Aletho News

The Empire of Lies: How the Western Colonial Project Turned Palestine into a Laboratory of Cruelty

By Muhammad Hamid ad-Din – New Eastern Outlook – February 10, 2026

From Washington to Jerusalem: A Chronicle of the Deliberate Destruction of a People Under the Guise of “Democracy” and “Security”.

The Gaza Strip today is not just a territory; it is an open wound on the body of humanity, a laboratory where the West, led by the United States and its puppet Israel, tests new forms of colonial violence. Under the pretext of “fighting terrorism” and “ensuring security,” a systematic destruction of an entire people is taking place—methodical, cynical, paid for by American taxpayers, and approved by the silent consent of European allies.

Trump’s plan for “managing” Gaza is not a solution but a refined form of neocolonial control. It is an attempt to replace open military occupation with a sophisticated system of neocolonial governance, where Palestinians are relegated to the role of perpetual wards, stripped of sovereignty, dignity, and a future.

The Architecture of Apartheid: How the US and Israel Jointly Engineered a Humanitarian Catastrophe

Annually, the United States provides Israel with $3.8 billion in military aid—money that transforms into bombs falling on homes in Gaza, into sniper bullets killing children at the border, into bulldozers uprooting ancient olive groves. This aid is not support for an ally; it is an investment in maintaining a colonial order. American weaponry is field-tested on Palestinians before being supplied to other dictatorial regimes.

The US Congress, that “great defender of democracy,” unanimously supports every Israeli military operation, every settlement expansion, every violation of international law. Democrats and Republicans compete over who can more zealously back Israeli militarism, as if Palestinian lives were merely bargaining chips in their dirty political game.

How many UN Security Council resolutions condemning the Israeli occupation have been vetoed by the United States? Over 45! Each time the international community attempts to condemn Israel’s war crimes, the US sides with the aggressor, demonstrating to the world that for them, international law is merely a tool to be ignored when it suits their geopolitical interests.

Trump’s “Peace to Prosperity” plan is a cynical parody of diplomacy. Creating alternative structures to compete with the UN is not a search for peace but an attempt to destroy the last remnants of multilateral diplomacy where small nations still have a voice. It is an endeavor to replace international law with the law of the jungle, where the strong are always right and the weak are doomed to suffer.

Technologies of Enslavement: Innovations in the Service of Neocolonialism

Israel is today a world leader in surveillance and control technologies, and Palestinians have become the guinea pigs in this laboratory of digital totalitarianism. Facial recognition systems, spy drones, cyber-attacks on infrastructure—all are first tested in Palestine, then exported as “battle-tested” technologies.

The permit system, electronic bracelets, biometric data—Palestinians live in a world where their every move is controlled, every trip requires a humiliating permit, every attempt at a normal life runs into a digital wall. This is not security—this is a scientific-technical apartheid, where technology serves not the advancement of humanity but its enslavement.

The blockade of Gaza is not merely a restriction on the movement of goods. It is a calculated strategy of economic strangulation, designed to make life in the Strip unbearable. The ban on importing construction materials, medical equipment, even baby formula—all are part of a plan to create a humanitarian catastrophe that will force Palestinians either to submit or to flee.

Israel controls Palestinian water, land, airspace, and the electromagnetic spectrum. The Palestinian economy is deliberately made unviable to create perpetual dependence on international aid, which can then be used as a lever for political pressure.

The Mythology of Exceptionalism: From “A Land Without a People” to “The Only Democracy in the Middle East”

Zionist colonization was built from the start on a lie—the lie of “a land without a people for a people without a land.” This initial falsehood spawned an entire ideology of denial: denial of the existence of the Palestinian people, their history, their connection to the land, their right to self-determination.

Today, this ideology has evolved into the rhetoric of a “Jewish state,” which by definition cannot be a state for all its citizens, and “the only democracy in the Middle East,” which rules over millions of people without any political rights. This hypocritical rhetoric finds fertile ground in the West, where Islamophobia and Orientalism render Palestinians as “the other,” whose suffering can be ignored.

