tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24584286411962130532024-03-05T02:37:06.856-08:00WrittenResistanceWrittenResistancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06184267602691701044noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2458428641196213053.post-76308272769166812012012-02-02T11:54:00.000-08:002012-02-02T11:54:27.174-08:00Some Leadership we Have: Khader Adnan's Struggle Falls Upon Deaf Ears<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">There is pride mingled with fear for Khader Adnan when his name is mentioned, pride for his mental endurance and resistance, kind of like bringing back the spirit of Palestinian resistance that has waned after the signing of the Oslo accords. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Fear not for his life, for which we have respect, but fear for what happens next. In a recent letter he wrote, he stated that “I will continue the hunger strike and will not give in, even if it means death.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What is so chilling is that if Khader Adnan were to die, our lovely leadership won’t even spare him a thought! Just yesterday Abbasshole met with UN secretary general Ban Ki Moon and ensured that negotiations with the fascist apartheid “state of Isghael” are a must to continuing the path to the so called (delusional!)…peace process….</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Digression alert: (Ban Ki Moon was showered with <em>sarami</em> from <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/leading-palestinians-boycott-un-head-ban-ki-moon-gaza-rebuffed-prisoners-families" target="_blank">Palestinian families of prisoners in Gaza earlier today</a> that condemned his bias to Palestinians and so that gave us a minute sense of satisfaction.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">……………………</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Hmm. Doubt Khader wants peace with the pigs that used his beard as a shoe cleaner, ripped his beard, cursed his mother, chained him to a hospital cell with cockroaches for company, forced him to sit in extremely painful positions for hours at a time. <a href="http://www.addameer.org/etemplate.php?id=428" target="_blank">Read Addameer’s report on his unjust detainment and the disgusting reality he faced at the hands of Israel Prison Service.</a> Zionism and peace are complete antonyms, and Khader Adnan is doing all that is in his power to resist such fascist crimes against humanity in the form of a hunger and speaking strike. Call him a terrorist for resisting these criminal actions and it makes you look dimwitted. Our pathetic leadership, delusional to a sickening extent, chooses to get distracted by their little fake statehood fantasy, of which concession is the main aspect. #Tfoo</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In the same letter, Khader blamed the Palestinian leadership and stated, “To what level of severity must my case go to in order for you to actually address it??”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">As with many Palestinians, (or should I say all), Khader has had his basic human rights denied. Previously, he has been imprisoned for a total of 8 years in administrative detention, an inhumane policy practiced by Israel that imprisons Palestinians for years, without ever giving them a charge. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Oh and of course he is the terrorist (I mean teghoghist) for resisting this branch of barbarism that Isghael has to offer. For more on Khader Adnan, <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/shahd-abusalama/detainee-risk-ongoing-hunger-strike-december-17" target="_blank">read this</a>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">………………………….</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">For 47 days now, Khader Adnan has been on a hunger strike protesting Israeli cruelty and unjustness. We’re sick of counting and counting and counting without seeing justice brought to Khader and to all Palestinian prisoners that are also in his shoes. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What we do know for sure is that Khader Adnan has raised our heads, raised them with the dignity of Palestinian resistance we were born to defend.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
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</div>WrittenResistancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06184267602691701044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2458428641196213053.post-83393622474134678112012-01-22T08:22:00.000-08:002012-01-22T08:29:34.081-08:00#Blog4Quds The Jerusalem in Me: My Jerusalem is a Memory<div class="MsoNormal">To so many Palestinians, Jerusalem is a memory. A bittersweet reminiscence that begins with a vibrant “Remember when we could enter Jerusalem…” and ends with glum, sullen looks and hefty sighs.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">“Remember when we could enter Jerusalem and there was always that mountain of za’tar in the souk?”</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">What I remember about Jerusalem is that when we could go, we would always go pretty early so as to catch Duhr prayer in Qubbat Asakhra (the Dome of the Rock). The change of timing is what kept my most prized memory such a vivid one. One Ramadan a few years back (when we could enter Jerusalem, of course), my father hoisted us in the car and off we were to catch Maghreb prayer and to break our fast, right next to Qubbat Asakhra, right in the heart of Palestine, in Jerusalem! Dusk was to fall around me in Jerusalem, for the first time in my life. I like to think that it won’t be the last time in my life.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">In a the-sun’s-about-to-set-hurry-get-food frenzy, Baba grabs yogurt, delicious Jerusalem falafel and ka’ik, apples and BOOM-the cannon blast calling for Maghreb prayers in Ramadan is sounded. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The cannon blast cues for the sun to set in Jerusalem.</div><div class="MsoNormal">The sun sets, and Jerusalem’s beauty becomes mutated in the darkness of gluttony, larceny, wickedness. In the darkness of Judaization.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 135.75pt;"> <br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">“Remember when we could enter Jerusalem and there were always these colored chicks for sale! Colored chicks! And then they would usually be dead by the time we got back home.”</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">So many years ago. The extended family, aunts and cousins, with our ridiculous 90’s outfits, out for a day in Jerusalem. Prayer in Qubbat Asakhra, as well as in AlAqsa. The souk. Jerusalem ka’ik.</div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">The sanctuary sight of Qubbat Asakhra, with its dim lights and beautiful Quranic calligraphy encircling the dome greets you as soon as you step foot inside (literally, as shoes are not allowed in mosques).</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
A personal haven for Muslims all around the world, reduced to a memory. A basic, personal right for Palestinians all around Jerusalem, a mere few kilometers away from their capital city, reduced to a bittersweet recollection complete with fighting back tears and a glimmer of hope. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 126.75pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Walking through the souk with the uncle and cousins and all around is the breathtaking kaleidoscope of delicious treats, souvenirs, spices, accessories and toys, clothes…the list goes on. Look up, however, and an Israeli flag is hanging from a window, disrupting the beauty of Jerusalem with the looming factor of Zionism, mocking your Palestinian presence as if to say, “Soon, you invented creature, whatever race you claim you belong to with be ethnically cleansed from this land…you just wait.”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">This memoir does not include the concept of having to pass through checkpoints or having to deal with armed Israeli soldiers commanding “khaweeya” on buses, for that would stain the magnificence Jerusalem holds.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Yes, inevitably, the <i>memories</i> of Jerusalem I have contain aspects of Judaization and Zionism, because that is the reality Jerusalem and Palestine are temporarily locked under, but the Jerusalem running in my blood contains no such filth.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The Jerusalem running in my blood is the Jerusalem that no occupation can thieve, the Jerusalem for all human beings regardless of race or religion, under a mighty sun, the sun of justice. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">One day, that Israeli flag hanging from that window and the rest of the Zionist factors looming in every nook and cranny of Jerusalem will be nothing but an unpleasant memory.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Jerusalem is physically out of my reach, but when I look inside my heart, I see Jerusalem and I thank my enemy for keeping it alive in all of us.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div>WrittenResistancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06184267602691701044noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2458428641196213053.post-49872133894739681002012-01-21T04:58:00.000-08:002012-01-21T04:58:38.643-08:00تحية فلسطينية للثورة السورية Palestinians for Syriaمن فلسطين لسوريا الشعب بدو حرية<br />
