Lebanese psychologist and thinker Dr. Mustafa Hijazi believes that the Al-Aqsa flood sparked in the hearts of the Western youth generation the longing for a meaningful life (Al-Jazeera)
The Lebanese psychologist and thinker, Dr. Mustafa Hijazi, said that one of the manifestations of the Al-Aqsa Flood is that it overturned the equations, changed the rules of the game, and demonstrated the Palestinian right to exist through the amazing achievements of the resistance.
He added that the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation opened our eyes to the path of true liberation of the Palestinian issue in particular and the issue of Arab independence in general, explaining that this operation astonished those near and far in its strength of planning, its excellence in the revolution, and its innovations in implementation to restore the right to life and existence, and “oppression and waste remain fleeting, no matter how long it takes.” The resistance in Gaza provides the most eloquent lessons in this regard.”
He pointed out that the movements that turned into negotiating paths have no end and no fruits, as happened to the West Bank after the Oslo Accords.
It is a type of illusion about the establishment of a state and entity, as only 20% of the West Bank remains.
Dr. Mustafa Hijazi is a Lebanese academic and thinker. He holds a doctorate in psychology from the University of Lyon in France. He worked as a university professor in a number of Arab universities and an expert for many Lebanese, Gulf and international organizations.
Hijazi is distinguished by his abundance of field research that seeks to provide treatments for many segments of society. He also has many books, some of which have been published in 17 editions. Among his most important books are: “Social Backwardness: An Introduction to the Psychology of the Oppressed Man,” and “The Wasted Man: An Analytical Psycho-Social Study.” “Gulf Youth and the Future: A Psycho-Social Analytical Study,” “Psychology and Globalization: Future Visions in Education and Development,” “The Culture of the Arab Child between Westernization and Authenticity,” and “A Dictionary of Psychoanalytic Terms,” so on to the dialogue:
How do you read the Al-Aqsa Flood operation for the people of the Gaza Strip and the Palestinian resistance in light of the psychology of the oppressed and betrayed Arab person?
Peoples may be colonized or subjugated by external forces or internal tyranny, but they are not defeated.
It is enough for it to have the leadership capable of leading the battle for its liberation in order for it to rise up and surprise everyone with its revolution to regain its dignity and its right to existence and existence.
Outward manifestations of oppression and waste never achieve inner self-reliance.
The people's life energies and their right to exist remain latent and boiling inside until they have leadership that believes in their rights and knows how to lead the masses in their revolution.
The life energies of peoples and their right to exist remain latent and boiling inside until they have leadership that believes in their rights and knows how to lead the masses in their revolution, and the Al-Aqsa flood constitutes a highly indicative example of this, as it astonished the near before the distant in the power of planning and excellence in the revolution and creativity in implementation to restore the right. In life, existence, and occupying a rightful place, oppression and waste remain fleeting no matter how long it takes, and the progress of the resistance in Gaza is the most eloquent lesson in that.
The Palestinian people presented heroic examples that made some Western peoples scramble to know the secret of the steadfastness and steadfastness of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Did Arab social scientists and others make a mistake in understanding the Arab human being in general and the Palestinian human being in particular?
Indeed, the heroics of the resistance astonished not only the West, but also the Arab world and the peoples of the Third World. There is no secret or wonder in the steadfastness of the resistance in Gaza, but rather just the convergence of the capable leadership and latent life energies that does what amazes and what is unthinkable.
The ostensible reading of peoples' submissiveness is wrong and misleading.
Arab sociologists and others touch the surface of the Palestinian reality, and they and intellectuals engage in studying Western thought, its issues and theses, as if they were universal scientific certainty, even though this thought was developed to understand the reality of Western man.
As for Arab sociologists and others, they do not study the Palestinian people from within in order to discover their latent living powers. They touch the surface of reality and engage, along with intellectuals, in studying Western thought, its issues, and its theses, as if it were universal scientific certainty, even though this thought was developed to understand the reality of Western man, and it was absent. They are aware that they need cognitive tools and approaches specific to our Arab and Palestinian people, which they have not done until now, and the Al-Aqsa flood comes to surprise them and reveal to them what they had overlooked.
We have noticed that the Al-Aqsa flood contributed to the revival of human relations between the peoples of the world despite the complicity of the Western media and digital communication sites, which besiege the Palestinian narrative and support the Israeli narrative. How do we understand this interaction from the generation of “frivolity and individualism with a consumerist production style”?
The Palestinian liberation struggle - like the struggles of oppressed peoples - was exposed to external colonialism and internal tyranny, and is still heading towards a state of siege, belittlement and various accusations of terrorism, leading to the portrayal of the Zionist project as having the right to a secure existence, especially because of this project’s control over the Western media over the past few years. Their differences, and preventing the emergence of any voice that does not support their doctrine, can be achieved through various means.
