The Tunisian thinker and academic Abu Yaarub Al-Marzouqi believes that the majority of Arab intellectuals “distance people from resistance,” considering that “if they truly believed in the resistance that achieves the liberation of nations and human liberation, they would not have been the biggest warriors of the Spring and the most defenders of civilizational dependency.”
Al-Marzouqi – who holds a degree in philosophy from the Sorbonne University and a doctorate in Arabic and Greek philosophy in 1991 – considered that “the Western democratic system makes political success dependent on corrupt money and misleading media. In this, they are no different from Arab authoritarian regimes.”
Al-Marzouqi worked as a professor of Arabic and Greek philosophy at the Tunisian University, and was a member of the Scientific Council of the Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Literature and Arts – House of Wisdom, where he took over the management of its translation department. He spoke to Al-Jazeera Net about the cultural and strategic implications of the Al-Aqsa Flood operation, so to the dialogue:
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What are the implications of the Al-Aqsa Flood operation in light of the ongoing transformations Arab and international?
The answer to this question about the significance of the “Al-Aqsa Flood” process may relate to the significance that occurred after the flood, so that it would be its fruit and indicate its global effectiveness, or before it, so that its fruits would be the results of being affected by it.
In the first case, the significance is related to action in the ongoing transformations in the Arab and international levels. In the second case, the significance is related to emotion and the transformations in it. The process would be lacking in its desired dimensions, because in the most extreme cases it would not go beyond adding an Arab protectorate to the 22 that make up the Arab League.
This is the second meaning sought by everyone who wants to limit the effect of the flood, to end the effect of the earthquake that resulted from its effectiveness, and the two victories that are intended to be hidden by all means that explain the Arabs’ abandonment of Gaza and Palestine and their hasty efforts to kill the cause and complete normalization, and even eliminate all hope of liberating the homelands in order to prevent liberation. Man in the Arab countries from water to water.
If it really deserves to be described as the Al-Aqsa Flood, the significance would be the liberation of the 22 countries from the status of protectorates, half of which are subject to Israel, and the West, its protector, especially its leader, i.e., America, and half of which are to Iran, and the East, its protector, and especially its leader, i.e., Russia.
If it is an emotion, then it does not deserve to be described as the Al-Aqsa flood. Rather, it is an opportunity to add another Arab protectorate to the one that makes up the Arab League, so that it will be like it, defenseless and subordinate like it to either the East or the West, and after that it will not stand for the Arabs.
In the first case, that is, if it really deserves to be described as the Al-Aqsa flood, the significance would be the liberation of the 22 countries from the status of protectorates, half of which are subject to Israel and the West, its protector, especially its leader, i.e., America, and half of which are to Iran, and the East, its protector, and especially its leader, i.e., Russia.
As for the second case, the meaning is Al-Aqsa, that is, if it is an emotion, then it does not deserve to be described as the Al-Aqsa Flood, but rather it is an opportunity to add another Arab protectorate to the one that makes up the Arab League, so it will be like it, defenseless and subordinate like it to either the East or the West, and after that it will not stand for the Arabs. Thus, the regimes that are working hard with Israel and America to liquidate the issue and end Hamas’ resistance have ended the issue, and have proven their dependence on Israel and its protectors, and on Iran and its protectors.
The most dangerous thing in this case is the completion of what the West seeks to build the alliance between India and Israel to surround the Arabs and prevent them from material and scientific development, the condition of sovereignty, and what the East and Iran seek to surround the Arabs for the same purpose, so the Arabs, and with them all Muslims, will be removed from history once again, as happened in the wars. Restoration when the West – which was the only pole – surrounded the geography of Islam by fragmenting it, splitting its history, distorting its civilization, and distorting its elite, and by making it more like the Red Indians, it waited for others to determine their fate, then gradually annihilated them as a breeding ground for its power over the world, and most of its wealth was its corridors, all of which passed through the land of Islam.
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Does this process represent a turning point from stagnation and decline to a stage of natural growth for the Palestinian people in particular and the world in general?
