Trump’s approach of imposing normalization on non-normalizing states leads us to conclude that the Palestinian cause is no longer a central issue on the international agenda. Palestine is no longer a question of self-determination in the Western perspective; rather, it has become a security file managed in a way that serves the stability of the Zionist entity. Americans—whether Republicans or Democrats—today and tomorrow will continue to focus their foreign policies on exhausting adversaries from within.
Today, we see what is unfolding in Iran through dangerous attempts to undermine the rule of the Islamic Republic by local hands. The adversaries—from the U.S. administration to the Zionists—are betting on internal vulnerabilities, or what can be termed hybrid warfare, which relies on stirring internal divisions, amplifying social discontent, and exerting media and economic pressure alongside packages of sanctions. States that fail to build a productive economy, are ruled by an authoritarian and corrupt political class, and suffer from cognitive and technological dependency become easy to penetrate and destabilize from within. In this way, major powers ensure the continuation of their military and economic dominance and guarantee that no one threatens the existence of the usurping entity in Palestine.
There is no place for the civilizationally weak in a world managed primarily to serve the interests of the powerful. The challenge we face today is that the Arab-Islamic world, which was a territorial, political, and economic unity in the late Ottoman era, has—after occupation and the nominal independence of some of its parts—ended up in an unenviable position, incapable of achieving civilizational revival.
Division; ethnic, sectarian, and religious conflict; conflicting interests within political and economic elites; and the concentration of wealth and influence in the hands of a corrupt minority have squandered the prospects of the desired resurgence. Breaking out of the cycle of decline requires a high level of awareness, readiness for sacrifice, and intelligence in managing and resolving conflicts.
We no longer have time or multiple options; the declared war places us before our historical responsibilities and imposes upon us the duty to save our ship before it sinks completely.