One of the manifestations of the Al-Aqsa flood is that it overturned the equations, changed the rules of the game, and demonstrated the Palestinian right to exist through the amazing achievements of the resistance in some of its manifestations. It is natural for the Western youth generation to be affected by this, given its desire in turn to rebel against the system of life of triviality, consumption, subconsciousness, and non-issue.
The Al-Aqsa flood sparked in the hearts of the Western youth generation the longing for a meaningful life, and the search for a major issue that would fill their lives, and from here came their demonstrations in support of the right to life and existence for the Palestinian people.
The Al-Aqsa flood sparked in the hearts of the Western youth generation the longing for a meaningful life, and the search for a major issue that would fill their lives, and from here came their demonstrations in support of the right to life and existence for the Palestinian people.
The West achieved revolutions for the sake of what it called human prosperity and development, but today it sees the people of the Arab region in general and the Palestinians in particular as “human animals.” How do you explain this Western contradiction to us?
The West accomplished its civilizational shift through the Industrial Revolution and the accompanying revolutions of five components: scientific, intellectual, educational, political, and the restoration of the influence and intervention of the Church in public affairs.
These are the components of modernity that he praises and tries to export to the peoples of the Third World in order to civilize them, according to his claim, even though his project is merely colonialism and exploitation of the natural resources of these peoples.
We are faced with a racism that is superior to those who have not yet reached the level of human beings, and through this racism the West gives itself the right to colonize and exploit peoples under the claim of civilizing them and under the claim that exploiting them is part of its duty to advance them.
The West, and the white race in particular, considers it superior and that it must civilize backward peoples.
He claimed this right for himself because he considered these peoples as sub-humans as a justification for exploiting them under the pretext of civilizing them.
There is no contradiction. Rather, we are dealing with mere racism that is superior to those who have not yet reached the level of human beings. Through this racism, the West gives itself the right to colonize and exploit peoples under the claim of civilizing them and under the claim that exploiting them is part of its duty to advance them.
The Palestinian resistance is a liberation movement like all liberation movements in the world, based on the right to land and a homeland.
How do we understand the duplicity of some Western intellectuals and scholars regarding the issue of human rights, which they see as a natural right for Western people and not for Arabs and Palestinians?
This question was answered in the answer to the previous question. It is the racism of the Western white race, which claims for itself the right to civilize other peoples by plundering their wealth. Western intellectuals, or the largest number of them in any case, play the role of advisor to Western political circles on how to tighten control over peoples. Which they colonize, including the Arab and Palestinian people.
The Israeli occupation works with religious fanaticism and extreme right-wing ideology to achieve its dream of controlling Palestine and its neighbourhood. Can independence be achieved for the Palestinian people without Palestinian patriotism and without a clear reference or ideology?
The rape of Palestine by the Zionist movement is actually based on a racist ideology supported by mythical claims about the Promised Land, and it considers the Palestinians to be non-human beings from whom the land of Palestine must be cleansed. Therefore, the Zionist settlement permits itself all the massacres it commits against the Palestinians, and even the West Bank is considered a Promised Land, and therefore it implants... It contains settlement outposts that are in fact cancerous outposts that are devouring the land of the West Bank.
As for the Palestinian resistance, it is a liberation movement like all liberation movements in the world, based on the right to land and a homeland, and it is not necessary for it to be based on an ideology of any kind other than the firm belief in existence, identity, and land.
The movements that turned into endless negotiating paths with no fruits, as happened to the West Bank after the Oslo Accords, are the type of illusions about the establishment of a state and an entity, as only 20% of the West Bank remains.
Many Arab intellectual and political projects (leftist, nationalist and liberal) attempted to liberate their homelands in general and Palestine in particular, but instead they turned into an endless negotiating path. Did the Al-Aqsa flood open our eyes to the path of true liberation for the Palestinian cause in particular and the Arab world in general?
Yes, the Al-Aqsa flood opened our eyes to the path of true liberation of the Palestinian issue and the issue of Arab independence in general. As for the movements that turned into negotiating paths that have no end and have no fruits, as happened to the West Bank after the Oslo Accords, they are of the type of illusions about the establishment of a state and an entity, and the evidence of this is the change in the negotiating path. To a downward path towards the land and the entity, as only 20% of the West Bank remains with the negotiators competing to conclude peace agreements and be satisfied with a state and a formal presidency, and even this has not been abandoned or accepted by the Zionist movement, as it is practicing the process of gnawing and demolishing such that there will be nothing left of the Palestinian state. Except the name.
Homelands are seized and built through a true national liberation struggle, not by negotiation from a position of weakness. This is the lesson that actual liberation movements have taught us.
Source: Al Jazeera