RvsR: Palestine On Our Lips
Palestine again is on our lips, Gaza again pains
us. Beginning two weeks ago the Zionist State of Israel has intensified its act
of extermination against the Palestinian population. In Nablus, in Ramalla, in
Jerusalem the native inhabitants of Palestine are pursued, detained, and
attacked, indiscriminately. In Gaza the Israeli bombardments have not stopped,
criminal bombardments intentionally directed at the population. Yes, Israeli
Zionism is a conscious crime against another human being, against another
people; together with Nazism, Zionism is an example of a crime against life,
that is, in all senses, an act of genocide.
We know what has been happening for decades in
Palestine, those who are unaware of it, we will tell you, for example, to
imagine a boy with his father walking through the street and that this father
and this boy are surrounded by Israeli soldiers and that the soldiers shoot
without an apparent motive (except that of being just Palestinians) and that
the father tries to defend his boy from bullets but the bullets get to his boy
and the father’s impotence is an immense scream, an immense cry over the little
one’s body. The boy has a name: Muhammad al-Durrah; the father’s is Yamal
Al-Dura. Let us imagine a primary school and in this school there is a girl.
The girl studies her lesson, attent, but the lesson is interrupted by a bullet
from an Israeli soldier which, not by accident, with all intention, ends up in
the little one’s head. The girl’s name is Raghda Alassar. Let us imagine a boy
who is going to visit his grandfather, barely five minutes from his house.
There is no apparent danger: there are no tanks nor Israeli army in appearance.
The child hurries, nonetheless, close to the market he falls. He just fell.
There were snipers around. His mother with surprise finds out. She does not
believe that he is dead. She carries him and does not believe that he is dead
but the child’s body is immobile and he has a bullet in his groin and in his
chest another. The boy’s name is Munir al-Daqas, his mother, Kifah.
In the last few days the names of the following
boys and girls murdered in Gaza by the Israeli army during the recent
bombardments have been publicized: Seraj Ayad Abed al-A’al, eight years-old;
Mohammed Ayman Ashour, fifteen years-old, Hussein Yousef Kawareh, thirteen
years-old, Bassim Salim Kawareh, ten years-old, Mousa Habib, sixteen years-old,
Ahmad Na’el Mehdi, sixteen years-old, Dunia Mehdi Hamad, sixteen years-old,
Amir Areef, thirteen years-old, Mohammed Malkiyeh, a year and a half old,
Ibrahim Masri, fourteen years-old, Mohammed Khalaf al-Nawasra, four years-old, he
arrived to the hospital “in pieces”; Nidal Khalaf al-Nawasra, age not reported,
Ranim Jawde Abdel Ghafour, age not reported, Maryam Atieh Muhammad al-Arja, eleven
years-old; Abdullah Ramadán Abu Ghazzal, five years-old; Yasmin Mohammed
al-Mutawwaq, four years-old. The number increases daily.
The Israeli State does not feel remorse, the
Zionist Israeli State knows that among the death there are children and they
too have to die. They are conscious of their crimes. Hatred of the other rules
them. It is enough to remember the words of that Prime Minister of Israel named
Menarche Begin, who very well synthesized what Zionism is: “We are divine gods
on this planet. We are as different from the inferior races as they are from
insects… Other races are considered as human excrement. Our destiny is to rule
over the inferior races.” Nonetheless the Palestinian people (that is their
affront and of that they are guilty) reminds you that there is no supremacy of
one human over another, of one people over another; that in the face of the
intent of human humiliation, there is dignity, in the face of hate, contempt,
and death, there is life, resistance, and as our Zapatista compañeras and
compañeros have expressed very well, Dignified Rage.
From Mexico, from the various corners of Mexico
in which the Network Against Repression and Solidarity is, we express our
solidarity with the people, with the dignified Palestinian people. We unite our
Dignified Rage to theirs, our voice is enraged with theirs; Palestine pains us,
Gaza pains us, and we scream from these lands to Zionism: Palestine will
resist!
July 2014
Against plunder and repression:
Solidarity!
Red Contra la
Represión y por la Solidaridad
(RvsR)
Translated from Spanish by Henry Gales.
Originally published
on July 16th, 2014.
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