Muhammad Jassat

Listen carefully. You say this is "Jewish land for 3,500 years." But history is not a property deed. If age alone gave ownership, the Canaanites would rise from the soil and evict you tomorrow. If conquest gave legitimacy, Rome would still rule Jerusalem. If scripture was a land title, every empire in history would resurrect to reclaim what it once held. But history moves forward. It does not sign contracts for eternity. You call Canada, the UK, and Australia "weak and naïve." But tell me, who created your state? It was London that drafted the Balfour Declaration. It was Washington that armed and funded you. It was the UN that forced a partition on Palestine without its people’s consent. You did not rise alone from the ashes. You were delivered on the back of empire. So spare us the courage talk. You’ve been carried on another man’s shoulders since birth. You say Palestine is a "Trojan horse for jihad." No. Palestine is the homeland of a people who were expelled, massacred, and erased from maps. The refugee camps are not jihad. The key around an old woman’s neck is not jihad. The olive trees bulldozed in the West Bank are not jihad. They are memory. They are history. They are lives interrupted by the myth you call sovereignty. You say "Israel will never retreat." But empires always say that, right before they fall. France said it in Algeria. Britain said it in India. America said it in Vietnam. History has never once been impressed by the boasts of occupiers. "One state. One people. One land." Yes, that is the dream of every settler colony, from South Africa to Rhodesia to French Indochina. And every one of them believed it was eternal. Every one of them said "we are here forever." And every one of them fell. Not because they were weak. But because the people they tried to erase refused to vanish. So keep chanting your slogans. But remember: it is not the occupier who decides forever. It is the land. It is the people. And both still speak the name you are trying to silence. Palestine.