I think you're reading what you want to read out of that report The mandate she didn't have was to investigate the prevalence of SA and who was responsible for it. As such, it made no conclusions on the extent of SA on Oct 7th. That is all.
But, that's the whole point with how the media distorted it because Israel's whole propaganda was not about whether any SA took place, but that it was widespread and systematic. The pro-Palestinians were noting that there is no way it was widespread and systematic., and countering the media distortions.
We'll never know about if any actual SA ever took place, on October 7 as no victim even identified since. The report also mentioned alleged SA of Palestinian women.
75 years is older than most African and Asian countries, some of which have gone from federations to single nation-states (or split into multiple nations).
And I used "earned" because sometimes, humans fight for land; and when one group loses the war, they generally know how fast to quit in order to avoid losing everything. When I look at the Israel-Palestine issue, beyond the confirmation that "might makes right" seems to be the way the world goes, I also see a cautionary tale on how not to lose a conflict. When seven decades of armed resistance amount to less territory and less autonomy than the arrangement you initially rejected, you have to wonder whether committing multiple generations of people to an ideological war has been the wise choice. If, from 1967 to today, Palestinian leaders had not squandered the support that Palestinian statehood had in the Arab world and inside Israel in the pursuit of the destruction of said state, we could be seeing two states today, and maybe talks of a reunification of Mandatory Palestine (or a federation) would appear realistic.
There are points here I can argue, but we'll just keep going in circles. Remember Israel is modeled as a settler-colonial state.
What is there to balance, when one side has one of the most advanced armies in the world, financed and supplied by an allied superpower, and the other side has been altogether abandoned by allies and well-wishers and has only the determination and strength of its people to rely on? We will continue to leverage the global support, expand the BDS movement and will continue marching to the fence in Gaza until we bring this madness to an end. In my opinion, the best way to proceed forth, is to continue fighting through any means the people can, and then working on an alternative model, both democratic and secular, which guarantees equality and abolishes apartheid, bantustans and separation in Palestine altogether. We will not give up the fight.
Just remember, even the most strongest of empires and countries have eroded, and fell. 75 years is literally nothing, and still fresh. Israel is one of the last colonial outposts, and it is quite outdated and just doesn't fly anymore. Like I stated here earlier post, Israel hasn't even EVER established legal and binding borders, and doesn't have a written constitution because they could not agree what it even means to be Israel.
Israel has stopped playing the democracy pretence game and has revealed itself for what it really is: an apartheid state. Israel was founded from the Zionist ideology that is inherently racist and undemocratic. Again, Israel will not survive as a single Jewish ethnostate. In my opinion, the only thing left for Palestinians to do is fight for one state espousing democracy and secularism.
Palestinians are still here and still fighting, and we will even if that means our complete annihilation. That's how you know you are the natives of the land.
The creation of the Adamawa emirate and the better known Sokoto caliphate were 19th century events. The motivations of their rulers were not that different from the motivations of modern Islamist groups, and their presence predated colonialism.
So we are talking about 2 different phenomena still. Just read up a little I can quickly, looks like the Sokoto caliphate pre-colonial but then was dissolved when the British, French and Germans conquered the area in 1903. However, in the 1800s, you still had even had royal kingdoms in Europe run by Christianity. Even in the Western world, the separation between the church and the state started in 1848.
It is commonly held that
European colonization and the efforts to modernise Muslim countries/lands, which challenged Islam and undermined local custom, and that Islamisation was generally opposed to European ideas and technologies and rejected local beliefs and practices. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Muslims reformed their practices and institutions, both as a response to the domination of their societies by non-Muslim imperial powers and as a way of becoming “modern.” European colonization reformed political Islamism as a phenomena to directly to counter modern colonial Westernization/Euro-Christian domination.
