tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17674683392642328322024-03-14T06:00:47.581+02:0030 Days to "Statehood" blogThe Blog about the PA's UN bid for a [bantustanized] state of Palestine.Sari Freitekhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01002082841175095095noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1767468339264232832.post-7607790505990569872013-04-17T12:58:00.003+03:002013-04-17T14:55:33.512+03:00NO MAN'S LAND/ PALESTINE/ A NEW MOVIE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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WHO ARE WE?</div>
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<strong>We are a group of young talents from PALESTINE. We are hoping to make a movie that will speak the mind of our generation and that will pave the path into taking PALESTINIAN Cinema out of its comfort zone into the real world of Cinema. </strong></h3>
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We want the Palestinian Cinema to be an international movement recognized and respected by people across the world with considerable audience. We want our film, however, to be Palestinian at heart, to give an honest picture about life inside Palestine and tell the stories of people living there.<br /><br /><img alt="Proposed Poster" height="793" src="http://d2oadd98wnjs7n.cloudfront.net/medias/757484/pictures/full/20130415022541-Mohamad_NML1.jpg?1366017948" style="border: 0px; float: left; max-width: 580px;" title="Proposed Poster for the Movie" width="600" />The team of the movie has been chosen on basis of interest in the project with limited stress on previous experience and an emphasis on giving a chance to first-timers, including the production team. We believe every aspiring artist deserves a starting point, those we were convinced may have an excellent potential are now part of our team. The music of the film also plays a central role in setting up the mood and experience. Some of the music scores in the film are the works of local artists; other major and international names in music have graciously agreed to take part in this film.</h3>
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WHAT IS OUR PROJECT?</div>
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<strong>Our debut project titled No Man’s Land (NML) is an Arabic-language action drama feature film about three brothers following different paths to satisfy their hunger for love, money, and sex; they meet an undercover blogger who claims to be a college student doing research on their refugee camp. His actual identity is questioned when people he talks to start to disappear.</strong></h3>
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We love our project and we are passionate about it. We believe this is truly the first movie of its kind which touches on subjects that have rarely appeared in Palestinian feature films up till now. We hope you are going to enjoy the film and that this film will only be the starting point for all of us.<br /><br />The trailer for the film is coming up so stay tuned! We hope that your kind contribution to this project will bring it to life. In order to make a contribution, you may visit: <a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/no-man-s-land-palestine/x/3006609" style="background-color: transparent;">http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/no-man-s-land-palestine/x/3006609</a></h3>
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Sari Freitekhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01002082841175095095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1767468339264232832.post-87337266406205577792012-09-22T03:29:00.006+03:002012-09-22T23:36:40.178+03:00Who's Going to be the First to Fall [of the Palestinian National Authority]<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>This article is not the result of paranoia, but merely a look into a possible scenario that could change the
general atmosphere following the 19<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the signing of the Oslo
Accords.</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Who’s going to fall next? By falling
I literary mean <i>assassinated</i>. This week marks the 19<sup>th</sup> anniversary of
the signing of the Oslo Accords, an agreement that was thought of as having
ended decades of struggle between the Palestinians and their Colonizers (of
course it goes without saying that the agreement equated between both parties,
never treating the Palestinians as the oppressed, nor dealing with Israel as
the oppressor.) <o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="http://www.theworld.org/wp-content/uploads/Palestinians_Ramallah_Protest_Cost_of_living-e1347570326402.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="281" src="http://www.theworld.org/wp-content/uploads/Palestinians_Ramallah_Protest_Cost_of_living-e1347570326402.jpg" width="400" /></a>What was different about this anniversary
is that almost two decades later the Palestinians suddenly became aware of how
destructive the agreement has been to their case (and it only happened when the
results of Oslo severely touched their livelihood). Prior to that most
Palestinians disregarded the agreement as one step towards their statehood, but
only this year did masses of Palestinians took off to the street demanding an
end to the Oslo Agreement; however, this time they specified which annexes they
were mostly angry about: the Paris Agreements. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The Paris agreements were a
number of agreements that accentuated the future economic relationship between
Israel and the Palestinians. Having already agreed to form a self-governing
body for the Palestinians, or Bantustanizing the situation in Palestine, the potential
Palestinian government also endorsed a plan that asserted the colonization of the economic reality between Israel and the Palestinians.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Yet on the 19<sup>th</sup> anniversary
of Oslo, the Palestinians found themselves dungeoned deep inside an ugly reality: an
oppressive Palestinian government that is highly armed, a police-run semi-state
that controlled most of the resources, a paper-castle of an economy that was
completely controlled by donor temperament on one side and Israel on the other, a low-income and probably one of
the highest costs of living anywhere in the world. Most Palestinians, including
the wealthy, felt poor. Salaries at the end of each month became the
only aspiration of any typical worker starting on the first of each month; other ugly
realities included an increase in population vs. an inability to grow out of
these Bantustans which left a huge mark on the Palestinian centers of “Semi-Governmental
Units” including cities and villages; an increase in prices of fuel, bread,
food, electricity, rent, the list goes on and on.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But then the demonstrations
stopped abruptly the way they started. The Palestinians were once again
observing to see what will happen next.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Israel has been observing what
will happen next.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Donor nations (EU, USAID,
World Bank…etc) have been observing what will happen next.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Everyone, for years, has been
observing, merely moving a Pawn in a chess game one step to the front to keep
the game going.</div>
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On the eve of the first demonstration
that called for the downfall to the Fayyad-run government and Mahmoud Abbas,
the latest took the time to join the demonstration [online] claiming that “the
Palestinian Spring has begun!” also affirming that Palestine has <i>one </i>ruling
body (the Fatah-run PA), <i>one </i>President (himself) and <i>one </i>prime minister
(Fayyad)!<o:p></o:p><br />
The Fatah-run Palestinian Authority suddenly sets a date for the local elections in the West Bank (an election which will be completely boycotted by Hamas and other factions under the conviction that such elections will further assert the Palestinian division). But Fatah is more than looking forward for such a move which will reinforce their dominance in the West Bank.
