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Source: https://critiqueanddigest.substack.com/p/why-there-should-not-be-a-palestine
The Crumbling Legitimacy of "Palestine"
(Substack) Hussein Aboubakr Mansour - A year ago, I allowed myself the optimistic thought that perhaps a different Palestinian identity might yet emerge: one divorced from antisemitic vitriol, revolutionary Third-Worldist fanaticism, and nihilistic death-cult threads. I tried to imagine a future in which Palestinians could somehow find a new identity built on pragmatic coexistence. But by now, it should be clear to all that when your primary currency is kidnapping civilians and parading their remains to public cheers, you forfeit whatever moral capital a national struggle might once have enjoyed. The Palestinians never grasped a viable political path. Instead, an identity was cultivated on an endless cycle of grievance, victimhood, and terror as a method of expression. The repeated wars, the refusal to disentangle themselves from regional power struggles or global revolutions, the refusal to accept peace deals, and the cultural glorification of martyrdom have created a toxic personality structure that has a flag. The events we just witnessed - children paraded around corpses - are not an isolated atrocity but reflect a deeper moral and cultural collapse: no meaningful leadership capable of guiding Palestinians toward a humane, tolerant society appears to exist. The formal structure called "Palestine" has, in practice, become a source of destruction for themselves and for the region. Palestinian leadership and outside advocates keep stoking the fires of "resistance" while funded and cheered by narcissistic Western liberal elites and Qatari conspirators, forever condemning Palestinian children to a cycle of violence and perennial displacement. The writer is an Egyptian-American author and researcher at the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) in Washington.