Afrasianet - Waleed Al-Qatty - Von der Leyen's letter to the Israeli entity is replete with fallacies stemming from adopting the Zionist and Israeli narrative of the conflict completely and completely ignoring the Arab and Palestinian narrative.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen sent a congratulatory message to the Zionist entity, recorded via Twitter, on the 75th anniversary of its inception.
It said: "Israel is the vibrant democracy in the heart of the Middle East. It has made the desert flourish." The congratulatory message, written in Hebrew, spoke of "the Jewish tragedy, the national homeland, and the promised land," and praised the unified values, common culture, and "high-end civilization" that unites Europe and "Israel," and concluded by saying to the president of the Zionist entity and its settlers:
"Happy Independence Day." The message, which is full of inaccuracies emanating from adopting the Zionist and Israeli narrative of the conflict completely and ignoring the Arab and Palestinian narrative entirely, cannot be discussed in all in this article, which deals with one narrative, the content of which is that Palestine was a desert devoid of people and trees inhabited by Zionist Jewish settlers, as stated in von der Leyen's letter About "Israel", which "made the desert flourish".
The Zionist narrative adopted by the President of the European Commission about desert Palestine, which was built by “civilized pioneers” coming from “civilized Europe”, is part of the many deceitful myths and misleading narratives promoted by the Zionist movement and incorporated by Europe into its colonial intellectual system, at the center of which is the deeply rooted idea of “Palestine in the Desert.”
European colonialism. Europe views the world outside the white continent and its colonial human extensions as a barren desert or a dark forest, which was confirmed recently by Josep Borrell, the European Union's representative for foreign affairs, by saying: "Europe is a garden... but the rest of the world is not quite a garden. Most of the rest of the world is a forest.”
The exception left by Josep Borrell outside the majority that he talked about is the colonies that Europe built outside the white continent through invasion, blood, displacement and extermination, the most important of which are: the United States of America, Canada, Australia, formerly South Africa, formerly Rhodesia, and “Israel” now. Europe sees itself and its colonial extensions as the center of the world, the source of civilization, and the garden of the earth, while the rest of the world is a backward fringe between a barren desert and a dark forest.
It must follow the center, submit to civilization, and allow the owners of the garden to transform the desert into a thriving paradise, and transform the forest into a beautiful orchard.
The desert in the Western and Zionist colonial concept means that Palestine when the Zionists invaded it was devoid of people and trees, and this was confirmed in the Zionist narrative based on two lies. Or semi-human, uncivilized and unproductive nomads, who need someone to tame them civilized or humanely rehabilitate them to make them servants of the white European race and its colonial project, and if they refuse that, then displacement or extermination is their fate, and this is what happened with all the peoples of the countries that were invaded and settled by Europeans from North America West, to Australia in the east, passing through Palestine in the middle of the world.
This narrative has been repeated by the leaders of the Zionist entity, including Golda Meir, who denied the existence of the Palestinian people by saying: "There is no Palestinian people, and it was not that we came and expelled them from their homes and usurped their land, so they do not exist at all."
The second lie of the Zionist narrative is that “Palestine is a desert land without trees.” The desert is devoid of trees, in addition to being devoid of people. Europe has turned into a thriving garden full of fruit trees and productive plants, after they reclaimed the barren land, the arid desert, and the scattered forests with their knowledge, effort, and creativity, according to the Zionist narrative.
This narrative ignores the thriving plant life in Palestine before the Nakba, and exploits the Israeli afforestation projects, especially in the Negev, as an entry point to expropriate it from the Palestinians of the Negev, as part of the Negev and Palestine settlement project, and it is the same narrative promoted by the European invaders in all the countries they settled in while Call it the New World.
The congruence between the two colonial narratives - European and Zionist - and the adoption by the President of the European Commission of the Zionist narrative in the desert lie that has flourished are due to the fact that "Israel" was established as a colony within the framework of the Western European colonial project that emerged from the womb of the Zionist colonial project, based on a Protestant Christian background that links the return of Christ The expected start of the happy Christian millennium with the establishment of a state for the Jews in Palestine, the building of the Third Temple, and the occurrence of the battle of "Armageddon".
This comes on the basis of a colonial functional background, so that the Jewish “state” becomes a functional entity that guarantees the preservation of the state of Western domination over the Arab and Islamic region, and perpetuates the state of Arab and Islamic dependence and appendage to the Western colonial project, and impedes projects of unity, renaissance and independence between and within Arab and Islamic countries, and makes the Zionist entity the head of The war of the Western project against the nation, and this is what the founder of the Zionist movement, Theodore Herzl, said in his book
"The Jewish State" in 1896, defining the function of his "state": "It will form a wall for Europe in the face of Asia. We will be the defenders of culture and civilization against savages."
Thus, it is clear that the Western position on the issue of Palestine stems from the centrality of the Zionist entity in the West's policy, intellectual system and colonial culture, especially the sponsoring countries of the entity, starting with Britain and ending with America, passing through France and Germany.
This patronage is the guarantor of its existence, security, continuity, and supremacy, which requires that the issue of Palestine be the central issue of the Arab and Islamic nation, so that it is crucially linked to all issues of Arabs and Muslims, because Arabs and Muslims will not be liberated from the reality of backwardness, dependence, fragmentation, and all their problems unless Palestine is liberated. Changing the state of the nation and liberating Palestine are two complementary matters.
The nation's renaissance, independence and unification is the way to liberate Palestine, and working to liberate Palestine is the way to liberate the nation from underdevelopment, dependence and fragmentation.
At that time, the lie of “the desert that flourished” or Palestine devoid of people and trees and “Israel” flourishing with people and trees will come to an end, to be replaced by the reality of the destruction of the Israeli entity and corruption by their hands and the hands of the believers, as the Almighty said about their repeated nature:
{They destroy their homes with their own hands and the hands of the believers} , It is the same truth that will lead to the destruction of the alleged “Third Temple” similar to the first and second temples, and to replace it with the reality of building Palestine with people and trees after fulfilling the promise of the Hereafter, which will lead to the liberation of Palestine from occupation, the return of its people from the diaspora, and the unity of the nation against the Zionist entity and its allies against the Western colonial project Its vanguard is in the axis of resistance.