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Prices went down a fraction, Diesel-fuel
down one shekel, and the VAT down one half (still up one half from its previous
value at 14.5%).<o:p></o:p></div>
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The streets in Palestine were
quiet again, cautiously observing.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But something enormous must/ will
happen because a pawn in a chess game cannot keep moving indefinitely.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In my opinion, the West including Israel,
has been quite keen on Hamas. Hamas is the adverse of the well-hated
Palestinian Authority, with very little history in mass-corruption. Hamas also
took hold of Gaza years before the Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan) in traditional
peace broker, Egypt, took power. It is likely that the West wants to see how
well Ikhwan will do in Egypt: if they succeed then there's no reason to keep
the utterly unloved PA in power, which is already creating reasons which are threatening the security of the rest of the
World and Israel (None is talking to Hamas which has been a big mistake, and everyone is in support of the a government that functions despite the Palestinians' full approval). I assume the West would rather try their luck with Hamas or perhaps something
completely new.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Donors have almost completely froze
their funding to the various PA-run institutes to the point where the PA made
it public that they are practically at the edge of going completely broke, this has demonstrated itself in the PA's inability to pay the Salaries of
almost one third of the working population, whom happened to be the working
bees of the Paper Castle created by the PA.<br />
Yet everyone is still observing, waiting for
the other side to make a move.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Ultimately someone will.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Either the PA will make a genius
move that will completely shift the game back into their favor (this includes a
magical potion to instantly revitalize the Economy); or Israel will come
up with a sinister plan to root out the PA and have them replaced (perhaps they would suddenly start talking to Hamas out of the blue and when no one sees it coming).<br />
In this last case, everyone in media all across the globe will bring out the dark and
unholy history of the Palestinian Authority: news will be all about their
corrupt 19 years going over their history one person at a time. The media will shed the
light on the suffering of the Palestinians under the PA rule, it will create a new face for their suffering and it will give it a name. The world will be sympathetic and in support of the dismantling of the PA. Perhaps then
the PA will be dismembered one person at a time as each person will be a target of systematic assassinations by Patriotic Palestinians (those who either do it out of
their own motivations or in support of a foreign agenda).<o:p></o:p></div>
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It will start from the top all
the way to the bottom. In this case, I can see Mahmoud Abbas to be the first to
fall, followed by the most burned-out Fayyad (perhaps the weakest link). Then the game
is on: it will sweep everything in its way: the media politicians and figures (Abed Rabbu), the
dumb religious Fatah figures (Habbash), perhaps even randomly all the way down
to the most insignificant of the Fatah enthusiasts. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Sari Freitekhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01002082841175095095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1767468339264232832.post-69090551143016084682011-09-10T23:20:00.000+03:002012-09-22T23:25:52.336+03:0012th Day: The Story of an Embassy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Do you remember the out-of-the-blue trip Mahmoud Abbas made to Lebanon around a month ago?<br />
The trip was both symbolic and conciliatory. The result was a surprise Embassy in Beirut.<br />
Mahmoud Abbas and Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Miqati loved on each other, then opened the embassy.<br />
<a href="http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Politics/2011/Aug-18/Abbas-inaugurates-Palestinian-Embassy-in-Beirut.ashx#axzz1XP7jiXuO">http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Politics/2011/Aug-18/Abbas-inaugurates-Palestinian-Embassy-in-Beirut.ashx#axzz1XP7jiXuO</a><br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Accord">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Accord</a><br />
<a href="http://prrn.mcgill.ca/research/papers/geneva_refugees_2.pdf">http://prrn.mcgill.ca/research/papers/geneva_refugees_2.pdf</a></div>
Sari Freitekhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01002082841175095095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1767468339264232832.post-58681322063708592582011-09-09T23:20:00.000+03:002012-09-22T23:25:33.926+03:0011th Day: TBA<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
TBA... is there really anything to hope for?</div>
Sari Freitekhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01002082841175095095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1767468339264232832.post-3688866132139025542011-09-08T21:52:00.000+03:002011-09-08T21:52:06.136+03:0010th Day: 10 Reasons Why MOST Palestinians Reject a Statehood: this article/ these tweets should be read from BOTTOM to TOP.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">The Palestinian Authority claims most Palestinians demand a statehood. There was never a referendum carried out to determine this "fact".</div></div><div class="tweet-row" style="display: block; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"><a class="tweet-timestamp" href="http://twitter.com/#!