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or there is such peace and not even you are close to her. The conflict between Israel and Palestine did not begin three thousand years ago, as Donald Trump said with his usual mix of ignorance and egotism, but it did not begin on October 7, 2023, as the Western media has stated with insistence. In reality, the violence in the area dates back to the years 1946-1948, when the expulsion of the Arab inhabitants of the territory of Palestine began to erect an artificial and intrusive State there: Israel.
Until then, Palestinian Jews owned 7 percent of the land, but a resolution of the United Nations General Assembly gave them 55 percent of the territory to found a country and populate it with immigrants from all over the world, but mainly from Europe and various Islamic countries. Arabs and Jews organized themselves into irregular forces and began to kill each other. The former bore the brunt: colonization was accompanied by a process of systematic ethnic cleansing, destruction of Arab towns and supplanting of toponymy throughout Palestine. Populations of about 400 localities were expelled, which were destroyed, and new Hebrew settlements were built on their ruins. From there the table was set for the conflict that persists to this day.
The belligerent and sustained military support of the European powers and the United States for Israel contrasted with the lack of cohesion of the Arab side – in which various nations were just beginning to build themselves as independent states – and their inability to coordinate in the various formal wars that were fought in the second half of the 20th century, leaving the Palestinians in a situation of extreme weakness compared to their rivals, who had never They hid the intention to seize the entirety of historic Palestine and, if possible, additional territories in neighboring countries.
Thus, a twin system of racist South Africa was formed, structured based on racist and supremacist logic. The Gaza Strip and the West Bank were populated mainly with expellees from other Palestinian regions, and a significant part of the original population was expelled to Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Egypt and Iraq. Currently, only 20 percent of the Israeli population is made up of Palestinians, who suffer, in fact, from a regime of segregation and discrimination.
For 70 years, persecution, military incursions, kidnappings and prolonged captivity, territorial, real estate, water and agricultural dispossession, the destruction of homes, health centers, schools, temples and cultural spaces, murder, torture and humiliation have marked the lives of the Palestinian inhabitants of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, and even that of those who have that second-class Israeli citizenship. Furthermore, the Tel Aviv regime has systematically hindered the consolidation of a secular and moderate Palestinian institutionality and, on the contrary, has encouraged in various ways the formation of radical Islamist factions, such as the case of Hamas. In such circumstances, it is not surprising that they have acquired a social base emanating from desperation and the will to persist as a nation. Nor should we be surprised by the hostility with which Palestinian fighters raided towns in southern Israel on October 7, 2023. No, the war did not start on that date.
Of course, peace did not begin, as Trumpian narcissism would have it, earlier this month, in a hollow ceremony in the Egyptian town of Sharm el Sheikh, which was characterized by the resounding absence of the Israeli and Palestinian sides. The rulers of different countries who gathered there to massage the ego of the American president know perfectly well that it is a peace of saliva, and this has been demonstrated by subsequent events: in the days since that masquerade, the Tel Aviv regime has not stopped murdering Palestinians, it has continued to prevent the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza – such as that from Turkey – and In recent hours it has expanded its hostility to Lebanon. As for Trump, he is already threatening to murder more Palestinians if his “peace” does not go the way he wants.
No, there will be no peace as long as the unbearable oppression of the Palestinians by a militarist, expansionist and racist regime persists, nor can there be peace as long as the international community does not impose a process of justice for the widespread destruction of Gaza and the mass murder of its inhabitants. True peace – not Roman pax imposed in Numantia and Carthage, or that resulting from the total destruction of the Warsaw ghetto by the Nazis – can only be the result of justice, not of an egotistical whim.