From Palestine to Syria, the people want: <b>FREEDOM</b><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><b><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Simplified Arabic","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">تحية فلسطينية للثورة السورية <o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Simplified Arabic","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">21.1.12 يوم الغضب العالمي لنصرة الشعب السوري</span><span dir="LTR" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Simplified Arabic";"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span lang="AR-JO" style="font-family: "Simplified Arabic","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-JO; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ثورة سلمية.. ضد التدخل الأجنبي.. ضد الطائفية والفئوية.. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span lang="AR-JO" style="font-family: "Simplified Arabic","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-JO; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">منذ عشرة شهور يسير الشعب السوري نحو الحرية وثقتنا به لا تشوبها شائبة لذا نرى أن من واجبنا أن نحذره من خطر التدخل الأجنبي وأن نشد على أياديه للحفاظ على سلمية الثورة التي عودتنا منذ بدايتها على رفض الطائفية والفئوية. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Simplified Arabic","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">منذ عشرة شهور يسير الشعب السوري نحو الحرية بثبات، رغم تعثر خطواته التي يقطعها إجرام نظام بشار الأسد بأسلحة كانت أولى بحرب تحرير أرضه المحتلة، أو يقطعها اختلاف من ائتمنهم الشعب السوري على تمثيله.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Simplified Arabic","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">منذ عشرة شهور يسير الشعب السوري نحو الحرية يسقط في مسيرِه شهيدا من يسقط، دون أن يَحدّ القتل ومحاولة تفريق الصفوف من صموده البطولي. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Simplified Arabic","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">منذ عشرة شهور يسير الشعب السوري نحو الحرية والعالم كله يُحلل شعارات مظاهراته وتحقق الفضائيات نسب المشاهدة المرتفعة فوق دماء شهدائه ويبيع الإعلام الكلام والصور عن حرب أهلية أو مؤامرة، ويتهالك على سورية من لم يدعموا يومًا الحرية والديمقراطية في شرقنا، معتقدين أن مؤامراتهم ونواياهم تنطلي علينا. ونحن على ثقة أن هذه المؤامرات ستتهاوى عند أقدام الشعب السوري العربي العريق، حالما يستعيد عافيته.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Simplified Arabic","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">عشرة شهور ونحن نتفرج ونؤدلج الموقف ونتفادى مشاهدة الجثث الممثل بها والنساء اللواتي لا يتظاهرن خوفا من الرصاص <span style="color: #222222;">وننتقي القناة التي سنشاهد فيها خبر استشهاد ثلاثين وسبعين ومئة سوريّةً وسوريًّا <span style="background: white;">ونخجل من تضامننا البائس. </span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">. وعندما ينتهي كل يوم ثوري تنام عشرات الأسر السورية دون أحد أبنائها ودون أن يقاسمها ألمها أحد.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Simplified Arabic","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">نحن نشطاء ومدونون فلسطينيون، وفي يوم التضامن العالمي مع الثورة السورية، نؤكد وقوفنا إلى جانب الشعب السوري الثائر. نرفض بشدة استخدامنا واستخدام قضية فلسطين كسجادة يكنس نظام الأسد جثث ثوار سورية تحتها ثم يدوس عليها أمام عيوننا جميعا. لنفكر عميقا بما يدور حول الثورة السورية وداخلها لكن لنترك التحليل المفرط والفذلكة جانبا لأن الثمن ليس أقل من دماء إخوتنا. لندعم الثورة السورية لتظل ثورة ترفض التدخل الأجنبي وتلفظ الطائفية وتحتفظ بسلميتها، فدون ثقتنا جميعا بها ودعمنا لها لن يكون لنا أي حق بالتنظير والمزاودة على الشعب السوري الذي يُقتل كل دقيقة.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-JO;">Palestinians for Syria </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-JO" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-JO; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-JO;">21/01/12 is the Global Day Of Rage For Syria</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-JO" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-JO; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-JO;">A peaceful revolution…a revolution against foreign intervention…a revolution against sectarianism and factions.This is the revolution of the Syrian people we know.</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-JO" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-JO; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-JO;">For ten months now the Syrian people have marched towards freedom and we have no doubt that they will achieve their liberation. For this reason we see it as a duty to warn them of the dangers of foreign intervention and to express our support for their peaceful revolution against sectarianism and factions.</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-JO" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-JO; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-JO;">For ten months the Syrian people have marched steadily towards freedom, despite the criminal oppression of Bashar al-Assad’s regime which uses weapons against its own people, instead of using them to liberate their occupied land, and despite the disagreements among their representatives whom the people gave trust in.</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-JO" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-JO; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-JO;">For ten months the Syrian people have marched towards freedom as martyr after martyr is sacrificed, which has only strengthened their resolve and steadfastness to continue their march.</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-JO" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-JO; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-JO;">For ten months the Syrian people have marched towards freedom as the world analyzes the meanings behind slogans raised in protests, and satellite channels have garnered more viewers with the increase in bloodshed and murders. The media sells to its viewers talks of a conspiracy or of a civil war, and many powers, sells us their support to freedom or democracy in the Middle East, when they never did. </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">We are confident that these plots will fail and be crushed under the feet of the Syrian Arab People.</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Ten months and we have avoided watching the disfigured bodies and the brave women who do not fear facing the live ammunition. Ten months and we chose which channel to hear from about the news of 30, 70, 100 martyrs of Syria, which made us ashamed from our miserable show of solidarity, as at the end of every day dozens of families lose their sons and daughters, with seemingly no one to share their pain with.</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">We, Palestinian activists and bloggers, on the Global Day of Rage for Syrian Revolution, stress our support for the brave revolutionary Syrians. We strongly reject manipulating the Palestinian cause as a cover under which the Syrian martyrs’ bodies are brushed under and stamped upon by Bashar al-Assad’s regime. It is true we must think logically about the dynamics of the Syrian revolution, but we must put the overwrought analyses aside, because the cost is the blood of our Syrian brothers and sisters. We reiterate our support for the peaceful Syrian revolution and its rejection of foreign intervention amidst the threats of sectarianism, as without our solidarity and faith we have no right in theorizing and preaching to the Syrians who are being murdered one after the other. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div>WrittenResistancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06184267602691701044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2458428641196213053.post-68689343144939930682012-01-16T02:37:00.000-08:002012-01-16T02:37:17.668-08:00Taiseer Khatib: Raise Your Voice Against The Apartheid<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--> <m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent><!--[endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<em>The letter written below was written by Taiseer Khatib in response to Israel's racist court ruling, which leaves the Khatib family in fear of living apart. </em><br />
<em> You can read about this racist new court ruling <a href="http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/12/10142284-israeli-high-court-keeps-israeli-palestinian-spouses-apart?GoogleStatID=21http://www.haaretz.co.il/news/law/1.1615220" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="http://www.arabhra.org/hraadmin/ProjectSpecific/NewsletterEmailContent.aspx?articles=1065&SelectedLanguage=1" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://www.mideastyouth.com/2012/01/13/israeli-court-ruling-heightens-fears-for-palestinian-spouses-of-arab-citizens/">here.</a></em><br />
<em><b>Dear friends,</b></em><br />
<em><b>Those who are here and those who are spread all over the world, those in academic institutions, political parties, theatres, human rights organisations, students, workers, and everyone of You, please consider this email addressed to you personally.</b></em><br />
<em><b>Some of you might be aware of the latest racist Israeli supreme court decision from yesterday, that threatens to separate tens of thousands of Palestinian family members apart. This decision in addition to 25 laws and laws proposals are designed to segregate and discriminate against the Palestinian minority inside Israel. These racist laws have one goal: to bring to a situation where this state, should be only for a Pure race: Jewish! The deportation can start with Palestinian spouses today who are married to Palestinians inside Israel, but tomorrow it will be the overwhelming majority of Palestinians in Israel, if not all !</b></em><br />
<em><b>Yes, i feel very pessimistic! Yes i feel that a deportation of my wife and its separation from me and from my children is real ! It is a black day in my life and the life of tens of thousands of people in my situation! Deportation had not only become real but legalized!</b></em><br />
<em><b>I am writing to ask you to act in the name of humanity and human rights, which the Israeli supreme court had legalized a war against them, as it declared the war against us, we the “other”, it gave the green light for all security services to act in the name of LAW! The supreme court was the last shelter for defending human rights in Israel, and now it had shut its doors to Rights, and kept the Humans (Palestinians) out without any protection.</b></em><br />
<em><b>Below you will find some articles explaining the current racist law and also some articles or interviews with me and my family, there is also the TV interview (in Hebrew). Please contribute your part in fighting Israeli racism and spread the word, articles, and all what you find in regard of this law to ALL your friends in your Email, social networks, facebeook, twiter, and others, in order to raise the awareness mainly in Europe and in US to what is going on inside the so called “Democratic” state of Israel. Please do not let it stop by your email, spread and make the voice loud against this racist and discriminative actions!</b></em><br />
<em><b>To all of you who sent me emails, called, and express their solidarity with our case, i would like to say thank you, (especially my Israeli friends who denounced the law and told me, that the law doesn’t speak in their name, and that they feel ashamed of such a decision, for expressing solidarity with yourselves in the first level, and with me and my family on the second level, Racism against the Palestinians inside Israel, will not stop by them, it will continue further to the Jewish Israeli society, as it is becoming clear in the last period.</b></em><br />
