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Rawan Osman
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rCLFree Palestine.rCY
I grew up on those words.
In Lebanon, most people around me wanted a free Palestine for a very
practical reason rCo to send the Palestinian refugees back. The civil war
that tore my country apart was ignited in no small part by the
Palestinian armed factions who turned Lebanon into their launching pad. rCLFree PalestinerCY meant: free us from them.
In Damascus, where my fatherrCOs family lived, the sentiment was different
but equally self-serving. Palestine must be returned to the Arabs, its righteous owners. No one asked follow-up questions. No one was expected to. Palestine was central to Islam, most Arabs are Muslim, therefore
supporting the Palestinian cause was reflexive. A non-brainer in the
most literal sense rCo no brain engaged at all.
Nobody stopped to point out that Palestine is not an Arabic word. Nobody
found it strange that Jerusalem, the supposedly third holiest city in
Islam, is not mentioned once in the Quran. Not once. Nor is Palestine.
The entire theological and political architecture of this cause rests on
a foundation that their own scripture doesnrCOt bother to acknowledge.
What was actually happening was indoctrination. A systematic,
generational rejection of Jewish sovereignty rCo and frankly, of any
minority sovereignty. Jews, Christians, Druze, Kurds, Assyrians, Yazidis
rCo the Arab world has been remarkably consistent in how it treats people
who are different. We just donrCOt talk about that.
Instead, in the West, we talk about Palestine.
In the West, a civilization that has elevated human rights to its
highest moral currency, the Palestinian cause has become the one
exception to every rule. In the queue of human suffering, Palestinians
cut the line every time. Homosexuals executed in Gaza and hanged from
cranes in Iran? Palestine first. Women imprisoned in Saudi Arabia for campaigning for the right to drive rCo a right they were denied until 2018
rCo girls sold into marriage in Afghanistan, women erased from public life entirely under the Taliban? After Palestine. Political dissidents ground
into dust in Syrian and Egyptian prisons, journalists disappeared in
Libya, children starving in Yemen while their rulers wage proxy wars,
entire populations hollowed out by hunger in Sudan? All of it waits. Christians ethnically cleansed from Iraq and Syria, the Arab world methodically emptied of every Jewish community it once held rCo a
demographic erasure carried out across a century with surgical patience
and near-total Western silence?
Palestine is still first.
So letrCOs end where we started. Free Palestine. Which Palestine, exactly?
The Roman invention? The British administrative line? The British
Mandate covered the entire territory of what is today Israel, the West
Bank, Gaza and Jordan. In 1921, 78% of that mandate was handed to the Hashemite family rCo a dynasty imported from Hijaz in present-day Saudi
Arabia rCo and became the Kingdom of Jordan, which it remains to this day.
A foreign royal family, on the majority of historic Palestine, ruling it
as a monarchy. Nobody protests that. No flags, no chants, no
encampments. The remaining 22% was designated for the Jews, became
Israel, and is the only part that any pro-Palestinian activist has ever
had a problem with.
So when you say Free Palestine, you mean that 22%. You mean the Jews.
And free it from whom? From a people with a three-thousand-year-old
documented presence in that land, to restore the glory of a name coined
by Roman colonizers, a name lifted from the Torah, a name that has no
roots in Arabic, no mention in the Quran, and no history as a sovereign
state?
You are not chanting for liberation. You are chanting for colonialism rCo
the Roman kind, repackaged for social media.
Free Palestine is not a cause. It is a colonial term, coined by
invaders, recycled by the indoctrinated. The least you can do is have
the intelligence to understand it and the decency to reflect on your
position.
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