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“Every settler colonial project has a metropole.” Professor Rashid Khalidi told Drop Site that the battlefield for Palestine is also in the West — in Washington, New York, Paris, and London. From Algeria to Vietnam, South Africa to Ireland, colonial regimes only fell when the metropole turned, he explained....

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Professor PLO Lumumba has warned that while colonial powers are once again seeking to divide Africa in order to conquer it through a new scramble for the continent, such tactics can no longer serve as an excuse for Africa’s inaction. He insists that Africa must recognize its collective strength in negotiating with the West and the European Union as a united front. The continent must reject bilateral engagements with individual foreign powers and instead demand that all strategic partnerships, particularly in the realms of military, energy, manufacturing, technology, artificial intelligence, and textiles, be conducted at the level of the African Union. This, he argues, is the path to genuine anti-colonial and anti-imperialist sovereignty.
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Professor PLO Lumumba has warned that while colonial powers are once again seeking to divide Africa in order to conquer it through a new scramble for the continent, such tactics can no longer serve as an excuse for Africa’s inaction. He insists that Africa must recognize its collective strength in negotiating with the West and the European Union as a united front. The continent must reject bilateral engagements with individual foreign powers and instead demand that all strategic partnerships, particularly in the realms of military, energy, manufacturing, technology, artificial intelligence, and textiles, be conducted at the level of the African Union. This, he argues, is the path to genuine anti-colonial and anti-imperialist sovereignty.

THEE ALFA HOUSE

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📽️ From October 12, 2023: Professor Rashid Khalidi spoke about the urgent need for a unified Palestinian political strategy amid the fallout from October 7. He warned that without long-term goals, clear messaging, and national unity, Palestinians would lose global support. “The ANC didn’t win just because they fought on the ground… They won because what they were trying to do was something they could make clear to the world,” he said. Citing lessons from Algeria, Ireland, and South Africa, Khalidi called for a strategy that’s “translatable and explicable to the world.” “We don’t have that right now, That’s one reason we are in the mess that we’re in.” Catch Professor Khalidi live tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. ET on Drop Site News as we revisit his 2023 warning — and ask where the struggle for Palestinian political unity and direction stands today.
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📽️ From October 12, 2023: Professor Rashid Khalidi spoke about the urgent need for a unified Palestinian political strategy amid the fallout from October 7. He warned that without long-term goals, clear messaging, and national unity, Palestinians would lose global support. “The ANC didn’t win just because they fought on the ground… They won because what they were trying to do was something they could make clear to the world,” he said. Citing lessons from Algeria, Ireland, and South Africa, Khalidi called for a strategy that’s “translatable and explicable to the world.” “We don’t have that right now, That’s one reason we are in the mess that we’re in.” Catch Professor Khalidi live tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. ET on Drop Site News as we revisit his 2023 warning — and ask where the struggle for Palestinian political unity and direction stands today.

Drop Site

23,022 views • 11 months ago

Kibbutz in Kenya: A Settler-Colonial Model Reappears in East Africa For decades, the settler-colonial state of Israel has practised the kibbutz model, a system that began in 1910 and was funded by Zionist organisations to establish Israeli settlements occupied by Jewish immigrants, with the aim of building a homeland on Palestinian land. To present this practice as something other than settler colonialism, Zionist settlers marketed the kibbutz as a collective agricultural settlement. Today, in Kenya, an Israeli named Erez Rivkin is reportedly replicating a kibbutz-style community in Solai, Nakuru County, where Kenyans are not allowed to buy even a single plot of land. For The Spearhead, @mayordeah explains how, from Palestine to Kenya, an Israeli is reviving a 19th-century settler project in East Africa and, more importantly, why this constitutes a dangerous settler-colonial move that must be resisted.
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I was pleased to be able to join the Palestine Solidarity rally in Dundee on Saturday. What is happening in #Gaza is genocide. Israel is a settler-colonial, apartheid state that is guilty of illegal occupation and of war crimes. The murder of civilians must stop. #CeasefireNOW
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I was pleased to be able to join the Palestine Solidarity rally in Dundee on Saturday. What is happening in #Gaza is genocide. Israel is a settler-colonial, apartheid state that is guilty of illegal occupation and of war crimes. The murder of civilians must stop. #CeasefireNOW

