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Wed 15 Mar 2023 9:02 pm - Jerusalem Time
They are not thirty people!!!
Written by: Nabil Amr
Every day, the nation wakes up with news that drips blood.
The worst thing that pollutes human values is that those killed turn into numbers.
Yesterday one, the day before yesterday two, and the night that passed five, and there is death by installments, as doctors fail to save the life of a wounded person, so his death is announced after weeks, so that hospitals prepare to receive new numbers, as well as prisons and cemeteries.
This image, with all its backgrounds and dimensions, is the image of our life, so that death has become a part of our daily lives, just as it is a condition of life for our occupiers.
One of the rare things in the history of the occupations, which has become an established law in Israel, is the transformation of the spilled Palestinian blood into votes that decide the matter of those who aspire to win according to the principle of whoever kills more deserves more power.
This happened during the three-day massacre carried out by Lapid-Gantz's coalition in Gaza, and the same thing is happening in the West Bank, but for months its calendar was written with the names of the martyrs.
The Israeli knife plunges into the Palestinian and even Arab bodies, and if we in Palestine are under the oppression of a balance of forces in our favor, and we find young men offering their lives on their own, let us extend our eyes to our immediate surroundings, so what do we see?
Syria, which we have never regretted describing as the beating heart of Arabism, bombed its capital at the height of noon, and the appropriate time promised for a response had not arrived!! Lebanon, our twin in suffering from Israel, is preparing to demarcate its maritime borders with it, with decisive mediation from the Great Satan, and with the boast of Hezbollah that it and no one else has achieved this "historic achievement." to isolate him from confession.
As for the best of those who stand with us and feel our pain, he has nothing to offer us more than sympathy coupled with the hope that God will guide Israel and it will go to the right path by moving from its fierce war to a quiet peace in which there is much more illusion than truth.
And we transformed our regional and Arab incubator, as it is in a state of racing for normalization that did not stop at the public Abraham agreements, as Turkish reinforcement came to it, in which yesterday's opponents with Israel moved to the site of today's lovers.
And when we look around us and see what we see, we find ourselves obligated to look in our mirror to see what is more serious and more important:
A division whenever we think that we have taken a step towards ending it, we take steps towards consecrating it, and factions that hide behind the young men of the lions' den bless what they are doing and do not go as far as adopting it.
And an authority that directs its messages via mail to no address, sometimes to the international community, which has no interest in any conflict or solution worldwide, and sometimes to the human conscience in order to force Europe and America to stop double standards, that is, to deal with Gaza and Nablus as you deal with Kharkov and Kiev!!
And messages to those who talk about the two-state solution, urging them to associate easy words with hard deeds, but there is no life for those who call.
The Palestinian people clings to a weapon that has not yet been invented. The counter-weapon that ends and abolishes it is the weapon of transcendent stubbornness and the weapon of defiance that is embodied and renewed by initiatives that would not have crossed the mind of traditional calculations. There are many with the same meaning, and there will be more titles if the occupation continues.
Here is what I can say more than what Haaretz said, written by Ronit Marzan. I suggest not being satisfied with what I quoted, and to read the entire article. It was published in Jerusalem yesterday on page seven, with the title "They are not weddings, and they are not only thirty people."
“The death of the martyrs – and Haaretz said – defies the Palestinian patriarchal system. Mothers must contain anger and be proud of their children’s courage. Sometimes they are given sedatives and even removed from the body of their son without being able to hug him before burying him in order to make sure that the funeral will be a show of strength, pride and dignity. Not hysterical crying.
Haaretz concludes its article with a deeply significant conclusion, saying in one letter, "Instead of shutting down the tuk-tuks, and instead of calling them "weddings" and instead of considering them a handful that includes a few people, it is worthwhile for Israel to make efforts to extinguish the burning materials that fuel the fire of rebellion, and perhaps here we will benefit more from it. Run a losing war against windmills.
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