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You ask, "Stole from whom?"
From the people who lived there.
From the farmers of al-Majdal, the fishermen of Jaffa, the families of Deir Yassin.
From 750,000 Palestinians who were driven from their homes at gunpoint and forbidden to return.
From the owners of lands, orchards, and keys who still carry their deeds.
That’s who.
You ask, "When did this theft occur?"
It began long before 1948.
With settlers arriving under British protection, buying land from absentee landlords, then expelling the peasants who had worked it for generations.
It continued through Plan Dalet. Through massacres and demolitions. Through the razing of 400 villages and the renaming of everything that came before.
And it has never stopped.
You ask if Hamas is the legitimate government.
Was the ANC legitimate in apartheid South Africa?
Was the FLN legitimate in French Algeria?
Was the Viet Minh legitimate when the U.S. called them terrorists?
Legitimacy doesn’t come from your approval.
It comes from the people who suffer and still resist.
You ask if they’ve done anything wrong.
Yes. But resistance has never required perfection.
No colonized people have ever been told to resist flawlessly, except the ones empire wants gone.
You bring up Cambodia and Thailand.
That is not a question. That is a deflection.
Neither Cambodia nor Thailand was built on the mass expulsion of the other’s population.
Neither denies the other's right to exist.
Neither pretends the land was empty.
And neither drops bombs on the dispossessed while claiming sacred entitlement.
You ask what makes me qualified to speak.
I am qualified because I know what colonization looks like.
Because my ancestors were conquered.
Because my people were called "gooks," "chinks," and "slopes" as they bled for their land.
Because I carry the memory of resistance. And I recognize its shape when I see it.
I’m Vietnamese.
We buried French colonialism. Then we buried American imperialism.
We didn’t win because we were polite.
We won because we refused to be erased.
So don’t ask me why I speak for Palestine.
Ask yourself why every colonized people recognizes themselves in Gaza.
You ask how many Muslim countries there should be.
The better question is, how many Jewish states require checkpoints, ethnic cleansing, and airstrikes to exist?
Palestine is not resisting Judaism.
It is resisting erasure.
And here’s the truth you cannot say out loud.
You weren’t hated for who you were.
You were hated the moment your nationalism arrived with tanks and roadmaps, and declared the people already living there a demographic problem.
They don’t hate your identity.
They hate the occupation that hides behind it.
They hate that you took their land, exiled their families, and rewrote their suffering, then called their grief "antisemitism."
This isn’t about how many Muslim countries should exist.
It’s about the one Jewish state being built on top of another people’s ruins.
And no amount of rhetorical gymnastics will make theft look like survival.
Or settler colonialism look like indigeneity.
posted by Satish Sharma at
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