<em><b>I will end my email with a citation from the great intellectual Said:</b></em><br />
<em><b>Remember the solidarity shown to Palestine here and everywhere… and remember also that there is a cause to which many people have committed themselves, difficulties and terrible obstacles notwithstanding. Why? Because it is a just cause, a notable ideal, a moral quest for equality and human rights.” </b></em><br />
<em><b>Edward Said </b></em><br />
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<em><b>I hope this just cause can get to as much as people as you can, as it is one of the last ways of fighting fascist decisions, raise your voice against the Apartheid!</b></em><br />
<em><b>Yours</b></em><br />
<em><b>Taiseer </b></em><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Please spread this letter far and wide. Let the world know about the racist apartheid and occupation of Palestine. </div>WrittenResistancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06184267602691701044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2458428641196213053.post-72507880585588510732012-01-14T13:15:00.000-08:002012-01-14T13:15:36.590-08:00The Road to Liberty: Keep Smelling like Skunk, Keep Smelling like a Thawri<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Call it superstition, call it chance, call it LUCK if you will but there was no denying that the skunk water was after us this Friday at Nabi Saleh. We were even planning from a week before to bring a change of clothes; we were sick of running whenever the skunk truck reared its dreaded aim at us.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So this morning in Nabi Saleh began with a “friend” of ours -whom we wished to avoid for…trustworthy reasons- requesting that he interviews us. We absolutely refuse but eventually decide to join as an unlucky friend was kind of forced to do the interview. Therefore we joined for “emotional support.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Questions like “What do you wish to achieve from these demonstrations?” and “What is the purpose of these demonstrations, week after week?” are questions that cannot be answered comfortably in a filmed interview with a very untrustworthy human being as the interviewer. The reason for that is mainly because this certain human being was only looking for his own good advantage (as proved at the end of the interview as he tried to fabricate our words to make it seem as if teargas was an occasional thing at Palestinian popular resistance demonstrations, and that skunk water was merely…"water".)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We have no hopes that that interview will ever go just the way it was recorded; it is only logical to think that our words will probably be twisted and turned to suit that certain deceitful human being's..views. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal">But questions like that, from a pro-Israel normaliser, do nothing but disgust us. Read his views on what it means to be pro-Israel <a href="http://www.momentmag.com/moment/issues/2012/02/Symposium.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://972mag.com/what-is-normal-about-normalization/31262/" target="_blank">here.</a> </div><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Obviously the ultimate reward, liberty from occupation, did not come that afternoon in Nabi Saleh. Nor will it come tomorrow, or the day after. Yet the fact that victims of the occupation are standing up, resisting, therefore existing, is a wonderful fact: The oppressed are not passive.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>"<i>When you don't oppose a system, your silence becomes approval, for it does nothing to interrupt the system." --Mumia Abu-Jamal</i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And then, one full of disbelief and doubt when it comes to matters of resistance may ask, “But what is the point? Did you free your land? Did you [in the case of Nabi Saleh] manage to get the spring back and halt the settlement? No. So what is the point?”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Whatever happened to having a voice? More importantly <i>using</i> that voice?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Whatever happened to waking from the dangerous lurks of silence and rising beyond the oppressor’s will?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">To rise, to wake up, to prove one’s existence, to emphasize one’s complete and utter rejection to the vile oppressor’s loathsome tactics of degrading basic humanity is directly the road to liberation from the criminal occupation, which calls itself…a security measure.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">No, it will not come in a day, or a week, or a year…but it will come.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As long as we stand firm on our existence, it will come.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And so when we were chanting at the IOF, the skunktruck proceeded to rear its ugly bulls-eye on us. Its menacing aim missed us, but barely a few times. It jeers at us, takes aim like a sniper, then releases an extremely foul acid, the epitome of the occupation itself.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And so later, when that same “friend” of ours asked us why we kept coming back to Nabi Saleh despite being hosed in such filth, inhaling and suffocating from teargas (and risking our lives as teargas canisters are aimed at head and abdomen level by the oh so moral IOF) keeping watch out for ammunition (whether they be rubber coated or live), we took his question more personally. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Why do we keep coming back, Aziz, despite risking our lives every time? The answer is simple. We have a voice, and we will <b>not</b> put it to waste. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</div>WrittenResistancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06184267602691701044noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2458428641196213053.post-77126007358786840042012-01-06T11:59:00.000-08:002012-01-07T07:18:16.133-08:00Martyrs are NOT numbers<m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent> </m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">1400 were murdered, 344 being children, 1417 children murdered, 6,537 Palestinians shot. Numbers, statistics, human lives turned into digits. Martyrs downgraded into numbers.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Martyrs.</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">We generally use this term to express those who die, or are murdered, in the name of liberation, for Palestine.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">We wrong them as we brand them as statistics, thereby audaciously disregard the life they once had; the hopes, dreams, families, pasts and futures they were stripped of, in the name of liberation. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">They serve us to promise a future for Palestine, and we shamelessly call them numbers.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">What is the point of stating our martyrs as number? To underline the atrocity of the Zionist entity, one which murders children and calls it in the name of defense?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Never forget that those children have names. <i>Khetam Iyad Fayez ad-Dyah, Mohammad and AbedRabbo al-Astal, Farah Ammar al-Hilou.</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">All martyrs have a story to tell. It is up to us, their brethren, to insure their legacy burns as the brightest candle in the darkness of occupation. We must brand their names into our memories in our fight for justifying their blood that drenched their mothers' souls.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">We are Palestine. We are in its olive trees, its music, its rocks, its sea, its martyrs, we are Palestine.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Our martyrs are the light of our eyes. The least we can do is remember their names. <i>Jawaher Abu Rahmah, Mustafa Abdel Razzaq al-Tamimi, Qasem Tal’at Jameel Abed an-Nabi.</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The least we can do is honor their names. <i>Hasan Atta Hassan Azzam, Ahmad Osama Mohammad Qurtom.</i> We must honor the lives of which no number can measure, the lives that pave the way to freedom, justice, humanity. <i>Ala’a al-Barghouthi, Sujoud Hamdi Juma’a ad-Dardasawi. </i>We must honor the lives that fearlessly threw stones at fully armed occupying puppets of Zionism. <i>Ahmad Mousa, Ahmad al-Samouni, Mohammad Samir Hejji. </i>We must honor those blown to smithereens in their beds.<i> Adham Baroud, Musa Yousif Hasan Barbakh, Haneen Wa’el Dhaban.</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The regard for human life is now disregarded, shunned by the organizations that are supposed to make human life their priority. Instead, human life has turned into data. Organizations like the UN, have become so accustomed to calling martyrs numbers that they have reached a point where Mustafa Tamimi was murdered right in front of their delegates and they did nothing. To them Mustafa and thousands like him are simply that: thousands. Numbers.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">After the Gaza Massacre, Ban Ki Moon made a trip to Gaza. He looked at a few bombed buildings and held a press conference, expressing great dismay at the aftermath caused by the massacre. Words words words! Empty words. Did he compensate the schools destroyed? Mosques? Hospitals? Did he look a child in their eyes, and tell them how sorry he was for not regarding them?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Did he show off his 5,000 dollar Armani suit? Yes.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The following tweet by comrade and activist <a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/AbirKopty" target="_blank">Abir Kopty</a> explains what runs through the minds of every Palestinian when they hear the words “United Nations."</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxe6gp4LbA1qi3q09o1_400.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="204" src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxe6gp4LbA1qi3q09o1_400.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Honor the stories and dreams these lives had and were forced away.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Israel" forced away their lives, dare you disregard their stories?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Give them their names. <i>Nancy Said Mohammad Waked</i>. Give them their dreams. <i>Fathiyah Ayman Saleem ad-Dabari</i>. Give them the earth they fought for. <i>Mohammad Khader Abed Rajab. </i>Give them pride. <i>Issa Mohammad Eyadah Ermailat</i>. Give them their dignity. <i>Mustafa Nehad Taleb Abu Sido.</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Give them Palestine.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Carry them on your shoulders, bathe in their blood. Their valuable blood spilled in the name of a free Palestine.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Spilled so nobody would remember them as numbers.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Never again. </span><br />
