International Intifada

An urgent call to participate in the colonizer’s execution

 

Reprinted April 2003.
Originally Published June 2002.
PARTI

THE ZIONIST PROJECT

In 1948 a collaboration
between a group of Jewish
imperialists, (Zionists) Britain and
America created the State of Israel
Not surprisingly, the Zionist State
is. very similar to Britain and
America’s other imperialist
missions throughout the world.

Isracl’s creation has expelled
over three million Palestinians
from their homeland. Those who
have remained live under a brutal
apartheid state, as non-Jews within
a system created entirely for Jews.
It is not uncommon to hear the
Zionists describe the Palestinians
as ‘cockroaches’ and ‘filthy dogs.”

Accordingly, Palestinians are
treated like the American Negro
after the civil war, shoved around,
spat on, ghettoized, ruthlessly
exploited, and frequently brutally
assaulted. Meanwhile, any Jew
from anywhere in the world is
vigorously encouraged to settle in
Palestine, and crowd the people
out even further.

Understandably, when Israel
declared itself a nation in 1948,
surrounding Arab nation
declared war against them. ‘The
Arabs lost the war and even more
of Palestine than the UN originally
promised the Zionists. Again, in
1967, the Arab Nations fought a
war against the Zionists, and again
they lost. At the end of the war,
Israel had stationed its military on

the west bank of the Jordan River,
and in the Gaza strip on the coast
of the Mediterranean Sea

‘The — military occupation
continues, and increases its vicious
domination of the Palestinians
Hundreds of new, all-Jew suburban
developments are steadily being
built, and thousands of Jewish
settlers (who choose to be Israelis)
are arriving to steal larger and
larger chunks of Palestine. The
settlers view their presence in the
west bank and) Gaza asa
missionary project to support the
“holy” land of Israel. They are
frequently armed, and often show
their “support” in Klan-style terror
campaigns against Palestinians.

‘The settlements are connected
by militarily patrolled “bypass”
roads for Jews only, so that the
Jews can’ totally “bypass” the
people whose land they are
stealing, Palestinian land is rapidly
being seized through imperial laws
which condone theft. ‘The Israeli
military uproots thousands of olive
trees to cripple the Palestinian

economy. Palestinian homes are
frequently bulldozed as
punishment for resisting the
‘occupation.

‘The occupied territories are
riddled with military checkpoints,
where millions of Palestinians are
subjected daily to degrading
scrutiny by the Israeli military. The
Palestinian population is forced to
pay a whole series of taxes to fund
their own subjugation

All of this fits within the
British model in Ireland, the Dutch
model in South Africa, the
American model in Turtle Island,

the Spanish model on Aztec land,
and so forth, And, America
explicitly and rigorously supports
Israeli policies: with guns, money,
helicopters, propaganda, tanks, and
political manipulation.

 

THE INTIFADA

‘The Arabic word “intifada” is
roughly translated as “uprising” or
“shaking off.” It is the word that
the Palestinians have chosen to
name their popular struggle against
Israel.
‘The original intifada was a
campaign of non-
compliance with the Zionist State
spanning from 1987 until 1992,
‘The intifada had the
support of almost one
hundred percent of the
Palestinian population and
included: boycotts of Israeli
goods, mass
demonstrations, tax strikes,

 

workers’ strikes, rock
throwing, agricultural,
medical, educational,

housing and consumer
cooperatives to cripple the
Israeli occupation and to
create anew and
independent Palestinian
nation.

‘Though united under
the central leadership of the
Marxistleaning Palestinian
Liberation Organization
(PLO), the intifada was

 
   
  
  
  
    
    

carried out by an intricate
of dozens of local “uprising
committees” that could remain

 

functioning even when many of
their leaders were jailed

Some of the most highly
respected freedom fighters are the
shebab (literally “the boys"): the
masked Palestinian youth (some as
young as seven or eight) that
produce intifada graffiti, throw
rocks to defend communities, and
kill Palestinians who collaborate
with Israel.

Women also played a critical
role in the intifada, participating on
every level of the resistance, while
siill carrying out their full load of
tasks required by the sexist
conditions of their society. To
some extent, the need for unity in
the fight against Israel allowed for
a good deal of “shaking off” of
patriarchal standards’ and
expectations of women.

‘The Intifada was carried out
while Isracli imposed harsh (and
sometimes 24 hour “shoot on
sight”) curfews in dozens of,
Palestinian towns and villages,
sometimes for weeks on end. ‘The
Israeli Defense Forces arrested

     
  
  
 
   

  

thousands of Palestinians at every
level of society for ing
occupation. The IDF also
frequently murdered Palestinians

they “suspected” of being
“cerrorists” (the shebab mostly). The
Israclis blew up Palestinians using
small explosives disguised t0 look
like chocolate bars so that young
children would explode “upon
impact with the “candy.”

