"It is proven to the colonialist Zionists and the entire world, foremost the US, that the land does not belong to the occupation and that it has no control over it" – PA Daily

Excerpt of a column by Omar Hilmi Al-Ghoul, regular columnist for official PA daily and former advisor to former PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad on national affairs

Headline: “Jerusalem, gunpowder, and the blood dance”

“Last Sunday [May 29, 2022] was one of the lauded days of Jerusalem, a day of freedom, peace, and implementing national sovereignty. This is despite the fact that the entire Israeli colonialist state and its leadership – with its political, military, and security echelon and its settler herds – went wild to execute the blood dance march (i.e., Jerusalem Day flag march) which is covered with the flag of the false narrative and the illegal presence of the Israeli ethnic cleansing state…

Even though the Zionism state reoccupied the eternal Palestinian capital with thousands of its soldiers and members of its army and security forces, as had not happened since its occupation 55 years ago… it was completely exposed in its nakedness, as it is being exposed in all its war crimes. It proved to all the colonialist Zionists and the entire world, and foremost the US, that the land does not belong to it and that it has no control over it or over the [Palestinian] people that owns the eternal history, identity, and presence there since the start of creation and since the first Arab Canaanite person (sic., the Canaanites were not Arabs and the Palestinians have no history prior to the modern period). This is because gunpowder and soldiers of death and organized crime do not give sovereignty to anyone…

The Zionists waved flags of their defeat by force of the gunpowder and army, but they left the occupied city like panicked mice fleeing from the guardians of the city and its Holy Basin…

They ran from the children of Palestine and its lauded women, and from the elderly of the land of Ribat (i.e., religious conflict over land claimed to be Islamic) and its young, because they understand that they are incapable of entering it except under the spears and protection of the Zionist soldiers of Sparta."