"When I was a child, I used to naively invert the colors of the Palestinian flag - green in the place of red, red where black should be, and black replacing the green. Back then, I didn't realize that I was imagining an entirely different country: Sudan. Little did I know that one day both of us would be dragged into the same campaign of elimination, exposed to the same colonial ideologies, left unheeded until our erasure reached a never-returning edge."
"Both of our countries have long been preyed upon for geopolitical interests. Sudan's counterrevolution broke out in April 2023, facilitated by the United Arab Emirates, the United States, and the United Kingdom - all for the sake of plundering its natural wealth and building invincible empires over its burnt ashes and spilled blood. In a world driven by power and profit rather than justice,"
"The same hidden intentions have haunted Gaza, where the race to extract its offshore gas accelerated shortly after October 7. Reports later confirmed that this attempt was futile, yet Israel's and the U.S.'s colonial ambitions only extended further. By February 2025, President Trump openly declared his vision to turn Gaza into the "Riviera of the Middle East," paired with the proposal of forcibly displacing its people to other countries outside of Palestine."
A childhood memory of inverting the Palestinian flag's colors is used to connect Palestinian and Sudanese experiences. Both Sudan and Gaza suffer campaigns of elimination rooted in colonial ideologies and geopolitical exploitation. Sudan's April 2023 counterrevolution was aided by the UAE, the US, and the UK to plunder natural wealth and secure strategic advantages. Gaza faced intensified efforts to extract offshore gas after October 7, and proposals emerged to reshape or displace its population, including President Trump's 2025 vision to turn Gaza into a 'Riviera' and relocate its inhabitants. These actions constitute a systemic colonial playbook of destabilize, dehumanize, divide, conquer, and occupy.
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