/OsSelman/status/111870313167462401" style="color: #009999; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="9:35 PM Sep 8th"><span class="_timestamp" data-long-form="true" data-time="1315506935000" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">13 minutes ago</span></a> <span class="tweet-actions js-actions" data-tweet-id="111870313167462401" style="font-size: 11px; 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line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="tweet-text pretty-link" style="font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><a class=" twitter-atreply" data-screen-name="abuhatem" href="http://twitter.com/#!/abuhatem" rel="nofollow" style="color: #009999; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="at" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; opacity: 0.5; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">@</span><span class="at-text" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">abuhatem</span></a> I'll post in a little bit some of the reasons why many Palestinians do not agree with the upcoming statehood. I'd argue "majority"</div></div></div></div></div></div>Sari Freitekhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01002082841175095095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1767468339264232832.post-61882503118622996462011-09-05T21:41:00.018+03:002011-09-07T05:16:52.136+03:0013th Day: THE HALF % STATE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The Shameful Half Percent State poster/ stencil.<br />
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When words can no longer find their way to my mind<br />
When news about Palmer Report and Erekat's "tough" response no longer move me<br />
I sit alone and wonder about the Shameful Destiny of the Half Percent State.<br />
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Proposed Stencils (<i>Art by OS SELMAN added on Sept. 07th</i>)<br />
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</div>Sari Freitekhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01002082841175095095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1767468339264232832.post-88068748120922406722011-09-04T22:35:00.003+03:002016-12-19T10:57:35.428+02:0014th Day: Comparing PA Bantustans to Tel Aviv Alone<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Numbers are interesting.</div>
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Ever since I made yesterday's calculations, I've been taken by an obsession with comparing the PA Territories with Tel Aviv.</div>
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If the future Palestinian state was to be compared to Tel Aviv urban area only, we can come up with some very interesting results. Below are columns comparing Tel Aviv to PA Territories as I prefer to call them, which exclude the Gaza Strip. The calculations assume PA Territories [was] a city in its own right. </div>
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What do we learn?</div>
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<b>The PA Territories which will be included in the Bantustanized-State is almost 0.59% the size of historical Palestine's size. </b><b>The PA officials have long claimed that they "gave up 78% percent of historical Palestine for peace. The truth is, they gave nearly 99.49% of it for profit</b>.</div>
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<b>The PA Territories where the future [bantustanized] state will have a sort of governmental control or more accurately: <i>visual</i> control (because actual control will be left for Israel) is appx. comparable to Tel Aviv's Metro area alone in terms of both size and population, only 10% <i>smaller</i>. </b></div>
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<b>The best scenario which the PA can experience would be a complete Israeli withdrawal from Areas <i>B</i> in which case the PA state would be comparable to Tel Aviv's Urban Area, only 10% <i>smaller.</i> </b></div>
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So far, the Palestinian population under direct and "full" Palestinian control (those living within Area <i>A</i>) does not seem to have a reliable statistics. </div>
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It is now obvious there is not one single reliable source that provides a complete census of the population of the Palestinians whether in the West bank, Israel, Gaza Strip, and in East Jerusalem, nor Jewish population in those areas (Major discrimination were found between various sources that ranged from few hundreds up to a million and more.). Nor does there seem to be a source that gave a single unified estimate for the Area covering historical Palestine without experiencing discrepancies between various data.<br />
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<b>Population-wise: It is not clear if the <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/content/ei-exclusive-palestinian-population-exceeds-jewish-population-says-us-government/5491">US' claim back in 2005</a> that Palestinian Arabs have exceeded the number of Israeli Jews in the land of Historical Palestine is still valid. The Numbers seem to be inflated on both sides.</b></div>
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The information was acquired, or calculated, based on data found on wikipedia.org, CIA World Fact Book plus other sources, assuming they're the most up-to-date:</div>
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<tr style="height: 136.45pt; mso-yfti-irow: 1;"> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 136.45pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 178.85pt;" valign="top" width="238">- City 51.4 km2<br />
- Urban 176 km2<br />
- Metro 1,516 km2<br />
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- City 404,400<br />
- Urban 1,284,400<br />
- Metro 3,325,700</td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 136.45pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 178.85pt;" valign="top" width="238">- Area A (2.7%) 152.2 km2<br />
- Area B (25.1%) 1415.6 km2<br />
- Area C (72.2%) 4,072 km2<br />
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- West Bank (2010) Appx. 2,568,555 (not clear whether this number includes East Jerusalem Palestinians and according the CIA World Fact Book or if Israeli settlers were included, in which case this would bring the number down to 2,097,055 if Israeli settlers were excluded) or 1,714,845 (according to PCBS as of 2010) or 2,345,000 according to Jerusalem Post as of 2010)</td> </tr>
