Britain compensates us for the Nakba

The occupation was only partially successful in implanting the culture of defeat and surrender, even 67 years after the Nakba. This is because people are alive and will not die and because the free Palestinian women do not stop giving birth to heroes who will liberate Palestine. Rights can be taken but they are not lost as long as there are those demanding them, and this is how the occupation was removed from southern Lebanon and Gaza.

This year marks the Palestinian Nakba’s 67th anniversary, and it represents the pain of over 12 million Palestinians. The occupation is exhausting and depleting the souls, possessions, natural resources and energy of an entire nation. This exhaustion is both accumulating and continuous.

Sixty-seven years after the West’s conspiracy against the Arabs and Palestinians and its armed forceful imposition of the Jewish state in the region, Netanyahu used the arrogance he is known for to gain the Judaisation of Jerusalem and the West Bank and built settlements before the eyes and ears of the hypocritical international community that only respects the strong. The international community only recognises the rights of the oppressed in terms of sympathy and pity.

By means of his use of brutal force, Netanyahu is saying: “As long as we have the upper hand, the Palestinians will continue to suffer, and your crying, weeping, and painful memories will do nothing for you. I will continue to Judaise Jerusalem, expel its people, Judaise the West Bank, and construct more settlements. I will renew your Nakba and bring about successive Nakbas as long as you remain weak. I am most happy when you are divided and I am overjoyed to hear all the statements and matters that continue to weaken your internal affairs.”

The occupation leaders’ achievements and victories are merely a summer cloud that will quickly pass due to the reality and logic of matters and cosmic ways. The best proof of this is the quick pace of the developments in the Arab world and the ability of one Palestinian faction to threaten the heart of Israel easily and quickly without giving any weight to the occupation’s threats.

The occupation’s attempts to falsify history will not work, as its attempts to change the names of Palestinian villages, towns and cities occupied in 1948, its implantation of settlements in the West Bank, and changing the names of holy sites in occupied Jerusalem is all classified as a systematic process of falsifying history.

Palestine was planned to be forgotten and lost from our minds, as well as erased from the world geographical and political map. Instead, after 67 years of occupation, the Palestinians are still able to revive and restore the memory of every inch of the land occupied in 1948.

Wisdom is the lost property of the believer and we must learn from the example of our enemy who does not involve its constants in its internal disputes and divisions between the Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jews. Its security is a sacred matter that cannot be disputed and the interests of Israel are a top priority over anything else; have we Palestinians learned this from our enemy?

Have Britain, the West, and the occupation achieved their desired displacement and expulsion of an entire nation using the argument “the old will die and the young will forget”?

It is true that the occupation is strong with it oppression and brutality, but it is weak in its logic and morals. It does not possess intellectual or moral strength and this is the main and clear reason for the eminence of Israel’s demise. This has been stated by a number of Israeli intellectuals.

What we can gather from the events of the Nakba Day commemoration is that the people who have a right to the country are alive and well and they cannot forget or forgive those who displaced them and committed crimes against them. Britain committed a sin and a crime against the people and those who commit sins must atone for their sins by compensating the refugees.

In the future, Britain will be humbled and it will be forced, by the developments and changes occurring, to compensate the free Palestinian state for the suffering it has caused for an entire nation during the years of occupation. This is not impossible or difficult to achieve, as Germany is compensating the Jews 67 years later. “They will shake their heads at you and ask: ‘Well, when will this happen?’ Say, ‘That time may be near.'”

Translated from Felesteen on 13 May 2015.