Solidarity with the Palestinian people are helping to undermine the power of the lies spread by the sociopaths of liberal democracy.
The plans to develop an extravagant international tourist complex in the Gaza Strip represent a profoundly disturbing display of cruelty and human rights abuses, reflecting the moral decay of the so-called “Western world” or “collective West,” which purports to safeguard “our civilization.”
The envisioned project, modeled after the lavish architectural feats and environmental devastation seen in Dubai and other Arab Petro-monarchies—but aiming to surpass their extravagance—rests upon genocide, ethnic cleansing, and the presence of countless human remains scattered in formal cemeteries, mass graves, or crushed beneath heaps of rubble.
The consciences of the world’s richest zealots, alongside those of affluent classes in America, Europe, and Asia eager to exhibit long-coveted status, will rest easy as they indulge in the luxury of Arabian Nights-style spas. They will savor delicacies served where tens of thousands of children have perished from starvation and bathe in idyllic Mediterranean waters, from which impoverished Palestinian fishermen have long been barred by Israeli warships.
The monumental enterprise that mega-builder Donald Trump, acting as U.S. president and a Western autocrat, intends to construct in Gaza is a lucrative venture designed to reshape the “new Middle East” envisioned by neoliberal capitalism through the destruction of the Palestinian people—essentially a “final solution” for the “Palestinian problem.”
This utopian vision could be the ultimate symbol of liberal democracy, prompting reflection on how it might differ from Trumpian fascism, Kiev’s Banderist Nazism, authoritarian Arab regimes, and the openly racist and exterminatory nature of Zionism. Ultimately, it will form an indistinct mass that comes to represent “our civilization” within advancing totalitarian globalism—if it manages to bend BRICS, dismantle the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, disrupt the Belt and Road Initiative, fragment the Eurasian Economic Union, and sow discord among Russia, China, and India, while crippling all solidarity and development elsewhere, thus disappointing the sanctimonious “rules-based international order.” This is indeed where “the rubber meets the road.”
A “Far West” in the “Middle East”
Before directly addressing the brutal barbarity and murderous mission through which Western colonialism aims to reshape the occupied Palestinian territories, it is important to consider the broader global backdrop against which this massacre is unfolding.
We are told by European Union and North American governments, united with so-called opposition parties claiming legitimacy, that we reside in liberal democracy. In Portugal, authorities shamelessly assert that progress must continue along the path set on April 25, 1974—an outrageous notion that should provoke critical reflection among those who, with the best intentions, relied on the polite nostalgics of Salazarism to secure the triumph of November 25 and restore Portugal to the “legitimate path of April 25.” The consequences are glaring.
In today’s liberal democracy, where followers of Salazar, Pinochet, and now the erratic Argentine fascist dictator Javier Milei gain influence, the so-called “rules-based international order” dominates—a doctrine that tramples international law and manipulates public opinion into uniform confusion.
Liberal democracy embodies a regime of arbitrariness, illegal acts, coups, opportunism, and suppression of free speech and privacy, all designed to serve the world’s wealthiest elites, who operate as a criminal, mafia-like, and trafficking cabal.
The “rules-based order” primarily uses war as its platform. Donald Trump, in one of his rare honest moments, replaced the Department of Defence with a Department of War, making clear that when NATO, the EU, and governments discuss “defense doctrine” or “defense” investments, they actually mean preparations for war. It would be consistent if our government revived the Salazar-era title “Ministry of War.”
Liberal democracy is synonymous with deception, a constant but insufficient strategy to convince us that democracy is flourishing.
Given these realities, the current events were unavoidable. The lawless mentality of the American Wild West, built on exterminating indigenous populations and replacing them with immigrants, shaped Western values and the core of liberal democracy.
