September 23, 1979–December 7, 2023
The assassination of Refaat Alareer with his entire family is a demonstration of the barbarism that the Zionist entity has been perpetrating on the Palestinian people for over 75 years and more recently in its genocidal attack on the Palestinian people in Gaza in partnership with the United States. The Zionist entity’s aggression and its destruction of Gaza as well as the mass murder of Palestinians, mostly children, women and elderly, goes on with impunity. The US vetoes in the UN Security Council have allowed the genocide to continue unabated in the service of the US grand design for West Asia and the Arab world. The lynchpin of US strategy is to put an end to the Palestinian struggle for liberation, a sine qua non for dominating West Asia and the Arab world. Once that is completed, the US imagines, then Chinese and Russian presence in those regions would be significantly weakened if not ended. In this failing scenario, the US hopes to reboot the Zionist entity’s role as the guardian of US global capitalist interests in the region.
It is now clear that the US and its minion, the Zionist entity, would go to any length to achieve that strategic goal even if it meant producing a second Nakba not only in Gaza, but in all of Palestine. The targeting of medical doctors, reporters, ambulance personnel, rescue workers, educators, and academics makes it obvious that the goal of the US–Zionist genocide is to also destroy Palestinian culture.
The struggle of the Palestinian people for liberation, however, has thus far foiled those grand imperialist machinations. As Martyr Refaat Alareer wrote in “If I must die,” there will always be Palestinians to fly the banner high and continue the fight until liberation.