1. The Zionist Denial Conference: The rhetoric of "peace" in Zionist discourse plays a central role in preserving the existing order and delegitimizing Palestinian resistance. Under the guise of "reconciliation and hope," an ideological move is being made that aims (even if unconsciously) to blur the power relations and convert the demand for historical justice into narratives of mutual pain and sentimental reconciliation.
2. The institutional "peace" proposal promoted by the Zionist discourse is based on subordinating the indigenous population to political-security arrangements that perpetuate Jewish hegemony over the region. A "regime" mechanism that legitimizes apartheid while marketing it in the language of pragmatism, rationality, and a shared future. "Political settlement." "Fair." "Compromise."
3. Proposals such as the Geneva Initiative or forums such as "peace conferences" and "dialogue circles" illustrate the way in which the hegemonic discourse bypasses fundamental issues such as the return of refugees, the dismantling of settlements, and the recognition of the 1948 borders as a colonial space. Initiatives whose symbolic application is greater than their substantive value, and they function as mechanisms of delay rather than as vectors for liberation.
4. When a person is under physical and structural strangulation, calling for "peace" simulates agreement to regulate the violence of the strangler, not to remove it. Insisting on forums for dialogue, without dismantling the centers of power, is a staged illusion; training the regime while presenting the appearance of potential change. A discourse that allows the continuation of crimes under the guise of discourse, and without a substantive political response.
5. "Is a two-state 'solution' still possible?" "Is there a partner?" Questions that the oppressors like to discuss in these forums are not meant to clarify injustice but to re-engineer the position of the oppressor in the discourse: no longer responsible for the crime, but part of the solution. These distract from the central question: Is there a regime here that is based on ethnic supremacy and ongoing dispossession?
6. The result is a series of absurd proposals that seem logical to those who push them: establishing a "Palestinian" state on 22% of the area, without territorial contiguity, with Israeli security control, led by a submissive and illegitimate leadership, without the right of return and without deep structural change. And calling it "fair," "compromise," "peace."
7. A project of consciousness engineering: the mobilization of the human will in silence, order, hope, peace and security in favor of silencing the political demand for liberation. The pain of the repressed is framed as an emotion that requires emotional management - not structural correction. The moral outrage is redirected towards a discourse of balance, reconciliation, symmetry. All of this is a blurring and denial of the actual political relations.
8. Such a "peace" that can truly be considered a step towards justice requires the dismantling of structures of control, the recognition of collective rights, and especially return. Decolonization, de-Zionization, and de-politicization of the nation (a civil, not an ethnic nation), the dismantling of legal and ethnic hierarchies, these are the prerequisites for any moral "order."
9. The "peace" initiatives do the opposite: they slow down the process of public enlightenment, provide a moral refuge for those responsible for past or present crimes, and allow the discourse of control to continue to exist under a new principle of "humanism" censored in a "pragmatic" guise. Not a path to liberation or peace, but a mechanism that supports institutional denial.
10. The name of the conference was supposed to be the "Liberation Conference", and its essence was supposed to be accordingly. As long as the Zionist assumptions remain the same, any forum bearing the name "peace" in practice serves the continuation of the colonial order while legitimizing its survival. Instead of promoting reconciliation, it entrenches denial.
11. The new "disenchanted" were already present at this conference that took place this week. Before long, these people will say, "I believed in peace, I was in the 'peace' camp, but I became disenchanted." It is absurd when such a conference happens on a normal day of murder, dispossession, and plunder by the regime and its branches, and it is completely disturbed and delusional when it happens during an active genocide in Gaza. Liberation. Not peace.