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Wed 15 Mar 2023 9:44 pm - Jerusalem Time

Will the occupation succeed in "irritating" the consciousness of Jerusalemites?

Written by: Rasem Obeidat
The war waged against the Jerusalemites in order to "kid", "adapt", "melt" and "sweep their consciousness" is not carried out on one level, but rather it includes all levels and in all fields....and the occupation seeks to penetrate the consciousness of Jerusalemites on more than one front Within systematic plans and programs in which all its security services, including the police, army, intelligence, and the Ministry of Interior, participate in the civil services from the municipality, civil and community institutions, community centers, the police, reform committees, tribal committees, etc.. Therefore, hundreds of millions of shekels are allocated for this war, for example the government’s five-year plan 2018 - 2023 for integrating Jerusalemite Arabs into Israeli society and economy. NIS 875 million out of 2 billion shekels were allotted to it only for the familyization of the curriculum and the educational process in Jerusalem. The remainder was distributed to the rest of the sectors such as roads, transportation, etc. Not to mention the allocation of 15 million shekels outside this amount. Annually for community centers, etc.
There is no doubt that the operations of breaching the walls of our "consciousness" fortresses achieved some successes in issues related to education and the curriculum, as well as in terms of progress in the project to Judaize Al-Aqsa Mosque .... Not to mention the occupation's endeavor to strike the national immunity of our people, through penetration operations in cases Normalization and an attempt to transfer it to the popular and institutional level, in addition to the tireless work by the occupation, to create an environment that expels the resistance work to confront the Judaizing projects and plans of the occupation, by spreading the policies of despair and frustration among the ranks of the Jerusalemites, and telling them that you are alone and you will not be able to defeat a state heavily armed and has the most powerful apparatus intelligence in the region.
Within this vision and strategy, the occupier waged a psychological war in order to "destroy" the Jerusalemite citizen, and preoccupy him in a series of crises, by removing him from a crisis and introducing him into a new one... The occupier, who is trying to finish off the city and impose control and sovereignty over it through intensive settlement and Judaization projects, I believe that The opportunity is right for him to “captivate” our people in the city, strip them of the characteristics and signs of their national existence, and erase their national and political rights, while granting them only limited and “legalized” civil rights, and turn them into scattered islands in a wide Israeli environment, by changing the city’s demographic and geographical reality. , isolating it from its Palestinian surroundings, and changing the overall scene in the city, from an authentic Arab, Islamic-Christian scene to an artificial, biblical, Talmudic Jewish scene.
The occupation sought to "Israeli" the educational process in the city through the Israeliization of its educational curricula, and the complete removal of the Palestinian curriculum from the city, and not to suffice only with the "distorted" or modified Palestinian curriculum, but rather a comprehensive and total Israeliization of the curriculum, and the occupier achieved breakthroughs and successes in this aspect, which encouraged him In order to take a step towards achieving his goals and plans, he threatened some private schools "Abrahamia and Al-Iman" with its five branches to withdraw their licenses and grant them restricted licenses, if their curricula were not corrected by omitting what the occupier considered incitement in those books, and what is meant here is omitting all patriotic content in the curriculum. This includes falsifying history, “dwarfing” geography, and omitting the Palestinian novel and narrative.
This step, which was taken by the occupation municipality and its circle of acquaintances, constituted an awakening for the people of Jerusalem with their popular unions from the Union of Principal Affairs Committees, Central Parents Committees, and their institutions and national forces, in order to restore Palestinian awareness, and prevent “K” and its “deviation” and “familiarity.” A series of activities were carried out And protest activities, including the announcement of a comprehensive strike in all educational umbrellas in Jerusalem for a period of one day, on Monday 9/19/2022.
This strike constituted an important stage on the road to restoring Palestinian awareness, and "immunizing" the educational process from penetration, "Israelization", falsification and distortion of awareness.
