Zionists have long used language as a propaganda weapon with which to downgrade Palestinians to a lesser people than the Israelis. Even the publicity outrage at a handful of Israeli prisoners held by Hamas is NEVER met by a comparable shock at the deliberate killing and starvation of tens of thousands of Palestinians.
There is nothing new to this long-standing distortion of Palestinian identity. Back when the artificial European colony in Palestine - the so-called "state of Israel" - was created out of nothing over the ashes of Palestine, Zionists and their western media lapdogs referred to the Palestinians as "Arabs", never as "Palestinians". By using th term "Arab", the Zionists were laying the ground for their ethnic cleansing plans: If Palestinians are "Arabs", then they can settle anywhere in the "Arab world", and therefore should easily be "re-located" outside of their ancestral homeland of Palestine and anywhere else in the "Arab world". Of course, only an idiot would believe that a Palestinian uprooted from Haifa to, say Fez in Morocco, would find an exact identical cultural, physical, and social environment as his original Haifa. Sedate the Palestinian while en route to Morocco, and when he awakes there, he wouldn't even notice a difference!!
The term itself is a nebulous political term inherited from the colonial vocabulary. The "Arab world" concept lumps together hundreds of ethnicities, races, religions and nations whose only commonality is that they were once invaded, colonized, forcibly converted and raped by the Muslim armies of Mohammed that surged from Saudi Arabia's deserts, and thus ended up speaking a form of the dead Arabic language, often distorted and hybridized with the original vernaculars of the occupied nations. "Arab" refers to the few tribes living in today's Gulf region and does not apply to the vast expanse of nations stretching from Morocco and Mauritania in the west all the way to Iraq in the east. Even the Comoros islands - which have nothing to do with the Arab identity - are included as an Arab nation because it is simply Muslim. But Muslim and Arab are very different things, and only ignorant imbeciles in the West use one for the other.
Using "Arab world" as a definer of identity of some 500 million people, based solely on the very tenuous criterion of language, is equivalent to using the "English world" to refer to the group of nations comprising England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Australia, the United States, Canada, and all the other former colonies of the crooked English colonial empire. An Australian is an English individual because he/she speaks a distorted form of English. Similarly, gather together all the former French colonies in Africa, Asia and Latin America into one socio-political entity and call it the "French world" and assume, based on stereotypes, that it should behave as a monolith in which a Frenchman in Lille, France, is exactly the same as a "Frenchman" in Bamako, Mali.
There is a European continent with dozens, if not hundreds of diverse local identities, but no one ever speaks of a monolithic "European World".
The Soviet Union similarly "russified" hundreds of millions of Central Asian peoples under the banner of Russian colonial communism. They were all part of the "Russian world". You get the point: the common thread is colonialism. Yes, real Arabs from 7th century Saudi Arabia surged from their desert under the banner of Islam and conquered most of the known world at the time, subjecting what they thought were lesser people, pagans, infidels, heretics and polytheists to a brutal and racist Islamic occupation. When Arab colonialism retreated, those places where the Arabic language took hold by blending itself with the local vernaculars are today forced into an artificial entity known as the "Arab world".
It is so much easier for stupid orientalists to lump together nations and peoples of a large swath of territories into one category that is easy to comprehend and to avoid having to deal with the real complexities of such a diverse ecosystem.
This is very much in line with the other terminology of Near East, Middle East, and Far East that is still used by colonial Westerners. This terminology is easy to comprehend from a Eurocentric view of the world. It gets worse. Very few people nowadays use the term "Near East" as the people of this region (the Levant) now are lumped into the other artificial "Middle East" notion, also a Eurocentric concept, for further decomplexation and brutalization of the people of this region. Did you know that the "Middle East" includes Morocco which is geographically further west than the westernmost parts of Europe?
Accordingly, from now I urge academics, researchers, reporters and other scholars to begin using the following terms: Near West (Russia and eastern Europe), Middle West (western continental Europe from Poland to France), and a Far West (including the English isles, the north American USA and Canada). For example, a statement like "the Near Western leader Vladimir Putin has spoken with the Far Western moron Donald Trump about Ukraine), should not surprise anyone. You see, colonialism is an acquired taste, and it shouldn't take much effort to get used to Near West, Middle West and Far West.
