Intro: The following is a statement from a U.S. war criminal, Harry S. Truman, who authorized the nuclear annihilation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, revealing the foundational logic of American complicity in the Nakba:
I had been to Potsdam and I’d seen some of the places where the Jews had been slaughtered by the Nazis. Six million Jews were killed outright—men, women, and children—by the Nazis, and it was my hope that they would have a homeland where they could operate. So when the time came for that, we set up the Israeli government in Palestine. We moved some of the Arabs out. And they were not moved out and thrown out; they were compensated for the land that they had to give up. The Jews organized a government over there, and it’s been a successful one ever since. They’ve done things over there that never have been done in that part of the world before, and while it’s a small republic, it’s an energetic one.
We started with a quote that lays bare the imperial/colonial mentality: a narrative of European guilt and redemption solved at the expense of the native Arab population; the racist framing of Palestine as a backward region in need of “energetic” settler innovation; and the lie of a peaceful, compensated transfer, which whitewashes the ethnic cleansing of over 750,000 Palestinians from their historical homeland.
For over seventy-seven years, the Nakba has been shrouded in a fog—a miraculous concoction of deception, propaganda, and outright lies, spun in the halls of Western power to conceal an ongoing genocide. Yet, through the smoke and terror, Palestinians have always carried a fundamental certainty in our hearts: this entire edifice of falsehood would evaporate into the air when people began to know the truth. We are now living through that violent, glorious unraveling. The recent spectacle of two Americans—themselves the heirs of a settler-colonial project on stolen native land—Tucker Carlson and Jeffrey Sachs, stumbling through the graveyard of our history, is a stark symptom of this collapse. It is a rare crack in the imperial monolith, allowing shards of raw truth to pierce the manufactured reality. But for Palestinians, who have paid for this truth with generations of blood and exile, what matters is not a shard of revelation, but the full, unvarnished, and terrible totality. And this totality reveals that their well-intentioned confusion, their half-answers, are themselves a product of the very system they attempt to critique.
The connection between the imperial power and our occupied land is not a simple alliance of interests. It is a dialectical relationship, an evolving motion in two directions, a feedback loop of mutual reinforcement. The Yankee empire did not merely midwife the zionist settler-colonial project; it breathed life into its expansion, providing what Carlson quantifies as “$300 billion at least” over 80 years, a “$30 billion” injection in less than two years, and even a quarter of the world’s “THAAD missile batteries” to protect its outpost. But the dialectic is not a one-way street. The zionist entity, this imperial spearhead and criminal tool, is not a passive instrument. Its relentless expansion and its wars—what Professor Sachs, in a moment of stark clarity, identifies as “seven wars right now”—are not merely supported by the empire; they actively generate new global crises that the empire must then manage. As Sachs outlines, Netanyahu’s doctrine, articulated in the “Clean Break” document, is to deliberately create unrest and then ensure “the United States will go to war for us.” This is the grim synthesis of their relationship: a laboratory where tactics of fragmentation and annihilation are tested on Palestinian bodies, and the empire, as both patron and student, learns and exports these methods.
Watching Sachs and Carlson, any aware Palestinian thinks: here are citizens of the state that inherited and amplified the original sin of the Balfour Declaration, once again offering their sick prescriptions from the sidelines of our agony. They present the bankrupt “two-state solution,” a notion Sachs himself champions, insisting “there needs to be a state for the Palestinian people alongside a state of the Israelis.” But this “solution” is the original colonial formula, a weapon wielded with strategic cynicism. The zionist colonialists have only ever entertained this division when they were weak, using negotiations as a tactic to buy time; once their strength was consolidated through imperial backing, they have always refused it, revealing their true goal of total possession. As Sachs himself reveals, the current prime war criminal of this project, Netanyahu, has stated plainly to the world, “there will never be a state of Palestine.” Therefore, this “solution” is not a path to peace but a tool of pacification. Obscuring the settler-colonial and genocidal nature of the state is its only function. It is an attempt to launder a project, which Sachs himself calls a “genocide” and “mass murder,” into a legitimate “neighbor.”
How can a structure built on what he describes as making “Gaza completely uninhabitable and unlivable” ever be a normal state? Its very existence is predicated on our negation. Why, then, do these American intellectuals insist on peddling the corpse of an idea that the zionist land-robbers themselves have already murdered, an idea whose only function is to provide a diplomatic cover for endless occupation and land theft? It is the ultimate arrogance: the arsonists, their hands still smelling of petrol, offering to manage the fire they set.
