The Mahdi Times The Mahdi Times July 2014 | Page 19

Malcolm X on Palestine and Israeli Settler Colonialism

(Edited and Reprinted From The
Egyptian Gazette - Sept. 17, 1964)
“The Zionist armies that now
occupy Palestine claim their
ancient Jewish prophets predicted
that in the ‘last days of this world’
their own God would raise them up
a ‘Messiah’ who would lead them
to their promised land and they
would set up their own ‘divine’
government in this newly-gained
land, this ‘divine’ government
would enable them to ‘rule all
other nations with a rod of iron’.
If the Israeli Zionists believe their
present occupation of Arab
Palestine is the fulfilment of
predictions made by their Jewish
prophets, then they also religiously
believe that Israel must fulfil its

‘divine’ mission to rule all other
nations with a rod of irons, which
only means a different form of
Iron-like rule, more firmly
entrenched even, than that of the
former European Colonial Powers.
These Israeli Zionists religiously
believe their Jewish God has
chosen them to replace the
outdated European colonialism
with a new form of colonialism, so
well-disguised that it will enable
them to deceive the African masses
into submitting willingly to their
‘divine’ authority and guidance,
without the African masses being
aware that they are still colonized.