Questions are looming over who will become the next leaders of Israel and Palestine [Reuters]. Ajazeera.com
The history of peoples who rise up for their freedom is marked by an unchanging pattern: there are always those who choose to side with the oppressor. From the anti-colonial struggles in Africa, through the Latin American revolutions and the Asian resistance movements, no liberation process has been free of figures who preferred the comfort of submission to the sacrifice of dignity. Palestine, unfortunately, is no exception.
While our people endure massacres, dispossession, and a military siege that has already surpassed all limits of cruelty, there are Palestinian voices—political, economic, and even media—that have chosen the path of complacency and complicity. It is not just about silence; it is about endorsing, justifying, or facilitating the interests of the Zionist project in exchange for privileges, protection, or shares of personal power.
Traitors don’t always wear uniforms or sign agreements under the spotlight. Sometimes they hide behind ambiguous rhetoric, empty calls for “moderation,” or supposed “pragmatic solutions” that are, in essence, nothing more than a disguised renunciation of our historical rights. They are the ones who invent alternative paths to normalize the occupation, who turn the Palestinian tragedy into a negotiable political formula, who align themselves with the dictates of colonial powers and subservient Arab regimes.
But the Palestinian people know the geography of betrayal all too well. From the agreements that dispossessed them of their land in the 20th century to the recent attempts to impose international tutelage disguised as peace processes, history has shown that every betrayal has been met with an even stronger affirmation of identity, resolve, and resistance.
The traitors will pass into the dark pages of history, as happens in all revolutions.
What remains and rises is the will of the people: the will of those who resist in Gaza under the bombs, the will of those who defend Jerusalem house by house, the will of those in the diaspora who keep alive the memory and the demand for return, the will of those who do not negotiate with the truth nor traffic in dignity.
Palestine will be no exception, just as it will not be the opposite: just as in every revolution there were traitors, in every revolution the final victory belonged to the free.
And that freedom, which has cost so much and for which so much struggle continues, is non-negotiable.
Palestinian Union of Latin America – UPAL
November 22, 2025
