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Mon 08 May 2023 10:14 am - Jerusalem Time

From the memory of Nakba 4 and the last Nakba and the struggle for survival

Since the occurrence of the Nakba in 1948 until this moment, the entity state is still working hard to obliterate the Palestinian identity and play in the internal arena to divide and divide the homeland by the occupier, along with killings, displacement, plundering of lands and demolitions of homes. Rather, it has now entered the stage that it feared for many years.


It is the demographic conflict between the Palestinians and the Israelis, which has reached a new stage of "hidden fighting". The occupying state is now looking at this war as the most dangerous to its existence and the beginning of the dissolution of its "Zionist project" on the land of occupied Palestine, after many years in which it used the worst types of punishment, displacement and killing in the battle for existence with the Palestinians. .


Perhaps one of the most prominent plans that the occupation sought to implement to ensure the battle of existence and to maintain demographic superiority over the Palestinians and to influence the demographic situation across the Green Line and in the West Bank and Gaza Strip through many mechanisms; Including: the intensification of immigration waves, where Israel, through special immigration agencies, attracts the Jews of the world to occupied Palestine, and offers them temptations and that this country is the land of dreams, but the reality indicates the opposite, in addition to the decline in the local factors of attraction for Jews to occupied Palestine and the decline in indicators of economic well-being In comparison to previous years, there are no factors that push Jews towards occupied Palestine from European countries and the United States of America on the other hand.


And with the numbers revealed by an “Israeli” center specialized in opinion polls, which constituted a violent political, security and economic shock for the far-right occupation government and the sixth for Benjamin Netanyahu, as it showed that a third of Israelis are thinking of emigrating and leaving the occupying state and do not feel any affiliation with it, and that the survey data indicate the presence of A problem with a sense of identity, attachment and belonging to the occupied entity among the public is increasing in the Israeli entity, and this is a reality that creates a rift and division in Israeli society.


While the Israeli incitement does not stop against the Palestinians of 48 who are doing their best to preserve their Palestinian and Arab identity despite the heavy price they pay while they are struggling to survive and hold on to the national identity within their homeland, cities and villages, and they are the original inhabitants of this land, and in light of the Israeli incitement that does not stop, And multidimensional racism and forms, denial of rights and equality, stifling and incitement against them despite their obtaining Israeli citizenship, all this did not prevent them from preserving their identity and their involvement with the rest of the Palestinians in addressing major national issues.


About 1.8 million Palestinians live in their villages and towns occupied by Israel in 1948, and they represent about 20% of the population today, according to official statistics. They suffer from discriminatory and racist policies against them in the fields of lands, planning and construction. Obtaining building permits and structural plans for their towns, and there are no signs to promote a fair and participatory planning policy in the Galilee, the Triangle, and the Negev. Discrimination in interest between Arab villages and towns, encouragement of crime and criminal gangs without combating them, in addition to the high rate of poverty among Arab families, and that more than half of Arab families live below the poverty line. Israel in 1948. There are those who call them the Arabs of Israel, and there are those who call them the Palestinians of the interior, or the Arab minority in Israel, in addition to the Arabs of 48.


In addition to the tightening of the stranglehold, settlement, land confiscation, house demolitions, construction of the separation wall and settlement roads in the West Bank and Jerusalem, the difficulty of obtaining building permits, exorbitant taxes on the Palestinian residents of Jerusalem, and the transformation of the West Bank governorates into cantons and insulators with checkpoints and checkpoints, and the harassment of workers and the difficulty of obtaining them. On work permits, it makes the life of the population very difficult, in addition to what the Gaza Strip has been suffering from a continuous blockade for more than fifteen years, which has made the Strip a large prison for its residents, as there have been many wars, attacks, and the destruction that afflicted the Strip and the spread of unemployment and abject poverty, all of which the occupying power is trying to do. To make the life of the Palestinian like hell, which pushes him either to lose hope in life and the future, to leave the land and homeland, to flee and to emigrate to a more prosperous and secure country.


It is important to remember that the concept of our struggle with the occupation is on the ground, and it constitutes a fundamental axis in the struggle with the Zionist movement, and the obsession of the "demographic danger" overshadows this obsession that the occupying entity still has so that the dominant Jewish majority does not turn into a minority or a very close percentage. Of the percentage of the Palestinian Arabs, so that this entity considered the Palestinian Arabs who remained in their land as strangers in their original homeland and a great curse on the Zionist project and considered them an instinctively hostile group and a fifth column and worked to harass them and besieged them in security areas and imposed military rule on them. And trying to establish a Jewish state at the expense of confiscating Arab lands and the life and future of the Palestinian people.


The essentiality of the conflict with the occupation and restoring consideration to the Palestinian cause was and still is a step collectively to restore the rights of their owners, based on the Palestinian awareness that was characterized early on by the Zionist plan, the struggle for survival, and the struggle for land and demography. Emphasizing the right of this people to their historical land and imposing new equations in the struggle over existence, identity, belonging, and clinging to the homeland and the land, and not surrendering to the reality of the continued Israeli policy of seizing their lands and defending them to the last breath.

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From the memory of Nakba 4 and the last Nakba and the struggle for survival