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- Urban (Area B) 0.65%<br />
- Metro (Area C) 5.6%</td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 50.35pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 178.85pt;" valign="top" width="238">- Area A (City) 0.56%<br />
- Area B (Urban) 5.25%<br />
- Area C (Metro) 15.1%</td> </tr>
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Sari Freitekhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01002082841175095095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1767468339264232832.post-45304194632901266932011-09-03T10:34:00.027+03:002011-09-07T00:38:07.919+03:0015th Day: Facts the PA likes to deny (or) Palestinians control an area only 10% smaller than TLV<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Orange is my country. Thanks Abbas! You done good. </i>[map from <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-13701636">here</a>]</td></tr>
</tbody></table>These are some of the actual De Facto percentages: </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Palestine's 1948 Areas (aka Israel): 77%-78% of Palestine (not including Jerusalem, 20,770 km2 of 26,920 km2) out of which Tel Aviv (TLV) metropolitan area alone is nearly 18% the size of the area; yet nearly 50% of Israel's 7.7 Million live! (close to 3.5 million residents!)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The size of the West Bank and Gaza is 22% (around 6,000 km2: WB= 5640 km2 + GS= 360 km2) the size of Historic Palestine. Palestinian Authority has control of only less than 2.7% of that (area <i>A</i> according to <i>Oslo Accords</i>), and a joint-control with Israel of nearly 25.1% (area <i>B</i> according to <i>Oslo). </i>The proposed state <i>will not</i> have access to nearly 97.3% of the remaining areas or most towns and villages plus <i>all</i> of the roads connecting <i>any</i> two Palestinian town and village plus <i>all </i>of the Jewish settlements.<br />
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The proposed state will be <i>declared</i> on 2,370 km2 of Historic Palestine's 26,920 km2. Slightly more than in Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area, 3.9 million Palestinian Arabs reside in these small dis-fragmented localities! Israel will control all of the (2,370 km2)'s entrances and exists, will grant or deny passes to residents, and will be the entity to receive Palestinian taxes and distribute back the tax refunds to the PA, like it would treat any other municipality. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div>The PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY "MUNICIPALITY" is the largest disfragmented Metropolitan Area in Israel! Compare: Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area: 1,516 km2, the PA "Metropolitan Territories": 2370 km2. <b>The areas the PA <i>may</i> have control over in the West Bank and Gaza (1,668 km2, or areas <i>A & B</i>) are only about 10 percent larger than Tel Aviv Metropolitan area with the around the exact same number of residents!</b><br />
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<b>YET!, the PA will officially be like a chain of territories, or small countries that literary control only 162 km2 of all of the West Bank, or around 0.59% of Historic Palestine. The area is less than 10% smaller than TLV urban area</b><b>! </b>Shame on us. Shame on the PA. Shame on Yasser Arafat who delivered good on his promise to declare a state "even if only on one (1) inch of Historic Palestine".<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian President, is merely the counterpart of any Israeli Mayor.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Historic Palestine is <i>still</i> vast and nearly empty! The Palestinian Arab refugees do have a lot of space left to move back to, their villages and towns which were ethnically cleansed can easily be repopulated <i>or</i> amalgamated into other already established Israeli municipalities in order to preserve historic sites and farmlands used for agriculture. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Palestinians are very peaceful, even today after having been subject to Israel's violence which they faced for nearly 63 years, they are still willing to live in peace with Israelis in one bi-national country and not 2 racist countries. Just check out how many Palestinians apply for/ and acquire passes to go to "Israel" on vacations and how many workers jump the wall for work and come back in peace. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Factually, we live in a single state but we are simply denied equal rights. What the PA and PLO have been doing since the peace initiative was started in the early 1990s was white-washing occupation and denying us the right to demand our equal rights! The PA <i>has</i> endorsed the idea of Bantustans when they signed <i>Oslo</i>, I will go as far as accusing them of fully knowing the consequences and knowing exactly what they were getting into unless they were complete invalids in which case (both cases actually) we should revolt against them. Hopefully sooner than the proposed state's date.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div>Sari Freitekhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01002082841175095095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1767468339264232832.post-87021892227099744402011-09-02T23:09:00.061+03:002011-09-03T18:02:03.768+03:0016th Day: Where did our revolution go wrong?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;">In a previous post, I argued that Palestine never had a revolution. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Today I was on my way back from Bethlehem to Ramallah. The radio station the driver was blasting was not a typical pop music station that appeals to young thuggish-styled drivers, nor a Quran station that the more-religious drivers force everyone to listen to. This driver has tuned into a station that played patriotic music. It is now official, the September 20th has really become a patriotic movement amongst little informed Palestinians/ the majority. