I advocate for one single democratic state across the whole of historic Palestine, in which all of its people, Muslim, Christian, Jewish or otherwise, may live in peace as equals with equal rights.
I advocate for this because:
1) it is the only just way to end this conflict;
2) it is the only practical way to end this conflict; and
3) it is supported by the majority of Palestinian resistance organizations (though you'd never know this if your only source of information on the subject is Zionist media).
This is a political demand and does not imply a call for violence against anyone, of any denomination, anywhere. I do not want to see any more killing. Every Palestinian prays every day for an end to the killing.
But whether this conflict must be resolved through violence is not a decision I have the ability to make. It is not a decision any Palestinian solidarity organization has the ability to make. It is not a decision any Palestinian has the ability to make.
The people who this imperialist system empowers with the ability to make that decision will not read this post and will not hear my voice. Nor will they hear the voices of any of the 15 million Palestinians who pray every day for peace and justice. The people who will decide whether this conflict will end in violence are named Donald, Benjamin, Itamar, Joe, Yoav, Pete, Jared, and a handful of other names known and unknown to the public. And these people have decided, every single day since October 7, 2023 (and on plenty of days before), to make that day a day when a Palestinian will die at their hands. Every. Single. Day.
They make this decision, every day, not in order to protect themselves nor their citizens nor, as they claim, to protect Jews. In every respect, Israeli citizens and Jews everywhere become less safe by the day as a result of these decisions.
Rather, the Donalds and the Benjamins choose to murder Palestinians every day in order to protect the Israeli State. In order to protect Zionism. In order to protect the apartheid and occupation system, the laws and institutions which keep the Palestinian people oppressed as second-class citizens in their own land. In order to prevent those Palestinians scattered to other lands by the ongoing Nakba from ever returning. In order to maintain the physical exclusion, and the legal subjugation, of the Palestinian people from and in the land of Palestine. It is for these reasons that these white men have decided to kill, torture, starve, imprison, and rape Palestinians in full view of the world for 2½ years and counting.
The people with the power to decide whether bombs are falling in West Asia at any given moment are not named Wesam, nor Khaled, nor Mohamed. They are not named Refaat, Adnan, Anas, Hussam or Hind. Nor are they named Yahya, Hassan, Ali, or Ismael. They aren't even named Mojtaba, or Naim, or Abdul-Malik, or Obeida. These names belong to the people who live and die under the bombs dropped by the Donalds and the Benjamins. The people who birthed these names over generations of unbroken indigenous connection to the land that the white man is now fighting them over.
Do not blame me, Wesam, for what the US Empire might be about to bring on itself (and you) in order to keep this racist settler colony in place.
The time for peace is coming soon; but this Israeli state, this Zionist project, simply has to go. And it will ā one way or the other.