Palestine without Palestinians: Rhetoric and reality?

“Colonialism is not a thinking machine, nor a body endowed with reasoning faculties. It is violence in its natural state, and it will yield only when confronted with greater violence” — Frantz Fannon

- By Dr. Ameer Ali

“Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich proposes to build around 3,000 homes in West Bank to increase settlement and cut West Bank off from East Jerusalem to ‘bury’ the idea of Palestine.”

IT is almost 680 days since Israeli genocide in Gaza commenced with weapons supplied mostly by previous colonial powers, all from Global North. Their complicity in this human tragedy is written in blood. Netanyahu/s most cruel strategy of starving children and parents to death with the ultimate objective of expelling all Palestinians from that concentration camp and absorbing the Gaza strip into Eretz Israel is the latest chapter in the five-century history of Western conquest and colonisation. Israelis is the organic extension of Western imperialism, and none of these colonial powers is going to do anything to disturb that status quo.

Is the world expected to believe that the former colonial powers, notably US, UK, France and Germany which had profited and continuing to profit by shipping weapons and military hardware to Israel do not have the strength and means to force open Netanyahu’s embargo and drive those 5,000 or so trucks said to be stocked with food and medicine to feed and cure the starving and sick Gazans? Why air drop food packages, which only make Gazans to run after them like vultures to pick and get killed by the IDF? What humbug and hypocrisy for these counties after watching in silence Israel’s carnage in Gaza since October 2023 now suddenly waking up to repeat that almost forgotten mantra of a two-state solution? Their attempt to pass a resolution at UN to recognise Palestine state is old wine in new bottle.