PALESTINA IS NO LONGER JUST A REGIONAL CONFLICT: NOW BECOMING A SYMBOL OF A NEW WORLD RESISTANCE
📌 OPENING – THE SHIFT THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING For decades, the world viewed Palestine as a regional issue. Important, yes. Tragic, certainly. But ultimately contained within the boundaries of the Middle East — a problem to be managed, not solved; a conflict that could be "frozen" without catastrophic global consequences. That era is over. Since October 7, 2023, Palestine has become something entirely different: a global symbol. Not just for Muslims, but for the Global South, for anti-colonial movements, for anyone who sees the current world order as fundamentally unjust. From university campuses in the United States to street protests in London, from parliamentary debates in Malaysia to social media trends in Indonesia — Palestine now represents a proxy battle between the old Western-dominated order and an emerging multipolar world. This is the second article in our special series on the Middle East crisis. We examine how Palestine transformed from a regional conflict into a...