This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Palestinian people's Nakba, when they were expelled from their homeland by the Zionist movement that established the Israeli occupation state on the land of our ancestors. Since then, Palestinians have experienced nothing but displacement, aggression and injustice from Israel. Since March 30, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip began the Great March of Return, peaceful protests demanding the right of refugees to return to their homes, during which more than 130 Palestinians, including women and children, have been killed by occupation snipers, and about 15,000 others have been injured, while the international community has remained silent, while US President Donald Trump has blatantly sided with the aggressors.

Israel has always used religious rhetoric to polish its image in the West and gain its support to complete its colonial project in Palestine, and Trump's public support for this project was the most prominent evidence of this. Zionist leaders such as Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir, despite their terrorist background, became prime ministers of Israel. Begin led the Irgun terrorist organization, while Shamir headed Lehi, both of which were responsible for massacres and bombings of Palestinians and the British, the most famous of which was the 1946 bombing of the King David Hotel. Yet this bloody history is overlooked in Britain and America, which consider Israel a strategic ally, despite its 1967 attack on the USS Liberty, an attack that killed 34 American sailors.

Thwarting the Deal of the Century Is Possible

Although international law guarantees the Palestinian people the right to resist the occupation and the right of return, resistance is portrayed in Western media as terrorism, and its movements are included in lists of "terrorist organizations," as the United States did with Hamas, despite the fact that Hamas has not taken any action outside of Palestine. On the contrary, horrific Israeli crimes are committed against civilians in Gaza and the West Bank without any accountability, and its assassinations extend to Palestinian scientists and activists in several countries, such as the assassination of Fadi al-Batsh in Malaysia, Mohammed al-Zawari in Tunisia, Mohammed al-Mabhouh in Dubai, and the attempted assassination of Khaled Meshaal in Jordan, in a flagrant violation of the sovereignty of multiple countries, including allies.

Israel is treated as a state above the law, killing, assassinating, and violating international conventions with impunity, then promoting itself as a force to combat "terrorism" and exporting this "security product" to global markets, while destroying the aspirations of the Palestinian people in the name of "self-defense." This Israeli behavior is a direct threat to global peace and stability. This Israeli behavior poses a direct threat to global peace and stability.

"Islamic" terrorism is a U.S. and Israeli creation

The occupation and its allies promote the idea of "Islamic terrorism," while America turns a blind eye to its involvement in creating extremist groups to achieve its agendas in Iraq and Syria. As for the Palestinian resistance, it is exclusively directed against the occupation and has not interfered in the affairs of any country. Hamas, for example, left Syria when the revolution broke out there and refused to support the Assad regime against its own people. Despite its preference for peaceful solutions, it reserves its legitimate right to defend its people.

The deal collapses... and the people win

Trump, one of the most extremist US presidents, went beyond even Netanyahu in his pro-occupation policies, recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital in defiance of UN resolutions. However, the "deal of the century" has failed to gain any Palestinian support, at a time when people are beginning to break free from the grip of misleading media thanks to social media, which reports crimes in real time.

Trump's deal, which he wanted to be the "deal of the century," is gradually turning into the "failure of the century," and he will be remembered in history alongside Zionists and Arab dictators as one of the most prominent people who supported injustice and sought to liquidate a just cause. As for the Palestinian people, they will remain a symbol of steadfastness and dignity, and their heroes will be immortalized in history, because Heroes don't die.