107 years of trying to define the homeland, the people and the state

The Balfour Declaration, in which most of the colonial Western countries participated 107 years ago, in writing and translation, support, protection and nourishment, is still the same with its intentions and directions, in support, protection and nourishment. Therefore, Balfour was nothing but the spearhead of the colonial West in transforming the theological into the colonial, and in transforming the colonial into a political entity that now has teeth and claws, and with it and through it it threatens or embarrasses Britain itself. What I want to say here, 107 years after this ugly and criminal promise that covered up the theft, killing, displacement and dismantling of the Palestinian people group until now, and deprived them of establishing their state and society on their land, is the clearest and most explicit image of the meaning of colonialism, racism and the corrupt and sick ideology that does not see the division of peoples and the theft of their lands and wealth as a hateful or unacceptable act. This criminal promise is nothing but a moral, political and civilizational exposure of the entire colonial West that does us a favor and always boasts about morality, democracy and the rest of those lies. The Balfour Declaration is actual proof of moral, human and civilized immorality, and it has not yet been corrected or apologized for. On the contrary, the British Prime Minister boasted several years ago that Britain established Israel, in a brazen challenge to everything that is humane, Arab and Islamic.

The important thing is that after 107 years have passed since this criminal promise, the Palestinian people have found themselves facing an unparalleled predicament. They have faced what was not expected or have fallen into the most dangerous thing that a group can fall into, which is occupation, denial, erasure, transgression, dismantling, killing, displacement, homelessness, and prevention of the means of a decent life. This promise meant that the Palestinian would carry his stick and travel under every planet that suffers from neglect, siege, impoverishment, killing, exile and apprehension. He had to keep the ember of longing in his heart and dig in the rock in order to return to his paradise from which he was expelled. Over these long decades, the world and people have changed, goals and challenges have changed, priorities and leaderships have changed. Therefore, in every era, the Palestinian had to provide definitions for parts of his heart and intimate organs. He had to choose between the homeland as he dreams of it and the homeland that politics allows, between his state and his revolution, between his absolute and his relative, between his people and his audience. In every era, the Palestinian had to redefine his definitions, as if he were redefining or confirming his sonship to his mother and his land. During these decades, the Palestinian had to provide - forced - another definition for everything he loves due to balances, settlements, pressures or global changes. What is the Palestinian homeland now, between that which is in his heart and that which is on the political map, and what is the definition of his people, that which he sings to morning and evening, and that people distributed in the spaces and squares?

The Palestinian - throughout this long and bitter period - has not yet been able to regain his rights or build his state. On the contrary, he is now forced to humble himself, make concessions and accept humiliating settlements under the pressure of fire, threats and sieges, as the colonial countries that signed the Balfour Declaration have become more wicked and impudent. Therefore, although the Balfour Declaration established an entity for the Zionists, it certainly did not guarantee them security, stability or perhaps survival. The Balfour Declaration certainly offended the Palestinian people, but it also harmed the Jewish communities that were safe and secure in their country, and caused the greatest harm to the security and stability of the Arab and Islamic region, and it certainly threatens world peace. This is what Balfour and his promise and everyone who helped him did, and then they come crying over world peace... It is not only a lie but an abomination!!