Sameh Habeeb – Gaza conflict is a proxy war: From Gaza to Rome, part 2
By Sameh A. Habeeb • Jun 14th, 2008 at 8:35 • Category: Education, Grassroots Activism, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism
These words will not be describing my tour in Italy. Rather, I need a lot of time to write, but unfortunately I don't possess that time. I will be trying to shorten the adventurous political tour in Italy in my diaries that I have started to write.
After the presentation in Perugia City, I moved on to Spoleto, Siena, Lucca, Poggibonsi, Cecina, Faenza, Florence, Bologna, Reggio Emilia, Milan, Turin, Padova, Venice, Osimo, Bari, Lecce, Naples, Comacchio, Rimini and finally once again to Rome. It was really incredible to move all around these cities for thousands of kilometers in such a short time!
In Firenze, known as Florence in the Arabic language, I had a good meeting but with violent questions. I explained the Gaza Strip situation and how people are suffering. I told those present how people are being exposed to an obvious collective punishment policy.
"You are here to tell your story…First solve your internal problems and fights then speak about your Cause. Why Fatah and are Hamas fighting each other is the problem." Someone stated.
I was so sad about the fact of this dispute not the question. I wish that they would have never brought up this dispute.
I tried to answer the question:
Well, I guess this political division is temporary. Palestinians will realize at the end that their unity will be the only way towards achieving their goals. The USA and Israel are betting to gain more time by this dispute. Originally, both Fatah and Hamas are freedom fighters for the same cause.
Thus, the meeting points between them outnumber their disputes. Accordingly, this diversity is surely influenced by outsiders that managed it and its impact is multiplied by foreigners who have many interests in the middle east. Regionally speaking, we are in a proxy war between the USA and Iran. Globally speaking, it's the war between the Anti-imperialistic camp and the Imperialistic camp. So, our internal political problem will end soon in case Israel will not hold a peace deal before president Bush leaves his Black House!
I returned back to continue my presentation, which was nearing its end. I showed the public a group of photos and a video showing an Israeli Massacre perpetrated against children in March 2008.
Some of the audience started to shout and some others cried ardently. The atmosphere turned to be s mixture of sadness and anger. This time, I cried despite the fact that I am used to seeing such massacres.
At the end of the meeting, an old woman came to me asking me to send a message for the people of Gaza. She told me with a shaking voice, "We are all Palestine. You are the oppressed people, occupation will come to an end in Palestine as all occupations around the world."
I really loved her words which charged me with more power for my next meetings…..
Next in my diaries
The Qassam-Rocket Quest
Barack Obama and Palestine
Israel vs the Globe
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Sameh A. Habeeb is is a Palestinian born and raised in Gaza. A Photojournalist & Peace Activist based in Gaza Strip, Palestine.
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What is this "Palestinian cause?' To bring the country back down to the low level of subsistence that existed before the Zionist return starting in the 1880s? There never was a Palestinian state nor a Palestinian people until the concept was manufactured in the 1950s, just like Disneyland. Palestine is the figment of a child's imagination with no roots in reality. It is Peter Pan's Neverneverland. That which is rooted purely in rhetoric but not in reality, will always remain a dream that only lasts as long as the dreamer remains asleep.
There has always been a Palestine, and there will always be a Palestine. In contrast, the entity currently calling itself Israel is the merest blip on the radar screen of history.
The chauvinist comment above by Jack Garbage should serve as a reminder that those who materially benefit from imperialism and colonialism will always find words to justify it, no matter how vacuous those words are. And words will not convince them to give up their ill-gotten privileges. Our words should not be wasted on them, but on helping the oppressed, exploited majority of the world's people prepare for the necessarily non-verbal struggle to take back the world from the earth-destroying exploiters.
The "Palestinian Cause" – is what Gandhi described in 1937 – while answering to Chaim Weizmann's request to support World Zionist movement dream od a separate homeland for the 'oppressed' European Jewry in British occupied Palestine – "France is for the French, England for the English and Palestine for the Arabs". Palestinian had more freedom and wealth than majority Jews in the West, who were treated like 'dirt' .
The 'conflict' between Fatah and Hamas – is basically a conflict between corrupt secular leadership working for the interests of USrael than Palestinian – and the honest leadership working for the Natives' rights to recover their lost homeland to European Jews.
SAVE PALESTINE !
FREE GAZA !
STOP THE WAR !
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i Love your review & your report about Gaza War.
Keep the Faith…'bro.. !