But the spirit of the intifada
was such that when homes were
demolished or olive crops,
destroyed by the Israclis, villages
came together to plant and build
again, And, when workers were
trapped in their homes by Isracli
curfews, the uprising committees
would ensure workers full wages
for their time out of work
Demonstrations popped as if out
of nowhere and faded away within
fifteen minutes; the shebab
disappeared into the rest of the
Palestinian population.

 

The intifada was everywhere,
and it was nowhere.
THE “PEACE” PROCESS

In 1992, the PLO signed a
“peace treaty,” known as the Oslo
Accords, The US and Israel carefully
manufactured the accords (0
ensure Palestinians would have
enough of an illason of autonomy
to stop. fighting, but nothing
substantial enough to threaten
Zionist-American imperialism or
gain any true freedom.

Similar to the agreement
reached in 1947 to partition India
(which resulted in over two million
slaughtered) and US Army treaties,
with Indigenous leaders for “as
Jong as the grass grows and the sun
shines...” (loaking the

extermination of more than 95%
of the native population - over ten
million people) the Oslo Accords
were simply another one of the
colonizer’s weapons,
Essentially, the
Authority was given the power to
police some small portions of stil
occupied Palestine, as long as they
remained loyal t0 the Zionist’s
goals, ‘The settlements would
continue, construction of bypass
roads would continue, the US
would continue to arm Israel, and a
handful of elite Palestinians would
‘get to police their own population.

Palestinian

THE AL-AQSA INTIFADA

‘The gross failure of the “peace
process” to bring any genuine
improvement to the lives of
everyday Palestinians, combined
with the rampant corruption of the
Palestinian Authority (PA) and the
rise to power of the fascist butcher
Ariel Sharon in Israel, sparked the
second intifada. It is known as the
“ALAgsa” intifada, because on
September 28, 2000, as an
intentional provocation, Sharon
visited the ALAgsa mosque in
Jerusalem, unleashing the wave of
anger that is the rebirth of the
Palestinian intifada.

‘This time around, the
Palestinian uprising is fiercely and

vehemently resisting the imperialist
bastards. Suicide bombings within
Israeli cities and Zionist
settlements increase in frequency
and — strength. Many mass
demonstrations include folks with
guns who will shoot back at the
Isracli military and a number of
large-scale riots have erupted in the
occupied territories.

‘This new intifada is a raging
tumult against both the US-Zionist
occupiers and the traditional
Palestinian leadership. ‘The PLO
and PA having accepted (rampant
wealth and) the role of suppressing
popular uprisings (and calling on
the US to put down Palestinian
rots) are now being exposed for
what they have become: enemies
of Palestinian freedom. Militant
Islamist organizations, — notably
Hamas, are now playing social
service roles in the Palestinian
‘community and are at the forefront
of the attack against Israel

Isracl responds in true
colonizer fashion: never flinching
to increase its systematic
decimation of Palestinian people,
homes, and dignity

Currently, Israel is the most

 

overtly brutal colonial system in
the world. Militarily backed by the
American empire to. an
unfathomable degree, Israel
continues to carry out one of the
most lethal programs of imperialist
aggression the world has ever seen.
Since the beginning of the intifada,
nearly 200 Palestinians have been

 

 

murdered and over 5,000 wounded
by the Israelis.

Recently, in response to a
Palestinian attempt to blockade a

tank attempting to invade their
community, Israel murdered
seventeen people, and _ jailed
approximately 2,000 men between
the age of 18 and 45. ‘The men
were rounded up wholesale, many
of them given an ID# in ink on
their forearms, and_ imprisoned
simply for being Palestinian men.

It must have reminded
Palestinians of the Sabra and
Chatilya massacres of 1982. Then,
in southem Lebanon, Cl
fundamentalists, backed by and in
collaboration with the Israelis,
murdered 600 Palestinian refugees
in one giant, rotting pile. And,
1,800 more were reported as
“missing.” These men were herded
into a giant stadium and never
returned to. sce their mothers,
daughters and sisters.

 

 

 

Tt must have reminded at least
a. few  semi-conscious folks of
National Socialism in Germany,
1933. That was when, well, you
know.

 
PART IL

THE NEW OFFER

‘The colonizer must be executed.