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</div>WrittenResistancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06184267602691701044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2458428641196213053.post-10190140825970799072011-12-17T11:36:00.000-08:002011-12-17T11:40:15.555-08:00Mustafa: Pray We Won't Let You Down<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span style="color: #222222;">“Isn’t that what Mustafa fought for? Didn’t he fight for his land, and this spring? And that’s what we’re going to do.”</span></i><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #222222;">Ibrahim’s eyes were flashing with a determination emerging from deep within. Emerging from years of being humiliated, stripped of his basic human rights, from witnessing colonization and the ethnic cleansing of his home village, Bil’in. Years of being harassed and attacked for wanting basic human rights, for wanting freedom. Gesticulating widely, he told us of today’s plan:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #222222;">To head and reach al-Kaws spring. Not only will we attempt. We will.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #222222;">Simple, right?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #222222;">Wrong.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #222222;">In any other country in the world, heading to a water spring would be as casual as a walk in the park. It is a natural phenomenon, after all, in which water from underground gushes to the land’s surface; clean natural water that can serve an entire village.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #222222;">But we are in Palestine. Something as heading to a spring of water can be a life-threatening experience, with extremist illegal settlers living in Jewish only communities and Israeli “security” forces ready to attack (or as they believe, defend).<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="color: #222222;">God’s chosen people.</span></b><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #222222;">When the illegal* settlement of Halamish was built right on the village of Nabi Saleh, al-Kaws spring, which was the village’s main water supply, was seized by fascist arms, adding that incident to a list of offenses carried out by the Zionist entity. Our attempts of rightfully drawing water from the spring, or going anywhere near it for that matter, are met with brutality and violence by IOF (Israeli Occupying Forces), whom make it their duty to guard and protect any thieved settler possession. Even if that means to attack, injure, and in the case of Mustafa Tamimi, kill anyone who attempts to defy such illegal actions.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span style="color: #222222;">“International! International! Ya jama3a!”</span></i><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #222222;">Ibrahim’s voice sounded above everyone else’s.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span style="color: #222222;">“All together now, all of us, down to the spring!”</span></i><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #222222;">A few eager demonstrators, Palestinian, Israeli and international, followed suit.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span style="color: #222222;">“Last time we were only 15! We need all of us to go now! All of us! 3annab3a, 3annab3a! To the spring!”</span></i><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #222222;">A few more activists joined. Many others stayed on the street. I honestly don’t know why. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #222222;">What is the point of demonstrating in Nabi Saleh? Is it just to get a few good pictures, gloat to friends of teargas and skunk water, and to say that you stood unarmed in front of a military jeep?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #222222;">I thought of Ibrahim’s determined face the morning of the demonstration<i>. “Isn’t that what Mustafa fought for? So we’re going to go down to the spring, and put his picture on it. That is what we’ll do today. That is our goal.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #222222;">I can only hope that a revolutionary change will come to Palestine, one confiscated village at a time. To do that, we must not run. We must not flee. We must not hesitate. This Friday was in honor of Mustafa, in honor of a hero, a Palestinian martyr that lost his life for a cause..a free Palestine, where heading to a spring is nothing more than a walk in the park. Where basic human rights exist, to everyone. Where Palestinians can live in peace and harmony without worrying where the Israeli soldiers will shoot next. Without worry of being arrested and treated as a criminal. Yes, the IOF inhumanely attack us with teargas canisters aimed at head level, but aren’t we all Mustafa? Aren’t we loyal to him? Won’t we show him that his death wasn’t in vain? <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #222222;">We must be fearless. We must march forward. We must resist. We must become the revolution.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #222222;">To all activists, Palestinian, Israeli, international, please make use of your time at Nabi Saleh. We must head toward our stolen spring, our dispossessed land, in hoards, in crowds of hundreds, thousands, millions.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #222222;">I thought of those of us who managed to get closest to the spring before IOF began their usual brutal "Gas the Arabs! And all those who stand with them!" policy. We were a maximum of twenty. I thought of how together, we formed a human chain to resist physical attack from IOF. I thought of activists that actually reached the spring, and were arrested one by one. I thought of Jonathan Pollak’s last words as he was being dragged to an Israeli military jeep following his arrest..”revolution until victory!” I thought of sacrifices one has to make for the ultimate prize we so eagerly yearn for…freedom from oppression.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
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</span></span></div>WrittenResistancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06184267602691701044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2458428641196213053.post-23167720100163446732011-12-14T02:19:00.000-08:002011-12-14T02:22:17.987-08:00From Palestine: Solidarity with Razan Ghazzawi and all Prisoners<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 14.25pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">We, a group of Palestinian bloggers and activists raise our voices loud and clear in solidarity with all the prisoners of the Great Syrian Revolution. We stand with all the prisoners, activists, artists, bloggers and others, all who are shouting in the streets or on various platforms demanding freedom and justice, while decrying the huge amount on injustice and oppression practiced by the Syrian regime for more than four decades.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 14.25pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 14.25pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">We issue this statement in solidarity with all those Syrian activists, and with the blogger </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://twitter.com/RedRazan"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Razan Ghazzawi</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> who was arrested on December 4th, on the Jordanian-Syrian crossing border. Razan was adamant in her support for the Palestinian cause. She was the first to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian bloggers who were not granted a visa to enter Tunisia in order to participate in the Arab Bloggers Conference. Razan posted a blog in 2008 during the massacre on Gaza titled, "The Idea of Solidarity with Gaza." She wrote, "I understand when Cubans, Brazilians, and Pakistanies stand in solidarity with Gaza. But what I do not understand is when Syrians, Lebanese, Jordanians, and also Palestinians in exile stand in solidarity. What is the meaning of solidarity in this context?"<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 14.25pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 14.25pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Not only do we stand in solidarity with Razan and the other prisoners, but we also affirm that our destiny is one, our concerns are one, and our struggle is one. Palestine can never be free while the Arab people live under repressive and reactionary regimes. The road to a free Palestine comes with a free Syria, in which Syrians live in dignity.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 14.25pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 14.25pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Freedom to all of the prisoners in the Syrian regime's cells. Long live the Syrian Revolution, free from dictatorship, sectarianism, and foreign intervention.