On the other hand, we found that Al-Aqsa Mosque, which is a purely Islamic mosque, after the closure of the Mughrabi Gate from September 2000 until 2003, and whose keys have been controlled by the occupation police since 1967, has come under direct targeting of Talmudic and Biblical groups, given that Al-Aqsa Mosque, It is the alleged structure, which must be built in place of the Dome of the Rock mosque, and to achieve this goal, this Judaization project was moving and progressing step by step, from individual intrusions to collective intrusions, and from individual prayers to silent collective prayers, and after that public Talmudic prayers, and ritual performance Talmudic and Biblical, including the epic prostration, and after that the incursions to Al-Aqsa intensified, and the Talmudic and Biblical groups sought to evoke the moral structure, by introducing plant offerings to Al-Aqsa from palm fronds, citrus fruits and willow leaves, as well as collectively blowing the trumpet in The courtyards of Al-Aqsa, not only as a biblical Talmudic religious ritual, the blowing of the trumpet is a political act par excellence, symbolizing sovereignty, domination and hegemony, but it is wrapped in the biblical Talmudic religious aspect... and in order to work to create sanctity and Jewish life in Al-Aqsa And tightening security and administrative control over it, and consecrating the temporal and spatial divisions in it, the Talmudic groups threw all their weight and capabilities, supported by a decision and a green light from the political level, in order to mobilize the largest number of extremists in Al-Aqsa squares during the Jewish holidays that extend from September 26 and 27 last, New Year Hebrew and October 5, what is known as Yom Kippur, and the Feast of the Throne, which extends from 10 to 17 / October, employing biblical Talmudic thought, travels, and Talmudic orders in the service of achieving the goal, but all this extremism and this mobilization did not succeed in achieving the goal, by mobilizing 5000 extremists On the second day of the Feast of the Throne, the first even-numbered day immediately after the Sabbath year, and the Sabbath year is the year of “making up” the land for lack of cultivation, and it comes once every seven years… These continuous and continuous incursions are like “rehearsals for” the “adaptation” of the mind The Palestinian, the Arab and the Islamic, and made them look at what the Jewish extremists are doing in terms of abnormal practices and actions, Talmudic and Biblical prayers, rituals of blowing the trumpet, epic prostration, and the introduction of plant offerings to the Al-Aqsa square as something normal and normal.
But the state of steadfastness and reluctance of Jerusalem through the bond and i'tikaaf and the intensification of the presence and presence in Al-Aqsa and confronting these extremists, and the fear of the entity's government that the situation will explode from the gate of Al-Aqsa and Jerusalem, and the outbreak of an open war entitled "Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa may trigger a comprehensive uprising, not only affecting the city of Jerusalem and the entire Palestinian geography, Rather, the situation may develop into a regional war, and for this reason the extremists and behind them the entity state, did not succeed in creating sanctity and Jewish life in Al-Aqsa, nor did they succeed in "ironing" the Jerusalemite consciousness, despite all the rush and official Arab normalization, and they also failed to "ironing" the consciousness Al-Maqdisi, and disassociated himself from the ideology, culture and choice of the resistance. Rather, we witnessed an escalation in the resistance action in the city as a direct and natural response to the crimes, oppression and abuse committed by the occupation against our people, land and people, desecration and incursions against our sanctities, primarily Al-Aqsa... Perhaps what the Shuafat camp witnessed after the operation The quality and daring that a Palestinian youth carried out against the occupation soldiers at the Shuafat checkpoint, on Saturday evening 10/8/2022, which put the entity state out of its phase, prompting it to impose a comprehensive blockade and collective punishments against the residents of Shuafat camp, Anata, Dahiyat al-Salam and Ras Khamis Shehadeh headed sanctions that paralyzed all commercial and economic facilities, transportation and education, and even humanitarian cases of patients with kidneys and chronic diseases were not allowed to go out to medical centers and hospitals, and the accompanying repression, abuse, imposition of violations, raids, searches and arrests... All of this did not lose the support of the population The camp did not break their will, but rather they said that we will defend our existence and our camp, a symbol of our calamity, and we will remain committed to our rights and constants, and our right to return to our land from which we were expelled, and our right of return will not be forfeited by statute of limitations.
It seems that the Palestinian, nearly thirty years after the Oslo catastrophe, is regaining consciousness, and has become fully convinced that this miserable agreement that the occupier abandoned, with nothing left but security coordination and economic dependence, will not lead to the realization of the rights of our Palestinian people, and it will not liberate a land And he will not come to a state, and that is why this people announces a divorce with this approach and the choice and those in charge of it.
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