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Another Recalibrated Account of Palestine

Omar Alansari-Kreger

The question of Palestine is largely defined by the confluence of a nationalist
struggle. Numerous groups, factions, and organizations have emerged since 1948 that
have empathetically pressed the world community for the restoration of Palestine as it
existed before the Nakba. For every movement that has emerged for the purpose of
procuring this much endeared objective there have been just as many ideological
flavors that have been behind the pursuit of a restored Palestine. A cause of national
liberation waits to be co-opted by some sort of sponsor ideology and that can determine
the overall level of extremity that situates the plight of the nationalist movement in
question. Those movements have traditionally flaunted to nostalgic outcries which
become quintessentially and in some cases irreversibly nationalistic in nature.
Those that seek to destroy the very notion of the Palestinians as a people are
fully aware that the cause of Palestine is indifferent to religious affiliations even though
there have been organized affinities, arranged on a small scale basis, made to the idea
of a restored and independent Palestine. It is now becoming difficult to hide the fact that
Palestinians stand as a religiously diverse people as opposed to a people defined
exclusively by a single religion. That latter analogy has primarily captured the method in
which mainstream media outlets, from the United States in particular, have covered the
cause of the Palestinian question. It is becoming abundantly obvious that the most
religiously co-opted persuasion from within the spectrum of the Mideast crisis
overwhelmingly spawns from Israeli hardliners and their neo-conservative American
allies; it is becoming evident that latter serves as the backbone of the Christian Zionist
Movement.
The diversification of the media has provided the plight and cause of Palestine
with a second chance to properly redeem its voice before international audiences. Since
the proclamation of Israel as an independent state in 1948, media coverage has been
overwhelmingly biased against the Palestinians. During the tumultuous years of the
Arab-Israeli Wars a great deal of Western media coverage viewed Israel as an
underdog nation striving to protect its right to survive. All the while it was as if the
Palestinians had an unsubstantiated cause because from the standpoint of pro-Israeli
persuasions at the time all they needed to do was to re-assimilate with neighboring Arab
nations; it was and continues to be contested that Israel was a single nation surrounded
by Arab nations bent on destroying it. That tactic worked for the longest time, but now
that all aspects of media are now globally diversified another story can be told; that is
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one of forced eviction, persecution, and wanton genocidal mania all in the name of
restoring the idea of a nation to its rightful place.
Nevertheless, it seems quite evident that a stone wall has been put into place by
the forces that purport political Zionism and that in itself has proven to be one of the
greatest obstacles to peace in the Middle East. The Palestinians have demonstrated
willingness to compromise while enacting pragmatic resolutions so why cant Israel and
its stone-walled supporters follow suit? Immorality breeds immorality just like injustice
leads to injustice and that is why barbarity creates more barbarity among all
sides/persuasions involved. Appreciating that simple reality will go a long way in helping
outsiders and insiders come to terms with the perpetual cycle of brutality which vividly
signifies what we all recognize as the Mideast Crisis.