still be ten years old, and then he would begin to grow old. The laws of nature do not apply to him because he is an exception, just as losing the homeland is an exception.

As for the reason for his handcuffing, Naji Al-Ali said, "His shoulder was after the October 1973 war, because the region was witnessing a comprehensive process of normalization and normalization, and here the child’s mobilization was an indication of his refusal to participate in the solutions to the American settlement in the region, so he is revolutionary and not a printing press."

Painting "Two Bride on the Borders" (1962) by Ismail Shamout (Communication Sites)

Al-Hallaj was killed twice

The nominal resemblance between the two Hallajin forces us;

Palestinian artist Mustafa al-Hallaj and the famous Iraqi Sufi of the same name contemplate the possibility of a greater similarity between them.

And it was, the tragic death that each of them met.

Al-Hallaj, the Iraqi Sufi, was crucified for birds to eat from him after he was accused of infidelity and immorality, so he left on his own with the kingdom of his thoughts.

Whereas, Al-Hallaj, the Palestinian plastic artist, died with his work burned after a fire broke out in his studio, Naji Al-Ali's studio, in Damascus, and it affected the painter and most of his works.

He finishes before completing his "Improvisations of Life" mural.

Mustafa al-Hallaj was originally from a small Javanese village in Palestine in 1938, which is the town of Salamah Qada, and he lived in it for the first 10 years of his life, until he was abandoned from it by settlement, so he moved to Egypt and grew up there, before joining the Faculty of Fine Arts.

Al-Hallaj is like most of the resistance fighters.

Nothing excludes them from the big issue.

Al-Hallaj belongs to the generation of Palestinian alienation, to the generation of the right of return from the diaspora.

Painting by Mustafa Hallaj (communication sites)

The only option

Like other Palestinian artists, he carried the burden of the issue and set it in his mind, and he never ceased to present the concerns of the land that pay the price for being sacred in all of his artworks. Ismail Shamout (1930-2006) is a Palestinian plastic artist, founder of the arts division of the Palestine Liberation Organization.

Shammout's style was characterized by being realistic and expressive with some symbolism.

He said himself that he did not choose this method rationally, but the issue of the Palestinian issue, which dominated his drawings, imposed this method.

What does it mean for Palestine to be your biggest concern?

This is what Shammout panels answer;

Titles that fit literary texts: “To Where”, “Two Brides at the Borders,” “We Will Return”, “Waiting for Dawn” and many others, paintings that carry memory in their folds, and refuse to abandon historical Palestine from sea to river, and adhere to resistance as the only solution and option for the Palestinian tragedy .

That living memory that its owners continue to struggle for is what frightens the Zionist settlement, a memory that it cannot erase, so Naji Al-Ali, Ghassan Kanafani, Ahmed Yassin, and others will assassinate hundreds of symbols of the Palestinian struggle.

However, the case is not dead. Rather, memory and identity rise like a phoenix from under the rubble.

It will increase by bombing the country and its people in the hope that Palestine will disappear from existence. However, the land itself soon raises a new resistance with every drop of blood that you drink.