
Israel is Not the Only Creation of Western Colonialism
The global Jewish population is about 15 million, most of whom live in Israel and the United States, while the Arab population is approximately 450 million, residing in 22 countries that form the Arab League. The number of Muslims stands at about 2 billion across 57 countries, represented by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. Yet, the racist, terrorist Zionist entity known as Israel holds advanced positions globally, militarily and technologically, being the only nuclear state in the region. The Zionist Jewish gangs defeated 7 Arab armies before the establishment of the state in the 1948 war, and Israel was established on 78% of Palestinian land. In the 1967 war, Israel occupied the rest of Palestine and other Arab lands, and it continues to wreak havoc in the Arab region, while Arabs and Muslims remain mired in backwardness and conflicts, with only a few of their states living in stability and a decent standard of life as truly independent sovereign nations.
Some might argue that Israel's power does not stem from itself but from Western support, noting that it would not have existed without the Balfour Declaration and Western colonial backing, initially from Britain and then the USA. They point out that it serves as a Western outpost for advancing Western interests, dominating the region, and preventing its unity. They might reference the Campbell-Bannerman document of 1907 and the Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916, both of which we have written and spoken about extensively.
I acknowledge that this is correct and undeniable historical fact, but it is not the whole truth. The Arab political mind, especially the nationalist and revolutionary factions, has relied solely on this historical narrative to build its entire discourse on the Arab-Israeli conflict, attributing responsibility to the West for everything that occurs, without critically examining the potential accountability of the Arabs themselves, even for part of the blame regarding their backwardness, the corruption of their systems, and the loss of Palestine.
Indeed, Israel is a colonial project. But what about the Gulf monarchies—Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE, Bahrain, and Kuwait—whose emergence coincided with that of the Zionist project and the discovery of oil in the region? Was it not Britain that established these monarchies starting from the last quarter of the 19th century until the establishment of the last state, the UAE, in 1971? Would these countries have emerged and persisted without direct British and then American patronage?
Also, what about the countries included in the Sykes-Picot Agreement in the Levant, which were under Ottoman Empire control? Britain and France divided the spoils of the dying man after World War I and set borders for Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq, appointing rulers and designating a special status for Palestine to be a state for the Jews, an agreement that was exposed by the Russians after the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917?
Yes, Israel is an advanced American base serving Western interests in general. But aren't there American, British, and French bases in all Gulf countries and beyond that serve the same role? We witnessed this during the American bombing of Iraq in 1991 and its occupation in 2003, and during the West's management of the chaos of what is called the Arab Spring, leading to the devastation of Syria and recent strikes on Iran?
There is no defense in this for an illegitimate, terrorist, and racist entity, nor is there any disregard for the attempts by some Arab states to emerge from under American hegemony. Rather, it is an attempt to awaken the Arab mind from its slumber and confront reality instead of fleeing towards a false history filled with myths and lies, whether that history is in its Arab or Islamic version.

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