Scenes of women, children and men standing in queues in front of the Tekayas in Gaza to get a hot meal, nothing more than soup to satisfy their hunger and sustain them, bring back to my painful memory similar images that I and my contemporaries experienced when we were children standing in queues in front of UNRWA restaurants to get a hot meal or a cup of milk to drink under the threat of the school principal’s stick, who kept his tongue out to convince us that the agency’s milk, fish oil pills and polio vaccines were not a conspiracy to control births by the agency.

After the return of "Abu Ammar", may God bless his soul, in the nineties of the last century, we had a port, an airport, media and a parliament, carried on the dreams of peace, before hopes were dispelled and dreams were shattered in the abyss of the enemy's retreat from the peace of the brave. A peace that we thought was water before it turned into a mirage and a barren, desolate land in which waterfalls of blood flowed, and hopes were shattered on its wings on piles of rubble, as if it were a peace built on the sand in Gaza, which was with Jericho first and last, after the tendencies of arrogance and expansion were revealed and are drawn today by the fangs of planes and the tracks of tanks in Gaza and Lebanon, before we move to what is beyond Beirut and Sana'a, as long as there is no one to curb its rage or stop its rush.

In the course of the eighty years of struggle, mistakes were made that poured wheat into the enemies’ mill, some of which resulted from poor performance, and others due to the mortgage to supra-Palestinian agendas, during which elections were postponed, the counters were played with, religion was mixed with politics, and there was a tendency towards deceptive readings of the imminent demise of the enemy state, which are closer to wishes and imaginations than to facts and analyses.

It is true that our enemy is a criminal murderer whose mission is to lie in wait for us, undermine our dreams, and stifle our hopes. He is the cause of all the genocide that has befallen our people, the likes of which history has never witnessed. However, wisdom and national responsibility require that every party in the national scene determine its share of responsibility for the depressing situation we have reached and the bad turn of events that have befallen our people, far from slogans that deceive their promoters more than they raise the costs for their occupiers.

Fathers eat sour grapes, but children set teeth on edge!

Stop the crime of the century now..!