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/dJbmnR2JJI8?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>One song in particular which caught my attention was the sweet <i>Wallah Lazra'ak Biddar</i> which is a love song dedicated for a Palestine that was "farmed and made green" for generations by our ancestors. The song declares "From al-Jarmaq (Mount Meron) a Safadi (a person from the ethnically cleansed town of Safad) sings 'Gaza and al-Bireh are home."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">History wouldn't have it any other way as Abu Mazen, a Safadi, has declared Gaza and al-Bireh (Where the PA headquarters are located) his only home, not Safad which he now recognizes as part of Israel. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">As I recall the PLO so-called revolution, I wonder how well-forged our history has been. Sometimes it feels as if Palestine's history has been a big conspiracy, a hoax, or merely perfect series of mistakes that go so harmoniously forever towards our demise. Where did we go wrong? Or should I ask: how good have we performed our mistakes to bring us to this state? </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">From early on in our modern history we have been committing mistakes, one after the other, as if our leadership cannot perform anything right, but instead has become a perfect sinner. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I do not like to think of our history as a hoax, but really, has this all been one big hoax? How come the PA is so perfect at riding the waves of revolution and gain all the support when they are completely against it? Why do we as Palestinians support mistakes? Why do we never question our leadership without escaping oppression? Why am I not out on the streets now demanding that not only Gaza and Ramallah, but Safad and Haifa belong to me equally, because history said so, not because the PLO decided it was not anymore. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">After two weeks, I will be called a traitor for not loving the bomb. Until then, please enjoy the very sweet <i>Wallah lazra3ak biddar. </i></div></div>Sari Freitekhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01002082841175095095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1767468339264232832.post-15227545740447657302011-09-01T15:57:00.004+03:002011-09-03T17:09:11.687+03:0017th Day: Hashtag Revolutions and the Patriotism of Rejecting Your Own "Statehood"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8cMF1BO1hhyIu0D7wEKSFAclfmhvJ19V4u7ckE9XFsNCCgRMUlIOhrpUKnsa4V0ykcpK3nTGP1MLPzqNJJ-m79q34HTg9OO1frpext54rHeKuHe85Pv6k_5lwK4QQLEhkdgBb1hjfVE_f/s1600/roads.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8cMF1BO1hhyIu0D7wEKSFAclfmhvJ19V4u7ckE9XFsNCCgRMUlIOhrpUKnsa4V0ykcpK3nTGP1MLPzqNJJ-m79q34HTg9OO1frpext54rHeKuHe85Pv6k_5lwK4QQLEhkdgBb1hjfVE_f/s400/roads.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">How patriotic would it be for a nation to overthrow their government within weeks, or even during the early years of statehood? Probably not patriotic at all. It would be recorded as an imminent failure to them and a mark that will forever stain their history of struggle and self-determination. I believe this could be a major drive behind the PA's insistence on gaining a seat in the UN as a State of Palestine after two weeks, which will suppress any opposition the PA may be facing with the wave of revolutions spreading across the Arab World. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I remember back in high-school how I eagerly read about the Battle for Algiers and about the Algerian revolution. I remember how I watched the Arabic movie "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djamila_Bouhired">Djamila Bouhired</a>" with enthusiasm. I also remember how disappointing the Algerian history unraveled later on as Algeria was becoming a closed society and how terrorism and civil strife took the lives of tens of thousands if not more Algerians who were once viewed as a beacon of hope to all revolutionary nations. Yet, Algeria could not afford a second revolution. Typically it takes ages to forget about a revolution and start a new one. It comes once in a "modern" history. You either win it or you don't. Unless a second phase in your history comes that completely and fundamentally reshapes the country and that is when people forget about their first revolution and join a second with a new generation that rejects their parents decisions/ failures.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">What I call<i> </i>the <i>Hashtag</i> revolutions (courtesy of Twitter's <a href="http://hashtags.org/">hashtags</a>) are revolutions against all the mistakes committed by previous generations. The <i>Hashtags</i> have so far been widely used during post-modern revolutions, and were successful during a number of them: #Dec18 for Tunisia, #Jan25 for Egypt #Feb17 for Libya...etc. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">On the other end, Palestinians attempted so many of them, none were successful and none seem to be serving their purpose no matter how rightful their motivation sounds and how much justice it does serve. The reason? None of these Palestinian revolutions demand true justice which should be the rejection of the PA as an entity which does not serve the Palestinian national interests. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">There is a quite revolution going on, however, which has been extremely powerful and only growing in gaining international support. It is the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel, or hashtag #BDS.