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Ayoon wa Azan (This Is No Politics, but Suicide) |
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Wednesday, 31 December 2008
By Jihad el-Khazen
The reader and I are an Arab government. We are not an important or respectable government, but we are a government nonetheless.
The Arab government condemned and denounced the Israeli raids on Gaza Strip. So we did.
The Arab government called for a meeting of foreign ministers and for an extraordinary summit. We also called for a ministerial meeting and a summit. All summits, like Arab governments, ended up empty handed, just like the reader and I.
There are hundreds of dead and many times more of injured. No meeting, international condemnation or demonstration will bring them back to life.
They died and were insulted. The US Administration criticized Hamas' terrorism but overlooked the terrorism that is being conducted with US weapons, money and veto, to the point of collusion.
We know that the Israeli government is run by extremists committing Nazi-like crimes. We also know that the Bush Administration - not the American people - is an accomplice to crime. A few hundred dead Palestinians against one dead Israeli is a good Nazi proportion accepted by both the US and Israel.
But before the Israeli crime, the US collusion and the Arab absence - or coma, there is the responsibility of the Palestinians.
I will always consider Hamas a national liberation movement against the occupation and its terrorism. But I hold it the most responsible among Palestinians for the recent disaster.
I still do not understand the reasons why Hamas - being the government - turned on itself and created an emirate for the Muslim Brotherhood in the Strip instead of trying to free the whole land then see what kind of rule people wanted in an election.
Politics is not worthy of its name if it is not the politics of the possible. Hamas' policy in Gaza is suicidal. Here we are beholding its results.
I am not Abu Mazen's ally. I do not prefer Fateh to Hamas. In spite of this, the Palestinian president is honest when he says that the missiles of the Gaza factions are useless, merely fireworks compared with the Israeli arsenal. They are being used randomly to give Israel the excuse it seeks and to allow it to use that excuse anytime it wishes to kill men of the resistance along with women and children.
These victims are now mere numbers in the Israeli elections. The government that kills the highest number of Palestinians gains popularity. Terrorist Ehud Barak bolstered the chances of his Labor Party, the Mossad agent Tzipi Livni increased Kadima's popularity and perhaps Benjamin Netanyahu had killed a bigger number of Palestinians as part of his electoral platform to guarantee electoral victory.
Nevertheless, Ismail Hania says: "We will not back down even if Israel wipes out Gaza." If it annihilates Gaza he would not need to back down; he would be buried underground.
This is no politics, but suicide. If someone in the Hamas leadership wants to kill himself he is free to do so, but the people did not elect someone to commit suicide with.
Meanwhile, the reader and I are a government, even better than an Arab government: we did not lose any credibility; we condemn, denounce and call for a ministers meeting or a leaders' summit: our emotions are true and people believe them. As for the government, it is already without credibility. If it gives statements, shouts and revolts, it is because it is supposed to do so.
Once again, someone in Gaza is practicing suicidal politics. All of the elements that led to the Gaza massacre are known, from the Israeli government Nazism, the Bush Administration's collusion, the Arab helplessness, to the Palestinian division. In spite of this, the Gaza factions chose a path that could only end in a massacre. God forgive us all.
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Wednesday, 31 December 2008
Al-Hayat
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