Taysir al-Zubri: The logic of "not giving a pretext" is old and used to suppress resistance

Taysir al-Zubri, a leader in the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, affirmed that the pretext of avoiding confrontation with the Israeli occupation under the guise of "not giving a pretext" is not new, but rather an old political logic repeatedly reused over the decades to suppress resistance and confrontation with the occupation. Al-Zubri explained, during his talk on the "Our Path Podcast" program, that national parties and movements in the 1960s were pursued with accusations of providing "pretexts" for the occupation to invade the rest of the Palestinian or Jordanian territories. He pointed out that the core issue boils down to the question: Does the problem lie in practicing resistance or in the very existence of the occupation and its expansionist policies? Al-Zubri recalled the political and security climate before the 1967 setback, referring to the arrests and restrictions that targeted nationalist and Nasserist forces amid the regional political conflicts between Nasserists and Hashemites at the time.