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 14.25pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Signatories:<span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://twitter.com/abirkopty"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Abir Kopty</span></a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://twitter.com/errnooo"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Abrar Agil</span></a></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://twitter.com/palestine52"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ahmed Fahoum</span></a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://twitter.com/ANimer"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ahmed Nimer</span></a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">Alaa Abu Diab</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://twitter.com/AliAbunimah"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ali Abunimah</span></a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">Ali AlMasri<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://twitter.com/AliBary"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ali Bari</span></a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://twitter.com/hopeingaza"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Amal Murtaja</span></a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">Amani Ighbaria<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://twitter.com/AmraAmra"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Amra Amra</span></a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://twitter.com/Palanafree"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Anas Hamra</span></a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://twitter.com/asmaagaza"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Asmaa AlGhoul</span></a></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://twitter.com/iBashar"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Bashar Lubbad</span></a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://twitter.com/Budouroddick"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Budour Hasan</span></a></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://twitter.com/luluderaven"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dalia Ghorab</span></a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://twitter.com/DaliaOthman"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dalia Othman</span></a></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://twitter.com/dalsaafin"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Deema AlSaafin</span></a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; 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text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://twitter.com/ThameenaHusary"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Thameena Husary</span></a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://twitter.com/yusra81">Yusra Jamous</a></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"></span></div><div dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; line-height: 14.25pt; text-align: right; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.5pt;">نحن مجموعة من المدونين والناشطين الشباب الفلسطينيين نطلق صرختنا مرة أخرى تضامنًا مع كافة معتقلي الثورة السورية العظيمة جميعهم/ن من ناشطين/ات، فنانين/ات، مدونيين/ات وغيرهم الذين أطلقوا ولا زالوا يطلقون أصواتهم عاليًا في الشارع وعبر المنصات المختلفة مطالبين بالحريّة والعدالة ووقف الظلم والاستبداد وسياسة كم الأفواه الذي يتبعها النظام السوري منذ ما يزيد عن أربعة عقود سنوات.</span><span dir="LTR" lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; line-height: 14.25pt; text-align: right; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.5pt;">نطلق بياننا هذا، تضامناً معهم ومع المدونة السورية<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://twitter.com/RedRazan"><strong><span lang="AR-SA" style="color: blue; font-size: 10.5pt;">رزان الغزاوي</span></strong></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></span><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.5pt;">والتي لم يتوقف يومًا دعمها ومساندتها للقضية الفلسطينية، وكانت أول من تضامن مع المدونين الفلسطينيين الذين لم يحصلوا على تأشيرات دخول للمشاركة في مؤتمر المدونين العرب الأخير في تونس. وكانت رزان قد نشرت تدوينة لها في العام 2008 إبان الحرب على غزة بعنوان "حول فكرة "التضامن" مع غزة"، قائلة: أفهم أن يتضامن سكّان كوبا والبرازيل وباكستان مع غزّة، لكنّني لا أفهم حين يتضامن السوريون واللبنانيون والأردنيون لا بل الفلسطينيون في الشتات مع غّزة، فماذا يُقصد بالتضامن هنا؟".<o:p></o:p></span></div><div dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; line-height: 14.25pt; text-align: right; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.5pt;">لا نتضامن مع رزان الغزاوي و150 معتقلة سورية وكلّ المعتقلين فقط، بل نعلن أن مصيرنا وهمّنا ونضالنا واحد، وأنه لا يمكن لفلسطين أن تتحرر لطالما بقيت شعوبنا العربية تعيش تحت الأنظمة الرجعية والظالمة، وأن فلسطين ستكون حرّة حين ستكون سوريا حرّة والشعب السوري يعيش بكرامة.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 14.25pt; text-align: right;"><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.5pt;">الحريّة لكلّ المعتقلين في سجون النظام السوري. وتحيا الثورة السورية، حرّة من الدكتاتورية، و ومن التدخّل الخارجي، ومن الطائفية</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span dir="LTR"></span>.</span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; line-height: 14.25pt; text-align: right; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.5pt;">الموقّعون:</span><span dir="LTR" lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; line-height: 14.25pt; text-align: right; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://twitter.com/Gazanism"><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.5pt;">اباء رزق</span></a></span><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; line-height: 14.25pt; text-align: right; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://twitter.com/errnooo"><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.5pt;">أبرار عقيل</span></a></span><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; line-height: 14.25pt; text-align: right; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://twitter.com/palestine52"><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.5pt;">أحمد فاهوم</span></a></span><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; line-height: 14.25pt; text-align: right; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://twitter.com/ANimer"><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.5pt;">أحمد نمر</span></a></span><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; line-height: 14.25pt; text-align: right; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://twitter.com/almagdela"><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.5pt;">ارين ناصر</span></a></span><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; line-height: 14.25pt; text-align: right; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://twitter.com/OsamaShomar"><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.5pt;">أسامة شومر</span></a></span><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; line-height: 14.25pt; text-align: right; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://twitter.com/osameetto"><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.5pt;">أسامة غراب</span></a></span><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; line-height: 14.25pt; text-align: right; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://twitter.com/asmaagaza"><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.5pt;">أسماء الغول</span></a></span><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; line-height: 14.25pt; text-align: right; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.5pt;">أماني اغبارية<o:p></o:p></span></div><div dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; line-height: 14.25pt; text-align: right; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://twitter.com/hopeingaza"><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.5pt;">أمل مرتجى</span></a></span><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; line-height: 14.25pt; text-align: right; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://twitter.com/Palanafree"><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.5pt;">أنس حمرا</span></a></span><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; line-height: 14.25pt; text-align: right; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://twitter.com/Budouroddick"><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.5pt;">بدور حسن</span></a></span><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; line-height: 14.25pt; text-align: right; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://twitter.com/iBashar"><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.5pt;">بشار لبد</span></a></span><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; 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</span></div>WrittenResistancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06184267602691701044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2458428641196213053.post-78958786449769505742011-12-10T15:53:00.000-08:002011-12-10T15:53:48.221-08:00Mustafa: Truly Chosen<h1 class="ha" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); background: inherit; border-right: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 12px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="hP" id=":69" style="padding-right: 10px;">Mustafa Tamimi a martyr that will continue to live on.</span></h1><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Iremember just Friday morning, walking the streets of Nabi Saleh, all</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">activists and villagers alike gather to begin the weekly demonstration</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">against occupation. This Friday however was special, it was the Friday</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">commemorating 24 years since the first Intifada, as well as the second</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">year since demonstrations against the occupation, began in Nabi Saleh.</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I remember walking alongside my friend and a few of the villagers as</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">we remarked on the foul smell of the "shit water" that Zionist Israeli</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">soldiers sprayed around the village a few days earlier. I remember</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">joking around with everyone. I remember looking into the eyes of</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">everyone there and seeing resistance and hope. I saw Palestine in the</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">shiny glimmer in their eyes. Every Friday that we go to Nabi Saleh we</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">have an expectation of what we will be subjected to as unarmed</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">demonstrators. No matter how peaceful we are, we know that we will be</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">teargassed excessively, adults and children alike. We expect to be</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">shot at with metal coated rubber bullets. We expect the "scream</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">machine" which has been recorded to cause people to faint. We even</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">expect to be injured, to have our bones broken, to be beaten up and</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">arrested. Yet never did we expect to die, or one of us to die.