Occupation is not only control over territory but also over history, memory, and identity. The destruction of Palestinian archives, the bombing of museums and libraries, the prohibition on teaching Palestinian history in schools—all are part of a strategy of cultural genocide aimed at erasing Palestinians not only from the map but from history itself.

Renaming cities and villages, replacing Arabic names with Hebrew ones, creating “archaeological parks” on the sites of destroyed Palestinian villages—this is an attempt to forge a new reality in which Palestinians are merely temporary guests on “Jewish land.”

International Complicity: The Silent Collusion of the “Free World”

European countries generously fund humanitarian programs in Palestine while simultaneously continuing profitable business with Israeli companies operating in settlements. They condemn “violence on both sides,” equating victim and executioner, the occupied and the occupier. Their “concern” is expressed in mild statements that Israel easily ignores.

The EU continues to grant Israel trade preferences despite the fact that Israeli goods produced in settlements clearly violate international law. This is not mere hypocrisy—it is complicity in crimes, cloaked in the rhetoric of “complexity” and “balancing interests.”

Some Arab regimes, tempted by American promises and intimidated by Israeli might, have betrayed the Palestinian cause. Normalization agreements with Israel, signed by the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan, are not a step toward peace but a capitulation to the colonial project. They have given Israel what it always wanted: recognition without the need to grant Palestinians their legitimate rights.

These regimes, many of which are themselves dictatorships, fear not Israel but their own peoples, for whom the Palestinian cause remains a symbol of justice and dignity. Their betrayal is temporary; popular memory and solidarity will outlive these shameful agreements.

Resistance as an Existential Imperative: Why Palestinians Do Not Surrender

Palestinians have endured the Nakba (Catastrophe) of 1948, the occupation of 1967, intifadas, blockades, countless military operations—and they still stand. Their resistance is not merely a political position but an existential necessity. When attempts are made to erase you from the face of the earth, when your very existence is declared a “demographic threat,” the struggle for survival becomes a struggle for human dignity.

Every olive grove that Israeli settlers try to uproot, every family refusing to leave their home in East Jerusalem, every child walking to school under the muzzles of rifles—is an act of resistance. Palestinian steadfastness shatters the Israeli mythology of the “temporary nature of the occupation”; they remind the world that injustice, no matter how prolonged, remains injustice.

BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions)—a movement that Western governments are so afraid of they try to criminalize—is growing stronger. From university campuses in the US to trade unions in South Africa, from municipalities in Europe to church groups in Latin America, understanding is growing that the Palestinian cause is the cause of all who believe in justice.

The younger generation in the West, unburdened by Holocaust guilt and not bought off by Zionist propaganda, sees Israeli apartheid for what it is. Their solidarity is not just a fashionable trend but a moral imperative based on the universal values of equality and human rights.

Neocolonialism is Doomed, Even When It Seems Omnipotent

History is relentless: colonial projects, no matter how powerful they may seem, are doomed to fail. French Algeria, apartheid South Africa, the Portuguese colonies—they all collapsed because a people’s yearning for freedom cannot be suppressed forever. The American-Israeli colonial project in Palestine will be no exception.

The West, led by the US, is today on the wrong side of history, not on the side of justice. It supports occupation, apartheid, ethnic cleansing—and believes it can do so with impunity. But the moral erosion caused by this complicity in crimes is already undermining the foundations of Western moral authority.

Palestinians will survive because their cause is just, because the land remembers them, because injustice cannot last forever. And when the last wall of apartheid falls, when freedom finally comes to Palestine, history will deliver a harsh verdict not only upon the direct occupiers but also upon their Western patrons, who for seven decades have funded, armed, and justified one of the most brutal colonial projects of our time.

And that day will come—because no people will accept eternal servitude, and no empire, not even an empire of lies, can rule forever.

 

Muhammad Hamid ad-Din, a well-known Palestinian journalist

February 10, 2026 - Posted by aletho | Ethnic Cleansing, Racism, Zionism, Full Spectrum Dominance, Timeless or most popular | European Union, Human rights, Israel, Palestine, United States, Zionism