Ahmed Masalha - Palestinian jurist and lawyer

What is happening inside the occupied Palestinian territories, are they ordinary crimes? Or “transfer” and another plan to displace what the occupation failed to displace from the Palestinians inside the occupier in 1948 using more malicious modernist methods?

What is the relationship between the occupation’s insistence on forcing America, the land of opportunities and jobs, at least in the eyes of many who are exhausted by daily killings, disguised unemployment and the high poverty rate inside Palestine, to allow everyone who holds “Israeli” citizenship to obtain an immediate entry visa to America, including Are there crimes that have begun to push young people to immigrate abroad away from the specter of criminal gangs, especially since the entry visa we are talking about was granted to Jews who held citizenship without any trouble over the past decades? Why does the occupation subject America’s provision of these facilities at a time when, as a Jew, he did not face any difficulty in visiting this country or even working in it? 

Why does the occupation do that, if its goal is not to transform the occupied interior into a pressure cooker full of deaths, daily crimes, poverty, unemployment, the lack of a social horizon among many young people, and to occupy larger areas of our countries through its intransigence and insistence on not recognizing the structural maps that determine The areas and borders of every Palestinian town in the interior occupied in 1948, so that the mouth of this pot would have that whistle and the small, narrow opening at its top to let out this Palestinian who lost his security and safety, fleeing from what he was suffering, to America, which many dream of visiting and working in? 

Why does the occupation do this in order to obtain these facilities, despite the presence of a fascist government led by “Smotrich” and “Ben Gvir” at the top of its pyramid? 

Now, the issue has become urgent to look at what is happening inside Palestine as a “transfer” and ethnic cleansing that came as a continuation of what happened in the Nakba, especially since the Nakba in its manifestations is still an ongoing event and action that has not stopped.

During recent years, the pace of this Zionist terrorism has increased, including killing, destruction, and systematic ethnic cleansing inside the Palestinian territories, as a counter-project that the various arms of the occupation are working on in response to what happened two and a half years ago, as the occupation’s study of what happened in the glorious May 2021 uprising concluded that it is necessary Drawing lessons from what happened, as the coming enemy inevitably aims for an imminent war and its liquidation project, which has intensified in the occupied interior during the last two years, exactly as it is doing in the occupied West Bank, to find solutions that guarantee the security and safety of its meager internal front, which will not be able to stand in the face of... The Palestinian resistance unless it makes this liquidation project inside the occupied territories more ferocious and unless it continues the policy of assassinations and liquidation of any resistance activity inside the West Bank, especially since it is only a few hours away from the expected war against the axis of resistance or part of it.

Therefore, now, more than ever, as we are on the cusp of local council and municipal elections, it has become our responsibility to raise a slogan that says: “Our children are in danger.” Our children are truly in danger if we are not able to force the presidential candidates in every country to raise this slogan. And work in accordance with it, by working to get rid of the scourge of systematic violence. Our children are in danger and our vote is conditional on whoever raises this slogan and works to apply and implement it through a real project, a project that goes beyond electoral propaganda, a project that strengthens our society’s confidence in fighting this malicious plan.

You have asked questions that really bother me, questions that if we do not work to find answers to them at least and work to implement them, then unfortunately we will continue watching this series that will not stop unless we take a real pause, a series in which we lose another of our children in every episode.