Afrasianet - Emad Al , Hataba - The occupier is the strongest militarily, always, and he is the one who has the means of oppression and his brute will, but the palm of the peoples chose, throughout history, to resist the awl, and was always able to achieve victory.

In the heritage of the Levant, there is a common saying, that "the palm does not fight the awl", referring to the weakness of the palm and the strength of the awl. Although the history of the region tells many stories in which the awl palm resisted and triumphed over it.

Some are determined to forget this history and return to this saying every time we stand in front of a brutal enemy, and the resisters are called adjectives such as adventure, nihilism and irrationality, with the aim of pushing these resisters to surrender and accept the conditions of the enemy, so that some maintain their gains associated with the enemy itself, directly or indirectly. 

If the peoples had complied with the palm-awl equation, no people would have been liberated, and no homeland would have become independent. The occupier is always the strongest militarily, and he is the one who has the means of oppression and his brute will, but the palm of the peoples has chosen, throughout history, to resist the awl, and has always been able to achieve victory. The empires of aggression have collapsed in the face of the struggle of peoples who possessed no weapon other than the will to resist and win.

After the ceasefire in the battle of the Al-Aqsa flood, the equation of palm and awl returned to us, so that its owners lament the humanitarian conditions of citizens in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon, and demand rationality, and rotate corners with colonial plans to reach a state of "peace", allowing citizens to heal the wounds of war, and allowing the world to intervene to rebuild what was destroyed by war. Capitalist regimes and corporations take away their checkbooks and scatter their promises with ghee and honey if the resisters lay down their arms and become workers contributing to the promised reconstruction process.

The lie of "reconstruction" is well known to the world, as capitalism finds in the crises it creates an opportunity to invest and move the wheel of capital to achieve more plundering of wealth, and impose its economic and political interests on peoples.

This is what the capitalist theorist Milton Friedman put it, when he wrote, "Only a crisis, whether it is real or foreseeable, brings about real change... In my opinion, our primary job is to develop alternatives from existing policies, and to build those alternatives to be available when the moment comes when the politically impossible becomes a political imperative."

In our region, we still remember the promises of reconstruction of Iraq, which annually produces about $100 billion worth of oil, but more than twenty years after the U.S. invasion, the Iraqi people still suffer from 17% poverty, unemployment and shortages of drinking water and electricity. Major corporations associated with the occupation looted more than a trillion dollars of Iraq's wealth through military and economic agreements, the benefits of which the Iraqi people saw nothing. 

In Palestine, after the Oslo Accords and the formation of the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah, the number of settlers in the West Bank increased from 107,000 in 1992 to 507,000 in 2024, according to official Israeli statistics.

Palestinian sources say that the number of settlers exceeds 650,000, and that official Israeli statistics overlook illegal settlers, who seize much of Palestinian land. Contrary to the Israeli lie about the religious motive for building settlements and seizing land, statistics indicate that 70% of the settlements are caused by economic, and that the largest industrial and agricultural areas are located in the settlements of the West Bank, especially in the vicinity of Nablus and Jerusalem, and the settlements surrounding Gaza. 

Former U.S. intelligence officer Mike Butles says, "Fear and chaos present us with a major investment opportunity." In this context, the US president's statements on the reconstruction of Gaza are not alien to the context of the capitalist vision in dealing with the crises of the world.

At the end of the crisis, capitalism transforms from a maker to a customer who tries to benefit from it, whether under the banner of humanitarian aid or reconstruction. In his book Disaster Capitalism, Lonnie Lowenstein described the mechanisms followed by governments and global corporations that generate huge profits from the scourge of war and the calamities of humanity.

As for the rude language used by President Trump, it does not reflect a change in capitalist policies, especially American, but rather expresses that capitalism is experiencing a crisis that pushes it to use threatening language towards opponents and allies to accelerate the steps of this crisis.

Despite the trembling of the terrified of Trump's statements, the cessation of resistance chose to continue resisting the Zionist-American awl, so the Hamas spokesman announced the suspension of the handover of prisoners due to the enemy's failure to abide by the terms of the ceasefire, and set its conditions for returning to the agreement, the most important of which is the implementation of what Israel refrained from implementing, retroactively.

The news fell on the US administration like a thunderbolt, which prompted its president to issue a threat that is only worthy of street gang leaders, to return to war if the resistance does not implement the release of prisoners, as set by Trump. 

The message goes beyond the ceasefire agreement to declare that everything the enemy plans, such as the displacement of Palestinians anywhere in the world, are not implementable.

Those who have stood up to hundreds of thousands of tons of bombs and performed the miracle of the Al-Aqsa flood will not leave their land either obediently or forced. What the owners of the palm and awl equation do not know is that the homeland is not a building that destroys, nor a morsel of bread that is deprived of the hungry, but the homeland is dignity, will and a pet place that its children defend with everything they can.