Re: Palestinians
Wednesday 10 July @ 09:44:53 |
 The Palestinian struggle for freedom and independence has prompted ruthless Israeli violence to suppress it as President Bush, in a not atypical case of being more Israeli than thou, even refuses to acknowledge Israel’s conquest and theft of Palestinian (and Syrian) lands and continues to oppose international monitors and inspectors, leaving Palestinians the latest victims of apartheid colonialism in all its ugliness, brutality, and duplicity.
The savagery of Israel’s response to suicide bombers leaves no doubt that it is determined to destroy, decisively, Palestinian civil society, its political organizations, infrastructure, institutions, and its national movement, and to degrade, starve, demoralize and crush the population so that they will no longer have the will or power to further resist Israel’s suffocating occupation and desire to leave human wreckage that can be expelled as Israel wishes. Palestinians should never be forced to acquiesce in the dispossession of their land, their homes, and their national heritage to be left in isolated, walled enclaves of humiliation, abject poverty and destitution, stripped of all dignity and respect.
The Palestinian struggle is morally justified, even though some of its manifestations are unjustifiable. Reducing their struggle to the issue of suicide bombings is nothing more than repulsive demagoguery, for it dehumanizes an entire people and legitimizes the killing of Palestinians, rather that removing the reasons for their horrific desperation. For Palestinians, to give up is to succumb to perpetual, state-sanctioned wretchedness; to continue the resistance is to invite more disappointment and disaster, but, at least, struggling rekindles and sustains hope.
---Nick and Mary Eoloff
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