What is meant by the contrast between stagnation, decline, and natural growth? What is the reason for the connection between its occurrence and its meeting among the Palestinian people in particular and the world in general? This is because most of those allied against Hamas and those who deny the legitimacy of the flood see what happened as an indication of stagnation and retreat, as evidence of describing Hamas as “terrorism and the second ISIS.”
It is a description whose goal is to explain the official Arab disappointment and try to convince the people to accept this official position. The intention is to combine the attempt to eliminate the citizen’s liberation revolution in the spring and the attempt to liberate the homeland in Palestine. Therefore, the main concern of the Arab regimes is to wait for Israel’s decision as quickly as possible so that they can be relieved of the liberation of the homeland liberation revolution in Palestine after they thought they had achieved relief from the liberation of citizens in the spring.
In fact, what terrifies the Arab regimes of both types, which are enslaved by Israel and America, and which are enslaved by Iran and Russia, is the two dimensions of victory in the Battle of Al-Aqsa Flood – which is a battle, not a war – and it can be considered the fourth of the intermittent battles in Gaza and the ongoing battles in the West Bank in different ways:
The Al-Aqsa flood demonstrated the fragility of Israel’s power, as evidenced by its resort from the second day to American and Western support.
The first dimension is ending the myth of the invincible army and ending the myth of the resistance alliance led by invincible militias at the same time. The Al-Aqsa flood demonstrated the fragility of Israel’s power, as evidenced by its resort from the second day to American and Western support. The Al-Aqsa flood demonstrated the lies of Iran’s fanaticism and its militias, as it asserted that it was weaker than Israel, as evidenced by its previous defeat in Syria, and its resort to Putin, who protected it with Arab funding.
What the flood achieved militarily, in one day, exposed the Arab subordination to their enslavers from the West and the East, and it is frightening for the regimes, because it may encourage peoples to resume the liberation revolution after the fragility of the protectors of those who seek to thwart it became clear, thus bringing together the liberation of the homelands and the liberation of people, and the Arabs and Muslims would return to their role in global history.
No one today in the West – if we exclude official politicians and elites – still believes Israel’s narratives and the pretense that Israel is a symbol of civilization, progress and democracy, besieged by primitive peoples threatening it with a second Holocaust, after the West saved them from the first, while it is the source of all the Holocausts that the Jews went through. .
But the second dimension, although not military, is more important than the first: it is overthrowing the Israeli and Iranian narratives. No one today in the West – with the exception of official politicians and elites – still believes Israel’s narratives and the pretense that Israel is a symbol of civilization, progress and democracy, besieged by primitive peoples threatening it with a second Holocaust after the West saved them from the first, while it is the source of all the Holocausts that the Jews went through after Babylonian captivity, Persian protection, and Roman dispersion to Catholic, Russian, and Hitlerite.
The flood liberated the youth of the West and its free elite from Zionist blackmail, both Jewish and Christian, in the United States in particular, which is the secret of their power. This is the biggest advantage of the effectiveness of the flood: it is a slow-impact creation tsunami, but it is more than a cosmic earthquake that will change the face of the entire Earth.
In this sense, the flood liberated the youth of the West and its free elite from Zionist blackmail, both Jewish and Christian, in the United States in particular, which is the secret of their power. This is the biggest advantage of the effectiveness of the flood: it is a slow-impact creation tsunami, but it is more than a cosmic earthquake that will change the face of the entire Earth.
As for the second gain, it has freed the gullible from the illusion that Iran seeks to liberate Palestine with the slogans of the Quds Force, which uses this slogan to cover up the plan that it is gradually implementing with Arab hands that enabled it to occupy Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen, and is preparing to occupy the entire Gulf, especially Mecca and Medina, until the conditions for restoring the empire are met. Persia: They announced this when their elders said, “We have recovered 4 Arab capitals from the land of Persia.”
Therefore, all of Iran’s Arab militias are preparing to achieve this goal, so that since the Iraq-Iran war until now, Israel has not received a threat from them to respond at the appropriate time and at the appropriate time. Because they are dedicated to occupying the Crescent and Yemen and surrounding the primary goal, i.e. the Gulf and the holy landmarks, until Iran becomes a court in the holiest of holiness in Islam and tampers with it just as it tampers with its history in revenge for the family of Khosrau, and not for the family of the Messenger.
