Editorials

Elimination Of Zionism Pre-requisite For Peace In West Asia

Editor

Sha'ban 13, 14472026-02-01

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Ever since the demonic ideology of zionism to advance the colonial-settler project in Palestine was launched, West Asia (aka the Middle East) has not witnessed any peace. The Palestinians have borne the brunt of the zionists’ genocidal policy. The last two years have been particularly grim.

Every man, woman and child—even new-born babies—are targeted and killed. The zionist war criminals make no secret of their murderous intent. Not only military commanders but also civilian rulers—president, prime minister, ministers and even rabbis—have openly declared that all Palestinians must be killed.

The indicted war criminal Benjamin Mileikowsky (aka Netanyahu) has invoked what is referred to as the “Amalekite” doctrine: “Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys,” (Samuel 1-15).

This is precisely what the zionists have been doing since October 2023. In fact, they had pursued this murderous policy long before the zionist entity was formally implanted in Palestine in 1948 but it has intensified in recent years.

The zionist project was initially supported by Britain as part of a plan to transfer Europe’s Jewish problem to Palestine. The other reason was that zionist Israel would serve as a beach-head for western colonialism in the heartland of Islam.

After the Second World War, the US supplanted Britain as the chief patron of the zionist project. The war had left the tiny kingdom’s economy in shambles. The Americans have since become completely enmeshed with the zionist project.

The US and Europe finance, arm and defend the zionists’ horrific crimes. The Europeans perpetrated similar crimes during the colonial period in North and South America, Africa, Asia and Australia. They succeeded in exterminating the indigenous populations in North and South America and Australia but failed in Asia and Africa.

In the two latter cases, they did the next best thing: created and installed western puppets in power what the British bureaucrat Lord Macaulay called “perfect brown Englishmen”. Most Muslim regimes, especially Arabian, also fall into this category. Hence, their eager embrace of zionism while expressing pathological hatred of committed Muslims operating as part of the Islamic movement.

Zionism is a European construct. Europe has spawned many demonic ideologies, none more destructive than zionism. It even surpasses Nazism. The German Nazis, rightly or wrongly, believed that Jews were destroying their country by controlling their finances through usury capitalism and spreading prostitution in society. The Nazis were concerned about Germany, their country.

The zionists are illegally occupying another people’s land: Palestine. They are perpetrating a genocide to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from the entire land where they have resided for thousands of years. It is a colonial-settler enterprise driven by extreme racism and hatred.

It is also revealing that while all the other ideologies spawned by Europe—colonialism, imperialism, fascism and nazism—have been repudiated, zionism continues to flourish. It would be difficult to find anyone in the world today calling himself a colonialist or a Nazi. Zionism, however, is worn as a badge of honour.

It is venerated as a religion. And it has followers of all religions: Jewish, Christian, Hindu, atheist and (yes) Muslim.

True, zionist ideology was first propounded by people of Jewish background—Theodore Herzl, Ze’ev Jabotinsky et al—but they were non-religious. They considered Judaism as an impediment to their colonial project.

Herzl was a racist. He propounded the idea, in the wake of the Dreyfus affair in France (year 1894), that Jews could not assimilate in other, primarily Christian European societies. They needed a separate homeland of their own. Palestine was not the only option; Uganda and the West Indies were also considered as potential areas for Jewish settlement.

Even before Herzl announced his racist idea at the first Zionist Conference in Basle, Switzerland (1897), most rabbis had condemned political zionism. The Philadelphia Conference of November 3–6, 1869 adopted a resolution that stressed the radical opposition between the universalist principles of Judaism and those of political zionism.

So how did political zionism, a racist ideology, succeed in establishing itself in the heartland of Islam despite strong opposition from leading rabbis and the indigenous population of Palestine?

By the turn of the last century, British and French colonialists were busy instigating revolts in West Asia. They bought the loyalty of Arabian tribal chiefs to use them against the Ottoman Sultanate that ruled Arabia and the Levant.

The toxic brew of western colonialism, Arabian nationalism, and political zionism facilitated the imposition of the zionist entity in Palestine through the infamous Balfour Declaration.

On November 2, 1917, British Foreign Secretary Lord Arthur Balfour, in a letter to Baron Walter de Rothschild, outlined the British government’s favorable view of establishing “in Palestine a home for the Jewish people…”

While Balfour stated, “nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of the existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine,” he deliberately ignored their political rights.

That the overwhelming majority of inhabitants of Palestine were Muslims and Christians whose fundamental rights were being violated was of little consequence. In typical colonial style, Balfour promised the Palestinians’ land to European zionist Jews.

Unlike European racists that have a long and gory history of persecuting Jews and other minorities in their midst, Muslims have never perpetrated any pogroms or indulged in inquisitions against religious or other minorities.

Whenever Jews suffered persecution in Europe or Russia, they found refuge among Muslims, hence the presence of Jewish communities in North Africa, Turkey, and Iran to this day. Yet European racists transferred their “Jewish problem” to Palestine.

The Jews were not keen to go to Palestine. They preferred other places such as America and Canada. Even Hitler’s bloodbath during the Second World War did not convince the vast majority of Jews to settle in Palestine.

But zionist leaders missed no opportunity to emphasize the importance of Jewish migration to Palestine. They lamented the lack of interest among European and North American Jews to settle there.

The zionists always invoke anti-semitism to stifle criticism of Israeli war crimes. Anti-semitism, however, is a twin of zionism and is needed for its survival. Herzl himself wrote, “The Jews constitute a single people and cannot be integrated into other peoples. But they do become assimilated by any society if they find themselves secure in it for a long period. And that will never be to our interest.”

Thus, Herzl considered anti-semites as indispensible allies in his quest to create the zionist state in Palestine.

Today, zionists eagerly embrace white supremacists and bigots. These include Evangelical Christians in the US and Tommy Robinson, the leading racist in Britain. Rightwing fascist parties in Europe—whether in France, Germany, the Netherlands or Austria—are all close allies of the zionists.

They may not necessarily like the Jews but the thread that binds them is Islamophobia. This hate-filled ideology is spread by the zionists although Israel’s genocide in Gaza has aroused revulsion among many people in Europe and North America.

The rivers of blood spilled in West Asia will only be stanched if zionism is eliminated and buried. Until then, the people of that region will continue to suffer the ravages of the last European colonial construct.

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