The Palestinians are unique; to learn more about them, I am studying the entire history of the persecution of the Jewish people around the world. Each country that stands up in 2024 in the United Nations and condemns The State of israel has once turned desperate Jewish men, women, and children away from its ports, back into long, long, long sea voyages, only to be denied entry once again and again and again.
I digress; the Palestinians are not unique; they share the very history of the Jewish people, forced from place to place and denied a home, ignored by all the democratic countries until now. I ask myself what is so unique about this particular time that has seen the word Palestine being shouted around the world: FREE PALESTINE.
Free from what? We answer that question with yet more questions, telling questions that paint a clear picture of their turbulent last 75 years.
Who controls the water in Palestine? Who controls the electricity in Palestine? Who controls the food supply? Who controls the movement of the Palestinians inside their own nation? Who controls the amount of calories the entire population of Palestine is allowed to consume? Who controls the flow of information that comes out of the territory of Palestine? Who renamed their land Gaza but denied the beings living in that land an identity?
Who named the land and prohibited the inhabitants from calling themselves their own names? Who denies the Palestinians to call themselves Palestinians? Which entity tells the world that "there is no such thing as Palestinians." while bombing them daily?
Thousands and thousands of pounds of bombs falling on people that we are told do not exist, little inexistent babies' hands waving their very existence in the hopes that someone sees their bodies pinned beneath a collapsed building.
Who collapses the buildings that suffocate pregnant women and their babies, teenagers, toddlers, animals, entire family lineages, and anything that needs air to survive?
The most fantastic story is of a nation that doesn't exist, dying daily, murdered by a nation that denies the very existence of the people it is killing. I am studying the horrors of the Holocaust and the peregrination of a people looking for a home for centuries and being denied entry by the very nations that condemn it today of Genocide and Holocaust in Arab lands.
The Palestinians and the Jewish people are a cautionary tale for future civilizations. They are the tale of a group of people who claim possession of free land, a peculiar desire no other animal shares. Native Americans were offered gifts for their lands from strange foreigners, unable to understand why they were willing to pay for something that was free for the world to share. When the strangers got tired of negotiating with them, they came up with the final solution, just like what's happening in Palestine.
The Jews, the Native Americans, and the Palestinians all share the same desire: a piece of land they can call home. And what do we desire? "Peace for the world." urge our bleeding hearts.
I will never again make fun of beauty contestants; it turns out they are beautiful indeed.
