Sugar Cubes

We should defend ourselves when attacked, even animals do. We should always seek the truth and hold on tight to our morals. Right is relative and so is wrong, but evil is always wrong.

Zionism is wrong, racism is wrong, looking at things from one angle only is wrong, and definitely is listening to a story from one side only.

We cry over loved ones like all humans do, we take non-violent actions everyday, we will not be silenced until justic prevail.

Regularly, we hear the same complaint and critique come from many would-be friends of the Palestinian people that, if only the Palestinians would embrace non-violence and abandon armed struggle, their demands would be met. But is that necessarily so? [Read article]

When it comes to the Palestine-Israel conflict I see only the injustice done to Palestinians by Israelis. I dare anyone to show me how is it possible for the occupied to be unjust with the occupier unless you think we should as well leave the remaining scattered spots of land we live on for the chosen people who were promised the land?

According to Judaism (Talmud - Sanhedrin 58b), any person can achieve a place in the World to Come by faithfully observing the seven basic laws of humanity. These seven laws are named the “Laws of Noah,” since all humans are descended from Noah:

1) Do not murder.
2) Do not steal.
3) Do not worship false gods.
4) Do not be sexually immoral.
5) Do not eat the limb of an animal before it is killed.
6) Do not curse God.
7) Set up courts and bring offenders to justice.

Do we not know what is right and what is wrong or we’re just bleeding ignorance in the name of peace? are we not sugar-coating things and living in denial when we refuse to see things in the eyes of the sufferers? you can always tell me how you saw Israelis with your naked eye evacuating Gaza, and I will believe you, but when you turn a blind eye on the air raids, the supersonic booms, the assassinations, the human sheilds and the Wall (and gates and electronic gates and x-ray and checkpoints and…) are you advocating peace or are you one sorry excuse of a humanbeing?. Do we realize that the peace we claim we want is nothing but a false sense of safety that can be easily achieved by building walls and hiding behind forts? (Whoops, forgive my bad constant memory, they’ve alraedy done that, never mind) Do we not realize that peace is not selfish? have we not learned our lesson yet? in Palestine, only Israelis are safe, even worse, only pro-zionism and passive Israelis are safe, other than that nobody’s blood is reserved. Solution? we become all passive Israelis who should not talk of the bad things happening but rather of seeing IOF evacuating Gaza, talk about Rafah Crossing and the absence of the Israeli physical presence but not the surveillance and their preserved right of not allowing whoever they deem a suspect, even though the UN is taking care of everything. OK ok I’m sorry! I shouldn’t talk politics, politics is bad, we want peace, we love peace, leave us alone!

We are intolerant of murderers, theives, racists, war criminals, oil drinkers and blood suckers. We are Palestinians, Jews, Chrisitians and Muslims dream of living in one country called Palestine. We condemn the acts of those who seek division in the name of security, those who bring down houses when they come and bring them down again when they leave. We hate those who kick people out of their houses to replace them, those who survived the holocaust and sought their own peace through war and their own justice by being unjust to others.

Time has changed, we are aware of that. We no longer justify targetting Israelis living in Tel Aviv, even though, they do not own the land nor do they pay for rental by the way. BUT we believe every settler who steals the house of a Palestinian in the occupied territories, making him homeless overnight, probably killing one of his family after bringing down his house on the living bodies of its inhibitants, deserves what he gets.

We want peace, we want co-existence too but we want just a little bit of dignity is that too much to ask for? co-existence means to recognize the existence of the other first, are we seeking that or are we seeking safety at any cost even if that means living in our own country as second or third citizens because of our race, and being discriminated against by the foreign government that rules us?

We are mercifull and full of hope, what else do you want more than donating our dead son’s organs to the occupiers who needed them?

What is that we are asked to leave behind, yesterday, today or tomorrow?

Today, I resisted crying after reading Haitham’s post, struggled harder after reading his comments in disbelief. I also resisted cursing every man alive, for men are the reason we all suffer, they are born important because they are males. And what one of them is capable to do -if decided to - always amazes me, not because it is so great and hard to achieve but because no matter how small or trivial it might seem, the World takes him dead serious, which makes me sometimes wish they’ve done nothing at all and stuck to talking politics inside their homes.

And finally, I’d like to thank Blogsome for giving me the opportunity to talk without interruption and most importantly for free…

Update: thecutter took the time to explain why the Israeli narrative is not equal to the Palestinian one. Her post is definitely worth reading!