Jihad is turning into a trade of souls; massacres are now being called “weddings” by Hamas members and supporters. It’s outrageous when children are killed, but apparently not to some. Martyrdom is a magical word nowadays, they call them martyrs and suddenly everything is OK. Who gave Hamas the right to claim their souls as martyrs? Was that kid asked whether he would like to die for the sake of….I’m reluctant to say God or land since what Hamas has been doing lately is exactly the opposite of that. It has starved Palestinians in the name of armed resistance and caused them live under inhumane circumstances because of their gigantic ego and their self-righteous attitude towards other Palestinian parties. Hamas is the defender of virtues and the sole representative of God’s power on earth, everyone should agree with that or else…
I’m not against armed resistance, I’m not against defending the people and their land. If anything, I’ve been known for being pro-Palestine and anti-Zionism. I don’t have to defend myself or refer you to older posts. I’m with carefully planned, defense-oriented and/or preventive armed resistance. I’m with a dignified response to attacks on civilians but against any irresponsible action that would confirm that indeed, the resistance is a threat to the illegal state that is called Israel. Illegal or not, it’s there and it’s not going away anytime soon. To make the world think that Palestinian resistance is indeed capable and has the intention to attack the Israeli land will only make things worse for Palestinians. It does not help defend their case, on the other hand, it defends Israel’s. And lets not kid ourselves, Israel has the US’s OK with or without Hamas’ help (by firing rockets on Israeli cities) but how is that strengthening our point when we want the rest of the world to believe that we are not a threat to anyone? To be so arrogant as to say that we don’t need anyone’s support, that we don’t want the international community to interfere is crazy talk.
I’m aware that things are a lot more complicated than that. I’m aware that we must defend ourselves but I’m just not sure that the world understands. I don’t think we have done everything we need to do before we act like a state who’s merely defending itself against unjustified attacks of a neighboring “illegal” state. Does the world even recognize us as a state?! Israel has done a damn good job making Palestinians look like ignorant terrorists who live in total chaos. And today marks the 10th day of a massive “creative anarchy” operation that would ensure Palestinians remain behind in terms of everything and starting with education.
Part of me is praying that no more blood is spelled, no more souls are sacrificed to serve the ideology of some. And part of me is, perhaps instinctively, wishing that the Palestinian armed resistance (or any other resistance in the region for that matter) actually has a good plan.
God bless us all.
Are you condemning the Algerian resistance which suffered the murder of over a million and a half Algerians, mostly women and children, at the hands of the genocidal French?
Are condemning the Vietnamese resistance which suffered the murder of over a a million Vietnamese, mostly women and children, at the hands of both genocidal Americans and French?
Are you condemning the Russian resistance in the face of Nazi Germany during the Siege of Stalingrad which resulted in the mass slaughter of Russian civilians?
Are you condemning Iraqi resistance because the US invasion and the ethnic strife they have fueled and nurtured caused the death of over a million Iraqi mostly innocents?
Are you saying all resistance movements are evil and violent and to be condemned because those who are killed by genocidal colonialists are not the responsibility of the killer but the responsibly of the resistance?
I am speechless.
i refuse to recline to the chair where i say “let us live”!
we’re not a threat? YES WE ARE! and we will have it no other way.
this isn’t a boardroom where people are wearing suits of silk and shiny pens! we’re in a situation where every single drop of blood counts. we are a threat because we can shed the blood of 10 people on our side to shed the blood of one on theirs. simply because the ratio has always been this way “or close” through the palestinian resistance. we haven’t stopped. we will not stop. be it Hamas or Fath or the Snickers Worshipers! resistance should not stop at Gaza. remember that.
Whether or not bending over is going to pause the israeli attacks is irrelevant. the simple fact is that they will continue to try and shed more of our blood, they will continue to take more land and oppress millions of our people. simply because there’s our side, and their side. and we don’t have control over their banks or anything of that sort to resort to more “subtle” means of resistance. we don’t want them to stop the attacks on Gaza, we want them to stop claiming this land as their own. we want it back. all of it. and right now, fighting is all the possible leverage we got.
hana…you either didn’t read the post, or simply didn’t get it!
