Exactly! Israel has no choice but to resist!To those
mad bombers and those, who entered the holiest place
for all christians!
--- eldorra mitchell <manynotone@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> What we are now seeing is the expression of the will
> of a people that has no choice but to resist, writes
> Mahmoud Darwish
> This a war for war's sake, since it has no other aim
> than its self-perpetuation. Everyone knows this;
> and,
> once again, the sword will prove incapable of
> crushing
> the spirit. The Arabs have offered Israel a
> collective
> peace in return for Israeli withdrawal from a fifth
> of
> our historical homeland. Israel's answer to this
> generous offer was to declare all-out war against
> the
> Palestinian people, and against the Arabs' very
> imagination. Once again, we will prove that we
> occupy
> the moral high ground -- nothing remaining to us now
> but this proof. Those who control the international
> balance of power will continue to shape events
> without
> respect for intellectual or legal argument until we
> awake to the realisation that, just as they have
> proved themselves incapable of ensuring deterrence
> --
> though there is no option other than peace -- they
> have also shown themselves incapable of ensuring
> peace.
> In every corner crimes are being committed. On every
> street lie the bodies of the murdered. On every wall
> is blood. The living are deprived of the basic right
> to life, and the martyrs are denied graves in which
> to
> rest in peace. Above all, however, what we are now
> seeing is the expression of the will of a people
> that
> has no choice but to resist. Between one beat of a
> wounded heart and the next we ask: how long will we
> carry on cheering as Christ ascends to Golgotha?
> Is the Palestinian side all that is left of the
> famous
> "Arab-Israeli struggle"? Does this account for such
> neutral incapacity before so lurid a black and red
> scene? How we fear now that Yasser Arafat's cries
> will
> be pinned forever to a wooden cross: present events
> contain enough of the aesthetics of martyrdom to
> make
> a whole nation's mourning superfluous on an endless
> Good Friday. Tears purify the soul, cleansing the
> body
> even as they sting with salt, and tearful spectators
> now await live coverage of the moment when the
> tragic
> hero is crowned with an appropriate end, making the
> tightly wrought elements of the story into myth, the
> hero ending, as Arafat has put it, "a martyr, a
> martyr, a martyr." But no. The Palestinians do not
> need such feelings of solitude or uniqueness. They
> do
> not need to play the part of sacrificial offerings
> any
> more than they already have done. Palestinians want
> to
> live outside of metaphors, in the place where they
> were born. They want to liberate their country from
> the heavy weight of mythology, from the barbarity of
> occupation and from the mirage of a peace that
> promises nothing but destruction. Yet, Israeli
> forces,
> armed to the teeth with racist superstitions and
> military hardware, are besieging the Palestinians'
> right to live ordinary lives, albeit lives lived on
> a
> margin narrower than dreams, and wider than
> nightmares. This right is also under siege from a
> world under American control, a world set on the
> horns
> of a raging bull that has abolished the conjunction,
> the "and," that used to fall between America and
> Israel. The Palestinians are besieged by a condition
> of dependency that has robbed the Arab political
> establishment of the eloquence even to beg, and of
> the
> ability to placate a populace that is angry at
> everything. How many times must the Palestinians be
> besieged before the Arab world realises that it,
> too,
> is under siege? How many times before it realises
> that
> it too is a hostage, even though it does not resist?
> Television has made it unnecessary for us to explain
> ourselves: now our blood is shed in every home and
> is
> on every conscience. From this day on, he who does
> not
> become Palestinian in his heart will never
> understand
> his true moral identity. This is not only because
> the
> unfashionable values that lay hidden beneath daily
> talk of a "peace process" empty of justice and
> freedom
> have now been brought back to life. It is also
> because
> the will has now been liberated from the simplistic
> calculation of profit and loss and from a
> debilitating
> intellectual pessimism. This has liberated the only
> real meaning human existence has: freedom. The
> Palestinians have no other choice. In the face of
> the
> political genocide being offered by the American-
> funded Israeli occupation of their land, they offer
> their steadfast resistance no matter what the cost.
> Backs against the wall, their eyes fixed upon hope,
> they show a strength of spirit for which there can
> be
> no facile explanation. Israel's all-out war on the
> Palestinians has flung the doors wide open to every
> kind of question. The most important of these is the
> question of future Arab-Israeli and Arab-American
> relations. Israel has been quick to declare that
> this
> war is a "struggle for Israel's existence" and that
> the war to found the Israeli state has not been
> finished yet. This can only mean that the
> elimination
> of the Palestinian national movement remains on
> Israel's agenda despite the peace process, and that
> the Palestinians' existence, not the Israelis', is
> threatened with destruction.
> Israel has invited us to take the struggle back to
> its
> very beginning and, ironically, to review all the
> stages through which we have passed, during which
> our
> concept of struggle changed. Israel has declared war
> on the very idea of peace. What is it that threatens
> "Israel's existence," this existence it defends with
> such aggression? Is it the war the Arabs have not
> declared on Israel? Or is it the peace the Arabs are
> offering? The lie that is Israel's current war is
> necessary for Israeli society, so that it can cohere
> around its founding myths. If occupation is the
> condition and essence of Israeli existence, as seems
> to be the case, then this is an issue not amenable
> to
> resolution. What concerns us is the defence of our
> national and human existence -- even if our backs
> are
> up against the wall. We have absolutely no other
> option.
