it seems to me that some "mad bomber" just entered your brain...
yves
On 15/04/02 17:33, "Jivko Georgiev" wrote:
> 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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