</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">However we stood corrected on Friday December 9th 2011. This Friday</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">that was supposed to commemorate the 24th year since the first</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Intifada and the second year since the beginning of demonstrations in</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Nabi Saleh, now also marks the day Mustafa Tamimi 28 years old was</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">shot in cold blood straight in the head with a high velocity tear gas</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">canister. Never did we expect this Friday to be the Friday that Nabi</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Saleh has its first martyr fall. Never did we think we would witness</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">such horror.</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I remember walking the streets of Nabi Saleh and the first sight that</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">would come to mind, was ruthless soldiers pointing and shooting at</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">unarmed demonstrators, that are asking for basic human rights. I</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">remember that the first smell that would come to mind was the smell of</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">tear gas and "shit water." I remember the first sound was the sound of</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">the "scream machine" and the pop pop pop from the guns used to aim and</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">injure us. I remember when I heard the word resistance the image of</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">youth holding the Palestinian flag high was the first image to come to</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">mind.</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Now after December 9th, after Mustafa Tamimi has become a martyr. The</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">first sight that comes to mind when I walk the streets of Nabi Saleh</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">will be Mustafa in his white button up, and the pool of blood he lay</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">in. The first sight will be a pool of red, a pool of a heroes blood.</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">How he was carried away in a Ford and how his injured body was held up</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">by Israeli Zionists before he was taken to a hospital. I will remember</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">how his sister was denied to see him. How his mother had to get</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">permission from the very soldiers that shot him to go with her beloved</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">son to the hospital. How his father was denied entry to accompany his</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">son while he bleeds excessively. The first sound will not be the</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">"scream machine." It will be his sister Olla Tamimi yelling at the</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">soldiers that shot her brother in cold blood demanding to see him</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">"BIDEE ASHOOFO!" (I WANT TO SEE HIM!) The screams of Olla will be</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">engraved in my mind forever. The sounds of a young female fall apart</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">as her bleeding brother is but a few meters away and she isn't allowed</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">to see him. I will no longer remember how it rained teargas in Nabi</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Saleh, I will remember how the eyes of the young shabab that face</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">their occupiers with such courage are now raining tears, how their</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">eyes cried blood from grief and sorrow.</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Next time I walk the streets of Nabi Saleh I will remember how Mustafa</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">stood up with such courage to a group of armed soldiers, I will</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">remember his bravery and his voice which he used for a free Palestine.</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Mustafa might be gone, but his voice will continue to live on, it will</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">live on in the streets of Nabi Saleh and within us. We will use our</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">voice to echo his.</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Now, when someone speaks of resistance, I will not think of youth</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">holding the Palestinian flag high. I will think of that one</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Palestinian flag that was held up so high, which was covered in</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Mustafa's blood. That flag resembles Palestinian resistance.</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">To Mustafa I say, you will live on and we will continue to go to Nabi</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Saleh and we will continue to embody your courage. We will not forget</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">nor will we forgive. May your beautiful beautiful soul rest in peace.</span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>The following was written before word of Mustafa Tamimi’s death was announced. Now that he is blessed with martyrdom, there are honestly no words to express the emotions we try to compress. There are only the memories we posses, memories of his sister Olla screaming to see her brother, memories of his mother with that gaunt look on her face, memories of the IOF saying, “Yes, I killed him, and I’m proud.”. May his soul be eternally blessed, and may his spirit continue to guide us in our struggle for human rights and liberty.<o:p></o:p></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Restiam Umani.</i></div><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Waiting.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> Waiting for the right words to fall into place..</div><div class="MsoNormal">“The trauma we face after Mustafa’s injury is……</div><div class="MsoNormal">“Is……..</div><div class="MsoNormal">There can’t possibly be a word.</div><div class="MsoNormal">It’s difficult to fall asleep.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> Will there be a funeral soon in Nabi Saleh?</div><div class="MsoNormal">Oh Lord, we have but you. Save him.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> Save him, Lord.</div><div class="MsoNormal">My heart physically aches. There is a dagger wedged in my ribcage.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> “There is nothing wrong with him, “ IOF said.</div><div class="MsoNormal">“is3aaaf…is3aaaf” “ambulance! ambulance!” was heard like thunder from the hill.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"> Trauma is why many children in Gaza stare with empty eyes, souls aching. Trauma is why children who watched their friends die before their eyes feel no point in going back to school.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> It is a physical force, an energy that compresses the soul, squeezing life out of every morning, every sunrise and set.</div><div class="MsoNormal">It is Palestinian.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> How many martyrs died in your class? One used to sit next to me. Now there is a very empty chair.</div><div class="MsoNormal">It is childhood.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"> Lord, bring Mustafa back to us a survivor.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> Lord, we have but you…</div><div class="MsoNormal"> Lord..</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><br />
