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There are various plans and suggestions aimed at solving the Arab-Israeli conflict. Most of them have never been discussed. And those discussed, but not necessarily accepted by the Palestinian and Arab nation, never guaranteed to the Palestinians their minimal rights. This is also why Oslo Accords, while still on the table, constituted a catastrophe for the Palestinian people, especially those in the occupied West Bank and Gaza.

This article will try to answer two main questions related to the Palestinian issue:

II. And how do the Palestinian people store that great power and spirit of prolonged resistance?

As for the failure of the hereto proposed plans and solutions, it should be emphasized that they never emanated from the partners in the conflict. Invariably, they were designed by two foreign camps, both of which have ignored the basic rights of the Palestinian people. These camps are either the enemies of the Palestinian people or those favoring the existence of the Zionist entity on Palestinian land and supported the termination of the Palestinian Right of Return (ROR).

All the suggested solutions were designed either by the ruling classes of the western capitalist countries (the core capitalist countries), which have interests in the region, or by the ruling classes in the Arab countries who have always been ready to betray the nationalist Arab cause, as it is the case of the ruling comprador in Egypt and Jordan.

None of the solutions were created in consultation with the Arab people, in general, or the Palestinians, in particular. Most, if not all, the suggested solutions, while not necessarily devised in consultation with the Jewish settlers in Palestine, took into consideration their aggressive interests by ignoring the ROR.

It is well understood that there will never be a regionally created solution unless a deep change takes place in the region. In other words, a re-education should take place.

The Zionist settlers must be re-educated to realize that there will never be a peace in the region unless they accept the ROR and stop arguing for, and working towards, a pure Jewish state in Palestine.

The Arab people must deeply realize that the Jewish settlers in Palestine have the right to be accepted and absorbed in the Arab future as a cultural minority with full citizenship’s rights, i.e. cultural, civil, spiritual... etc.

It is clear that both partners of the conflict are not ready yet to be partners in peace. It is also clear that the main obstacle for peace is the Zionist role, interests, practice and education.

Regarding the second question of how Palestinians could gather all this power and spirit of resistance, the answer, to a large extent, is related to the answer of the first question.

The Zionist entity was created over the ruins of the Palestinian people, and continually practices the most brutal terror against them. This makes it impossible for Palestinian popular circles to discuss peace, while the enemy continues killing women and children, assassinating leaders, demolishing homes, and destroying the productive base of the Palestinian economy. Simply, the daily challenges, imposed by the Zionist entity, are direct and huge factors in breeding resistance.

To further clarify, we must note that since the Zionists conquered Palestine and settled in the place of the Palestinians. The only way they, as settlers and racists, could accomplish this has been through expelling and killing the Palestinians, in order to build a pure Jewish state over their ruins. As long as the Zionists insist on creating/maintaining a pure Jewish state and rejecting the ROR, the Palestinians will resist, and the Zionists will continue their terror. This reminds us of the arguments of the enemies of peace, such as Huntington, who preaches for wars among civilizations and religions, and the beliefs of the new ruling right in the United States. While the Zionist colonization of Palestine was motivated primarily by capitalist interests, it was camouflaged by cultural and ideological justifications, such as the ‘promised land’, the superiority of the Jewish race, etc.

However, there is another factor behind the ability of the Palestinian people to resist. This factor stems from the main difference between Zionist settler colonialism and other forms of white colonialism. This difference is manifested in terms of time, space, and structure of the Zionist colonialism.

As for the time, the Zionist settler colonialism in Palestine took place too late compared to other white settler colonialists i.e. the Spanish and Portuguese colonization of Latin America several centuries ago in the era of capitalist mercantilism, and the British colonization of North America (later the United States) and the British and French settler colonialism in Canada, the British colonialism of Australia, New Zeeland and later South Africa. The Jewish colonialism in Palestine took place in the twentieth century.

Regarding the issue of space, the Palestinians are part of a greater Arab Homeland. This homeland allowed Palestinian refugees access and protected them from total Zionist annihilation. It should be noted that the Arab space which protected the Palestinians, became in the end the place of the refugees. The phenomenon of the Palestinian refugees is the only one of its kind compared to other settler colonial cases.

Following is an example of how racism justifies genocide of non-white peoples who lack a large space to accept and protect them as refugees. According to the British economist historian E. E. Rich:

“It has been reckoned that at the approach of the Spaniards, in 1492, total Caribbean population in Hispaniola was about 300,000. By 1508 it was reduced to about 60,000. A great decline had brought it to about 14,000 by 1514, as serious settlement began; and by 1548 it had reached a figure which indicated virtual extermination, about 500”.^[1]

The rest of the native population of Americas is living now in isolated reservations. If the Crusade campaigns during the feudal Middle Ages did not fail, the Arab Homeland might be in the same situation of the Native Americans.^[2]

The classic white settler-colonialism was a result of the European dynamism in the mercantile and capitalist eras. It is colonialism practiced by developed capitalist social formations. It is colonialism led by independent nation states which have surplus population and capital on the one hand, and which have strong and developed military might, on the other. These social formations were mature enough to generate surplus capital to invest abroad.

Israel is totally different. It never was a state or a social formation. The Jews never were in one place to form one people, or a nation state. They were scattered all over the globe as citizens in each country they were living in. The social formation that was capitalized and practiced colonialism, the western European, has been matured by itself, by internal dynamism, while the people of Israel are a collection of spare parts from all over the globe. Israel has been created artificially by others. That is why it can never be more than an agent state, not a natural state.

What is more important is the fact that the Zionists could never have invaded Palestine by themselves. They needed a strong superpower to support them in occupying Palestine and to keep protecting them. That job was done by the most savage colonial country of that time, Great Britain.

While each white settler project was supported by one metropolitan state, i.e. the settlers in Australia were supported by British colonialism, the Zionist colonial settlement in Palestine was and still is supported by most of the colonial powers (Britain, France, the United States…etc).

In fact, the core capitalist countries are the metropolis of the Zionist project, which is in other words, the world capitalist system. Therefore, while each white settler colonial settlement was supported by one state, which is its metropolis, the Jewish settlers were supported by all western capitalist regimes to occupy Palestine, making these countries the joint metropolis of Israel.

In addition to the fact that the Zionist Ashkenazi Entity-Israel ZAE-Israel, the Jewish settlers’ state in Palestine, is the last of its sort in history^[3], there is no hint that it is going to make any changes in its racist essence! The US and European support of the Israeli occupation of Palestine, eviction of its population, killing of the Palestinian people, including children, proves two main facts:

First, that these countries continue to practice the role of metropolitan to the ZAE.

Second, that ZAE is a direct western capitalist colonial mission in the region in terms of exploitation, the culture of killing other races, and the subservience of all other human beings to the whites!

[1] Rich quoted in Griffin, Keith. 1973. Underdevelopment in History, on the Political Economy of Development, ed. Charles K. Wilber. New York: Random House. Quoted in The Political Economy of development, Development Theory and the Prospects for Change in the Third World, Berch Berberoglu, State University of new York, 1992. P. 18.

[2] One might remember here the mentality of Preist Malthus who suggests wars, famine and epedmic as solutions for humen beings high growth as an example of inhuman capitalist way of tackling the issue. When the capitalist Europe realized that the solution of the surplus population is no more possible to resolve by creating white settler settlements, it goes to birth control. Even this created its side effects. The exaggeration of birth control led to a minus population growth. The solution came as a racist one as well, which is to buy stolen children from the poor Third World countries!

[3] The Christian Science Monitor published an article by the Israeli Minister of Tourism stated that the best solution for the Arab-Israeli conflict is to transfer the Palestinians to Jordan.