Secure Da Bag
Veteran
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-...lve-the-deadly-conflict-with-israel-2018-5#-8
The thoughts in this article sound so damn familiar it hurts.
Sounds like there should be an X in his name.
I feel for these people. I'd like for there to be a kumbaya solution and they can all go back to their home and live peacefully side by side. But the forces that be seem to not want that to happen.
The thoughts in this article sound so damn familiar it hurts.
We have to develop our methods of resistance. Israel is blocking our resistance methods from every direction. We can't work on one level. We can't just work on changing international opinions, or just using armed resistance — we have to work on all aspects to develop our tools and tell the world we are under occupation.
Every day, the [Israeli] occupation expands in Jerusalem. It is clear that the occupation is dominating education, health, economy, tourism in the city.
The only thing we have managed to retain control over is our identity, which is very present in the minds of youth and with their refusal to obey [the occupation].
There is no solution to the conflict because it is an existential, spatial, ideological conflict. It is not a business deal — you take a piece, and I'll take a piece. It is linked to something ideological, religious. It is a conflict over space and existence.
[But] irrespective of the process that we're going through as Palestinians, our rights are our rights. Liberation is a right. It does not matter if we're not able to organise, or there are ongoing discussions between us as a people, it is our right to be free. No one can tell us 'only when you organise yourselves, then you can be free'.
The [Israeli] occupation is working to divide us, to make us struggle for demands, not for liberation.
The solution is to put this struggle for demands to the side and work on a struggle for liberation.
A liberation struggle begins with awareness, learning from past experiences, such as the two Intifadas [popular Palestinian uprisings] and the 1936 revolt, and reading history correctly, not from the perspective of the victim but from the perspective of the freedom fighter.
We are not victims, we are entitled to our rights, and we have the methods to succeed.
This is where the solution starts. If I were to paint you a picture of the solution, I would be doing the solution injustice.
Sounds like there should be an X in his name.
We have a clear national identity, but at the same time, the society we live in does not understand us, and this is a big problem. You feel lost. You talk to people who do not understand you.
I've been living in Tel Aviv for three years; I'm studying there. I feel very alienated.
I feel for these people. I'd like for there to be a kumbaya solution and they can all go back to their home and live peacefully side by side. But the forces that be seem to not want that to happen.