"Dave you do not have any idea what it feels like to be
constantly harangued, stopped from visiting families who live on the other
side
of your own town, or have your newly built houses bulldozed by the Israelis
just because you have not asked for planning permission from them in your
own
land (after the PA have already given you the go ahead), have you shot dead
for
throwing stones etc".
Dave, thanks for this quote. You see, where you sit depends on where your
feet are planted. I think we, in the comfort of our peaceful environments
should really pause for a minute and try to put ourselves in the daily
livings of a people under siege and no hope for any future. Is Nelson
Mandela and the ANC "Terrorist"? Was'nt their defense against Apartheid
done by "Any Means Necessary"? In our comfort zones, we have the luxury to
say suicide bombings are barbaric, uncivilized, and against human decency,
etc. However, when the rest of the world watched them for 35 years and
counting, fighting with stones, we did not see the barbarism when little
boys and girls were plucked by snipers daily. We did not see the
hopelessness of generations seeing everyone around them amount to nothing
till their death. They did not have the bombs to lob at Israel, like Israel
has, and the rest of the world (you and I) does not value their lives to see
the injustice against them and come to their defense. Are we suggesting
that stones against tankers was a level playing field? Let us genuinely ask
ourselves this question and honestly confide to our inner being, would we
not do the same under the circumstance? Please think about the above quote
from a survival stand point, you may begin to understand, not feel, their
agony. The South Africans certainly could relate to the Palestinian
condition.
Chi Jaama
Joe Sambou
>From: Dave Manneh <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: George W. Sadat
>Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 10:38:24 +0100
>
>Quoting Ngorr Ciise <[log in to unmask]>:
>
>"........... Where it is more worrying, horrifying and even ghastly is when
>young teenage girls are exhorted on the
>grounds of "matyrdom" to "sacrifice" themselves for the cause......."
>
>Mr Ciise
>Very subtle observation indeed but (in trying to make sense of the
>murderous
>acts and by no means condoning any of it) I also think you will find that
>it is
>indeed hopelessness that encourages these barbaric acts. I do not believe
>for
>one second that a child who has his/her whole life to live for (in dignity
>and
>self determination) will wear an explosive belt around her waist to take
>her
>life and in the process kill innocent Israelis.
>A young child who has hopes of one growing up to be an engineer, a doctor,
>a
>scientist etc will not do such acts, but on the other hand a child that
>only
>sees daily humiliation and subordination of his/her people, and see no hope
>of
>it ending needs no encouragement from anyone to try to harm the people
>he/she
>sees as the cause of all her problems.
>
>NB:- Like yourself and many others, i do not condone it at all for I think
>it
>harms the Palestinian cause, but as my British-Palestinian mate Usman told
>me
>the other day "Dave you do not have any idea what it feels like to be
>constantly harangued, stopped from visiting families who live on the other
>side
>of your own town, or have your newly built houses bulldozed by the Israelis
>just because you have not asked for planning permission from them in your
>own
>land (after the PA have already given you the go ahead), have you shot dead
>for
>throwing stones etc". I had to concede to him that that i think that is
>indeed
>the ultimate test of one's patience if not humanity if ever there is one.
>He also reminded of me the Brufut land crisis and how mad i felt (I hang
>around with him and I was telling anyone who cares to listen even bird
>flying
>pass :-), he told me to multiply that a million times and add humiliation
>and
>subjugation to it. I had to concede yet again, i think it will be a tough
>call.
>I think personally ( and I've told him so) that it's time that a new tactic
>be
>employed by his people. And i strongly believe in this, and it is thus:-
>some
>sort of civil rights movement, for i think that will rouse the world's
>apathetic conscience and also take away the only excuse the Israelis have.
>For
>if innocent people hold hands and walk on the cities in Israel proper and
>in
>the territories (no stone throwing whatsoever) and they are fired upon, it
>will
>show up Sharon for who he really is, a wicked overweight old man, who does
>not
>want to see a viable peace in the middle east, and who ,like a dying out
>dinosaur stubbornly thinks he can hold the whole world hostage by lying and
>covert manipulation tactics.
>
>Regards
>
>Manneh
>
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