The cruel departure

Hamada Faraana

Netanyahu was unable to achieve his goals in response to the October 7 operation. He failed despite occupying the entire Gaza Strip. He was unable to locate the Israeli prisoners and release them without a prisoner exchange. He failed to end and eliminate the resistance. Because he possesses the power, armament, and superiority, he chose the path of death for the Palestinians.

Not a single woman raised the white flag, and all of them who appeared said with truth and faith: We will not leave, we will remain above the rubble, the ruins, and the destruction, we will not leave here, we will stay, we will not leave, and the bombing and death will come to them.

Death is the harsh choice. It sweeps away the Palestinians there, and sweeps away friends here. The engineered unionist friend, Qaher Safa, departed too soon. The force of life did not defeat him, not in Yemen, not in Syria, not in Jordan. Death defeated him, and we lost him, because of his inability to continue protesting.

All those who lost him, disagreed with him, with his stubbornness, with his strength, with his belief in his refined and gentle Jordanian citizenship, and his steadfast Palestinian identity. He was an elected unionist who disagreed with the "Muslim Brotherhood" and confronted them, and allied with the leftists and nationalists and clashed with them. He was not just a number, but a unique kind of man. A unionist, a patriot, a professional, a nationalist, possessed of stubbornness, without any trace of hatred, possessed of giving and rejected rottenness, a heritage that was progressive, as well as conservative, a mixture of life's givens.

I don't think that the disease defeated him or overcame him, despite its damnable assault on him and his body, because I am certain from my knowledge of him, that he passed away because of his inability to protest sufficiently. The Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip: killed him, the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip accompanied by death and killing, coincided with the disease, so he passed away rejecting what was happening to the people of Gaza, to his people who spent the details of his life pleading for his desire for freedom and to return to Palestine.

Protest and rejection are the title of Qaher Safa, its substance. He was not compromising even on the simplest requirements of life and his right to it, and for this reason he lost his rights to stability, reassurance, and equal citizenship like the rest of humanity.

He was unable to return, and died outside Palestine, along with his membership in the Palestinian National Council. The consolation for him is that Jordan, its people, and its soil remained warm with him. This is confirmed by the fact that the pure Jordanian soil embraced him and will continue to preserve it until he returns as part of what he had, through his family and friends, who will carry his trace and return with him towards the river, spreading his breath there after they cross the bridge, before they reach Jericho and Kafr Malik.

We mourn the loss of a friend, and we are deeply saddened by the destruction, killing, starvation, thirst, and deprivation of the right to life that is happening to the Palestinian people in Gaza.

This is how the people of Karak, Ma'an, Tafilah, Salt, Madaba, Jerash, Irbid and Ramtha, Bani Hassan and Bani Sakhr are, all those who love Jordan, adore it, owe it loyalty and dignity, live their daily lives in solidarity, and their noble human interaction with their people and their extension in Gaza, and even to the rest of Palestine. The pain is one, the dream is one, and Jordan's security, stability, progress, democracy and pluralism are the title of the Jordanian lever for the freedom and independence of Palestine. This is why we miss Qaher Safa, with whom we believed in the credibility of our Jordanian citizenship, and "our Palestinianness to the marrow of the bone", as I have said everywhere, and I say it and repeat it, and I will not back down from it. Loyalty to Jordan, as is loyalty to Palestine.

Qaher Safa has departed. May God forgive him and offer our condolences to his family. We will follow him, and we have no choice but to continue on the path he walked for a better future for all our people in Jordan and Palestine.