Khaled Barakat: Palestine is a homeland, not a fictitious state on paper
The priority is to stop the Zionist aggression and liberate the prisoners from the enemy’s jails
Beirut – In an interview with the program “Windows” on Al-Alam TV, Palestinian writer Khaled Barakat, member of the Executive Committee of the Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement, affirmed that the Palestinian people view Palestine as a complete homeland, from the river to the sea, indivisible, not merely a “fictitious state on paper.” He pointed out that this has today become the organizing slogan for the marches of tens of millions of people around the world.
Barakat stressed that the struggle of the Palestinian people, extending for more than a century, is a radical liberation struggle for liberation, return, and the dismantling of the colonial Zionist entity, and not for the establishment of a fictitious entity, flimsy self-rule, or a deficient “state” without sovereignty or self-determination imposed through settlement and normalization projects.
He also considered that the project of Western recognition of the “Palestinian state” is nothing more than a colonial attempt to revive what is called the “two-state solution” and to impose it, a solution that entrenches the existence of the Zionist entity and grants it legitimacy over more than 90% of historic Palestine, in exchange for a distorted authority with deficient sovereignty, presented as an alternative to the project of liberation, return, and complete independence over the entirety of Palestinian land.
Barakat added that this liquidationist project comes amid annexation policies, settlement frenzy, and Zionist enemy declarations of a “Greater Israel,” in the midst of the ongoing aggression against the peoples of the region, the genocide being carried out against our people in the Gaza Strip for nearly two years, and the projects of ethnic cleansing and uprooting. He affirmed that all this proves the illusions of “settlement” and the dangers of promoting liquidationist projects led by Saudi Arabia, France, and certain client regimes.
He pointed out that the Zionist enemy refuses even the mere discussion of the fictitious Palestinian state, as it begrudges our people their most basic national rights, or even the mention of Palestinian rights. It seeks through its wars to displace the Palestinians and impose its entity over all of Palestine and the lands it occupies in Lebanon and Syria. It views the subcontracted authority of the occupation in the West Bank as a failed authority it seeks to bend further into serving its schemes. He emphasized that our rejection of the fictitious state means that we stand in fundamental opposition to the position of the enemy.
Barakat called upon the resistance forces and popular movements in Palestine and the diaspora to block the path of this liquidationist project, and to declare the establishment of a fully sovereign Palestinian state over the entire national territory from the river to the sea. He reminded that on this very day in Gaza (September 22, 1948), the All-Palestine Government was declared, as a symbolic and historical expression of the continuation of our liberation struggle and the unity of the Palestinian people, land, and identity.