Israel’s first prime minister, Polish-born David Ben-Gurion (originally David Grun, son of Scheindel), acknowledged no problem with genocidal Native American treatment, claiming “a superior race” took the land. “God made them, God brought them together,” people say. Israel imitates the North and South American indigenous massacres to clear the way for settlers—albeit using more sophisticated methods justified by divine law. This underscores why the United States-Israel alliance is considered “indestructible.” The dominant Israeli narrative asserts “God promised us this land five thousand years ago,” a deluded claim embraced by the “rule-based national order.”
Liberal democracy’s leaders and propagandists deceitfully claim they champion the “two-state solution in Palestine” because it aligns with international law, which they nonetheless brazenly violate.
One courageous exception increasingly vocal with humanitarian concern is the Spanish government under President Pedro Sanchez. Sanchez openly states we witness genocide; he disregards Van der Leyen, Costas, Trumps, and Netanyahus, and, unlike EU and NATO counterparts, takes steps to protect the “two-state solution.” Yet, in the West’s turmoil, exceptions only confirm the rule.
No one knows better than liberal democracy’s leaders that their claims are outright fabrications. While chanting “two states,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (whose Polish father bore the surname Mileikovsky) vows to intensify West Bank colonization and the slaughter in Gaza (under the guise of “fighting Hamas”) to prevent Palestinian statehood. Prosecuted internationally yet freely moving within the EU and the U.S., Netanyahu is frankly committed to the “rules-based international order”—more honest in this regard than his allies. Our governments outdo him in hypocrisy: they endlessly speak of a Palestinian state, feign sorrow for the dead and starving, express indignation, yet obediently follow Israeli ambassadors’ directives, silently permitting the Palestinian people’s annihilation.
Why not a resort?
Considering this conduct, should anyone be shocked by plans for an opulent beach resort erected over vast masses of corpses and the shattered remnants of millions of lives condemned to survival’s shadow? Such schemes are monstrous expressions of the cruelty and disdain inherent in liberal democracy. Had governments cared as we do, Zionist genocide would have ended long ago, and Palestinians would already possess a viable state—a certainty, regardless of Zionism’s opposition; the question remains only as to timing. History is rife with the downfall of criminal regimes and will similarly topple neoliberal totalitarianism.
Currently, the “rules-based international order” in the West enables international law violations. For example, it forbids Donald Trump from claiming sovereignty over Gaza to unleash business exploits. It also prohibits Israel from altering demographics and infrastructure in Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem. Yet this arbitrary system exists to facilitate Western illegalities, not to nullify international law forever. Most of the world, beyond the enclave of the “collective West” constituting just over 15%, is actively working to restore global legal norms and has taken pivotal strategic measures toward that goal.
Despite this, power dynamics still permit liberal democracy’s adherents to envisage a tourist paradise atop the ruins of Gaza, its people, and culture annihilated.
When Egypt finally opens Rafah on Gaza’s southern border, much of the population will flee—not forcibly expelled, but escaping the deprivation of even life’s smallest comforts: shelters replacing destroyed homes, charity kitchens offering scant sustenance, and a harsh new existence long promised in the desert.
Meanwhile, Western elites, relieved that the “Palestinian problem” is declared resolved, will celebrate the grand opening of Gaza’s paradise, luxuriating amid rare comforts constructed over the ashes of an ancient civilization that has shaped ours in almost every way—except the barbarity to which it now succumbs.
That moment will also deepen disillusionment among many Western citizens fatigued by hollow rhetoric about human rights, population welfare, democracy, and the rule of law. Governments living in alternate realities, exploiting people for vested interests, are, like dictatorships that openly admitted their nature, paving their own demise.
Solidarity with the Palestinian people, growing activism worldwide—including in Portugal—is gradually chipping away at the lies propagated by the sociopaths of liberal democracy, moving us closer to toppling their power.
Whether this occurs before the grotesque Gaza resort is realized depends on us. Though daunting, achieving justice is not beyond reach. History abounds with inspiring examples of liberation and fairness—but only if we commit ourselves to the struggle.
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