Jorge Majfud for La Pluma y Tlaxcala, Oct. 5, 2025
Translated by Tlaxcala
On September 29, 2025, The New York Times reported on the meeting at the White House between President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. under this headline with a clarifying subtitle:
Cease-fire…It
is not that history rhymes—it repeats itself.
Since the fifteenth century, all the treaties signed by the European empires
have been made at gunpoint and systematically ignored once they stopped serving
their purposes or when they managed to push forward their lines of fire.
Destruction and dispossession were always seasoned with some noble cause:
civilization, freedom, democracy, and the invader’s right to defend himself.
For centuries, it was the same story repeated in the
diplomacy between Indigenous peoples and white settlers—no different from the
most recent case of the “Peace Agreement” proposed and imposed under threat by
Washington and Tel Aviv on Palestine.
It is the same history of the violation of every peace treaty signed with the
Native Nations on either side of the Appalachians, before and after 1776.
Later, what historians call the “Louisiana Purchase” (1803) was not a purchase
at all, but a brutal dispossession of the Indigenous nations who were the
ancestral owners of that territory, as large as the entire rising Anglo country
in America.
No Native person was invited to the negotiating table in Paris, far from those
being dispossessed.
And when one of these agreements included some “representative” of the attacked
peoples—as in the 1835 Cherokee Treaty—the representative was false, a Guaidó
invented by the white settlers.
The same occurred with the transfer of Spain’s last
colonies (Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Guam) to the United States.
While hundreds of Sioux dyed the snows of Dakota red demanding payment
according to the treaty that had forced them to sell their lands, in Paris a
new peace agreement was being signed over tropical peoples.
No representative of the dispossessed was invited to negotiate the accord that
supposedly made their “liberation” possible.
For Theodore Roosevelt, “the most righteous of all
wars is the war against savages… the only good Indians are dead Indians.”
Further south, he wrote and published that “Negroes are a stupid race.”
According to Roosevelt, democracy had been invented for the benefit of the
white race, the only one capable of civilization and beauty.
During those years, the Anglo-Saxon ethnicity needed a
justification for its brutality and its habit of stealing and then washing its
crimes away with peace agreements imposed by force.
Since in the second half of the nineteenth century the epistemological paradigm
of science had replaced religion, that justification became racial superiority.
Europe kept most of the world subjugated through its
fanaticism and its addiction to gunpowder.
Theories about the superiority of the white man went hand in hand with his
victimization: Blacks, Browns, Reds and Yellows took advantage of his
generosity while threatening the minority of the superior race with replacement
by the majority of inferior ones.
Sound familiar?
Because those biologicist theories were not
sufficiently grounded, history was invoked instead.
At the end of the nineteenth century, Europe was teeming with linguistic and
later anthropological theories about the pure origin of the noble race (Aryan,
Iran), the white race derived from the Hindu Vedas.
These far-fetched stories—and Hindu symbols such as the Nazi swastika and what
is now known as the Star of David (used by different cultures centuries earlier
but originally from India)—became popular as racial symbols in print.
It is no coincidence that it was precisely at that
moment that supremacist theories and Zionism were founded and articulated
within their historical concepts in the white, racist, imperialist Europe of
the North.
Even the founder of Zionism, Theodor Herzl, understood that Jews belonged to
the superior “Aryan race.”
Until the Second World War, these supremacisms
coexisted with certain frictions but not enough to prevent them from forming
agreements, such as the Haavara Agreement between Nazis and Zionists,
which for years transferred tens of thousands of white Jews (of “good genetic
material”) to Palestine.
The first anti-Zionists were not the Palestinians who received them, but the
European Jews who resisted that ethnic-cleansing agreement.
At the same time that the Palestinians were colonized and stripped of their
lands, Judaism itself was colonized and stripped of its tradition.
When the Soviets crushed Hitler’s Nazis, being a
supremacist became a disgrace.
Suddenly, Winston Churchill and the USAmerican millionaires stopped boasting of
being Nazis.
Earlier, the 1917 Balfour-Rothschild Declaration had been an agreement among
whites to divide and occupy a territory of “inferior races.”
As the racist and genocidal Churchill—then Minister of War—said:
“I am strongly in favor of using poisonous gas against
uncivilized tribes.” [and he used it in Iraq, Transl. n.]
But the brutal irrationality of the Second World War
also ended the Modern Era, founded on the paradigms of reason and progress.
Science and critical thought gave way to the irrationality of consumerism and
religion.
Thus, today’s Zionists no longer insist before the UN
or the White House on their Aryan racial superiority, but rather on their
special rights as God’s chosen Semites.
Netanyahu and his evangelical escorts quote the biblical sacredness of Israel a
thousand times, as if he and King David were the same person and as if that
dark-skinned Semitic people of three thousand years ago were the same Khazars
of the Caucasus who adopted Judaism in medieval Europe.
The Washington agreement between Trump and Netanyahu,
to be accepted by the Palestinians, is illegitimate from the start.
It does not matter how many times the word peace is repeated—just as it
does not matter how many times the word love is repeated while a woman
is being raped.
It will always be a violation, just as Israel’s occupation and apartheid over
Palestine are.
On Tuesday, September 30, U.S. Secretary of War Pete
Hegseth gathered his generals and quoted George Washington:
“He who desires peace must prepare for war,”
not because Washington “wanted war, but because it loved peace.”
President Trump concluded: it would be an insult to the United States if he
were not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
In 1933, in his speech before the Reichstag, the Nobel
Peace Prize candidate Adolf Hitler declared that Germany sought only peace.
Three years later, after remilitarizing Rhineland, he insisted that Germany was
a pacifist nation seeking its security.
Even if the new agreement between Washington and Tel
Aviv is accepted by Hamas (one of Netanyahu’s own creations), sooner or later
it will be violated by Tel Aviv.
For the superior race—for the chosen peoples—there are no agreements with
inferior beings, only strategies of plunder and annihilation: strategies of
demonizing the slave and the colonized, and of victimizing the poor white man,
that addict to gunpowder—now to white powder.