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🎥 Watch: Professor Rashid Khalidi says Europe’s response to the Gaza genocide has been “pitiful” — and crosses into complicity. While Israel bombs hospitals and starves civilians, its largest trade partner, the EU, refuses to act. “All the EU has to do is turn the screws a little bit, and Israel will really suffer,” Khalidi says. But European leaders are “so afraid of Trump and the Israel lobby,” they ignore public opinion and continue to shield Israel politically and economically. He calls out not only Europe but also the white settler colonies — Canada, Australia, and New Zealand — as morally complicit. And he slams the renewed push for a two-state solution as a dangerous illusion.
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🎥 Watch: Professor Rashid Khalidi says Europe’s response to the Gaza genocide has been “pitiful” — and crosses into complicity. While Israel bombs hospitals and starves civilians, its largest trade partner, the EU, refuses to act. “All the EU has to do is turn the screws a little bit, and Israel will really suffer,” Khalidi says. But European leaders are “so afraid of Trump and the Israel lobby,” they ignore public opinion and continue to shield Israel politically and economically. He calls out not only Europe but also the white settler colonies — Canada, Australia, and New Zealand — as morally complicit. And he slams the renewed push for a two-state solution as a dangerous illusion.

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Professor PLO Lumumba reflects on why Kenya consistently falls under Western influence, even as it hosted a France-Africa Summit at a time when the French are being expelled from West Africa. He observes that in courting Nairobi, the West tells Kenya it is exceptional, more sophisticated than its neighbors Uganda and Tanzania, a middle-income economy. This, he argues, is how they continue to divide and rule, ensuring that the dream of a united East Africa remains unrealized. As a result, the region can no longer hold together, neither in resolving conflicts (Sudan, South Sudan, DRC-Rwanda) nor in negotiating as a collective bloc. Such is the enduring cunning of colonial and imperialist strategy.
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Professor PLO Lumumba reflects on why Kenya consistently falls under Western influence, even as it hosted a France-Africa Summit at a time when the French are being expelled from West Africa. He observes that in courting Nairobi, the West tells Kenya it is exceptional, more sophisticated than its neighbors Uganda and Tanzania, a middle-income economy. This, he argues, is how they continue to divide and rule, ensuring that the dream of a united East Africa remains unrealized. As a result, the region can no longer hold together, neither in resolving conflicts (Sudan, South Sudan, DRC-Rwanda) nor in negotiating as a collective bloc. Such is the enduring cunning of colonial and imperialist strategy.

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European settler land theft best explained by Mqabuko Nkomo. He is even more diplomatic in regurgitating the British coined phrase " land question ". We are very clear as Africans about our land, it is only European colonial settlers who have got questions about us owning our land because white supremacy cannot reconcile itself with the reality of Africans being human and owners of African land. Using the negotiated settlements, European colonial settlers categorized land as a property under Bill of Rights to protect white privilege and land theft. Also, the European settlers have mastered the art of hiding their ills behind black bishops, which bring about the theme of the church being a colonial tool meant to hoodwink Africans into jamming to the colonial hyms and whims on things at the heart of our existence, on land. Roman Catholic Church, Anglican Church, and Methodist Chruch have been central to the protection of colonial privileges in Africa.

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This football game between Ireland and Israel cannot, must not, go ahead. The onus is on the government to do the right thing and stop this game from going ahead altogether, not shirk off responsibility to individual players. We have a long and proud history of boycotting brutal racist colonial regimes, the government would do well to listen to the people, honour that legacy and stop this game. 🇵🇸🇮🇪

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BREAKING: 🇺🇸 Director of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center Joe Kent has stepped down due to the war with Iran He says he cannot in good conscience support the war in Iran. “I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran,” he said on X. “Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.”

