Pulse of Life: American Document Deepening Hostility Towards Palestine

Media circles have discovered an American document that demands that European nations not support the Palestinian attempt in the U.N. General Assembly to obtain partial membership in the United Nations. With respect to the document, the American document is no surprise to spectators of politics or the media. Anyone who looks back at American politics and its successive administrations since the issuing of U.N. Resolution 181 in 1947, which partitioned historical Palestine, is able to see the truth of America’s hostile stance towards the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination. Ironically, former President Woodrow Wilson, on Jan. 8, 1918, was the first to call for the right to self-determination for people subjugated by colonial empires when he gave his Fourteen Points speech to Congress.

Yet, anyone who reads the history of the American empire since its creation will realize that American leaders and presidents say one thing and then do the complete opposite. The wonderful principles of freedom, democracy and human rights are used for verbal consumption and to mislead the poor and oppressed. The real goal is serving America’s colonial policies. For this reason, the new American document directed towards European countries is a confirmation of what is already known about American politics: It is America that determines the national interests of its enemy—the Palestinian people. Moreover, it does everything in its military, political, economic, cultural and religious power to support the occupying and aggressive country of Israel: its stepson in organized terrorism against the people of the land. Furthermore, these two countries were established on the concept of eternal genocide and are governed on the philosophy and logic of capitalism. This capitalism wildly seeks, without any legal, political or moral scruples, a monopoly on profit. And all of this comes at the expense of the interests and rights of oppressed and powerless peoples.

The language of the Palestinians and Arabs, which has been generally used since the beginning of the 1990s, is capable of reversing harmful Western conceptions. Yet the Arabs and Palestinians who assume responsibility for the Arab and Palestinian identity err in that they unsuccessfully try to imitate the Westerner, specifically the American. It is as if Arabs must take off their clothes and present themselves as downtrodden for the American, Israeli and European citizens to finally understand the general needs of the Arab people. This includes the Palestinians’ need for peace, coexistence and obtaining land, just like other peoples, by way of the right to self-determination. They also wish to establish an independent state equal to a mere one-fifth of historical Palestine.

Furthermore, every time the Palestinians and Arabs make a concession, the Zionist movement and its tool, the Hebrew state, intercedes and asserts its liberty over national Palestinian rights. Each successive American administration goes along with this, regardless of the ruling party. It’s not only this, but the American administration also aims its arrows, indignation, pressures and might at the Palestinians and Arabs, demanding that they continue negotiating with the Israelis on their terms—which means until they close the door to the negotiation room and prevent the Palestinians from entering. This is what the ethnic cleansing state has come to. It confiscates and converts all the Palestinian land, not just Jerusalem. Then it carries out a scheme of bringing colonial terrorism against the Palestinian people.

America’s stance throughout history has not prevented the Palestinian leadership from desiring to positively cooperate with American administrations; the [Palestinian leadership] recognizes the nature of the balance of power in the international sphere, as well as the U.S. stranglehold in the absence of international competition that has existed for centuries of foreign policy. At the same time, Palestinian people and their leaders wanted to extend the bridges of friendship to the American people, whom the American leadership has mislead in the course of their decision-making. The American people are not hostile to the Palestinian people or any other people throughout the world. For this reason, the Palestinians are interested in strengthening the bonds of friendship with the American people. But it is up to the [Palestinian] people and their political leadership to deal with the struggle with tact and not enter into a maze of futile wars with the United States and others from the international arena.

Instead, they must take a serious and clear position by performing the following tasks. First, they must expose the American position on the Arab national arena wherever possible. Second, they must send a strong letter of protest, containing a condemnation of the document and of the new American position, to the American administration. Third, it is necessary to urge the United States to be more balanced in its role as a basic protector of the peace process in the region, especially on the Palestinian-Israeli issue. Furthermore, Palestinians must urge them to stop the policy of bullying and hostility towards Palestinian national rights. Fourth, they need to demand that Arab states officially take a position and perhaps formally condemn the American policy. Fifth, they must also demand that the European Union not respond favorably to the American position. Finally, it is necessary to open a broad dialogue with the European Union to deepen the support for the Palestinian approach of obtaining non-member state status without compromising on the rights of the Palestinian state or accepting a membership stripped of its political, legal and human right components.

The American document constitutes a disgraceful stain to American policy and deepens the hostility towards the supreme national interests of the Palestinian people. It requires a popular movement that coincides with a formal movement that escalates the popular protests in the West Bank, Gaza, Jerusalem, the Diaspora and the interior. In turn, this will highlight the national position and support for the political wills of the Palestinian leadership. It will also widen the circle of the popular movement in regional and international platforms, to say nothing of Arab and Islamic ones. So in the end, America—or Uncle Sam—will realize that the Palestinian people and their leaders are able to confront the bullying and scare tactics of the United States and its strategic ally, the ethnic cleansing Israeli state.