Photo composition showing the faces of a child and two women wearing the keffiyeh, with the flag map and the map of Palestine, and a raised fist with the colors of the Palestinian flag. Illustration: Al Mayadeen.
By Susana Khalil – Nov 6, 2024
I. The taboo: End of the eurocentric colonial anachronism of ‘Israel’
From the gratitude and hope that the mundane village feels as it takes to the streets, mourning the tragedy that today plagues another people. Such pride and joy, this protection of the human primate!
With deep respect, recognition, gratitude, hope, humility, and responsibility, I address all the grieving people of the world for the tragedy that the native Palestinian people are currently enduring.
Amid the mourning, the macabre, and the barbarity that Arabs, Persians, and some others had already warned about decades ago—warning of the danger of Zionism and the existence of that Eurocentric anachronism called Israel.
…From my restless calm, which leads me to the womb of Fauziah Khalil: my mother, a Palestinian peasant and survivor of Al-Nakba 1948, who fled in fear to my wild, marooned Venezuela, where I began life under the rhythm of the Calypso of El Callao. From the divine breasts of the Palestinian elder women…from the burning of those “animals” called Palestinians, a call for us to reconsider, reflect, rethink, and reanalyze: the end of the Eurocentric colonial anachronism of Israel.
A call: colonialism has no right to exist
Let us not allow ourselves to be wrapped once again in the aromatic ether, in the appealing packaging of the abstract trap, grand poetic and philosophical speeches, deep indignation and denunciations; yet the end of the Eurocentric colonial regime of Israel is never mentioned. We are not yet at the point of honesty, we are not at the height, we do not have enough light, we are still inhabited by a darkness sustained by fear. Fear is a faithless companion that we carry inside, in this case, in a great package of talent. We are the other executioners trapped in the semiotic manipulation of peace.
We must transcend, and this implies a human revolution, that is, speaking in terms of the end of the Eurocentric colonial regime of Israel.
With respect and out of respect, the dilemma is that there are figures, leaders who are very angry at the genocide committed by Israeli colonialism, yet they still say that “Israel” has the right to exist. This is immature operational logic that guarantees the extermination of the native people at the hands of the colonizer. The lethal status quo.
We deceive ourselves when we talk about the comfortable trap of the “Two-State” solution. “Two States” is a sedative for the extermination of the native Palestinian people, but one hears the call: “we must think of peace…”
The corrupt proposal of “Two States” dates back to 1947, to the UN Resolution 181, and it is completely illegal and illegitimate.
The Euro-Zionist elite cleverly infiltrated the UN and, illegally and illegitimately, approved Resolution 181 in 1947, which called for the partition of Palestine. The UN has no authority to fragment the territory of any people in the world. On the contrary, the UN exists to protect the sovereignty and territory of the peoples of the world. At that time, the UN consisted of 57 countries, of which 33 voted in favor of this resolution, all within an orchestrated corruption of buying foreign ministers, governments, blackmailing and bribing those who did not vote in favor of the resolution. They never consulted or notified the native Palestinian people. Moreover, in that resolution, they granted 56% of Palestinian land to a foreign European minority (disguised as the Jewish people). That is, Zionism succeeded in having the UN tear away more than half of the Palestinian native people’s territory. The most cynical part is that when this colonial regime was established, it took 78% of the territory, not the 56% that was originally allocated. Supposedly, a Jewish state (religion) and a Palestinian state (people) were to be created. Today, the colonialism is a full member of the UN, but the native Palestinian people are not. Seventy six years have passed, and colonialism has already taken more than 82% of Palestinian territory. As a strategy for survival, the native population has turned to increased birth rates. This is why women and children are being massacred—the colonizer’s fear is not only topographical, it is demographic: the womb of Palestinian women.
Resolution 181 must be abrogated. It has to be recognized that the elite use legal institutions to carry out illegal actions.
II.
