STRUGLE OR ANNIHILATION.....
The announcement by the fascist Israeli Prime Minister, Netanyahu, and his Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, of their intention in the occupying state to "impose Israeli sovereignty" over the entire West Bank, i.e. annex and Judaize it, if Donald Trump takes office as President of the United States, did not surprise us. The entire Israeli path since the Oslo Accords were signed in 1993 has been moving in this direction. The "Deal of the Century" plan that Trump proposed in his first term included the annexation of Israeli settlement colonies, including large areas of the so-called Area C. Netanyahu's military preparations to maintain the occupation of the Gaza Strip did not surprise us either. Since the beginning of the Israeli war of extermination in October of last year, we warned that Netanyahu intended to prolong the war until Trump was re-elected, and that he would push forward plans to liquidate the Palestinian cause and rights through extermination, settlement, normalization, annexation and Judaization.
In any case, the overall behavior of the Zionist movement since the occupation of the West Bank, including Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, has been moving in one direction: preventing the establishment of an independent Palestinian state, and gradual annexation and Judaization, starting with Jerusalem and then extending to the rest of the West Bank. The Oslo Accords and Western talk about the two-state solution, without exerting any pressure on Israel to implement it, were nothing more than a delay in time to give Israel enough time to implement its settlement expansion and to undermine any possibility of establishing an independent Palestinian state. Israel did not hesitate to pass laws, one after the other, with the consensus of its parties, in government and opposition, towards annexation and Judaization, including military orders and rulings, the Nationality Law, and finally the law preventing the establishment of a Palestinian state.
Israel, as some claim, did not need October 7 (2023) to do all of this, as it has done so for 57 years, and even 76 years since it committed the first Nakba against the Palestinian people. Now, with the arrival of the Trump administration, with its extremist Zionist evangelical elements, the extremism of the statements of some of its pillars, such as the nominated US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, and the proposed Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, exceeds the statements of Netanyahu and Smotrich, who believe that the circumstances are ripe for implementing the Zionist movement’s dream of Judaizing all of Palestine.
Huckabee's statements that there are no Palestinians, that they are an entity invented to "steal the land of Israel", that there is no West Bank, but rather Judea and Samaria, and that the illegal settlements are Israeli cities and towns, mean one thing: there is no international law, no international humanitarian law, and no value to the resolutions of the United Nations and the International Court of Justice. Therefore, the world lives according to the law of the jungle, and whoever has power can do whatever he wants.
After all of this, and after the countdown to annexing the West Bank, and the escalation of the ethnic cleansing process in the Gaza Strip, what is the value of continuing to talk about “international legitimacy,” the “two-state solution,” and the “peace process”? What is the value of the Western hypocrisy about a peaceful solution and negotiations, when it gave Israel money, weapons, and political protection to brutally attack the Palestinian people, and even gave it time and political and diplomatic deception to weaken the Palestinian people’s resistance to the plan of liquidation and annihilation to which it is being subjected.
The arrogant Israeli ruling system believes it is omnipotent, despite its failure to achieve its goals.
The most important question: How will the Palestinians, Arabs, Muslims and all those who claim to be concerned with international law, human rights and democracy respond to the Israeli annexation declaration? ... The Palestinian people have only one choice: to resist the criminal plan and refuse to surrender to it, by uniting their ranks in a unified national leadership on a combative and militant program that mobilizes the energies of all components of the Palestinian people wherever they are. The issue has become to be or not to be, to resist liquidation or annihilation. The official establishment no longer has any pretext to continue clinging to the illusion of a compromise solution, a two-state solution, and "American mediation." If it does not overcome these illusions, the Palestinian people will overcome them.
On the Arab and Islamic levels, there is no longer any justification for failing to sever all relations with the rogue Israeli entity, expel its ambassadors if they exist, cancel all normalization agreements with it, join a global call to impose sanctions and boycott on Israel, and treat it as the apartheid and racial discrimination regime in South Africa was treated. No country can ignore the facts or escape the inevitable choice, either to stand with fascism that commits the most heinous war crimes, or to confront it and support the Palestinian people’s right to freedom, to remain in their homeland, and to self-determination. There is no middle ground between these two options.
The arrogant Israeli ruling system believes that it is omnipotent, despite its failure to achieve its goals in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and the West Bank, a failure that it tries to compensate for by killing civilians, children and defenseless women, and by brutally destroying the necessities of life. It is unable, and will not be able, to learn from the lessons of history. Its adoption of the zero-sum option, i.e., all or nothing, expresses arrogance and shortsightedness at the same time. Before Netanyahu and the current Israeli rulers, many tyrants appeared and committed countless crimes, and ended up in the dustbin of history after inflicting enormous tragedies on their own peoples.
From After Israel announces the annexation plan... struggle or annihilation
https://www.alaraby.co.uk/opinion/
Sent by a good friend, a powerful article by Mr. Barghouti, depicting clearly the reigning mood among many if not most Palestinians, more so after the war of annihilation conducted against them by Israel.
As always, my many thanks to all my good readers.
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