When the world promotes hope for Mars and ignores the genocide of Palestine

As scientists race to expand the boundaries of life beyond Earth, and companies like Estonian UP Catalyst are converting carbon dioxide into useful materials on Mars, one would think that humanity is confidently moving toward a brighter future. New technologies have recently been announced that promise the possibility of building life in space, as if the world is beginning to confidently move toward the dream of cosmic colonization.

However, on this same planet, and in a small patch of land called Palestine, it seems that the land no longer holds its inhabitants. There, science is not being invented to protect life, but rather the war machine is adept at ending it. In light of the ongoing war of extermination targeting the Palestinian people, Palestinians are bitterly wondering: Will Mars be the next place of exile? While American and Israeli statements toss around "solutions" such as displacement to Jordan, Egypt, or even African countries, it may not be unlikely that tomorrow we will hear about a plan to deport Palestinians into space.

Yes, perhaps this is the next step in their quest to transform barbarism into a policy that not only violates terrestrial law but also extends beyond the planet's borders. While the world promotes settlement projects on Mars, the Palestinians continue to fight for existence on their land, the land they have inhabited for centuries and where they are crushed daily in the name of the "right to self-defense."

In Gaza, even the pillow is not spared from the war of extermination. It is snatched from under a child's head before he dreams. In the West Bank, the scene of the settler who cuts off livelihoods, and the occupation soldier who slits throats, has become a familiar reality that is met with nothing but complicit silence. As for Jerusalem, the heart of the story and the cradle of pain, sanctities are raped, stones are Judaized, and people are oppressed in their religion, livelihood, and affiliation, amid shameful global disregard, or a blatant bias toward the narrative of the strong. It is as if the world has decided to make daily killing a normal, even legitimate, scene under the pretext of the "right to self-defense," even if this "defender" possesses planes and tanks, while the victim has nothing but his voice and his dreams, which are threatened every day.

The world—or whoever controls its destinies—has decided to make murder a normal, even legitimate, spectacle, justified in the name of "security," even if the aggressor wields tanks and aircraft, and the victim has nothing but his voice and his threatened dreams. In this inverted reality, talk of "human rights" becomes hollow rhetoric, invoked only when it serves the interests of the powerful, while justice is frozen when the victim is Palestinian.

Today, the world is governed by the logic of power; the strong possess the right, while the weak are stripped even of the right to survive. Power is no longer a means of maintaining security; it has become a standard of justice and a condition for survival. Here, the Palestinian question becomes an eternal one:

How long will we carry our shrouds on our way to life?

How long do we wait for justice that never comes, and for a tomorrow that never comes?

Despite this prolonged oppression, the Palestinian has only one weapon: the word.

The word that testifies, documents, and exposes.

The word that keeps truth alive in the face of falsehood, and protects hope from extinction.

The word that says to the world:

The world may be silent today, but history has no mercy on killers... nor does it erase the memory of victims.