Palestine 2025: From the River to the Sea | From Liège: L’Espoir, c’est la lutte

If you want to understand the moral, political, and ecological bankruptcy of Europe in 2025, look at Palestine.

1.Why Palestine will be decolonized. Decolonization becomes inevitable because Israel can no longer secure legitimacy, stability, or consent and must rely primarily on coercion. The more governance shifts from political legitimacy to permanent exception, siege, and force, the more it accelerates its own delegitimation, internally and globally. Palestine is where that tipping point is most visible.

2. Palestine collapses the Western moral order constructed after 1945. What was called “the liberal West” after World War II was not a moral rebirth. It was an institutional arrangement designed to prevent Europe from destroying itself again and to manage the empire under US dominance. Human rights, multilateralism, and international law functioned as instruments of stabilization rather than emancipation. Europe lost World War II politically and never recovered strategic autonomy. Since 1945, the EU has remained structurally subordinate to US power, militarily, economically, and ideologically. Gaza exposes this reality. When values conflict with strategic alignment, values are abandoned. The mask no longer holds. The facts are clear:

1. The EU is Israel’s largest trading partner
2. Preferential trade continues despite human-rights conditionality
3. No suspension of association agreements
4. No sanctions proportional to documented violations
5. Continued arms exports by EU member states

This is not neutrality. It is a material and political alignment.

3. Western identity is built on exclusion, not universality. From colonial expansion to Cartesian rationalism, Western self-definition has historically relied on negation: who is rational, who is human, and who belongs. The operative logic has been “I exclude / dominate / control, therefore I exist.” Palestine exposes that this structure remains intact beneath contemporary rights-based discourse. I wish I could tag many colleagues here :)

4. Zionism is framed here as late-stage settler colonialism: hardening, not normalizing. Zionism today functions as a late-stage settler-colonial project. At this stage, legitimacy declines and force replaces consent. Permanent domination requires permanent impunity. That impunity must be demanded from allies, converting them into accomplices. This is how international legitimacy erodes. Gaza is subjected to:

• Near-total siege on food, water, fuel, and electricity
• IPC Phase 4–5 food insecurity (famine risk)
• Collapse of sanitation systems and disease spread

These conditions meet the legal definition of collective punishment under international humanitarian law. The EU acknowledges the data but refuses to enforce it. This is political cowardice, not complexity. Not to mention the West Bank, where, since late 2023, violence has escalated sharply through military raids, settler attacks, mass arrests, and movement restrictions, producing a climate of permanent instability for Palestinian communities.

5. EU power remains colonial in material and ecological terms. Even as Europe speaks the language of “green transition,” its material reality remains colonial:

• EU countries consume 3–5 times their fair planetary share
• Around 50% of EU material consumption is extracted from the Global South
• 20% of the world’s population consumes at levels that structurally deny 80% basic needs

Poverty is not accidental. It is designed into the system. Palestine is not an exception. It is a concentrated case of how political limits (rights, sovereignty) and ecological limits (land, energy, materials) are broken simultaneously to sustain imperial consumption.

6. Liberating Palestine threatens the entire architecture of control. When Palestine will be decolonized, it will weaken the entire architecture of managed narratives, impunity, and extractive political economy across the region. That is why it triggers panic in imperial institutions: it points toward economic democracy (real control over production and energy), genuinely free media, and accountable international law, not “rules for others.” Europe’s narrative control is cracking because reality is now too documented, too networked, and too morally stark to be indefinitely contained. Palestine is the point where EU hypocrisy, colonial capitalism, multinationals, media control, and ecological exploitation converge and fail.

7. Are we witnessing the death of modern Europe as we have known it for decades? We are seeing the emergence of a “third Europe,” formed from the collision of the old and the new, the nationalist and the liberal. We face sharp internal fractures within the West, as Europe was split after 1945, and as the United States itself is now divided between two visions: the old nationalist order and the global liberal one.

We are living through a decisive historical moment. The coming years will determine whether Europe retreats into itself as a closed, exclusionary civilization or is forced to redefine its role within a genuinely multipolar world, in which power, meaning, and legitimacy are no longer organized around European centrality, whose decline we are witnessing in real time. If there is any possibility of transformation, it can only begin with breaking structures of domination.

What this moment demands:

• Resistance is not optional. It is the mechanism through which illegitimate power is exposed and constrained.
• Boycott, divestment, and sanctions matter. They are nonviolent tools that directly challenge impunity, economic complicity, and the normalization of injustice.
• Supporting Palestine is strategic, not symbolic. Palestine sits at the center of intersecting crises: colonial power, media control, legal exceptionalism, and ecological exploitation.

Standing with Palestine is standing against a system that is failing morally, politically, and ecologically. Palestinians are not alone. Their struggle signals what is ending and what must be built next.

We stand with Palestinians. Free Palestine, from the river to the sea.

❌Boycott, ⭕️Divest and ❌Sanction.

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