I do not address Nazi intellectuals like Bernard-Henry Lévy or Yuval Noah Harari; they are simply doing their jobs. I address progressive figures of the left. There is a tumult of people with very accurate information about this Eurocentric colonial barbarity called “Israel”: activists, writers, politicians, analysts, artists, academics, jurists, journalists, intellectuals, feminists, diplomats, and members of sexual diversity groups. Yet, few have the courage or the consciousness to go to the root of the issue, i.e., to call for the end of colonialism. This is an empty circle, the natural death circle of the native Palestinian people, and it strengthens colonialism.
Let us understand that these elite are not affected if we call them Nazis. They do not care if history will one day recount their evil. For the elite, the end justifies the means. Like Nicholas Machiavelli.
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Others, or monologue-style individuals
Today, in the 21st century, there are atheists, Marxists, “historians,” just like evangelicals, who feel, believe, and think that this Israel, imposed in 1948 by Europeans from Europe, is the “Jewish people.”
The fascist right promotes the fight against fascism in the abstract, in the generic, not in the concrete, that is, not the end of Zionism and the end of the colonial regime of Israel. They also promote feminism, human rights, sexual diversity, freedom—the great “humanist” values of our time. It is their best fetish.
With all due respect, we know that this human break can no longer be hidden, and it must be condemned. I ask, with all respect: if this is not a strategy since there is still no awareness, clarity, or frankness to say, and go for, the end of the existence of the Eurocentric colonial anachronism of Israel.
With all respect, there is also a vegetative, sheep-like, even opportunistic analysis, one that serves Zionist fascism.
It is very easy to talk about “Two States.” What people in the world would accept renouncing more than 50% of their ancestral land? They talk about the need to think of peace, to advance to peace, and one hears: we must get out of this “circle.” I say today more than ever: we must stay in that “circle” of struggle, because if not, the native people will disappear. We must stand firm and refuse to recognize the existence of this colonialism, or else we would be putting other Arab peoples at risk of being colonized, such as Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Yemen, parts of the Arabian Peninsula, parts of Egypt, and more. We would be putting at risk the sovereignty of other peoples around the world.
Final Point
In the liberation and independence of the native Semitic Palestinian people from the Eurocentric colonial anachronism of Israel, all those who carry the Israeli colonial identity would then carry the Palestinian identity.
Once Palestine is liberated from colonialism, any Jewish citizen of the world who wishes to live in Palestine, for spiritual reasons, could apply for a Palestinian passport and be welcomed into Palestine—from the river to the sea. Similarly, anyone from around the world who wants to live in Palestine may apply for a Palestinian passport, just as it was before.
The Armenians, an Indo-European people of Orthodox Christian religious tradition, many fleeing the Holocaust, came to Palestine. Today, Armenians are part of the fabric, the pride, and the history of the Palestinian people, and were received with true love. The native Palestinian people are not a “pure” people—they are far too ancient for that.
The Palestinian journalist who was murdered by Israeli colonialism, Shireen Abu Akleh, a true patriot, had Armenian roots. The Armenians, fleeing the Holocaust, arrived in Palestine, not cutting heads nor colonizing. A non-Semitic people, deeply Orthodox Christian, did not come inventing lies that this was the land of their Christian ancestors.
Let us be capable of being the light and stop continuing with this vegetative intellectualism that shouts but does not act. As Bertolt Brecht wisely said: “When the truth is too weak to defend itself, it has to attack.” We are living in such a sophisticatedly repressive time that we have regressed in language.
Stop with the mental gymnastics, the lyrical gestures, and the pirouettes—let us be concrete: the total end of the Eurocentric colonial anachronism of Israel. This is the cause of our historical time.
From the deepest part of my soul, from the dismembered soul, today I embrace world solidarity, but I fear that it is empty, hollow, ethereal, for not understanding or seeing that we must aim for the end of the existence of the Eurocentric colonial regime of Israel.
Translation: Ahmad Sharaan, with additional editing by Orinoco Tribune
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Susana Khalil
Susana Khalil is a politologist and researcher. Founder of the Canaán Association. Conductor and producer of the radio program "Palestine 11 thousand years of history".