It has been the colonizer
against us all, and he has turned us
against ourselves so that even
when you can’t see him, he is with
you, Killing you slowly. We must
Kill him quickly, before we have
been ruined entirely

"The day that the colonizer is
sent to his geave will be the
birthday of a free humanity

‘You're invited to participate in
his assassination, In fact, your
participation is bis assassination,

Ever since you were born, you
have been dying — so. that the
colonizer might live. It is time to
start living — so that the colonizer
might die.

From now on, you can discard
your desire to make peace with, or
reform, the colonizer.

‘There is nothing more to ask
of him,

We asked him kindly not to
take our land, and, after seizing it,
he raped the women among us,
poisoned our water, destroyed our
‘crops, and built churches, temples,
mosques, memorials and museums
‘on our bloodied soil

We demanded to be included
in his government, ballot boxes,

 

schools, and armies; he has let us
in, exactly to the extent to which
we agree to remain degraded,
docile, invisible, and inferior in his
presence.

We have written a million
letters, cast a million votes, signed
a million petitions, and marched a
million times with a million signs ~
all asking him to please, please, please
not start another vicious, greedy
war. And billions of us have — on
dozens of occasions — been sent all
across the globe to butcher each
other ruthlessly and to stuff his
filthy pockets and fatten his
gluttonous stomach.

We have pleaded with him to
simply go away, to be done, to
leave us alone. Sometimes he
leaves, but only after ensuring that
we are t00 poor, too tired, 100
conditioned, too addicted, or too
busy killing each other to actually
live free on our own, And, you can
be sure, less than a day after he has
left my house, he has shown up at
yours ~ telling you, “You're in the

It is best just to murder the
fucker.
‘THIS IS NOT A CALL FOR MASS SLAUGHTER

No amount of killing of
Americans, Brits, and Israelis will
free us from colonial domination.
‘This is not to say that these folks
won't be (or “shouldn't be”) killed
in the process of decolonization.
What is being said is that there is
nothing inherent, or genetically
significant, about settler
populations (whites, Spaniards,
Frenchman, Israelis, etc.) that
could be done away with through
simple slaughter.

‘The American as the American
must dic. If she will not commit
suicide, she will need to be killed.
But the human being raised to
believe in, defend and perpetuate
American imperialism, may live
free exactly when they are no
longer willing to defend
Americanism,

All of us in America have been
forced to understand ourselves on
the colonizer’s terms, We were
offered only demeaning definitions
of ourselves.

Both subtly and brutally, the
messaging was placed inside us that
we are American. In a nation built

   

fon stolen land, slave labor and
genocide, we are a people with an
untold and untellable history.

‘The American is a great, and
deadly, lie. We buy fantasy images
of ourselves as free people, and we
simultaneously continue to create a
way of life where people are forced
to sell themselves into a life of

endless misery and boredom,
simply to survive.

‘Those of us raised to think of
ourselves as ‘white? have been
particularly bludgeoned since birth
to passively accept and reinforce
colonization. We have been bought
off with petty privileges, and a
slightly less harsh (but never far
away) whip. The missions of the
colonizer have been so deeply
imbedded inside us that we find
ourselves struggling against an
alien oppressive force inside our
hearts and minds whenever we try
and have peer relationships with
non-white people.

No, it is worse. The colonizer
has invaded so thoroughly, we
have such difficulty distinguishing
ourselves from him, that we can no
longer truly have peer relationships
with anyone.

In all-too-subtle ways we have
come to embody the aggression,
arrogance, thievery and
dismissiveness of the colonial
project. The colonizer dominates
even our most intimate spaces, so
that notions of submission and
domination viciously taint our
attempts at love, Our attempts to
be helpful all too often replicate
the old values of the Christian

 

crusades.

By shaping a white identity for
certain human beings of European
descent, the colonizer has started a
war within millions of human

 
    

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beings. The “white” person’s heart
and mind are occupied territories.
“The settler within us secks to
stay alive af ail cst, And, even if we

 

are fighting him at every turn, our
humanity shows itself only in the
briefest glimmers.

   

‘The settler and the human
cannot occupy the same space. One
of them must die.

This is what is meant by saying
that the coloniger must be executed.

DEATH TO THE SYSTEM

‘The most essential murder is
the murder of the system of.
colonization, so that the system
can no longer execute its
murderous schemes.
Settler-colonialism is a created
system. It goes back at least one
thousand years and pretty
consistently looks something. like
the 17th century British system of
the Ulster plantation in Northern
Ireland. The British government
gave away Trish land to British and
Scottish settlers, and made them
sign an agreement that they would
build an armed fortress on “their”

land, and that they would remain
forever loyal to the English crown.

