This is Not the Time for Liberation and an Independent State!

If our Palestinian conditions remain mired in division and internal conflicts, and the Arab situations are characterized by varying positions, multiple axes, and dependence on external influences, as well as the current international official stance subjugated to American hegemony, then it is the American-Israeli will that will determine the current and near future of the Gaza Strip in terms of its geography, demography, administration, and its relationship with the authority in Ramallah, as well as the future of the West Bank and the desired Palestinian state—rather than the national decision or the absent common national will, or armed resistance, nor the United Nations and its resolutions.

This statement is not a call for despair, loss of hope, surrender, or abandonment of the right to resist the occupation, but rather a call for rational thinking outside the box of slogans, illusions, and religious heresy. It is about confronting reality by acknowledging our mistakes, especially those of the political class and its parties, and establishing a rational defensive national resistance strategy—not to liberate Palestine now, but to defend the land and holy sites against settlers, especially in the West Bank, and to avoid any actions that would lead to uprooting them from their land or displacing them, even if they involve armed resistance. We must defend our identity, our national culture, and the unity of the people inside and outside under one title, affirming the presence of the people on the land of Palestine even in the shadow of occupation, because establishing the presence of the people, which surpasses the number of Jews, will thwart the establishment of a Jewish state extending from the sea to the river, and will undermine the alleged Zionist project from the Nile to the Euphrates, while continuing diplomatic work and utilizing changes in global public opinion in favor of the justice of our national cause, and the popular movements in the Arab world that respond to normalization and the normalizers, emphasizing the failure of the so-called Abrahamic peace.

To liberate Palestine and establish an independent Palestinian state, we first need this defensive strategy to establish the people on the land of Palestine, which is a necessary condition, from which we can launch into a liberation strategy and statehood, which is a legitimate and fixed right of our national constants, and it is an inevitable upcoming battle, but it requires conditions and factors different from those currently in place, meaning a change in the balance of power on all levels, or as stated in the Quran: preparation, empowerment, and taking the reasons before taking action, because resistance—especially when facing a Zionist terrorist enemy with superiority in all fields and international alliances—is a war, not an adventure or an emotional reaction.

Let us also remind ourselves that what the Palestinian leadership and all Palestinian factions are currently demanding is the recognition of Palestine as a state under occupation. Anyone who claims to have a national, Arab, Islamic, or international vision or strategy to liberate Palestine is deceiving and misleading.