Common Grounds
Colonization of Palestine: Crusades and Zionism
Source: Al Mayadeen English
https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/colonization-of-palestine:-crusades-and-zionism
Published June 15, 2023
Democracy is nowadays implemented as the secular point of reference for colonial and imperial motives… whether religious or secular, the imperial, colonial atrophy does not stop.
The monotheistic Jewish, Christian, and Muslim trilogy is a Semitic heritage that constitutes the mosaic of the Arab world today.
This triad not only comes from the Arab ancestral mosaic;
in its essence, root, and doctrinal trunk it stands as one and the same, with one being the continuation of the other...
Those who expanded in the world were not Jews, Christians, or Muslims themselves. What spread in the world were the respective religious doctrines. It is necessary to explain this to the European egocentric gluttony, which ignores the other, and by ignoring the other, it becomes ignorant by antonomasia. There is an irresponsible attempt to establish a factual scientific mindset from a mere egocentric base. Such mindset structurally operates as a whole epistemicide (programmed destruction of the knowledge base and wisdom of an ethnic group, to assimilate them to a European colonial cosmovision). Ubiquitous mass media is also utilized as a tool alongside the intellectual and academic establishments to propagate the current epistemicide.
Today, Europe is deeply secular, and it took centuries and so much bloodshed to reach this philosophical value, but despite the culture, maturity, and secular sensibility, Europe now supports a "nation-state" of the Jewish religion. Europe is not able to discern Judaism and nationhood, it is not able to discern Arab ethnicity and Islam. They are astonished to see that there are Christian Arabs or Jewish Arabs. There are even atheist Europeans who see Jews as a people. There are others on the left who call this colonialism ("Israel") an ethnocracy. This ignorance is programmed, of a grandiloquence in favor of the falsification of History.
The greatest persecutions against Christians were in polytheistic Europe, and the greatest persecutions against Jews were in polytheistic and monotheistic Europe.
Europe was a polytheistic melting pot. Christianity, apart from being originally from the Levant (Greater Syria), was also out to its raison d'être, its cultural identity, and its religious mythical universe. It was a place of religious confrontations.
I can clearly say that to the enlightened European and/or Western ineptitude, it was a slaughter of the European against the European, the one polytheist and the other Christian monotheist. That Christian was not Semitic, he was a European who embraced a religious doctrine that came from the Semitic civilization. Europe was not accused of being anti-Semitic because of the slaughter of European Christians.
Later, Europe embraced the monotheistic Christian doctrine that they deeply hated.
Christianity became the new European religious anthropology. With this, Europe did not assume itself as Semitic but rather reinvented another European identity. But later a religious movement was born, the Crusades, and in 1099, they invaded Palestine, exactly Al-Quds (Jerusalem) and founded the "Latin Empire of Jerusalem"; they conquered Beit Lahm, An-Nasirah, Akka, "El Ramleh"; Aleppo and Damascus in Syria; Alexandria in Egypt, etc. They are motivated by a feeling of "recovering their sacred places."
Summary
In 1099, a European religious movement, the Crusades, imposed itself in Al-Quds (Jerusalem), Palestine, called the "Latin Empire of Jerusalem." In 1948, a European religious movement, Zionism, imposed a colonial regime in Palestine, called “Israel”.
Recap
The Crusades were a symbol of strong sentiment and overall direction in this historical European configuration. Zionism today is a symbol of European sentiment and pride. Historical anti-Judeo-Christian Europe and today’s elitists assumed that Judeo-Christian civilization makes up this invisible paradox.
While it is true that the Crusades were to combat the spread of Islam as well as kill the Jews, they also had to obey imperial and economic demands: banking centers and control of shipping routes from the ports of Venice, Genoa, and Pisa. Religion was the main point of imperial reference for people at the time. Similarly, democracy is nowadays implemented as the secular point of reference for colonial and imperial motives… whether religious or secular, the imperial, colonial atrophy does not stop.
In the military expeditions of the Crusades, many families departed for Al-Quds (Jerusalem). They were charged with a deep and loving religious feeling of "recovering their sacred places." It was the call to the Biblical Holy War, to die in it was the entrance to the heavenly Paradise, to participate in it was to forgive all their sins.
In 1948, the European Zionist Jews, in order to colonize Palestine, were seized by a deep and loving religious feeling: "To return to the land that God promised them”. “Return to the land of their ancestors".
Palestine has been colonized by multiple European and non-European peoples and has been colonized by two European movements, the Crusades and Zionism, the latter two, I reiterate, are not peoples.
Just as the world of the Levant defeated the obscurantism of the European crusades, today the Arab-Persian-Kurdish world must overthrow the powerful Euro-Zionist colonial fascism of “Israel”.
It is sadistic, obscene, and impostor to say that in the name of peace, we must recognize the so-called “Israel”. Colonialism is contrary to peace. Every native people must undertake its historical mission of fighting its colonizer.
There is a challenging moral and justice responsibility that must be addressed, and it concerns the population called Israelis; although they were born there, to be called Israeli is to succumb to a colonial identity. Israeli would therefore be a false demonym as people ought to be referred to as Palestinian. They were born in Palestinian ancestral territory, they were born in Palestine. And any citizen of the world, also if they wish, can apply for Palestinian citizenship, just like my Palestinian parents who fled to Venezuela and later applied for Venezuelan citizenship.
International Zionist fascism is the greatest power in the world. Let us leave the creative cowardice and take up the challenge of our historical time to abolish the colonial regime of “Israel”.
From Western negligence and comfort, "peace" is the flag of the swindle. Beware of the entelechy of the intellectual opium that benefits the Zionist fascist aesthetics.
We have an appointment with History and a debt to humanity. The liberation of Palestine is the liberation of the world. Let's stop the foolishness, corruption, and intellectual childishness.
The people in the times of obscurantism rebelled against the colonial invaders, and it cannot be that today in the time of modernity we must accept the colonial anachronism called “Israel”.
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