Tags: Palestinian struggle

All that I owe (to the 70 years of the Palestinian struggle to return)*

To say that Palestine is in a “state of war” or “at war” is to obscure the fact that it has been occupied. The occupation of Palestine by Israel since 1948 is a state of war that breeds resistance. The terrorist tagging of Palestinians, the racism against the Arab people and the demonization of Islam are crucial to maintaining the architecture of a settler colonial state that now rides on western imperialist logic of accumulation of wealth by mass murder.

A ceasefire by itself does not necessarily lead to peace especially if it absolves Israel of egregious violations of international standards of human rights and international humanitarian law that the United Nations itself has pointed out. The condemnation by the world’s peoples of the use by US backed-Israel of vastly superior, brute and excessive military…

The struggle will continue as long as oppression continues. We greet these movements. Your life is also our life, your pain is also our pain, your joy is also our joy, your losses are also our losses, and your victory we will celebrate. BY PATRICK MAC MANUS Denmark ALTERNATIVE READER Posted by Bulatlat Vol. VIII,…