Truths
"Telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” So
let us all tell the truth.
By Mazin Qumsiyeh
September 17, 2020 "Information Clearing House" - George Orwell said “in a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” So let us all tell the truth:
-The Western governments have never really
cared about human rights or democracy. They
propped dictators, toppled democratically
elected governments (like in Iran in 1953 and
Chile in 1970), and engagedin policies that
killed many millions of innocent people. They
support murdering genocidal pyromaniacs like the
rulers of the “UAE” and “Saudi Arabia” and
”Israel”. They label as terrorists any genuine
resistance movements (in fact how vicious the
attacks from racists are on a country or a
people tells us precisely how honorable those
being attacked are!).
-Palestine is just a physical base for Zionism
to conquer the Arab world and much beyond. The
Zionists actually speak openly of how we will be
their servants and they our masters. All the
data is there for people to study and
investigate. And as time went by, they made it
impossible to criticize Zionism or Israel and
even increasingly “illegal” to do so. Again, it
is an assault on free speech and democracy in
countries such as Germany, France and the UK
that claims the mantle of human rights.
-Colonial-Native struggles end in one of three
scenarios: a) Algerian model (nearly 2 million
killed, 1 million colonizers and their
descendents left the country), b) genocide of
natives (USA, Australia), c) coexistence in one
country of descendents of colonizers and of
native people (the rest of the world >140
countries). There is no fourth scenario.
Palestine will not be an exception. It is the
last struggle and prolonged only because of the
resourcefulness and wealth of Zionists and the
weakness of their adversaries with collusion of
corrupt dictators. But Zionists and all those
collusionists’ regimes need to decide on which
of the three outcomes they want. Prolonging it
is not helpful to them. The number of
Palestinains today is 13 million (12 times what
we were in 1917 when the Balfour and Cambon
declarations were made in support of Zionism).
Impoverished natives reproduce more than
economically empowered minorities and the world
will eventually democratize or die.
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-Those who engaged in exploitation and destruction in the past century (Belgium in the Congo, British in Afriua and Asia, US in Cambodia and Vietnam etc.) largely got away with it because the world was fragmented. Now, the world is far too crowded and us far too connected such taht military might no longer can be used effectively to dictate things without repercussions. Hence the last attempts at this were failures (US in Iraq, Israel in Gaza and Lebanon, US client states attack on Syria and Yemen). This gives hope.
-The so-called Arab league since Jamal AbdelNasser died in 1970 (perhaps assassinated) serves as a tool for US/Israeli of oppression and imperialism. The gulf monarchies in particular used to tremble at the speeches of AbdelNasser. Now they even get away with murdering and dismembering an opposition journalist in their own embassy in Turkey. They get away with committing genocide in Yemen and occupying it to give Israel bases in the Island of Socotra. They get away with funding Israeli apartheid and destruction of their own religious heritage. They impoverish their people, and are happy to give hundreds of billions of dollars to enrich coffers of imperialists and Zionists as long as those allow them to keep oppressing people.
-The fault is not merely in our “leaders” who put short term financial profit ahead of people and planetary survival. That would be easy to remedy if it was. The fault is in us for keeping these “leaders” in power. Clapping for them, facilitating their dominion over us, playing along with their games of divide and conquer (fear mongering) and overall abandoning our own dignity. We must believe in ourselves and our people (something elite politicians do not want us to do). That is how we get rid of colonialism (including Zionism), pandemics, the environmental nakba (catastrophe) and the risk of nuclear war.
-Yet, the growth of the BDS movement and of people’s support for Palestinian human rights miraculously continues to grow. If I look at the number of attendees to webinars I am invited to speak to (2-3/week) and growth of networks and actions, the conclusion is inevitable: Palestine cannot and will not be liquidated. The question is where each of us stands: the side of Biden, Trump, Netanyahu and ilk, or the side of native people. If we were to tackle climate change, threats of nuclear war, global pandemics, and much more, we should reconnect to native people and empower them. Being on the wrong side here is existential.
As for us common people, it is time to "revolt against the machine" as the old song used to say OR we will all not survive (even our oppressors will die with us).
Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh teaches and does research at Bethlehem University (BU) and directs the BU's cytogenetics laboratory and the Palestine Museum of Natural History and Institute of Biodiversity and Sustainability in occupied Palestine. He also taught at Birzeit and Al-Quds Universities. He is author of "Sharing the Land of Canaan: Human rights and the Israeli/Palestinian Struggle", “Popular Resistance in Palestine: - "Source" -
