With the possible exception of small indigenous tribes in small islands or in the middle of a jungle, most of the globe is aware of the war in the Palestine-Israel region of the Middle East. We have been told that it is “complicated,” but is it really?
Complicated – Really?
If you go to ChatGPT and ask it whether Palestinians and Israelis have the right to be free, you get quite different answers depending on which nationality you put there.
On the other hand, you get the automatic right for the Israelis to be free. I think this would be quite a standard answer for any country. But then, when we change only one word in the question, the whole thing gets ‘complicated’.
But ChatGPT and its complicated creators aside, is the question really that hard to answer?
Not really. And to answer that question, we need to go back in time to realise that there existed a place called Palestine before the state of Israel ever came into being. The one main reason why the state of Israel came into being is the UK and a certain Balfour declaration.
Before you huff and puff in anger about this, I suggest you take a look at the following quotation, which makes the UK’s involvement in the affair quite clear.
Two years later, in his Memoirs of the Peace Conference, Lloyd George described a total of nine factors motivating his decision as Prime Minister to release the declaration, including the additional reasons that a Jewish presence in Palestine would strengthen Britain’s position on the Suez Canal and reinforce the route to their imperial dominion in India.
As many things in the world’s history, things are not always what they seem. When it comes to former and current colonisers, they wouldn’t do anything out of the good in their hearts. They will carefully see which outcome profits their aspirations the best. In the case of Palestine, it is clear that the Britons thought that Muslims in the area would not be as favourable to their plans. Something that was realised when Egypt threw the colonialist Brits out and started to demand that Brits, like everyone else, pay for the use of the Suez canal.
But will this information do us any good? We have a war, a famine, and possibly even a genocide going on in an area slightly smaller than the Isle of Wight in the UK. While this goes on and on, the majority of the international community stands silent on this complicated matter. Whilst the people stand with Palestinians en masse, the governments show constant support for the Israeli endeavour. This rift between the people and their elected, so-called leaders can alter the whole course of the future in geopolitics.
In a way, I see this possible change as a change for good. It will force in a realisation that the Western way of looking at the world and subjugating it might not be the way to go, after all. We have the BRICS coalition, whose expertise might come in handy and be finally recognised. We have the Arab League and the ASEAN. And of course, the UN, which desperately needs to change their Westcentrism to stay relevant. Today’s world is no longer the world where World War II just ended.
In the past two years, there have been some rays of light, however. Norway, a country that once hosted the Oslo Accords, laying the heavily unused pathway towards the two state solution, has announced that it will recognise the State of Palestine on the 28th of May, 2024. This announcement came together with Ireland and Spain, countries who both realise the importance of independence and human rights through their own past.
I just hope and pray that other countries will follow suit.
From the River to the Sea… Two Countries Will Be Free?
Just to clarify a point: It is highly hypocritical to say that the chant-that-shall-not-be-named (namely: “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free”) would be genocidal, and it means to eradicate Israel from the map, when the same chant is mentioned in the Likud party charter to mean exactly that the other way around. We need to realise that getting stuck on something as minuscule as a chant will obstruct our vision, as it is meant to do! We are supposed to get stuck in the minutiae so that the shady powers in the shadows can continue to reap the rewards of the war.
What we need is to understand that Israel, by its very nature of a Jewish state, can not accept a single country model, where they would give citizenship to all Palestinians, as then they would no longer be a Jewish state. Israel would turn into any other nation, where there would be a multitude of faiths. This is one of the obstacles in the road towards a peaceful future.
At the same time, we need to put a blame towards the international community, who, for decades, have allowed Israel to illegally settle areas that are not theirs to settle. Now, these settlements have grown to villages and towns with plenty of people, who would need to be resettled inside the internationally agreed Israeli borders if, and when, the two-state model is agreed on.
This special leeway has, according to some scholars, paved way for the current Israel-USA-Iran conflict that is tearing apart the global supply chains, and killing more innocent people.
If we were to go back to the UN partition plan and compare to what the situation is now, it is clear why this is not possible. All the Israeli settlers and their descendants from the then-green areas would have to be resettled somewhere else, and how would that be possible.
Sense the sarcasm there, did you. Of course, it would be possible, as the Israeli settlers currently have the “right” to claim any house in the land that they deem theirs. From that point of view, it would just be returning the land to those to whom it actually belongs.
That is why the government of Israel vehemently opposes the two state solution for this complicated problem. That and possibly the natural gas field off the coast of Gaza.
You are so antisemitic!
Bi**h please, that is so 2010 to claim that. Demanding a recognised country to adhere to international law, to stop slaughtering innocent civilians and children, healthcare workers, journalists, etc. is not antisemitic.
It would be antisemitic if I demanded eradication of Jews, which I don’t. I believe that Jews are just put into that hard place where they need to choose whether to stand with current Israeli zionist policies of eradicating Palestinians or to stand against them. History has never been kind to Jews. Maybe because they have been vocal for their rights, or maybe because others have been envious for their knack with precious metals. But in today’s world, where a zionist government blows billions of dollars or euros to bomb innocent people, there are more and more Jews, including Holocaust survivors, who stand against this apparent genocide.
So you are saying that these Jews… are they antisemitic too, then? Complicated, I know.
Stop already, I’m not interested!
It may not be a topic for everyone, but it is, nevertheless, an important one. Previously, it was the Vietnam War, before that thr World War II, and then World War I. For today’s generation, it is the fight for a free and independent Palestine. And we all will play our parts in it.
What you need to understand is that your silence, in any matter, is a nod of agreement for the issues to continue. It may be harshly said, but it is the truth. I can’t take credit for that, but instead, it was a certain Martin Luther King Jr. who did.
So, let’s go and do whatever good we can to stop the war and to bring about the peace we so sorely need in today’s world.
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