>
>
>
>
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mad bombers and those, who entered the holiest place
for all christians!
--- eldorra mitchell <manynotone@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> What we are now seeing is the expression of the will
> of a people that has no choice but to resist, writes
> Mahmoud Darwish
> This a war for war's sake, since it has no other aim
> than its self-perpetuation. Everyone knows this;
> and,
> once again, the sword will prove incapable of
> crushing
> the spirit. The Arabs have offered Israel a
> collective
> peace in return for Israeli withdrawal from a fifth
> of
> our historical homeland. Israel's answer to this
> generous offer was to declare all-out war against
> the
> Palestinian people, and against the Arabs' very
> imagination. Once again, we will prove that we
> occupy
> the moral high ground -- nothing remaining to us now
> but this proof. Those who control the international
> balance of power will continue to shape events
> without
> respect for intellectual or legal argument until we
> awake to the realisation that, just as they have
> proved themselves incapable of ensuring deterrence
> --
> though there is no option other than peace -- they
> have also shown themselves incapable of ensuring
> peace.
> In every corner crimes are being committed. On every
> street lie the bodies of the murdered. On every wall
> is blood. The living are deprived of the basic right
> to life, and the martyrs are denied graves in which
> to
> rest in peace. Above all, however, what we are now
> seeing is the expression of the will of a people
> that
> has no choice but to resist. Between one beat of a
> wounded heart and the next we ask: how long will we
> carry on cheering as Christ ascends to Golgotha?
> Is the Palestinian side all that is left of the
> famous
> "Arab-Israeli struggle"? Does this account for such
> neutral incapacity before so lurid a black and red
> scene? How we fear now that Yasser Arafat's cries
> will
> be pinned forever to a wooden cross: present events
> contain enough of the aesthetics of martyrdom to
> make
> a whole nation's mourning superfluous on an endless
> Good Friday. Tears purify the soul, cleansing the
> body
> even as they sting with salt, and tearful spectators
> now await live coverage of the moment when the
> tragic
> hero is crowned with an appropriate end, making the
> tightly wrought elements of the story into myth, the
> hero ending, as Arafat has put it, "a martyr, a
> martyr, a martyr." But no. The Palestinians do not
> need such feelings of solitude or uniqueness. They
> do
> not need to play the part of sacrificial offerings
> any
> more than they already have done. Palestinians want
> to
> live outside of metaphors, in the place where they
> were born. They want to liberate their country from
> the heavy weight of mythology, from the barbarity of
> occupation and from the mirage of a peace that
> promises nothing but destruction. Yet, Israeli
> forces,
> armed to the teeth with racist superstitions and
> military hardware, are besieging the Palestinians'
> right to live ordinary lives, albeit lives lived on
> a
> margin narrower than dreams, and wider than
> nightmares. This right is also under siege from a
> world under American control, a world set on the
> horns
> of a raging bull that has abolished the conjunction,
> the "and," that used to fall between America and
> Israel. The Palestinians are besieged by a condition
> of dependency that has robbed the Arab political
> establishment of the eloquence even to beg, and of
> the
> ability to placate a populace that is angry at
> everything. How many times must the Palestinians be
> besieged before the Arab world realises that it,
> too,
> is under siege? How many times before it realises
> that
> it too is a hostage, even though it does not resist?
> Television has made it unnecessary for us to explain
> ourselves: now our blood is shed in every home and
> is
> on every conscience. From this day on, he who does
> not
> become Palestinian in his heart will never
> understand
> his true moral identity. This is not only because
> the
> unfashionable values that lay hidden beneath daily
> talk of a "peace process" empty of justice and
> freedom
> have now been brought back to life. It is also
> because
> the will has now been liberated from the simplistic
> calculation of profit and loss and from a
> debilitating
> intellectual pessimism. This has liberated the only
> real meaning human existence has: freedom. The
> Palestinians have no other choice. In the face of
> the
> political genocide being offered by the American-
> funded Israeli occupation of their land, they offer
> their steadfast resistance no matter what the cost.
> Backs against the wall, their eyes fixed upon hope,
> they show a strength of spirit for which there can
> be
> no facile explanation. Israel's all-out war on the
> Palestinians has flung the doors wide open to every
> kind of question. The most important of these is the
> question of future Arab-Israeli and Arab-American
> relations. Israel has been quick to declare that
> this
> war is a "struggle for Israel's existence" and that
> the war to found the Israeli state has not been
> finished yet. This can only mean that the
> elimination
> of the Palestinian national movement remains on
> Israel's agenda despite the peace process, and that
> the Palestinians' existence, not the Israelis', is
> threatened with destruction.
> Israel has invited us to take the struggle back to
> its
> very beginning and, ironically, to review all the
> stages through which we have passed, during which
> our
> concept of struggle changed. Israel has declared war
> on the very idea of peace. What is it that threatens
> "Israel's existence," this existence it defends with
> such aggression? Is it the war the Arabs have not
> declared on Israel? Or is it the peace the Arabs are
> offering? The lie that is Israel's current war is
> necessary for Israeli society, so that it can cohere
> around its founding myths. If occupation is the
> condition and essence of Israeli existence, as seems
> to be the case, then this is an issue not amenable
> to
> resolution. What concerns us is the defence of our
> national and human existence -- even if our backs
> are
> up against the wall. We have absolutely no other
> option.
>
>
>
>
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