‘The settlers were to take the
best land, and then collect taxes
from the native for the ‘right? to
remain on the settler’s property.
Laws were written by the British to
ensure that, no matter how similar
the settlers might be with the
native, they could never know one
another as peers,

A ferocious sense of,
superiority is encouraged in. the
settler: their religion, language,
culture, and physical features must
all be established as undeniably
superior to the native’s. The native
must either be brutally excluded
from these activities, or brutally
forced into accepting them as their
If both settlers and natives
must go to schools, the native
schools. must be inferior, and
encourage stupidity and docility. IF
the natives are to be allowed jobs,
it is only to ‘break them’ of their
uncivilized ways, and only under
the worst conditions, for the worst
pay. If anything in the native
culture is allowed to survive, it is
only because it can turn a profit
for, and sufficiently entertain the
settler. If the native is to live
amongst the settler, it is only
because she is his servant - and
still, in her own community, there
will never be enough to truly live.

And, of course, if the natives
ever step out of line, it is the
settler’s responsibility to shove
them back down again.

All of this is a creation, It
exists to serve the interests of the
imperial mother country, and it
remains because of the guns,
courts, jails, asylums, theologies
and schools of the —colonii
government. ‘The whole system is
founded on slaughter of all kinds,
at all levels, and to all living things.

No one has anything like real
autonomy or dignity. ‘The native is
forced t0 submit to the settler, the
settler is a mere thug for the elites,
and the elites have all sense of
humanity leached from them in the
Interests of profiting the system. It
is the system that lives, and we all die
for its survival

 

THE INTERNATIONAL INTIFADA

It is time for the international
intifada. Ie is time to globalize the
“shaking off” of colonization.

After 2,000 years of suffering
the —civilizing mission —_ of.
imperialism, we can unleash a full-
fon program of decolonization and
deciviization.

Our goal will be both simple
and profound and everyone is
invited to participate.

But no one is invited who needs to
remain passive

Our goal is nothing more than
the total and uncompromising
destruction of the colonial system.

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We will ally with each and
every struggle for independence
from colonial rule.

We will reject no tactic that
legitimately secks to do away with
colonialism, and we will rigorously
challenge every attempt by the
colonized to placate, make peace
with, or seck a moderate reform
from the colonizer.

We will unconditionally reject
every viewpoint that argues that
there can be any conditions put on
self-determination for colonized

peoples,
We will systematically learn
and teach history which radically
undermines the system. Because
the colonizer has robbed us all of
our past, and dominates our
present, simply demanding to
know history will be a weapon
against the system. We will build
our own future by studying where
our previous attempts to destroy
colonialism have fallen short, and
refusing to fall for the same
murderous tricks.

We will begin to desinilze
society. The civilizing motion of
colonial society leads us ever
deeper into the pit of stronger,
more vicious, more centralized and
more multi-faceted systems of,
colonial domination,

And all along, the mission of
civilization hasbeen a brutal
extermination of indigenous, pagan
and animist spiritual cultures,
shrouded in the guise of “we
intended” efforts towards progress.
‘This slaughter brought about by
the monotheists is not a side issue.
Colonialism would be nowhere
without the forceful subjugation of
simple, self-sufficient, earth-loving
folk.

So, instead of secking to out-
modernize the imperial powers,
and instead of iconisizing African
kingdoms and such, we will
struggle in defense of the
indigenous and uncivilized anti-
colonial warriors

We will
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neither colonizers nor colonized
peoples. We will consistently and
constantly commit treason against
colonial values and mentalities. We
will shake off all of the
conditioning that was forced on us
by the colonial society, all the way
down to the most subtle and
hidden colonial attributes.
We will fight to win
We will expose colonialism as
an inhuman system of oppression,
and we will wholly and unceasingly
struggle for the recreation of our

 

 

own humanity and the
assassination of colonization.
‘The rebellion against

colonization has been never-ending
and spanned the entire globe.
Numerous colonial governments
have been ousted from native land,
and so-called revolutionary
governments have been set up in
the new nation-state. But nowhere,
at any time, has colonization been
eradicated.

‘And, everywhere the colonizer
has fought against us, he has been
fall of an overflowing arrogance
that he will surely win. He has,
created entire industries, running
full-time, that are focused on
studying new and more effective
ways of maintaining the system at all
cost.

We will fight, not with a
defeatist sense that we are “doing
the best we can,” but with a
dignified sense that me are doing
everything possible, and we should surey

 
‘That's it
‘That's our final offer.

Everyone is invited to

participate

and no one is invited
who wants to remain

 

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