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</div>WrittenResistancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06184267602691701044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2458428641196213053.post-32283170810843222592011-12-07T12:29:00.000-08:002011-12-07T12:29:27.616-08:0024 Years for the First Intifada. #Intifada1<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">December 9th this year is the 24th anniversary of the First Palestinian Intifada.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">We, a group of Palestinian youth, children of the First Intifada, bow in front of the heroes of the Intifada, its martyrs, children, elders, women and men.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">We view the Intifada as a significant era in the history of the Palestinian people that future generations need to learn from, and that many have used as a model in their struggle for justice, dignity and freedom.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">On this occasion we affirm our belief in the Palestinian Popular Resistance, as a principal part of our struggle for freedom and Palestinian rights that is not open for compromise. We support the struggle to achieve freedom and the right of return.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">Based on that, we are calling out to all our people in Palestine and in exile to commemorate this anniversary, by honoring the heroes of this Intifada and to follow in their footsteps.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">We are also calling out to all the Palestinian bloggers in Palestine and in exile to dedicate their blogs on the 9th of December to honor the people of the First Intifada through writing stories from the Intifada or conducting interviews with the heroes, publishing videos or photos etc. We also call on Palestinian artists for a dedication in honor of the Intifada.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">Long live our people and long live Palestine</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">In Palestinian tradition, <i>el koffiyeh </i>has been used as headdress by men. The cotton material and texture was mainly used to keep out the heavy dust and sand, and for farmers to keep their heads cool as they plowed in their fields. The checkered pattern was said to refer to many things: a fishing net, a honeycomb, the joining of hands, or the marks of dirt and sweat wiped off a worker's brow.</div><div class="wp-caption-text" style="line-height: 12.75pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal">During the Palestinian Revolt in the 1930’s, Palestinians wore the<i> koffiyeh</i> as a symbol of nationalism and resistance against increasing British rule and Zionist settler-colonialism. It was then adopted by late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in the 1960’s, and continues until this day to be our traditional symbol of resistance, our Palestine worn around our necks.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The black-and white <i>koffiyeh</i> has been sometimes referred to as the “unofficial” flag of Palestine. Sadly, in our contemporary times and due to the schism between political parties Fateh and Hamas, many have began to associate the black-and-white <i>koffiyeh</i> with Fatah and the red-and-white <i>koffiyeh</i> with Hamas (historically, the red-and-white <i>koffiyeh</i> was associated with Jabha, or the PFLP.) This association has not been accepted by many other Palestinians, who believe that <i>el koffiyeh </i>is for the whole of Palestine by Palestine. Yet in many cases, you cannot take a few steps outside your home whilst wearing a <i>koffiyeh</i><i> </i>without a worthless deadbeat singing, “<i>Fathhawy, Fathhawy!”</i> </div><div class="MsoNormal">I vividly remember walking in Ramallah on the 15<sup>th</sup> of May (AlNakba commemoration day) earlier this year, wearing a FREE PALESTINE T-shirt. My sister was wearing a <i>koffiyeh. </i>Almost everyone that walked past us would smirk and say sarcastically, “Oh, she wants to liberate Palestine!” </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The lack of realization of our lives under occupation made by the majority of Palestinians has made them careless about what <i>el koffiyeh</i> means to the world. This has made it an easy target for our<i> koffiyeh </i>to be worn as a fashion accessory (<i>spit!) </i>throughout Japan, America and most of Europe. Many, if not all wearers of this garb for fashion reasons are completely ignorant of a <i>koffiyeh’</i>s true meaning. Of course, “Israel” has even started to rebrand <i>el koffiyeh</i> as its own, despite referring to it once upon a time as “terrorist” symbolism. Ironically, it fits with “Israel” under that account. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Those who believe they understand the true symbolism of <i>el koffiyeh</i> have branded it as being “anti-Semetic” and a “political statement supportive of Islamic terrorism against Israel”. Little do they know that the only democracy in the Middle East uses every means of psychological warfare as a weapon to disrupt history and culture, sadly not only affecting the world but the occupied Palestinians, too!</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">When the colored <i>koffiyeh</i> became the newest fashion trend, Palestine looked like a kaleidoscope of ignorance. People of all ages began to wear this worthless piece of cloth around their necks and strut with a new found confidence to comments like “I like your <b>scarf</b>” or “OhmyGod where did you get it it’s soooo cute”. The markets were flooded with these despicable meaningless accessories, and an underground call to boycott was soon commenced by the more aware. Yet until this day, the occasional vulgar pink or blue <i>“koffiyeh”</i> can be seen worn on a Palestinian who would rather use it to match their shoes or purse than acknowledge its true meaning. Since colored <i>koffiyeh</i>s are no longer the latest fashion trend in the market, supply has radically decreased this year in comparison to earlier years. Business is business, right? </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><b>Herbawi Textile Factory</b>, located in Hebron, Palestine, is the only producer of the original <i>koffiyeh</i> in all of Palestine. The factory was founded in 1961 by Yasser Herbawi. Yasser is now almost 80 years old but still makes it to the factory every morning. He has made it his duty to hand the factory over to his sons Izzat and Judeh and a family friend, Abid Keraki, and promises that the factory will always remain family-run. “It’s [<i>el koffiyeh]</i> our past, our future…it means everything,” he says. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;">The irony of the situation is that while the <i>koffiyeh’s</i> popularity is increasing, the factory’s sales have decreased dramatically. Due to cheaper and inferior imports from China, the factory’s sales are dropping by half of what they originally sold. Following the Oslo accords, these foreign imports have been flooding markets since the 1990’s. 70% of the Herbawi Textile Factory’s sales are made from the original black-and-white <i>koffiyeh</i>s, and colored ones are being sold just as a fashion accessory to keep the factory running.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;">The factory’s looms are very complex machines, so complex that it took the Yasser’s sons more than five years to fully comprehend the looms. The factory once had fifteen looms working, but now only eight are used and not all are needed full-time. Unfortunately, Izzat Herbawi doesn’t object to the modern commercialism of the <i>koffiyeh. </i>However,<i> </i>he stated that<i> “</i>the<i> koffiyeh </i>is a tradition of Palestine and it should be made in Palestine. We should be the ones making it.”<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The factory is “the only and the last” to produce the <i>koffiyeh </i>in Palestine. Thanks to a true Palestinian from Hebron, who started a business at the age of 33 to ensure that our symbol of resistance, our culture, would continue to exist throughout many years to come. Hopefully the old will die but only after enlightening the young, and may we continue to literally wear our pride around our necks as Palestinians. May we continue to defy the occupiers, who believe that mutating our culture erases us from existence. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i> </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghpSNj-WViTA2DdnzynrHj1Tge6uB_1wmXnj0sCE1d6pYmcD8U7jW8rlb-WiVi0nkGqspyjZI57t4DfufWw3htTOB2XR1D254CiF5fBPywq_U99B-c-uMhYi-drw-akk12PPrf2FkFUGE/s1600/blog.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghpSNj-WViTA2DdnzynrHj1Tge6uB_1wmXnj0sCE1d6pYmcD8U7jW8rlb-WiVi0nkGqspyjZI57t4DfufWw3htTOB2XR1D254CiF5fBPywq_U99B-c-uMhYi-drw-akk12PPrf2FkFUGE/s320/blog.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><br />
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This began the Freedom Riders movement where Americans, “blacks” and “whites” alike, rode segregated buses . Inspired by such a movement, six Palestinian activists decided to do the same regarding segregated Israeli buses, in which they would be non-violently defying illegal Israeli settlements, and Israeli segregation. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> Earlier Tuesday November 15th, 6 Palestinian activists as well as people of the press headed to the illegal Israeli settlement of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kohav Yakov, where they attempted to board<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>segregated Israeli buses headed to Jerusalem in defiance of Israeli apartheid and segregation. The first bus passes the activists however, the driver keeps driving on. The second bus, and the third pass, to no avail. Five buses passed the activists without stopping to allow them to get in as passengers; instead they completely ignored their existence. Whilst they were waiting for a bus to stop, an IOF military jeep came to the location of the Freedom Riders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It wasn't until the sixth bus, bus number 148 that the Palestinian Freedom Rides activists were able to board. Illegal Israeli settlers boarded the bus with the Freedom Riders. At this point, history had already been made, as Palestinians had physically got onto segregation buses headed to Jerusalem. Aboard the bus, the Palestinian flag was flown. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><i><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During the first and second Intifada, the waving of the Palestinian flag was an action enough to land a person in jail. During the weekly demonstrations in villages such as Nabi Saleh, Bil'in, Ni'leen and Walaja, waving the Palestinian flag can bring a person an arrest, or worse as in the case of Ashraf Abu Rahmah, administrative detention. </span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A settler aboard attempted to grab and confiscate the Palestinian flag, but his attempt was defied. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bus 148 began its move to its perceived destination: Jerusalem. The driver of the bus was following an Israeli police vehicle, while the bus was accompanied by Israeli Occupying Forces from behind. They bus was led to Hizmah checkpoint, which is one of 522 checkpoints that are spread throughout the West Bank. Upon arrival to Hizmah checkpoint, Israeli Border Police as well as Israeli soldiers boarded bus 148 which carried the six Palestinian Freedom Rides activists: Nadeem Al-Sharbate, Huwaida Arraf, Dr.Mazin Qumsieyeh, Fadi Qura'an, Basel Al-Araj, and Badee' Dwaik, as well as several journalists documenting the event. The Police asked all the settlers on board and the driver to leave the bus, to which they obeyed but not before remarking to the activists still on board that "this is our land." The settlers were able to board another bus heading to Jerusalem without any harassment from the Border Police. However the activists were asked for their ID's, and confiscated them in an attempt to get the Freedom Riders to exit the bus. "I will show them my Palestinian ID card and say I want to go to Jerusalem. We'll see what happens," said Dr Mazin Qumsiyeh. However the Freedom Riders were determined to remain on the bus, saying over and over again "We are headed to Jerusalem."