As heirs to the colonial midwivery by the West of its baby Israel, academics, politicians, and such continue to use "Arab" as a homogenizer of a multitude of complex and different identities. When Barack Obama uses (see below) "the people of Gaza" instead of "Palestinians", he is submitting himself to Western and Zionist censorship and dictate that there is no such thing as Palestine, that there is no Palestinian identity. In doing so, he is - perhaps unconsciously - rejecting an independent State of Palestine, just what the Zionists love to hear. Indeed, the Jewish colony in Palestine once had an ugly bicth by the name of Golda Meir as prime minister who once said, "there is no such thing as a Palestinian people".
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Ms. Rachel Rips Into Obama’s Gaza Statement, Says His Words Dehumanize Palestinians
Terra Watts
Sat, October 11, 2025
Ms. Rachel and Barack Obama
Rachel Griffin Accurso, also known as Ms. Rachel, had been singing nursery rhymes and homeschool lesson tapes on kindness to her 16 million subscribers for years. This week, however, she dove headfirst into the political breakdown by openly condemning the comment made by former President Barack Obama regarding the Gaza ceasefire.
October 9th, Obama’s statement presented the dispute as “a tragedy for the people of Gaza” and “Israeli families.” For Ms. Rachel, this was more than semantics. It was dehumanizing. In her Instagram post, where she gained over 200,000 likes in hours, she made her case that the Palestinians were deprived of their familial identities by such language despite the death loss of over 20,000 children in the conflict.
Her move was shocking to some, after all, few expect a children’s content creator to weigh in on U.S. foreign policy, but her intervention sparked wide debate across social media.
Ms. Rachel’s Note to Obama
Ms. Rachel wrote in her post:
“Dear President Obama,
I saw in your statement you said ‘Israeli families’ & ‘the people of Gaza.’
Palestinians have families, too.
This kind of language contributes to dehumanization. Dehumanization is part of what caused so many to stay silent as 20,000 children were killed in this genocide.
I’ve sat with wonderful Palestinian families from Gaza. They look at their children just like we look at ours with all the love & hope in the world.”
Her caption continued:
“I’ve always looked up to you, @barackobama. I don’t understand why so many of these statements don’t seem to view Palestinians as equal. All people and all children are equal and deserve the same human rights.”
It was an unexpected moment for her millions of followers, but one that accentuated her resolve to utilize her platform to raise awareness for issues of human rights.
Obama’s Remarks in Context
Obama’s first words had been to honor a potential cease-fire after years of bloodshed:
“After two years of unimaginable loss and suffering for Israeli families and the people of Gaza, we should all be encouraged and relieved that an end to the conflict is within sight… More than that, though, it now falls on Israelis and Palestinians… to begin the hard task of rebuilding Gaza and to commit to a process that, by recognizing the common humanity and basic rights of both peoples, can achieve a lasting peace.”
While the text dealt with reconstruction and reconciliation, the wording, according to Ms. Rachel’s defenders, inadvertently obliterated Palestinian familial frameworks, portraying them as an invisible mass instead of families, children, and parents.
The Power of Language in Human Rights
The controversy highlights a crucial lesson in communication: language shapes perception.
Scholars of conflict studies are aware that discussing one group in familial, personal terms while discussing another group in group, depersonalized terms can reinforce empathy hierarchies. By discussing “Israeli families” but “the people of Gaza,” the text riskily posits that only the Israelis possess familiar familial relations.
Language-based dehumanization has been associated with silence and immobility during atrocities throughout history. By highlighting this inconspicuous but strong contrast, Ms. Rachel’s post has initiated an overarching discussion regarding how politicians and the media construct narratives within global conflicts.
Social Media Responses: Praises and Criticisms
Social media was abuzz after the post by Ms. Rachel. People praising her courage:
“Ms. Rachel possessing more backbone than Obama and darn near all the rest of the big names among the Dem party.”
“The way she utilises all her platform to make people aware of Palestinians is amazing.”
“And some Palestinian kids had a family ONCE & they have NO SURVIVING RELATIVES ????”
Others found her intervention surprising or controversial:
“Ms. Rachel is going to tear Obama apart.”
“When Obama won’t say Palestinian families for fear of making the Palestinians too human-like.”
“Odd that one of the most principled actors under the Trump presidency is a YouTuber.”
However, her critics asserted her comments had the potential to derail delicate diplomatic initiatives, ascribing her words to bad judgment during shaky ceasefire negotiations.
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