Megatron

49,742 views • 4 months ago

"Hamas is not going to be eradicated no matter what Israel does in Gaza. Even if Israel defeats Hamas's entire military network, even if it kills every Hamas fighter, Hamas continues as a political movement, Hamas continues to have support, not a majority, but a certain amount of support. The idea that b/c of what Hamas did on Oct. 7th, it is excluded from Palestinian governance, is an Israeli, European & American fantasy. You do not negotiate with the people who have already agreed to your terms. You couldn't do that in Ireland, you had to bring the IRA in, you couldn't do that in South Africa, you had to bring the ANC in, you couldn't do that in Algeria, you had bring the FLN in. These groups that had carried out horrific attacks against civilians, they were described as terrorists or bandits, but the only people you really need to negotiate with are the people with the guns. Until that fact gets through the thick skulls of people in Washington & London & Paris, we are not going anywhere." - Rashid Khalidi
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"Hamas is not going to be eradicated no matter what Israel does in Gaza. Even if Israel defeats Hamas's entire military network, even if it kills every Hamas fighter, Hamas continues as a political movement, Hamas continues to have support, not a majority, but a certain amount of support. The idea that b/c of what Hamas did on Oct. 7th, it is excluded from Palestinian governance, is an Israeli, European & American fantasy. You do not negotiate with the people who have already agreed to your terms. You couldn't do that in Ireland, you had to bring the IRA in, you couldn't do that in South Africa, you had to bring the ANC in, you couldn't do that in Algeria, you had bring the FLN in. These groups that had carried out horrific attacks against civilians, they were described as terrorists or bandits, but the only people you really need to negotiate with are the people with the guns. Until that fact gets through the thick skulls of people in Washington & London & Paris, we are not going anywhere." - Rashid Khalidi

Zachary Foster

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"Palestine-Israel Conflict Dividing the World" MUST SEE: A surprising segment on MSNBC. Former State Dept Nayyera Haq Nayyera & Former CIA Director Talk Global Palestine Sympathy, the US being isolated from the Global South, Colonialism in Africa & Global South, and How Africa is the Future Joy Ann Reid ask "Is the United States becoming isolated from the Global South" The Post WW2 Order produced wealth for the West BUT it also produced Colonialism, Slavery, and Exploitation for the Global South and Africa The Future is Africa. 1 in 4 Humans on the earth (in the near future) will be Africa Why does the Former Cia Director sound like a College Professor teaching "US World Colonialism 101" Why did Joy Ann Reid bring on 2 former state dept people to talk about colonialism
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"Palestine-Israel Conflict Dividing the World" MUST SEE: A surprising segment on MSNBC. Former State Dept Nayyera Haq Nayyera & Former CIA Director Talk Global Palestine Sympathy, the US being isolated from the Global South, Colonialism in Africa & Global South, and How Africa is the Future Joy Ann Reid ask "Is the United States becoming isolated from the Global South" The Post WW2 Order produced wealth for the West BUT it also produced Colonialism, Slavery, and Exploitation for the Global South and Africa The Future is Africa. 1 in 4 Humans on the earth (in the near future) will be Africa Why does the Former Cia Director sound like a College Professor teaching "US World Colonialism 101" Why did Joy Ann Reid bring on 2 former state dept people to talk about colonialism

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told 60 Minutes that the U.S. and Israel’s war with Iran is “not over,” and called the goal of removing enriched uranium from the Islamic Republic a “terrifically important mission.” He also told CBS News’ Major Garrett that he wants Israel "to draw down to zero the American financial support" in the next decade.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told 60 Minutes that the U.S. and Israel’s war with Iran is “not over,” and called the goal of removing enriched uranium from the Islamic Republic a “terrifically important mission.” He also told CBS News’ Major Garrett that he wants Israel "to draw down to zero the American financial support" in the next decade.

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24,026 views • 2 months ago

BREAKING: Director of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center Joe Kent has stepped down, says he cannot in good conscience support the war in Iran. “I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran,” he said on X. “Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.”
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🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 Israel can't fight a sustained war with Iran on its own, and Trump knows it. Fmr. CIA Analyst Larry Johnson says Israel has almost no refueling tankers of its own and depends entirely on the U.S. to keep its jets in the air. If it restarts the war without Washington, he says Israel would be begging for U.S. intervention within 12 days. Iran is 80 times larger. Take out Haifa and Tel Aviv and Israel is off the map, while Iran still has cities to spare. "Size matters, man. Size matters." SonofNewAmericanRevolution
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🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 Israel can't fight a sustained war with Iran on its own, and Trump knows it. Fmr. CIA Analyst Larry Johnson says Israel has almost no refueling tankers of its own and depends entirely on the U.S. to keep its jets in the air. If it restarts the war without Washington, he says Israel would be begging for U.S. intervention within 12 days. Iran is 80 times larger. Take out Haifa and Tel Aviv and Israel is off the map, while Iran still has cities to spare. "Size matters, man. Size matters." SonofNewAmericanRevolution

Mario Nawfal

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