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Journalists were then kicked out of the bus and fined 500 Israeli Shekels for "parking on the side of the road". This is merely an attempt to punish those who spread the word of Israel's apartheid regime and its racist implications to the rest of the world.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At this point, Freedom Riders had begun chanting, "We are not getting off, even if you throw us in jail". They knew that they could be arrested but remained defiant, and most importantly, non violent. Palestinian activist, Badee' Dwaik, resisted by nonviolently laying on the floor of the bus. He asked the Israeli Border Police "Why didn't you ask a settler for his permission slip into Jerusalem? Is his blood red and mine blue?" </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When journalists and settlers were removed from the bus, only IOF and Israeli Border Police remained with the Freedom Riders. The bus then began its move to a police station.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once at the police station, Israeli Border Police began forcibly removing Freedom Riders one by one. (Due to the camera shooting the live stream footage running out of battery, we were only able to see three arrests (Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh, Huwaida Arraf and lastly Fadi Quran’s). Israeli Border Police tried to negotiate with activists Huwaida Arraf and Fadi Quran, if negotiating meant saying "You are here illegally. <i>Yallah</i>, you will be taken off the bus." The Freedom Riders remained in their seats, staring straight ahead. IOF and Border Police then began to violently grab these activists one at a time forcing them off the bus. Whilst being arrested, Huwaida and Fadi both introduced themselves as Freedom Riders and said "We are only trying to go to Jerusalem." Alongside the activists, Fajr Harb was also arrested, even though he was not on board the bus, nor part of the Palestinian Freedom Riders group, he was merely arrested for showing support for the cause, and being Palestinian. As Fadi Quran said as he was being arrested "We only want our freedom, justice, and dignity." The activists and Fajr Harb were taken to the detention center of Atarot, where they remain now until further notice.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
</div>WrittenResistancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06184267602691701044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2458428641196213053.post-66051903300262860662011-10-23T13:52:00.000-07:002011-10-23T15:05:10.996-07:00Free but Not Quite<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em>Sumoud Karaja. </em></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">23, from Saffa, Occupied West Bank, Palestine. 3<sup>rd</sup> year student in Al-Quds University studying social services. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Middle child of six siblings. Recently freed following the prisoner deal between Hamas and Zionist government, but not before she was silenced by being forced to sign a downward “treaty”, thereby sacrificing her “freedom of speech” for her “freedom”<em>*</em>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>Labeled “Terrorist”.</strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sumoud Karraja was imprisoned in October of 2009 in AlDamun prison following an attack on an IOF officer at the Qalandiya checkpoint. While under interrogations, Sumoud repeatedly denied her accusation. Nonetheless she was given a life sentence, which with extreme lawyer efforts was reduced to a serving of 20 years. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sumoud’s lifelong dream was to visit the off-bound city of Jerusalem. She got her wish, however along with the sweet came the sour-she was blindfolded and bled from the plastic handcuffs placed on her as she was being interrogated in AlMaskubiyeh Interrogation Facility in Jerusalem. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">She repeatedly denied her accusations. Out of frustration, the Israeli “Justice” System attempted to pin on her many pathetic charges in order for her to serve her 20 years.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri;">2 years in prison</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">She was placed in solitary confinement for a total of 25 days. She was then placed in a 3 meter by 3 meter room along with 7 other prisoners. In her 2 years, she learned Hebrew and hand crafts. Inmates prior to her coming learned from inmates prior to <i>their</i> coming many issues concerning politics and passed their teachings onto her. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Fridays in prison were, she describes sarcastically, “Eid” [holiday]. The Friday meal consisted of a piece of chicken thigh, topped with feathers. Many inmates had no choice but to remove bits of skin and feathers from their chicken thigh and eat it. Gilad Shalit was given a meal of stuffed chicken every Friday while captured. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In her 2 years served, Sumoud saw her family a total of 3 times. The first time her family visited her, after 6 months of her arrest, her family was allowed a visit, a rare opportunity given to families of prisoners. Her little sister Baghdad, who was 5 at the time, wanted to present her sister with red flowers she had picked from the Karmel mountains of Haifa. Zionist prisoner guards did not allow the flowers in, and forcefully took them from Baghdad, despite her tears. An everyday example of the attempts to suppress innocence and humanity. As Palestinians, we have come to the bitter realization of Zionists’ idea of psychological manipulation that is far greater than forcefully taking flowers from a 5 year old child. It goes to mock prisoners’ intelligence by denying them basics acts of innocence and beauty.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sumoud, along with 3 other prisoners, Linan Abu Ghulma, Du’a Jayyousi, and Woroud Qasim all took part in the Palestinian Prisoners Hunger Strike. Sumoud was on hunger strike for 9 days before she found out she was to be released, all part of the prisoner exchange deal. She explains how she got the news. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“The prison warden was reading names off a list. Linan and Du’a’s names were stated, and then mine was. I thought there was a mistake. I thought they had intended to call out Woroud’s and got mixed up. I had only served 2 years; surely they had mistaken my name!”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Books</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">An oppressor’s duty is to keep the oppressed from becoming cultivated. We live in our minds, and minds are always free. Novels in prison are disguised as petty books like cooking books and hidden away from the random searches that take place within. After Sumoud was arrested, around 20 military jeeps raided her room and took many personal belongings. Books and diaries were the prime targets. Education is not granted in prison, following the Shalit Law passed by Knesset in May 23rd of 2010. These are all major attempts to stifle the power of thought, attempting to keep our minds locked in ignorance. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“My dreams have no limits”</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Out of prison, Sumoud is haste to pick up where she left off. She intends to finish her university studies, all the way to obtaining a PhD. She plans to establish an organization for children all over Palestine, especially those with special needs. When asked if she would continue to resist the occupation, she replies, “To resist does not necessarily mean to brandish a weapon in the face of an IOF soldier. I plan to resist using my education.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Childhood memories</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sumoud’s father was not able to be present on the birthday of his first daughter, since he was jailed by IOF on accusations of stone-throwing and taking part in demonstrations, keeping in mind Sumoud was born in 1988, a year after the first Intifada [uprising] began in Palestine. She recalls all her maternal and paternal uncles placed in jails for similar reasons. She remembers how they had absolutely no income, and her mother was forced to become the primary financial provider of the family, literally overnight. Her mother was forced to begin work as a seamstress in order to provide her children with the basic necessities of life. Sumoud recalls fondly of how villagers would provide her mother with red, black, green and white pieces of fabric in order to be sown together to form a Palestinian flag. This was done in secret, since any affiliation with resistance is viewed as a form of terrorism by the enemy. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Today, Sumoud, who was released from AlDamun prison days ago, still compares life in prison with life outside with every little action she performs. She is not allowed to move outside the West Bank without acquiring permission which has a less than zero chance of happening. If she does acquire permission, she faces the threat of being exiled.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">No freedom of speech. No freedom of mobilization. No freedom of expression. No freedom of choice. And yet somehow Sumoud Karaja manages to find freedom in the four pillars of her home in the village of Saffa, on the borders of ’67 in the occupied West Bank in occupied Falasteen.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em>*Sumoud is not allowed to openly speak of the events that triggered her to attack an IOF soldier for fear of being placed back in jail and serve the remainder of her sentence. She is not allowed to openly speak about politics in general.</em></span></div>WrittenResistancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06184267602691701044noreply@blogger.com1