Intl. Quds Day marks a global awakening leading to Palestine's liberation
By Denis Rancourt*
The steadfast perseverance of Palestinians
(their legendary “Sumud”) is an inspiration and a grounding force for
all people of the world who fight for their homes, their lands, their
dignities, and for self-determination.
Unless one is disconnected from reality,
it is impossible to image a more honourable and effective viable
resistance. This resistance is against the brutal and ideological
occupying regime of Israel, and Israel is given virtually unlimited
resources by the ruthless global occupier that is the USA.
The USA thinks nothing of mass murders of
entire nations (the list is a long one), of empowering local monsters on
many continents (another long list), and of covert proxy wars where UN
approval for “no fly” carpet bombing cannot be stomached.
Likewise, Israel thinks nothing of
military campaigns against Gaza, of indefinite and inhumane occupation,
of mass detentions, of killing civilians at will, of condoning extreme
settler terrorism, of depriving the Gaza population of basic needs, and
of sustained “cleansing” against villages, neighborhoods, and Jerusalem
itself.
I hope that the Palestinian diaspora is
not being entirely sucked into the illusions of the Western regimes, and
into the dulling superficiality that is offered to the Western middle
class. I hope that Israel can never coerce all the occupied Palestinians
to be collaborators.
On the contrary, the recent hunger strike
of prisoners driven to the brink of destruction is a testament that the
Palestinian will is strong enough to achieve liberation despite the
increasing stranglehold that Israel is applying.
Palestine is holding strong, and the world
is changing. This year’s International Quds Day has a new global
context. The people of the world are peace-loving in their great
majority, and the people of the world are seeing more clearly, than ever
before, the true face of the USA.
The world is finally seeing what the
American aboriginals have seen, what all the victims of USA state terror
have seen, and what Yemenis, Syrians, Afghans, Libyans, Iraqis, Latin
Americans, Filipinos… are presently seeing. Many Europeans and citizens
of allied countries are seeing that the USA has led their states towards
a policy of global terror.
More and more people correctly perceive
that the USA wants continuous instability and violence because global
stability and respect for national sovereignty (the very basis of the UN
Charter) imply the natural development and independence of Eurasia,
Latin America, Africa... and the natural loss of USA hegemony.
Likewise, as its victims know well, Israel
wants continuous war and conflict in the Middle East to assert its
military and enforcement hegemony, which is otherwise naturally eroded
by regional development.
In contrast, Russia and China want
diplomacy and collaboration to avoid USA mayhem and economic predation.
The more the USA, Israel and Saudi Arabia bully nations with sanctions
and military campaigns and support terrorist proxies, the more emerging
nations collaborate and respond.
The USA military regime enforces and
thrives from global economic predation. However, the power of the USA
dollar, printed at will by the hegemon, is being eroded and will soon
collapse. In the new era, stable development will be based on fair
trading of national human and natural resources. This model of
development is being applied by the competing blocks. Only USA and
Israeli blockades, sanctions and elite coercion stand in the way.
The present period is a dangerous period
because the failing USA system is frantic and disorganised. The USA
economy is a military and predatory economy. The USA regime will
continue to inflict damage to slow the inevitable, and for short-term
and domestic “gains”. This will accelerate its crisis of international
legitimacy. As the storm passes, both the USA and Israel (and their
clients) will need to face the new reality of emerging sovereign nations
having mutual interests in stability and respect.
This transformation is occurring because
regionally powerful nations are refusing to accept the USA nightmare and
insist on sovereignty: Russia, China, Venezuela, Iran … because of the
dedication and self-preservation of committed home combatants in
Palestine, Syria, South Lebanon (Hezbollah), Yemen … and because of both
designed and circumstantial increasing collaboration between
independent nations against USA hegemony.
It is the global reality that is causing
popular awakening. The USA no longer can intimidate as effectively and
no longer controls the narrative. In such a world: war, murder, and
genocide carry the consequences of loss of legitimacy and isolation.
Does the USA really want to become closed onto itself, with only Canada
to exploit? Do client states really only want the privileges of buying
overpriced USA weapons and of being paid in soon-to-be-worthless USA
dollars for everything they have? Do USA “allies” really want to adopt
Hollywood-made pseudo-culture and values?
The answers are no, no, and no. The world
is freeing itself at a fast pace. The USA cannot nuke everyone like it
did against Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There are not enough bombs to
destroy the emerging world.
This International Quds Day marks these
profound changes and sits on the cusp of a global transformation that
will include the liberation of Palestine, to the degree that occupied
Palestinians will themselves mostly determine. All of this will make
both Israel and the USA more humanistic, which is not difficult to
imagine.
Occupied Palestinians constantly make
brave contributions to humanity, literally with their lives. We
celebrate their invaluable gifts to us and we reciprocate when we fight
to secure our own self-respect and dignity.
*Denis G. Rancourt is a former tenured and Full Professor of physics at the University of Ottawa, Canada. He is known for his applications in physics education research. Rancourt has published over 100 articles in leading scientific journals and has written several social commentary essays. He is the author of the book Hierarchy and Free Expression in the Fight Against Racism. While he was at the University of Ottawa, he supported student activism and opposed the influence of the Israeli lobby at that institution, which fired him under false pretext in 2009.
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