From the River to the Sea

Zionists fear what is meant by ‘from the river to the sea’ not solely because they want every grain of flesh along this stretch, but also because they shake at what Palestinian freedom would look like. When Palestinians regain their free land, right to self-determination and self-preservation. When Palestine is allowed complete statehood and a living embryonic constitution, ‘allowed’ by its own generational mission of liberation from the Israeli and American boot on their necks. When its all over and Israel has to stand trial for its crimes against Palestinians, what will they do? Netenyahu’s defense for the apartheid in the West Bank, Israeli military rule of law, the ‘security responsibilities’ Israel so graciously and punitively takes on, and the siege of Gaza, is that the day Palestinians will have their own guns in their own hands, their rule of law on their own side, their state neither co-opted nor antagonized and vilified, when that day comes, Israel will be at the mercy of the People of Palestine. Can Palestinians every forgive them? Co-exist with Israel? Work with the Israeli government after all these decades of dehumanizing conquest, after all these massacres. Will reperations ever be enough? After 75 year of terrorizing, uprooting and salting villages of Palestinians of all Abrahamic faiths, letting them live the slow death of a suffocating occupation when not letting them die at the hands of indifferent shrapnel. It’s unsettling that fear of the Palestinian conscience, the same conscience that welcomed the European and North African Jews who formed Israel atop charred bodies, is weaponized to commit genocide. Since when is genocide a preventative measure against the impossibility of another. Even if Palestinians EVER had the resources to seek revenge against a US-backed Israel, why in the world would they use their NEWFOUND freedom for anything other than planting the seeds for future generations of Palestinian prosperity? Revolution, sacrifice, martyrdom, they rise out of necessity, no one takes arms for something as myopic as baseless hatred or some feudal revenge. When necessity for Palestinian liberation is no longer present, those resources will continue to be used for Palestinian freedom, a freedom that looks all too different. When free Palestinians will sow their own lands, drink from their own wells, learn from Palestinan teachers, develop the political, legal and civic institutions that can now BREATHE outside the cannabilistic ‘patronage’ of a military and civil occupation. Even if they seriously chose to waste their valuable freedom, lives and resources to murder masses for every masses of Palestinians martyred in fear of a free Palestinian state, Palestinians would never sink as low as the fearmongering two-horned prisonguards that conquered Palestinian living rooms and responded to flying stones with an AGM-114 Hellfire.