Persiflage & Paroxysm

As Arabs and especially Palestinians our fight against Israel and the injustice it represents has been a long and costly one, one often punctuated by major defeats, collapse of national self esteem and economic stagnation. We like to show maps of Palestine at each major milestone of defeat: 1948, 1967, 1973 and today, you see these maps all over social media, we point to them and say “see what the nasty Israelis did to us!” We think this brings public opinion on our side. Through these visual aids it is made very clear how much territory Palestinians have lost over the years, it couldn’t be clearer that we are the losing side, but we fail to recognize this it seems and plunge headfirst into peacemaking on an uneven playing field with gleeful abandon thinking we are actually at the negotiating table to get something in exchange for an end to combat operations and recognition of the enemy’s status and right to exist. Palestinians were only invited to Oslo to give their leadership a fac...

We are in an information war. A war launched against us since before the establishment of the Zionist entity. This war is prosecuted on many fronts. We have been consistently losing this war because we have failed to mobilize the Intercontinental Ballistic Language of English (ICBL), we have failed to learn it well and use it effectively to counter the lies broadcast about Arabs and Palestinians, not just by the mainstream Western news media, but by Hollywood's Zionist propag anda factory and now by social media and the Zionist organs of: Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, that are designed and aimed at serving the military goals of the Zionist State and its American ally.  These social media organs are means to gather intelligence on everyone and anyone with a thought that diverges from the proscribed one true path of Western Neo-liberalism. We are in a war that we haven't been fighting in so much as sustaining blow after blow in. It is time we take up the banner and stand fir...