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Some Arab thinkers, intellectuals, and religious scholars expressed their willingness to participate in the Al-Aqsa flood and fight the Israeli occupation. Does this indicate their preference for the option of military resistance and loss of hope in the existing intellectual and political projects in the Arab world?
Don’t talk to me about what the intellectuals say. The overwhelming majority of them are the farthest people from the resistance, neither military nor intellectual, but they are “Ayasha.” Therefore, I do not want to comment on this lie. If they truly believed in the resistance that achieves the liberation of nations and the liberation of mankind, they would not have been the biggest warriors of the Spring and the most defenders of civilizational dependency, especially in the Maghreb. The ones in control of the scene are the regimes’ loved ones and their agents and the agents of French colonialism in particular, because they derive fame and stardom from it.
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The Al-Aqsa flood showed the bias of major Western scholars and intellectuals against the right of the Palestinian people to live in their homeland and resist the occupation, even though they were defending the necessity of all peoples to enjoy human rights. How do you read that?
This is a ruling that does not match reality. Few Western scholars and intellectuals took this position. In fact, the majority of Western scholars and intellectuals were closer to justice and history, and had it not been for them, the qualitative change in Western public opinion would not have occurred to the extent that made 70% of Western youth support Palestine and denounce Western and Zionist narratives against Palestine. This is evident in the student and university movements.
The Western democratic system makes political success dependent on corrupt money and misleading media. In this respect, they are no different from Arab authoritarian regimes. Hence, the deep state that controls the Western political elite is the same as the one that controls the Arab political elite.
How do you view the insistence of Western countries to rescue and assist the Israeli occupation, despite the continued Western popular rejection of the war on Gaza?
This has to do with two things. The first is that the Western democratic system makes political success dependent on corrupt money and misleading media. In this respect, they are no different from Arab authoritarian regimes. Hence, the deep state that controls the Western political elite is the same as the one that controls the Arab political elite.
The second, which is related to long history, is that the change in popular public opinion is influential, but in the long term, political success in the elections becomes dependent on the fruit of this change. It is known that this is slow, and for this reason I advised the Palestinians to help develop the impact of this change through diplomacy that is very facilitating in their demands. Therefore, the abundance of talk about Palestine from the river to the sea is only a service to Israel’s narrative, in addition to the fact that it is currently impossible to achieve. While demanding the application of international law and acceptance of partition, and not what comes after 67, is sufficient to achieve this demand without need to mention it.
The Israelis will not accept it and will be fooled, because they are cutting off the foundation on which they are sitting, thus helping to bring down all their narratives, and it will become clear to the world that the terrorist is the occupier and the racist who does not want coexistence with the Palestinians.
Therefore, accepting partition is a bait for diplomats, because Israel cannot respond to it convincingly, and set it as a goal so as not to lose international public opinion with unnecessary extremist positions, because putting it means supporting the Israeli narrative that the Palestinians want to throw the Jews into the sea with the same mentality that was one of the slogans of Voice of the Arabs. We have seen that it was words without action, and what benefited from it was Israel’s narratives, not Palestinian rights.
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What are the near and long-term effects of the Al-Aqsa Flood on the fields of life in the Arab world in general, and on the field of science and thought in particular? Before the Al-Aqsa Flood, the Arab world was besieged by shifts in the concepts of many values. Was the vision clear to everyone, Arab and global?
These two questions are based on predicting what is possible simply by guessing. The future is from the unseen, and I do not want to cast an unseen, and everything that is not from the unseen in them – that is, the nature of the Israeli and Iranian strategy and their protectors, the Palestinian strategy and the Arab peoples – I do not have enough data regarding it to make a judgment on the matter that has a basis supported by sober rational analysis. Moreover, I cannot judge arbitrarily a war whose many battles have not yet taken place, as if it had been decided in favor of one of the parties, even in Palestine, let alone in the world.