Professor Sachs, for all the good information he presents, offers only a half-truth, and in doing so, performs the very dilution we must resist. He meticulously lists the symptoms—the “AIPAC lobby,” the “Christian zionist vote base,” the “mass media propaganda”—yet arrives at a stunning confession of intellectual surrender: “To tell you the truth, none of it really adds up… a bit of a mystery.” He cannot see the elephant in the room: the American way of life itself, an engine of capitalist hegemony that requires dominance over the resources and strategic chokepoints of the globe. The Eastern Mediterranean is a vital artery, and the zionist state, as American officials have themselves admitted, is the “spearhead” to maintain that dominance. Sachs marvels that a “tiny and inherently insignificant country” with a “population of Burundi” commands such devotion. He fails to understand that it is not insignificant; it is the indispensable garrison, the “rogue state” whose lawlessness, as he notes, serves as the sharp edge of imperial power. That a learned professor cannot synthesize this is a testament to the deep indoctrination that bends the American mind, a society that, while lecturing the world on freedom, is itself one of the most deeply conditioned on Earth.
This is not a simple struggle. It is a system of interconnected dialectics, a machine of power whose gears are grinding against each other. Alongside the external contradiction—the primary struggle between the native and the settler-colonial alliance—two internal conflicts churn with transformative fury. There is the internal dialectic among the Arab natives of the land, a struggle between the progressive will of the masses and the reactionary cowardice of the comprador regimes, who play the role of the jailer’s assistant, hoping to manage the prison in exchange for a few scraps of privilege. Simultaneously, there is the internal dialectic within the imperialist camp itself, where the relationship between the core and its settler-colonial outpost has become a feedback loop of “absurdity.” As Carlson exposes, a “client state” now barks orders, with IOF officers “barging into meetings” at the Pentagon and a “foreign leader,” Netanyahu, openly plotting to censor American speech, demanding “We push Congress to force a Tik Tok sale” and to “talk to Elon.” This is the dialectic turning in on itself: the weapon created by empire now dictates to its creator, creating what Carlson rightly identifies as a state of “serial humiliation.” But this “humiliation” is merely a symptom. The actual, deeper truth is that this absurdity is the logical, inevitable result of an imperial project that requires its own subjects to be so deeply indoctrinated that they cannot even recognize their own subjugation. The convenient truth is to lament the symptom; the actual truth is to condemn the system that produces it.
Israeli withdrawal and US presence!!
And this theater of humiliation is only possible because of the deep-seated indoctrination, the profound bend in the imperial brain, that prevents the Yank political class from even perceiving its own subjugation. The comprador in Washington is mentally shackled, unable to see that the master it serves abroad has made it a slave at home. This is not a policy failure; it is the logical outcome of an ideological system built on supremacy, now consuming its own.
This is why building a genuine united front requires an uncompromising ideological struggle against dilution. There can be no unity with those who premise their politics on our continued erasure. The front must be united on the non-negotiable principles of the Palestinian cause: the recognition of the ongoing Nakba, the inalienable Right of Return, and the understanding that zionism is a racist, settler-colonial project. The “good lies” of American pundits, who now criticize the “mass murder” but still cling to the frameworks that enabled it, are not welcome. Their task is not to help us find a more palatable version of our oppression, but to confront, as Sachs accuses, their own state’s “complicit[ity] in genocide.”
And now, the magic is turning on the magician. The dialectic produces its own terrifying contradiction. The indoctrinated citizens the Yank capitalist system created are now at the steering wheel of the very empire that conditioned them, steering the supremacist and bloody White House toward the abyss. The relationship has become so pathological that Carlson simply advises, “get some freaking self-respect and stop being ordered around by a client state.” The empire’s own tools of deception are now yielding a monstrous political reality that threatens to consume it from within. The world sees this, and as Sachs notes from the halls of the UN, it is now “two against the world,” with over “95% of the world population” standing against the Yank-zionist axis, leaving the U.S. regime in a state of nauseating isolation, defending the indefensible.
The liberation of Palestine is not a local event. It is the most concentrated front in a global struggle against a hegemonic imperialist system—the dismantling of the very lies that prop up the empire. When these Yank voices finally understand that their stupid, recycled ideas are not welcome, a corner will have been turned. The truth is not a compromise. It is the only foundation for justice. The full truth is that our struggle will not end with a negotiated settlement between the jailer and the jailed, but with the decolonization of the land and the bending of a crooked world back towards justice. The fog is lifting. The lie is unraveling. And we have always known it would.