Normalization with the racist, settler-colonialist, zionist entity of Israel often begins with a U.S. directive aimed at Arab regimes, as evidenced by the first attempt with the Camp David Accords in 1978, which led to a “peace” agreement between Egypt and Israel. In essence, normalization coerces Arab regimes in the region to accept their subjugated status as compliant agents, which serves the zionist agenda and its U.S. imperialist patron. In light of the fast pace of change in today’s world order, the U.S. finds it necessary to push for normalization in order to maintain its global, imperialist dominance over Arab nations and thwart their progress toward independent, modern democracies.
Therefore, the current Saudi Arabian (and previous efforts like the Abraham Accords and others) push towards normalization with the zionist enemy fundamentally signifies a recognition of the settler-colonialist state’s legitimacy and an attempt to erase our people’s historical and national rights in all of Palestine. Any discussion about the so-called “two-state solution” is nothing but an attempt to stall and buy time to create new realities on the ground that will be impossible to reverse. This is when submission, surrender, and betrayal become the inherent traits of Saudi Arabia or any other Arab regime that normalizes relations with Israel. The Saudis and the other normalizers have always supported the repression of the Palestine national liberation movement, and believe that peace deals with Israel will eventually quell Palestinian resistance and bring quiet and “stability” to the region.
Within the normalization context, the zionist entity aims to establish economic, security, and political dominance over neighboring Arab nations, while extending its influence to North African nations as well. All these countries are envisioned as expansive markets for global – predominantly U.S. – capital, perpetuating their dependency and disintegration under the auspices of sell-out regimes, especially that of the most reactionary and traitorous of them all, the criminal kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Although our Arab masses reject normalization, and have been resisting it in the Gulf and other Arab nations like Egypt and Jordan for decades, these deals – brokered by a U.S. government that pays lip service to “democracy,” but promotes all the dictators (who are also, unsurprisingly, the normalizers) in the region – also allow Israel to focus its military firepower on the Palestinian people, as the militaries of the submissive and surrendering Arab states are neutralized.
In addition, it is very clear that the current Palestinian Authority has lost all credibility to represent our struggle and challenge normalization. Instead, it plays the role of one of its many agents.
As for the Palestinian people and our allies everywhere: in a world shaped by this new reality of normalization, we continue to struggle and resist occupation and colonization every day. Israeli attacks against our people in the West Bank, Al Quds (Jerusalem), refugee camps, 1948 Palestine, and Gaza, as well as the criminalization of our resistance inside Palestine and our solidarity work in the West, especially the U.S., makes us more determined than ever to condemn and battle normalization and the Saudi Arabian normalizers, to reassert our narrative, and to reclaim our voice.
And to resist – by any means necessary – until we have defeated the zionist entity, the normalizers, and their U.S.-imperialist patrons; and until we have won the full liberation of all of historical Palestine, freedom for all Palestinian political prisoners, and the Right of Return for all Palestinian refugees and their descendants.
Until Liberation and Return,
U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN)
October 3rd, 2023
#NoToNormalization