Palestinization of Syrians and the present world condition Part 4 of Yassin Salehs Forty-four months and fourty-four years 09-01-2015: ...The Palestinization of Syrians means that these people are stripped of political agency, their lives colonized, and so their annihilation becomes easy. This process also signals the Israelization of the Assad state that colonizes and massacres them, while enjoying international protection. Before the expatriation of more than four million Syrians from their homes, the majority of Syrians were already internally exiled within a country that was already expropriated from them and labeled as “Assad’s Syria.” Part of the population identifies with the regime, for class or sect reasons, but even these people have no real political rights. Those who have tried to claim politics and rights have been faced with destruction, again and again. Conditions of displacement, refuge, and exile cannot be grasped without an understanding of their origins in a political order that denies the population ownership of their lives, country, and politics. That is why a radical solution to the problem of the Syrian refugees requires standing in solidarity with them as they work to reclaim their country, instead of acting as if Syrians fled their country as a result of a natural disaster. It requires understanding that the entity who Palestinianized Syrians is, mainly, the local Israel - the Assad state. Aspects of the Israelization of this “state” are many. It has a complete monopoly over the air force. It has been protected from condemnation by four Russian-Chinese vetoes in the Security Council, just as the United States has done to protect aggressive Israel. It has categorically refused to recognize the opposition as negotiation partners and has expressed no interest in negotiating with them. It has developed a ‘modernizing’ ideology complete with an array of symbols that conceal basic matters of justice and political equality. It dehumanizes Syrian protestors and resisters and accuses them of being terrorists, with the tacit cooperation of the international community as marked (for example) by the granting of a UNESCO award to an organization led by Asma’ al Assad, the tyrant’s wife. And the public killer at the head of this state is supported by all the fascists and Stalinists of the free world and is interviewed in its free press! The West’s exclusive focus on Dae’sh marks the other side of the dehumanization of Syrians, and reduces their much larger struggle to this single, fascist entity. With this move, the society of Syrians inside and outside the country is completely obscured, and as people, they become invisible. This outcome is not a matter of lack of information or knowledge, it is a matter of politics - a politics of the elite, even though some of them argue that they represent the masses.
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