How Palestine/Israel can end?
Sep 28 2024|Written by Slimane Akalië|opinion, politics
We shouldn't forget that nation-states are a fiction.
When everyone believes in a fiction, it becomes more real, because not believing in it will have physical and emotional consequences.
If you don't believe in the fiction of money and act on your belief, you will suffer because you won't be granted access to resources controlled by other people who believe in the money fiction (this fiction has flavors, you can't convince a Moroccan who don't know US dollar to sell you something for a 100 bucks bill).
If you don't believe in the fiction of nation-states and act on your belief, you might suffer social isolation, and if you cross the borders you don't believe in, you will suffer violence and freedom deprivation because your society believes in the fiction of nation-states and gives some people called "government" (another fiction) an exclusive ability to use violence.
These fictions were invented to regulate how we deal with each other and are supposed to help us (or manipulate us in some instances).
But when fiction is the source that leads a human being to kill and injure a large number of other human beings (including women and children) who did nothing to deserve it, we should stop and ask ourselves: WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?
"Israel" and "Palestine" have no existence in the real physical world, you can't touch or smell "Israel" nor "Palestine".
A little bit of history: In a part of the Middle East, there were people who called their place "Palestine" and called themselves "Palestinians", they believed in different religions (Islam, Christianity, and Judaism) but they still believed that "Palestine" was their nation-state (a fiction).
In another part of the world called Europe (another fiction), some people made people who believe in Judaism suffer. There were multiple reasons, they thought that Jews were the killers of Christ, or that their bloodline was inferior so they didn't deserve to live.
Pain bonds us, so Jews believed in another fiction called "Israel" (based on some hitorical fiction).
But to make this fiction a reality, they needed land and they had to force "Palestinians" to stop believing in the fiction of "Palestine" and start believing in the fiction of "Israel".
The problem with the "Israel" fiction is its racist character.
If you don't believe in Judaism, even if you are "Israeli", you will be a second-class citizen (no successful fiction has that).
"Palestinians" who believed in Judaism were okay with it but "Palestinians" who believed in Islam or Christianity didn't and weren't willing to give their homes and farms away.
The creators of the "Israel" fiction tried to force them to believe in their fiction by stealing their land, killing and injuring and raping them, but "Palestinians" never believed in the "Israel" fiction. Most of them wanted "Palestine" back because it simply makes them first-class citizens and gives them a better life, they prefer death to living under the "Israel" fiction.
Now, how this will end? It can end in three ways.
The first way (you should be naive to think this would happen, but I hope it will one day) is to create one fiction, let's call it "the holy land" and give everyone the same rights and remove any religious character of the state (aka the fiction).
The second way (hard to achieve but still possible), have two states, with complete autonomy.
The third way (the more realistic version which I don't hope to happen), one part will kill a large number of people which will force the other part out. "Israel" couldn't do it in the last 70 years with the most sophisticated weapons in history, and even if it succeeded in doing it, all the states around "Israel" hate them, so it would be hard to sustain the fiction, and "Palestinians" don't have dual citizenship so unless you kill them all, they will always try to get back. And if you kill them all, other people who have common things with "Palestinians" (Arab language and Islam religion) will never forgive you and they might take revenge. So even though the "Palestine" fiction is too weak militarily now, this might change in the future, and if that happens, it will have a chance to kill a large number of "Israelis" to force them out and destroy the fiction of "Israel".
I don't want a large number of people to get killed either on the Israeli side or the Palestinian side but it's the sad thing about human psychology.