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">One of the many BDS campaigns is the <a href="http://blog.endtheoccupation.org/2011/08/seattles-new-print-ad-campaign.html">Stop Funding Apartheid</a>. Most of these campaigns are run from abroad successfully. The latest campaign shows a typical Palestinian woman who probably appeals to a Westernized eye. A woman who does not look European, yet modern and looks familiar enough to gain sympathy in a society that judges people based on their resemblance to it. Her face, if it only had a smile, would be a perfect face for a University campaign billboard on any US highway. So far, the campaign has gained numerous success. "I am not allowed on Israel's segregated roads". The sentence is down to the point and is strikingly clear about it: you are not allowed <i>because </i>Israel is an Apartheid. So what do I do to help this woman, and any one who is not allowed on Israel's roads? I'd have to stop funding Apartheid. This cannot get any simpler than that. Using the term segregation does not go as far away from the American mind-set as would the word Apartheid which brings back memories of the most recent Apartheid: South Africa. Segregation, however, brings back the American Blacks history of segregation and struggle for equality. Both words were used and the history of both nations is now presented to the readers telling them that "your history is repeating itself, don't allow it to happen again to us."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It is only a campaign such as this one that will be successful. This <i>is</i> a revolution. BDS hashtag <i>is</i> Palestine's post modern revolution which needs the entire World's support for it to be successful. It <i>is</i> also the <i>only</i> successful Palestinian movement that retains both our dignity, our rights and dismisses all claims for a two-state solution without being too straight-forward about it. Soon, the move should become more obvious about demanding equality and that is when their campaign should shift to Arabic and not only English. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The only Arabic language attempt against a two state solution I've seen in Ramallah was quickly absorbed and was viciously attacked by everyone. It was in 2010 when a huge billboard that said: "Two state solution = Failure. One State, Two people = Only Hope" was attacked with red paint and markers. A comment that was left on the billboard said "How dare you forget about the martyrs blood?". I could not help but assume it was a PA supporter who wrote the sentence blindly without giving a though to what the martyrs actually would have wanted and how much the PA served their memory. Still, I believe it was too early to present the new approach to Palestinians without previously preparing them to accept such a notice and building a strong ground to support it even amongst PA enthusiasts. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The wording was horrible as well. The perfect time for a billboard like this woud have been September 13th, 2013, on the 20th anniversary of the failed <i>Oslo Accords</i> or more accurately termed <i>Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements</i>. The billboard should have only been presented after years of mobilization and exposing lies and corruption by the PA. Exposing how much<i> Oslo</i> has failed us as Palestinians. And on September 13th, a billboard in Arabic that reads "On September 13th, 1993, the PLO signed <i>Oslo</i>, 20 years later how better off are you?" or a more creative approach such as a familiar-looking Palestinian 20-year old who declares: "I was born when <i>Oslo</i> was signed. 20 years later the West Bank shrunk by 60 percent, my family became poorer, and my rights have diminished" etc.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The new generation has to be dramatically far more self-aware and far more conscious about their national politics. They should also look far more different than their own government: In 2011 Egypt, those demonstrating out on the street were waves upon waves of impovrished and "sarcastic" individuals who looked nothing like their ultra-rich and "stern-faced" government. In 1979, the Iranian revolution changed an open and Westernized society into a conservative one that simply wanted to end the old ways and corruption into a revolution they believed was their only hope; in 2009, the youth attempted a revolution that was crushed and accused of working for a foreign agenda. It'll take probably another 30 years before Young Iranians who were not shot or killed and have no memory of their parents failed revolution in 2009, to attempt to change the system.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">In Palestine, a UN bid will serve the following purposes: It will put a seal on a long Palestinian nationalist struggle for independence, thus ending the unofficial struggle with Israel. It will be almost like a CPR to elongate a seemingly short-life for the current PA. The PA will change from being the Palestinian Authority, to the Government of Palestine. A different name that serves the same purposes of protecting Israel and providing means for the Palestinian population to grow within their Israeli-imposed borders while still negotiating for an ever diminishing possibility to acquire the entire 1967 territories.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">On the morning of September 20th, me and hundreds of thousands of Palestinians will still not be allowed to drive on segregated roads that were made for Israelis by Israelis. We will still be going through checkpoints and we will still be at the mercy of teenaged soldiers who can stop us for any reason whatsoever as we drive through their check points. They will ask us for <i>Hawiya</i>-National ID. We will be too afraid to say "Sorry, this is our land and you have no right to ask us for our National ID", and if one was brave enough to do, he'll be left out as most of those other passengers inside a run-down bus between any two places in the West Bank will have a wedding to attend, a husband who waits at home, a sick mother, or food to be prepared. He will be persecuted and found guilty at Israeli Army courts. He will serve time in Israeli prison, and his name will merely make it to the data-base of the PA's <i>Ministry of Detainees' Affairs</i>, but the MOD will have no power to