Delyani: Despite the crimes, Netanyahu’s delusions will collapse like every tyrant’s plans before him

Dmitri Delyani, a member of the Revolutionary Council and spokesman for Fatah’s Democratic Reform current, said Benjamin Netanyahu’s remark yesterday that “there will be no Palestinian state” during the opening of a settlement project in occupied Jerusalem places him among 20th-century tyrants who promised to expand their empires and ended up in the dustbin of history.

Delyani pointed out that at the height of his crimes Hitler swore that “Lebensraum” in Eastern Europe would belong to Germany, only to be defeated and stripped of all territory in 1945. Mussolini, in his bloody fervor, promised a “new Roman empire” in the Mediterranean and Africa, and fell humiliated as Italy lost all its conquests. Japan likewise promoted a “Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere” to lead Asia by iron and fire, only to collapse after a crushing defeat in World War II.

The Fatah leader added that Netanyahu is repeating the same illusion through a bloody expansionist settlement project covering 12 square kilometers in the hills east of the occupied Arab city of Jerusalem, ignoring that more than 3.1 million Palestinians in the West Bank and 2.2 million in Gaza constitute a human, political and legal reality stronger than any settlement decision. He said the millions of Palestinian refugees around the world remain a living witness that erasing our people’s rights is an impossible dream.

Delyani concluded that Netanyahu’s expansionist delusions, which run counter to the course of history and humanity, are merely a pale echo of the promises of earlier tyrants, and that the blood of our children shed in Gaza and the West Bank will not serve as fuel for his colonial fantasies but as a beacon lighting the path to freedom, national dignity and the realization of our inherent right to self-determination on Palestinian soil.