Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

“The fact that the Western media only uses the register of violence to speak on Palestine feeds on a co lonial, racist, patriarchal, and capitalist discourse that aims to justify the Israeli settler colonial erasure of Palestine. While violence against the Palestinians is specific, it does not occur in isolation from what is happening elsewhere in the world. Black and brown people are racialized everywhere in Europe and North America, and that racialization contributes to the demonization of Palestinian people.” What ‘the West’, and its media, work tirelessly to hide

‘Operation Al Aqsa Flood’ in context

  "A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppressor who defines the nature of the struggle, and the oppressed is often left no recourse but to use methods that mirror those of the oppressor. At a point, one can only fight fire with fire." –From Nelson Mandela's book, "Long Walk to Freedom"* *Mandela was unfortunately delusional: “ Mister President, we accept this great honor bestowed upon us today as a symbol of how  South Africa  and the  United States ,  Africa  and the West, the developing and the developed world, are reaching out and joining hands as partners in building a world order that equally benefits all the nation sand people of the world. ” ( Mandela speaking at  Harvard  after receiving an honorary doctorate from the university in 1998).   The state of South Africa today proves that delusion. The bankruptcy, sell out and complicity of the Palestinian Authority is a major factor in exacerbating the plight of the Palestinians.

‘Israel has the right to defend itself against such heinous attacks,’ 

 without paying a cruel price

and Western and Arab regimes complicity with the Israel’s crimes The solution is “dismantling the structure of violence.” Who’s going to do it is the issue. The international situation does not favour the oppressed anywhere. The failure to topple the Arab regimes in 2011 has even made the possibility of a genuine change more remote. The imperialist powers have the upper hand on the means of violence, ‘diplomacy’ bribing, manufacturing public opinion, arm-twisting, domination and subjugation. For the Palestinians, like for the Russians and Ukrainians, there is no solution but a sweeping broom across the board.

“The  written record of Israel’s cut-and-paste  Nakba  policies on the Palestinian people is longer and deeper than the past five days. Operation Al-Aqsa Flood is not a momentary or one-off attack: it is the latest stage of an anti-colonial struggle for self-determination. Expectedly, the immediate reaction to these words from Western academia, human rights groups and funding organizations will be to demand a condemnation of the killing of Israeli civilians, women and children, by Palestinian fighters in the uprising. In our respective spaces, Palestinians, activists, students, scholars, artists and human rights defenders alike, will again be asked to declare their opposition to violent resistance, and the direct targeting of Israeli civilians and civilian institutions. By extension, the friends of Palestinians and voices of solidarity will be asked to tell an occupied people how to resist their oppressors, and dictate acceptable methods for their liberation movement.”