Mustafa Barghouti
Ramallah, 27 December 2008.
and light tomorrow, your newspapers, which ended the truce in Gaza.
therefore was not a siege, but a form of peace, that field of concentration
mowed by hunger and thirst. It depends on what the
difference between peace and war? From the accounting of the dead? And the children consumed
malnutrition, what account you complain?
died of war or peace, those who die because there is no electricity in
operating room? It's called peace when there are missiles - but how
calls, when everything else is missing?
and light on your newspapers tomorrow, that all this is just a preemptive strike
only legitimate, inalienable right of self-defense.
The fourth military power in the world, its muscles against nuclear rockets
tin, and papier-mâché and despair. And I will elaborate
course, that no, this is not an attack against civilians - and
on the other side, but how could it ever be, if three men chatting
of Palestine, here on the street corner are for
Israeli law a core of resistance, and thus an illegal group,
a fighting force? - If official documents are marked as
enemy entity, and without the slightest ethical bank, cancer
Israel? If the goal is to eradicate Hamas - all
strengthens Hamas. Arrive on board the fighter export
the rhetoric of democracy, a board game back then strangle
the exercise of democracy - but what other option is left? Do not let them explode on sudden
. It is not fundamentalism,
to be bombed this time, but everything here is opposed to
fundamentalism. All that this does not dim ferocity
returns Free hatred equal and opposite, but a word barefoot
box, the clarity of thinking the courage to desert - not
an attack against terrorism, this, but against the other Palestinian,
third and different while dodging missiles close connection between the complicity of
Fatah and Hamas myopia. He was going to kill me in self-defense, I had to kill him in self-defense
- tell it like that, one day
survivors.
and light on your newspapers tomorrow, which is impossible
any peace process, Israelis, unfortunately, did not someone with
to talk about. And indeed - but how and could never get it,
entrenched eight-meter concrete wall? And above all -
why should it, if the Road Map is just another weapon of mass distraction
for international public opinion?
four pages in which we, for example, are asked to stop terrorist attacks
, and in return, they say, Israel will not take any action that could
undermine confidence between the parties, such as - quote - the
attacks against civilians. Assassinate civilians undermines confidence, undermines
the right, is a war crime not a matter of courtesy. And if
Annapolis peace process, and the only map that proceeds the meantime, here are
lands confiscated, olive trees flattened houses demolished,
settlements expanded - so why is not the peace process
Saudi proposal? The end of the occupation in exchange for
recognition by all Arab states. We can have if nothing else
a sign of reaction? Someone there to hear the case,
other side of the Wall?
But I'm here to tell you the wind. Why just read a line tomorrow about
and only your newspapers tomorrow, then just read, again,
indifference. And it's just that I feel, while F-16s flying over
my loneliness, to hundreds of collateral damage that I know
name to name, lives a life - just a dizzying infinity
abandonment and loss. Europeans, Americans and even the Arabs - which is why
sovereignty over Egypt, the crossing of Rafah, the Egyptian moral,
to seal the Rafah? - We're just alone. Fashion shows here,
delegation after delegation - and talking, he would have said Garcia Lorca,
words remain in the air like corks on the water. Offer
humanitarian aid, but we are not beggars, we want dignity, freedom,
open borders, do not ask for favors, claim rights. And
you arrive, angry and participate, ask what you can do to
us. A school? A clinic perhaps? Scholarship? And every time we try to convince
- no, not the generous solidarity, taught
Bobbio, only the strict justice - sanctions, sanctions against Israel. But
answer - and neutral each time, and therefore partakers of
imbalance, partisans of the winners - no, it would be anti-Semitic. But who is more anti-Semitic
, Who has spoiled Israel step by step to
sixty years, to disfigure the most dangerous country in the world
Jews, or those who feels that a Wall marks a ghetto
on both sides? Rereading Hannah Arendt is perhaps an anti-Semite, now that we
his Palestinian scum of the earth, is anti-Semitic
return to illuminate its pages on power and violence, the last race
subject to British colonialism, which would have been Finally, the British
same? No, not anti-Semitism, but the exact opposite
support the many Israelis who try to escape a call Nakbah
Zionism. Why is not an attack against terrorism,
this, but against the other Israel, the third and different, while dodging the
single thought closely to the complicity of the left and right of myopia
.
I know what I read, tomorrow, on your newspapers. But no
self-defense, no need for security. All this is called only
apartheid - and genocide. Because no matter which Israeli policies
, technically, sock or no to the millimeter
delicately chiselled definition under international law, his aristocratic
formalism, its claim to objectivity that are not
yet another side here, that supports and multiplies the force
winners. The gas of these aircraft is your neutrality, is the
your silence, the sound of these explosions. Some felt
Berlin Wall in front of another. How many more deaths, to feel
Gazans?
(text by Francesca Borri collected and published on the site www.peacereporter.it)
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