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Mon 11 Nov 2024 9:18 am - Jerusalem Time
Yasser Arafat National Identity and Living Conscience
Twenty years have passed since the passing of Yasser Arafat, the immortal national leader, founder of the Palestinian entity, builder of the glories of the national dream, maker of the impossible revolution in impossible times, and captain of the ship that laid the foundations of the state and prepared for the Palestinian people the birth of their desired independence.
Twenty years have passed since the departure of the father of national identity, who performed miracles in a time of no miracles, and was able to accumulate national struggle in all arenas and platforms, in all roads and trenches, and in all the fields where Yasser Arafat left his mark as a Palestinian revolutionary in the face of the occupation, to become a solid pillar and a foundation in the world equation, which no one can bypass, a sign, a slogan, and a common legacy for every free person, every believer in justice, and every yearning for freedom. It is the Palestinian division and Yasser Arafat's immortal philosophy that has become an approach and a way of life, not just a slogan, and has formed a lifeline that continues to this day, as it is capable of facing challenges, and it is the incubator of the spirit of revolutionary creativity, and it is the compass that embodied the meaning of national struggle, and established the democracy of the jungle of guns, with Arafat's creativity that has no equal.
Twenty years have passed since the departure of Yasser Arafat, the man, the revolutionary, the leader and the chief. On his anniversary these days, we remember him as Gaza, which is being subjected to an ongoing genocide, remembers him. How much it loved him and he loved it, and how he was a towering, constructive knight on its land, establishing the Palestinian dream state, with an airport, a port and a building that shaped the image of modern Gaza, rising before the wreckage and devastation that befell it. He strengthened national unity with his well-known closeness to the masses who loved him and he loved them, and who stuck to him and he shortened the distances between him and them with the sincerity of his affection for them. He used to connect with the old and the young, visit the camp before the city, and meet with the youth before the official and international delegations, and he did not sever ties with anyone. This is the great Arafatist school with its principles, values, behaviour, and its struggle and humanitarian dimension.
Twenty years have passed since the departure of the founding leader, the builder, the inspirational one, the human being, the brave symbol. On this anniversary, Gaza is under genocide, exposed to death, killing, oppression and destruction, and is living through one of the most difficult chapters. The world is a witness and silent to all that has happened and is happening from massacres, slaughter, starvation and siege. On this anniversary, which is passing under the impact of the tragedy and suffering of our people, the determination to survive and persevere remains as a solid Arafatist, who refused expulsion, imprisonment and deportation, and preferred martyrdom, just as we are witnessing these days the people’s refusal to emigrate, be expelled and exiled, and they remain despite everything they are exposed to in the chapters of suffering and torment they are living.
Twenty years after the departure of Yasser Arafat, we remember him in his military uniform when he stood in the White House as a master and leader, and with the shoes of revolutionaries and the keffiyeh of the free, he sat on the throne of place and time, a symbol brandishing the victory sign that he never changed, and did not give it up to give it to generations as a legacy, a slogan and an identity, and on his waist was the pistol of the freedom fighter, and in his majesty was the dignity of the fighter for the rights of his people, and the features of the Palestinian in him did not change before or after, announcing since that day the birth of a new dawn, for the struggles of a people who led their national march with the competence of the leader who struggled for a free and dignified life for his people, and he broke the theory of colonialism and occupation that sought to consecrate the nonsense of "transient inhabitants in place" and a land without a people as they claimed, to a people with a complete formation, a freedom fighter in the field, builder of a state of institutions and law, preserving the legacy of the first, a language, culture and a solid civilization, with a national identity and eternal human values, the proof of which in meaning is a carefully tied keffiyeh, so there was no country in the world However, it submitted and gave its absolute recognition of our people’s right to their land and to enjoy freedom and independence.
Glory and eternity to Him.
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