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Sun 31 Dec 2023 9:08 am - Jerusalem Time

Washington Post: The Arabs started wondering about their position in the world

The writer Abdul Rahman Al -Jundi, in a report for the American newspaper "Washington Post", said that the recent events in Gaza made the Arabs talk that "this world has never been built to accommodate them."


Al -Jundi added that even in the most progressive circles, the Arabs represent a turbulent condition that cannot be tolerated.


He continued that the situation of the Arabs between the homelands that crushed them and the countries of exile seems to be that there will be no life before death, and if this is what the ordinary person feels, then how is the ordeal of the Palestinians in Gaza?!


Al -Jundi said that he knows that the front of the Western moral superiority has collapsed, and called on the Arabs to get rid of the feeling of "internal inferiority", and to work to "make our way to return to language and history: our language and history, and we meet about our collective sadness and our engender."


Essential questions

The writer reported that the Arabs are raising fundamental questions about their position in the world, as they started realizing that their "control of control" does not represent a failure of the global order, but rather one of its basic functions.


The writer considered that when he left Egypt in 2020 after his release from prison, he sought a new birth, and to admit it as a body suffering, highlighting that he had no romantic ideas about the American dream.


He continued that he often faced a transcendent idea of its content that his migration represented a pursuit of supreme values, not an escape from the chaos caused by the wars imposed by the United States, or the kings and military dictatorships that Washington installed and still supported, or the environmental destruction caused by Washington.


Concerns of Arabs

Al -Jundi spoke about his presence in a supportive gathering of the Palestinians in the American Pittsburgh recently, where the demonstrators carried their banners in solidarity chanting "ending the occupation", "stop shooting now."


Then the demonstrators quickly chanted, saying, "We Arabs are respectful, civilized, peaceful, we are not anti -Semitic and we are not wild as they claim."


Suddenly, the writer heard the screaming of his wife, as it was put up by a huge white American man, and she and many other demonstrators, and began insulting the protesters and calling them hateful descriptions, before a group of demonstrators surrounded him, and pushed him towards the police at the site.


He continued, "The view in his eyes was unforgettable, a look that is not full of hatred, nor violence, but with confidence that it will never be described as terrorist or barbaric," because it is descriptions that seem to be special for Arabs only.


Source: Washington Post

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