“It’s outrageous when children are killed, but apparently not to some.”
the fact you dropped the word Israel from this sentence is troublesome. children are killed by Israel not the Palestinians.
your whole article sounds like you are copying and pasting lines from Livni’s speech. “We love palestinains but we hate 7′amas” (never mind we butchered over 500 Arabs and crippled over 2000 more)
“It has starved Palestinians in the name of armed resistance ”
Again, it’s not Hamas that starved Palestinain, Israel did. I am appalled at how you absolve the Israelis with such statements. You are obviously writing this not for the benefit of Arab audiences, you are writing it for an american audience. is it for a job? grant? i hope you fail in your quest.
Actually I too have become speechless after reading this post; I think it contains some of the most defeated statements I have ever read in a quit some times; I will not comment much on it knowing that nothing I could say will sink in if you really believe in the contents of this blog entry; but I would like to point out a few things:
Slaughtering Palestinian civilians has been going on long before Hamas (or any resistance movement for that matter) ever existed; & it will continue as long as the state of Israel exists; these obnoxious massacres were doomed to happen with or without the existence Hamas; just like Sabra & Shatilla, Tal El-Za’tar, Deir Yassin, Al-Aqsa Mosque Massacre, The Ibrahimi Mosque Massacre… & many many others (if you need help in getting to know more just Google ‘Palestinian Massacres’ & browse the results); & it’s fascinating how each time these horrible things occur some of us somehow finds a way in blaming the different resistance movements.
Second of all; the Blockade on Gaza was imposed by Israel with the help of Egyptian Government of course; not to retaliate at Hamas rockets; rather to overturn the Palestinian people on the logic of Resistance as a whole (embodied in Hamas) after the latest elections & let’s just remember that the Blockade itself is an act of war that is typically carried out by military force & by the way during the so-called truce; innocent civilians were killed, arrested & mass murdered in Gaza as well as in the west bank; so who’s to say that the situation before the military invasion of Gaza was so ideal & that it got all missed up by Hamas not wanting to renew the so-called truce?
One would only wish that in these times; people will start learning more about the origin of this conflict before inflicting ideas that can only make it worse; as much as it is painful to witness the fall of these innocent little lives; no land has ever been freed without martyrs.
For further reading that can be useful; please read an article written by By Gilad Atzmon titled “Living on Borrowed Time in a Stolen Land”; Google it & you should find it.
Bye
I understand your disappointment however please don’t try to judge me based on what I DIDN’T write! I didn’t say that Israel is not responsible, I didn’t say that Hamas is solely responsible and no one else. I was particularly talking about their way of applying the concept of armed resistance to the situation in Palestine. It’s obviously not working unless I’m missing out on the objectives here, which would only support my argument that they don’t have a good plan and/or their plan is simply not working.
And regardless of how everybody feels about this, I still personally think that no one has the right to sacrifice another soul in the name of God especially when this party in particular refuses to negotiate with other parties who happen to represent the people as well.
haha…Tameem, yea this is exactly why I wrote this post! (of course not)
Hana, after reading that I sound like Livni to you, I’m speechless too.
I, 100% second you, Shaden!
Hala hala ya Shaden…
I know you came at this post with honest intentions, as always. And I respect your position on the sanctity of human life, which I also believe no one has the right to take from another.
But as others have posted, the goal of the state was always to dispel Palestinians from Palestine, and for those that remained, to keep them an occupied, docile, chaotic, illiterate, subjugated mass devoid of empancipatory sentiments that take the form of a genuine liberation movement.
And it has been mostly successful - in having the PLO essentially work together with them in designing policy and life (of a subjugated people) for Palestinians, in signing agreements with Egypt and Jordan to neutralise empancipatory threats from outside their borders, and in having most international governments agree to the designation of unliquidated Palestinian liberation movements as terrorist organisations.
Unfortunately for Israel, Hamas is not playing the same game. It could very well play the same game if weakened enough, but it seems a genuinely emancipatory liberation and resistance movement.
In my opinion, Israel is deliberately targeting civilians to drive popular sentiment in the Strip and elsewhere against Hamas. Y3ni, Israel is targetting civilians in the Strip to deflect and neutralise sentiment and action of a genuine liberation of Palestinians from subjugation .
This War is a slap in the face of the international community that refuses to look back to 1948 and to the roots of the conflict. Unless that is done, there will be thousands more sacrificed in a countless number of wars to follow.
i am not sure what to think. i value this post tho!