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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Palestinian human rights are non-negotiable</h1>
<div class="gmail-credits gmail-reader-credits">QudsN - April 26, 2022<br></div>
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<font size="1">PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS CLASH WITH ISRAELI FORCES FOLLOWING A PROTEST
AGAINST THE EXPANSION OF JEWISH SETTLEMENTS IN THE WEST BANK VILLAGE OF
BEIT DAJAN ON APRIL 22, 2022. (PHOTO: STRINGER/APA IMAGES)
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<p>Apartheid Israel has made it absolutely clear that since it cannot
get rid of us completely, we must become its inferior colonized subjects
for ever. The majority of Israeli Jews support the genocidal policy of
their government because as Zionists living in a Jewish supremacist
state, they are indoctrinated into believing that they are entitled to
certain privileges that must be denied to the “goyim,” who happen to be
the indigenous population of the land.</p>
<p>In order to implement this racist ideology, in 1948 ethnic cleansing
was the solution. And in 1967, a combination of colonization and
military occupation became the only option. The commander of Israeli
forces in the West Bank, had <a href="https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/26102/CG_978-3-941159-31-0_epdf.pdf" rel="noopener" target="_blank">this</a>
to say as soon as the Israeli Occupation Forces succeeded in occupying
what was left of Palestine: “All authority of government, legislation,
appointment and administration pertaining to the area or its residents
will now be exclusively in my hands and will be exercised only by me or
by any person appointed therefore by me or acting on my behalf.”</p>
<p>No wonder then that almost all major, mainstream human rights
organizations, including the UN Human Rights Council and the prestigious
International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School, have lately
come to the conclusion that Israel is an apartheid state.</p>
<p>Israeli apartheid, within this context, is a euphemistic word used to
describe a multi-formed regime of oppression, one that denies the
humanity of the colonized subject, namely native Palestinians. But in
Gaza and Jenin, we refuse to march to Israel’s death chambers
sheepishly. We are not like normalizing Arab leaders who have accepted
their inferior status because they refuse to recognize their oppression
as injustice, instead accepting it as the natural order.</p>
<p>In Jerusalem, Gaza, and other parts of historic Palestine, we have
made it absolutely clear that we will fight the settler-colonial,
apartheid regime that exists between the Jordan River and the
Mediterranean Sea. This is a regime that has managed, successfully, to
create a non-democratic state reality on the ground, thanks to the 1967
Naksa and the disastrous 1993 Oslo Accords. We believe that it is our
right to demand that the international community support our struggle
for justice and freedom, in exactly the same way that it is supporting
the Ukrainian resistance against the Russian invasion.</p>
<p>We, however, are also aware that the tokenization of our struggle and
emancipation have, alas, become ordinary conduct on the part of
organizations that were historically dedicated to the liberation of
Palestine. </p>
<p>Once again, the Palestinian people are proving that are more aware of
the reality on the ground and more anxious for our rights than our
leadership, right and left, and the so-called international community
are. The Ukrainian crisis has shown that it is our duty as Palestinians
to create the alternative we need when, in fact, there is no existing
political space that will accommodate our liberation, as I argued in a <a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2022/03/on-western-hypocrisy/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">piece</a>
I wrote last month. We are on the receiving end of a racist, Western
onslaught but we cannot compromise on our basic rights. These include
the right to self-determination and liberation even when all we’re
offered is the facade of talking independence and camouflaged racist
solutions.</p>
<p>The question on every Palestinian mind (but not on the minds of the
political elite) is: what are we going to do now that it has become
absolutely clear that the so-called peace process allowed the production
of new Israeli facts on the ground and new repressive practices that
made a functioning Palestinian State essentially nonviable?</p>
<p>As the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement has
maintained, those who make their support for BDS and its three demands,
i.e. freedom, equality and justice, conditional on the movement’s
adoption of the so-called “international consensus” (which is nothing
more than an unjust solution dictated by Israel and the world’s only
current superpower, the USA) are asking us to forfeit some of our basic
rights as humans, which reveals a deeply disingenuous position. Our
basic rights are not negotiable; solutions are.</p>
<p>And one such solution that has been resurfacing is a
secular-democratic state for all of its citizens. This
secular-democratic state would be established following the dismantling
of the existing multi-tiered system of oppression between the Jordan
River and the Mediterranean Sea. This solution guarantees political
equality regardless of religious and ethnic backgrounds. This is
precisely what the current upheaval in Palestine, led by revolutionary
youngsters is all about. The same slogans are being used in the Negev,
Gaza, Jenin, Jerusalem, Umm Al-Fahm and other Palestinian cities,
slogans that represent a new consciousness that the older generation is
unable to comprehend.</p>
<p>By Haidar Eid<br>
Source: Mondoweiss</p>
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