what is palestine to the us? - mumia abu-jamal

For some, this may come as a surprise, for it seems illogical, but the US doesn’t hate Palestine.

It arms and finances its nemesis.

It votes consistently with I*real in the United Nations - even against the majority of the world’s nations -yes.

All this is true, but the US doesn’t hate Palestine. The truth is something far worse, for dismissal is more damning than hatred. Palestine, its people, its history, its culture, its poetry, and land, are dismissed as a mere trifle by the US Empire, not dissimilar to the response of the old British Empire, which dispatched the lands, hopes and dreams of the Palestinians, with cold, imperial aplomb.

For empire is over an exercise of global violence, for domination is but utter violation: the very root of violence. It violates the human soul, which yearns for freedom. Palestine was relegated to the misery of a warren of Middle Eastern ghettos for one reason - and one reason only. To allow the erection of a colonial outpost from which Britain (and later the US) could exercise power in a region that held the greatest prize in world history: PETROLEUM.

Petroleum lit the lampposts of London, and fueled the factories of America, leading to its Industrial Age.

Palestine is a minor afterthought to the US Empire and its imperialist apologists. Its pain, its sufferings, its gross humiliations don’t bother the empire one whit.

Yet to millions of people, throughout Europem Africa, Asia, and the Americas, their unjust and cruel treatment at the hands of the zionists finds purchase in hearts worldwide. As the cruelties of imperialism mount, giving rise to anger and distaste, the forces of solidarity grow too, encapsulating the majority of the people of the Earth.