I spent years of my life being involved with Palestinian solidarity groups, researching Palestine history and following very close their drama and suffering.
How hypocrite is our recent history , the governments and organizations behind Israel foundation.
After 1948 millions of families became refugees in their own (before) country, enduring daily humiliation under a gun point Zionist power system.
Nobody cared about Palestinian situation before the Establishment of the Jewish country, nobody was concerned about the future of that nation, its population, cultural identity or its lands, still, the world gives a shit about their situation today.
Overnight lands were stolen, houses were demolished and millions of people became homeless , prisoners among others millions who run away from the Israel daily incursions.
It happened to me , when I was 5 years old my mother became friend to a Palestinian family in Brazil, they owned a small shoes and clothes shop and I always liked to go there, while my mother was trying to choose some shoes for me or my sister I was just fascinated by the posters and maps on the walls. Old maps from Palestine. Once I grew, I did not go there just to buy shoes, I liked to go to talk to Marian about her country. One day I noticed she was wearing a very nice necklace with a interesting round little globe as a pingent . I asked what that little globe meant. She carefully opened and show me what was inside. A small picture.
Who´s him?
Yasser Arafat.
From then on I was into her world. Reading Palestinian history, poetry and listening some music.
I was really naive , for so many times I had such a strong hope I would see very soon Israel´s settlements dismantled , Jerusalem back as a Palestine capital, Gaza open, free of bulldozers .
I know also people in general just see Israel as a victim and it is almost a cliche to hear they are the “people of God” and after the Nazis they deserved to go back to their lands. What? and the Palestinians? So, you just can guess if one is God the other is the Evil…. and this is the image the media pictures Islam, Palestine, Iran.
For how long the history can be wrong?
How it is possible to create a such a strong and powerful state as Israel in such a small period of time? Just in the 1948 year Israel seized almost 80% of Palestinian lands, forcing more than a million people to the exile and in the 1967 war 950.000 became homeless and confined in Gaza. In the aftermath of 1967 war there´s not a precision statistics able enough to measure how many are living in exile, estimates says it reaches around 7 million, living in many countries and, still today dreaming to return home.
Army, hospitals, schools, water, shopping malls, supermarkets, kindergarten, parks, electricity… you name it you will find in Israel.
And the humiliating lives on the other side? No water, no food, no jobs. Palestinian children in Gaza does not have even one playground. Medical care? Don´t even think about it.
What they don´t tell in contemporary history books or in the media is that Palestinian people were living in peace with Jewish people before 1948.
what went wrong? Ask UNO and USA. I ask myself.
It is a real media manipulation to show images of Palestinians trowing stones to Israelis soldiers , what is never shown is the poverty and inhuman condition in Gaza where just a few meters of distance away happy Jews families are celebrating a new home with swimming pool.
Every little excuse is made to delay and to ignore Palestine cause and to increase the oppression and retaliation toward them.
It is a hypocrisy the 60 years celebration of Israel, how dare they , forgetting the world longest and systematized open sky prison. How dare to continue the occupation of robed lands and houses?
How dare Israel makes business, exporting fruits harvested in the Palestinian lands?
In the past Yasser Arafat was the main target used as a excuse to delay any peace negotiation, today Hamas is the excuse and the western boycott is just as irrational as it was in the past when Israel was created despite Palestine claims .
It was right for Israel/USA/UNO to establish Israel State and to support the new nation to become one of the most powerfull in the world but is is not right to stop and to demolish the wall of apartheid. Just in the past few years this racist Tel Aviv wall erupted a new wave of exiled palestinian, families lost their only way of survival (many of them lost their small agricultural business) and families got detached from each others between the 2 sides. Cruel!
When this will stop?
Reviving old feelings and questions , for how long this situation will continue?
My old friend Marian got lost in my past but I still kept memories of her. I just could not understand (how did they lost their house
Who´s living in your house now Marian? …
In such a young mind I found really strange how did they travel so far away, carrying nothing more than their own clothes, a few photos and keys.
It was in a hurry. Without warning, without care.
And the keys?
It is the dream…..
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I agree, nobody care for them. Sadly I don´t see any changes. Thanks for this post.