Raising hope!

Hope is the virtue that Palestinians have been keen on, as keen as they are on raising their children, ever since they left their homes, orchards and fields in 1948.

It is the hope that revives hearts, relieves distress, and opens closed paths that have been walked for a long time, and in whose depths the tormented have suffered the arts of oppression and torture. But hope and certainty filled their hearts with the inevitability of their salvation and their inhalation of the scent of freedom at the end of the tunnel.

"Neither the detention room nor the chains will remain." The words of the poem remained a spur to the free, and a beacon of light for those who were enveloped in darkness in the detention and investigation cells and the depths of the prisons, which the executioners believed would remain, until the right moment came to overthrow the prevailing taboos, or the entrenched beliefs, myths and narratives, which did not stand up for long in the face of the bright and clear facts as clear as the sun and its brightness.

"It's hope, you idiot," is what was raised in the hearts of those who believe in the inevitability of the victory of truth over falsehood, the homeland over occupation, blood over the sword, and hope over despair. There is no despair with life, and no life with despair, as it has been said and is said.

Nurturing hope is the decisive response to the advocates of decisiveness, who have always been lying in wait to extinguish it from the hearts and souls of those who warm themselves in it and cling to its eyelashes to achieve their dreams and restore their rights. This was translated into demonizing UNRWA and targeting the camps, considering them hotbeds of hope for return.

Ben Gvir fell, and after him the resignations began to fall like dominoes... and the rope is on the tractor, while the prisoner triumphs over the jailer.

The lesson that emerges today, as life sentence prisoners breathe in the scent of freedom, is that hope is the “password” on the path to freedom and achieving national goals.

Plant hope in fields, gardens and backyards, just as you plant olive trees, roses, oranges and lemons... Life would be so narrow without the space of hope.