{"id":1320722,"date":"2023-11-09T17:13:59","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T17:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/?p=145547"},"modified":"2023-11-09T17:13:59","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T17:13:59","slug":"a-ceasefire-is-necessary-but-not-sufficient-the-demand-must-be-for-decolonization-and-palestinian-self-determination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/11\/09\/a-ceasefire-is-necessary-but-not-sufficient-the-demand-must-be-for-decolonization-and-palestinian-self-determination\/","title":{"rendered":"A Ceasefire is Necessary But Not Sufficient: The Demand Must Be for Decolonization and Palestinian Self-Determination"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u201cThe nightmare in Gaza is more than a humanitarian crisis.\u00a0It is a crisis of humanity,\u201d UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres\u00a0told reporters in New York<\/a>, adding that the need for a ceasefire is becoming \u201cmore urgent with every passing hour.\u201d<\/p>\n Hundreds of thousands of people are demonstrating across the planet in opposition to the outrage of being forced to witness the barbaric state terror and collective punishment of the occupied and oppressed people of Palestine by the illegitimate settler-colonial state of Israel.<\/p>\n The flood of images of dead Palestinian children and even the audio of Palestinian women screaming in between the sounds of bombs being dropped on buildings in the pitched black darkness of Gaza that house the 2.2 million displaced Palestinians sparked a moral outrage that politically is being expressed by the call for a ceasefire. It\u2019s believed that a ceasefire would at least stop the carnage. And it probably would, but that is the problem. While a ceasefire would temporarily stop the mindless slaughter of innocent Palestinians, the ongoing agony of Palestinians forced to live under the inhumane conditions of occupation in the Gaza concentration camp and the rest of occupied Palestine would continue until the next escalation of resistance or attacks by the settlers.<\/p>\n Why?<\/p>\n Like all European settler projects since 1492 when Europeans spilled out of what became Europe first into the \u201cAmericas\u201d where they grew fat and powerful off of the stolen land and most vicious form of slavery humanity has ever known and then through the industrial fueled global colonial\/capitalist expansion, the Jewish European settlers have one objective – the expansion of Israeli colonial power and control over all of the lands currently occupied by the Indigenous Palestinians. Unlike other settler projects where the indigenous peoples were subjected to genocide, the Israeli bourgeoisie has the problem that they have not been able to murder and\/or displace all of the Palestinian peoples.<\/p>\n The incessant expansion of Israeli settlements, the apartheid wall, checkpoints meant to make live miserable for Palestinians, the neighborhood raids, impunity for the violence of the settlers, thief of houses, massive incarceration, assassinations of Palestinians leaders, peaceful demonstrations met with live fire, the inhumane siege of Gaza and periodic attacks\u00a0 (mowing the lawn as the Israeli govt calls it) in Gaza \u2013 all expose the extreme violence of the Israeli settler project that will persist until the colonial relationship is altered.<\/p>\n This means quite clearly that without ending the Israeli settler project with its apartheid laws, racialization of Palestinians and normalized violence, it will be ceasefire today and war tomorrow, because opposition by Palestinians will continue until they are all murdered and\/or expelled, and even then, opposition will continue from the displaced Palestinians joining the other displaced Palestinians from the last 75 years of Palestinian dispersal.<\/p>\n The only solution is authentic decolonization. But that solution must be imposed on the Israeli colonists in a similar fashion as the wars for national liberation that took place in Algeria, Vietnam, Kenya, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. Israelis understand that the success of European settler projects only occurred where the settlers were able to murder most of the indigenous population and then subject the survivors to permanent internal colonization such as the current situations in the U.S., Canada, New Zealand, and Australia.\u00a0 Elements of the Israeli ruling class represented by the fascist coalition of forces currently in power under Netanyahu, are quite clear that they are prepared to impose a \u201cfinal solution\u201d to the Palestinian problem.<\/p>\n