I had a dream, about Kandyan nobles, the men who finally sold Sri Lanka out to foreign capital, for some petty advantage over each other, and paltry trinkets. Then I wake up and it's the same thing. You can see it in the Arab satraps, played against each other for some IP-locked weapons and football teams. You can see it within Iran, as ‘reformists’ try to negotiate with the corrupt IAEA, like the neck negotiating with the knife. The fact, historically repeated, is that there's no negotiating with terrorists. Assuming that colored people can feel terror, the White Empire are the worst terrorists in existence, and they get you through negotiations as much as eviscerations. Ask the Native Americans. It's all one White Empire and they're still divide and conquering. That's the whole recipe, and if you don't see it, you're in the soup.

The lesson learned by the people that have it the worst and have the most reason for submitting to the violence of empire is that there is no negotiating with terrorists. Resistance is, in fact, the path of least resistance, unless you consider dying slowly to be not dying at all. That's why Palestine is resisting, Yemen is resisting, the poorest among us are the most persistent and will surely be the richest in heaven, which judges our deeds, and not the petty land deeds handed about by thieves and border-drawers, who spread corruption in the land and call it peace. Those comfortable with their children and wealth, who do not come when clearly called, as the Quran says, will surely be condemned for their cowardice and collaboration. I'm a Buddhist and I believe this. It's simply the idea of natural justice. As the Quran says,

If God did not repel the aggression of some people by means of others, cloisters and churches and synagogues and mosques, wherein the name of God is much invoked, would surely be destroyed. God will surely help him who helps His cause—God is indeed powerful and mighty.

There is no peace in the Middle East until the beast with many backers is excised, until they unholy people that wear their shoes in temples are given the righteous boot. 'Israel' exists only to divide and conquer the oil-rich regions, to conscript Semites to fight other Semites (whatever that means), to prevent what the West called the 1970s Oil Crisis from ever happening again. To the oil-rich countries that crisis was an opportunity, but over decades they've been spoiled by negotiating with the corrupting cancer in their midst. 'Israel' is placed in the Middle East simply to prevent the natives from ever uniting and gaining full control of their resources.

Understanding this clearly, the late, great Hassan Nasrallah said (in 1986), “Priority should be given to removing Israel from the scene, because it was established for the express purpose of dividing and partitioning the Muslim world. We are not only against the partition of Lebanon, but also against the partition of the Muslim world; this explains why we see no alternative to fighting Israel, with all means at our disposal, until it ceases to exist. Then we will attend to following [certain] steps.” People say that Hezbollah has been destroyed but Hezbollah is a movement, not a man, and history is still moving. The Carbon Crusaders are getting pushed out slowly but surely. You don't hear this in the news, because they're history. And I must admit that I often don't feel it, because the present is a misery.

They say that those who don't learn history are condemned to repeat it. They should just say that history repeats. Colonizers have been lying since they got off their ships but we keep ascribing some humanity to them. They're just the placeholders for joint stock companies driven by algorithm. Across the old world, we have hospitality codes, especially re: strangers, but these are continually exploited by energy poor (be it solar/slaves or oil) people from the north that don't share meals, wash their asses, or keep their word. We have to understand that there's no humanity to white people, just a collapsed white hole where their souls used to be. I'm fine if people want to renounce their whiteness and join humanity, but anyone who identifies as white is an enemy. There's no content to that culture beyond colonization, there's no higher meaning than hierarchy, there's no supreme creator at the top, just white supremacy. We keep extending hospitality to these people like they're people and that's a category that keeps repeating.

Hence today Iran is talking, again, with the IAEA, despite it like every other I (IMF, ICC, FIFA, whatever) being corrupted by the White Empire that lurks in the background of every good thing, corrupting every international institution. People from Iran to China keep trying to work with these international organizations because they're a good idea, but in practice they're just imperialism with hypocritical seasoning. Iran's Supreme Leader said there's no negotiating with these people (Americans) but Iran actually has a functioning democracy and keeps electing ‘reformist’ governments that take another kick at the football anyways (re: C. Brown). These reformists keep falling on their ass, but hope springs eternal. One hopes for some shred of humanity from whiteness but there's nothing there. It's just the background noise of the same old exploitation.

There's no negotiating with the Empire except as a strategem of war, but the risk there is that they're much better at this strategem than you are! Every good thing, every tool of resistance has been turned against us. Peaceful protests are now engineered for color revolutions in their favor. Terrorism, once the last resort of the powerless, is now the first retort of Empire, they fund it and turn it on/off like a tap to give slaps to those they want to destabilize. And it works. They devour their rebellions and regurgitate them as sick burns. Negotiation, nominally a way to ceasefire, becomes just a way to cease and desist your own existence, death by a thousand papercuts. There's no negotiating with White Empire, as the Kandyan Kings could have known, were they not so busy angling for advantage over each other that they got taken advantage of. Certainly the Native Americans could have told us, as Americans violated every treaty they ever made. If you care about your terroir, there is no negotiating with terrorists.

In my dream, however, it wasn't real Kandyan Kings, it was kids at a school function dressed as Kandyan nobility. Our cowardice repeated as ceremony. We keep teaching ourselves the wrong things, and it seems we never learn. I say ‘we’ broadly, of course, referring to the indolent and ultimately irrelevant. Somewhere deep in the Holy Land people listen, and the fire of Resistance still burns. May we draw light from this spark. There are surely signs for those who look beyond the headlines, at the heroes of history recommended by the condemnation of the worst people on earth. Those they call terrorists are in fact terroirists, and every accusation from White Empire is a confession. This is really why there's no negotiating with these people. They don't just massacre other people, they massacre their own language.