force Israel's occupation forces from freeing anyone. When was the last time the PA was capable of anything that was in disagreement with Israel after all? </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">So, how patriotic would it be for a Palestinian to quickly reject a Palestinian state? Probably not patriotic at all. He'll have to wait for another 30 years before it becomes less shameful to overcome your pride and have little memory of the blood that was strained in a strife for independence. The PA recognizes this, and 30 years <i>does</i> sound like a lot of money to be generated from the donor community, despite the fact that the Palestinian citizens of the state will live under the mercy of their factual occupier. </div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I have been inspecting our local media position on this and now I know it is certainly not a coincidence: From the quotes of Palestinian officials to the ultra-Right wing Israeli politicians. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Today, an article by <i>Ma'an</i> confirmed my suspicions. The article, titled <i>Steinitz says UN bid 'greater threat' than Hamas</i>, was comparable to the head-line version in the Arabic <i>Ma'an</i> (published in the early hours on September 01st) which was about settlers preparing for the upcoming "storm" with weaponry and fighting-back strategy: a woman vs. a woman, and a child vs. a child! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">In today's english version article, Israeli Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz said: "If the Palestinians made good on their plans to seek United Nations membership, Israel would 'respond,'" his claim was that "This Palestinian initiative represents a more serious threat than that posed by Hamas". </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Steinitz, the Lekud party member (Netanyahu's current party until further notice) already blocked the payment of 380 million shekels ($106 million) in tax revenues to the Palestinian Authority, in what seems like an early threat towards the move.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://maannews.net/images/345x230/135634_345x230.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" height="216" src="http://maannews.net/images/345x230/135634_345x230.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Ma'an</i> published the article with an "iconic"-like photo completely unrelated to the topic being discussed with the caption that says: "A protester waves a Palestinian flag during clashes in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh near Ramallah". Exactly how is this related to an article where I'd be more interested in seeing even the picture of the Israeli right winger? I have no clue. But the fact that an Israeli right-wing politician was mentioned, a blockade of tax revenues and the comparison to Hamas sort of calls for a demonstration to bring down the walls in a village in the West Bank. I don't know how well I've made my comparisons. Probably not well at all, because it is unrelated, pure and simple. These demonstrations if anything are completely in line with the Israeli finance minister in their rejection of the UN bid, although for completely different reasons that are completely contradictory to his racist perspective.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">A picture the Arabic headline was used of three Gypsy-like Jewish settlers carrying rocks was slightly more related to the subject of "women vs. women, a child vs. a child". The women, laughing but obviously hostile, seem to be used by the news network to alarm the Palestinian readers to the seriousness of the September 20th move. Knowing how stubborn Palestinians are: they'd want to fight off these women, and not feel threatened by them. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://maannews.net/images/345x230/57951_345x230.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" height="242" src="http://maannews.net/images/345x230/57951_345x230.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The article did not fail to mention that the settlers already have nearly half a million pieces of weaponry and an "incalculable" number of ammunition which will be pointed towards the unarmed peaceful Palestinians protesters who will be marching upon these settlements. As the news network seem to want to believe will be the result of the UN bid.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The article discusses the fighting-back plan which was sketched by ultra-right wing Jewish parties who seem to share one thing with our local media: overplaying the possible threats of the other. The right-wing settlers clearly do not want to wake up one morning to a Palestinian state that might have a potential to host them (although so far the entire world recognizes that these settlements are located inside occupied territories yet they still live and prosper there and the world isn't doing much about it). The Palestinian media on the other end seems to want this kind of local attention and mobilization I'd go as far as accusing the local media of wanting a third Intifada (assuming we actually had two previous innocent society-driven Intifadas, and not merely a pre-made recipe for further concessions.)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Both articles showed two major failures to be recorded for both the media itself and the already too strong but unsustainable Israel's right wing. