The Palestinian Cause and Its Place in The Leftist-Islamist Alliance

The left, whether intentionally or not, is facilitating the Islamists in imposing Sharia law on the world. To the left, Israel is on the wrong end in their Marxist-like class setting. Palestinians are seen as dark-colored people [even though as stated, there are white Palestinians and black Israelis] and Israelis are seen as white. The Palestinian cause has the appealing themes of any left-wing cause, a class setting and even a distorted theme of dark-skinned people courageously fighting for their land while the bad guy is an ally of the west. The myth of Israeli “colonialism” and “imperialism” are thrown in there. And the goals of Palestinian terrorists are portrayed in a positive light. Leftists omit the fact that they seek the destruction of a free democracy. Though leftists have no problem with portraying the terror attacks as horrible, leftists act like the ruthless terrorist aggression by Palestinian terrorists are the only means they have to fight Israel’s “oppression”. 

The Soviet Union, like the US, voted for the 1947 UN partition plan. The Soviets thought that Israel may be on their fold in the Cold War. However, instead of being a totalitarian Communist state, Israel ended up being a western-style democracy and ended up being an ally to the west [particularly to America] because of shared democratic and other freedom-loving values. Israel ended up being a useful ally to America in the Cold War. The Soviets switched to the Arab side and saw their goal of Israel’s destruction as a useful instrument to gain more influence in the Middle East and to expel western influence. After all, the PLO included Communist factions and even trained radical leftist groups that were useful to the Soviets in brining down the democratic west.  It came to be that the Palestinians, in the usual Marxist setting, were seen as any third world movement fighting for freedom from “imperialism” and/or “colonialism” from the west and its agent. This is why the Palestinian cause is more appealing to leftists. It’s more appealing to Islamists since it would mean the destruction of a non-Muslim state and would give them the ability to turn the holy land into an expansionist radical Islamic dictatorship. To Islamists, the destruction of Israel ushers in expelling “dar al-harb” from the land of “dar al-Islam” and in destroying the rest of the non-Muslim world in order to reestablish the caliphate and to turn the whole world into an Islamic caliphate ruled by Sharia law. The left has its reasons to support the Palestinian cause. And Islamists have their reasons to support that cause. That’s why the Palestinian cause is an essential element of the leftist-Islamist alliance.