Their Independence Day is our Nakba

This slogan is raised by the leaders of the Palestinian Arab community in the Carmel, Galilee, Triangle, Negev and mixed coastal cities, from the first occupation zones in 1948, in Palestine.

They celebrate the birth of their colony project, and their independence on the land of Palestine.

They came from the corners of the world, united by the idea of the Zionist movement supported by the old colonial countries Britain and France before it was fully adopted by US imperialism.

They came with different motives: 1- Colonizers, 2- Fleeing from the persecution of Tsarism and fascism, fleeing the effects of the Nazi Holocaust, 3- Wealthy investors, 4- Leaving irrevocably the countries of the socialist camp before, during and after the defeat of communism, socialism and the Soviet Union in 1990.

Celebrate their independence, and build an expansion project, which is still developing and expanding, its interim goal now: 1- Making unified Jerusalem the capital of the colony, 2- Transforming the Palestinian West Bank from an area with a Palestinian Arab majority, to a non-Palestinian, non-Arab, not occupied area, but rather Judea and Samaria That is, part of the settlement map, and an essential extension of it from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River, with a foreign presence and a Jewish Israeli majority.

They celebrate their independence, at the expense of the people of Palestine, their catastrophe, their displacement, their loss of the homeland and the unity of society, and the absence of a leadership that directs and leads them, after the geography of their spatial and population sovereignty and their national identity were torn apart.

A catastrophe in all meanings, indications, indicators, and reality. His catastrophe was completed with the occupation of what remained of the shattered homeland: Jerusalem, the Palestinian West Bank, and the Gaza Strip.

The first Nakba in 1948, they occupied two-thirds of the homeland and land of the Palestinians and confiscated their property, and in completing the first Nakba, the remainder was occupied through the second Nakba in 1967.

The summary of the story of the Nakba and its extensions, effects and consequences, is that half of the Palestinian Arab people are under occupation, steadfast and empowered on the entire map of their homeland Palestine, which has no homeland but it, and the other half of it is homeless, exiled, aspiring to achieve the right of return.

A contradictory, reverse picture, celebrating independence with the success of the birth of their expansionist colonial project, and the Palestinian stops before 75 years of pain and suffering, as a result of occupation, discrimination, persecution, killing, confiscation of land, deprivation of the right to a normal life like all human beings, and the prevention of the other half of the Palestinians the right to return to their property, lands and homes In: Lod, Ramleh, Jaffa, Haifa, Acre, Safed, Bisan, and Beersheba.

The European hypocrisy that made the colony on the land of Palestine continues its hypocrisy through the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, who congratulated the leaders of the colony on their celebrations, and ignored the suffering of the Palestinian people for 75 years, and the colony’s crimes and actions hostile to human rights, and its occupation of the lands of three Arab countries: Palestine, Syria and Lebanon .

Only the friend of the Palestinian people, the Israeli journalist Gideon Levy, wrote in Haaretz on 4/27/2023 an article with the title: “During the celebration of Independence Day, we are obligated to talk about the Nakba,” in which he said:

"Israel celebrates its establishment and independence, knowing that it does so by the power of evil, and that its life, property and freedom were built at the expense of the dignity of another people."

Many colonial countries won and toasted their victory, and returned and failed defeated, due to their domination and the absence of human justice in their behavior and dealings, as the colony is doing now in its dealings with the Palestinian people.