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I don't want to be associated with this deceptive self-interest current. Nor do I want to be the victim of fraud. </div></div>Sari Freitekhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01002082841175095095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1767468339264232832.post-24662368217531931362011-08-30T11:56:00.000+03:002011-09-01T01:25:03.515+03:0019th Day: Decadence Served on a Plate<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Apart from the <i>Eid al-Fitr </i>today, which was stained by a bleeding Syria, a shameless Bashar al-Assad's appearance at a Mosque for his <i>Eid</i> prayer (apparently, not something he's used to, and Syria's television made a point <i>not</i> to show him bowing his head in prayer, <i>that </i>I am certain did not just come guilelessly) as seven more Syrians were murdered by his thugs; aside from Iran and Shia muslims deciding to delay <i>Eid</i> one more day (in what seemed like a religious response to Sunni muslim's political/ immoral position on Bahrain's assassinated revolution), and a Libya that will be celebrating <i>Eid</i> after everyone goes home and this time not because Gaddafi said so; Also, apart from Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) training an already-too-well-armed Jewish settlers population how to use weapons to face any possible scenarios (i.e. shooting Palestinian demonstrators in case things got bad after September 20th), and apart from <i>Ma'an </i>news agency publishing the opinions of specialists in the field out of which three (3) were pro-UN-Bid vs. only 1 who was anti-UN-Bid, and the Arabic version of <i>Ma'an</i> publishing it's headlines with a shameful title: "Gazans Demand: Don't teach us how to become fishermen, give us salted fish and <i>Ka'ak</i>". Aside from all of that, all was well and dandy.</div>
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PS: <i>If</i> things got bad, it'll happen at a time when I'm probably not going to be in Palestine. I will look into making a decent escape plan for my parents. I do, feel slightly uneasy, but I am certain things will remain OK.</div>
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Sari Freitekhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01002082841175095095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1767468339264232832.post-86128794375038013642011-08-29T08:18:00.000+03:002011-09-01T01:24:32.223+03:0020th Day: On this Eid the PA wishes you a very merry "Statehood"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This morning I received an email from the General Manager at my work wishing everyone a very happy Eid and a prosperous year, short prayer, then all of the above would happen only if the dream of having a free Palestinian State was achieved, with Jerusalem as it's capital, and Mr. <i>Mahmoud Abbas</i> it's president, or so the content and wording of the email suggested.</div>
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Of course I had to respond back politely. I intentionally repeated his prayer, but not the last sentence. At heart, I agree that all would happen <i>only</i> if Palestine was free. But I could not afford to be cynical, after all [and not trying to reveal the nature of my quasi-governmental job] I still need my job despite the fact that I work with people who try to make life under occupation more livable. </div>
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My job, which is highly regarded, is also supposed to be one of the most patriotic institutes there are in Palestine. We work with towns and villages across Palestine under a <i>Fayyadist</i> vision of prosperity and good governance, not to fail to mention Foreign Aid. All I could pray for is for stupid to be less stupider with this Eid. </div>
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This Eid, the PA wishes you a very merry "Statehood" without which none of your aspirations will come true, especially if Mahmous Abbas was not the president.<br />
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Today marks the death of notorious Palestinian cartoonist, Naji al-Ali, whose depiction of a poor undernourished Palestinian refugee kid had become a symbol to all Palestinians. He succumbed to death following an assassination attempt 5 weeks before his death in 1987. The question remains: with less than 20 days left before statehood, aren't we supposed to clean our house before? Isn't the least we could do is expose all of our hidden secrets? Isn't it time to finally come forth with truth about <b>who killed Naji al-Ali?</b> My twitter page saw some heated arguments regarding this issue, which sprung from my conviction that his killer was one of his own. I quoted Dr. Hisham Sharabi who said "History has shown that when liberation movements stifle liberty they become incapable of carrying out the task of liberation" whom I quoted from <i><a href="http://www.najialali.com/articles_06.html">this</a></i> article.</div>
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I also checked the current moon, it seems like Eid al-Fitr will be tomorrow. Check out for the current moon <i><a href="http://www.moonconnection.com/current_moon_phase.phtml#rt2mcmf_1314663380">here</a></i>.</div>
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Sari Freitekhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01002082841175095095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1767468339264232832.post-86245702027111042082011-08-28T13:45:00.000+03:002011-09-01T01:24:07.530+03:0021st Day: Are you on the List?!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Today <i>Ma'an News Agency</i> published "The List". It's now sexy to be on the list.</div>
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Had it not been done before numerous times, I'd probably have just imitated the commercial line in hopes of attracting more states into recognizing Palestine as the UN's 194th state.</div>
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In a very [imaginary] successful PR campaign, <i>Salam Fayyad</i> (whose been given the nickname of "Scissor-fingers" by Journalist <i>[friend of mine]</i> for his super flowless ability to cut ribbons of practically anything that requires the presence of the PA to anything that requires "cutting ribbons", even imaginary ribbons such as launching Websites and blogs...etc.) would go around the World's nations that recognize the Palestinian Authority's right to a statehood distributing a card with a secret code: <b>194</b>.</div>
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UN headquarters in NYC will be filmed from all different angles, at night, during the day, and music "Not on the Guest List" by <i>(Daft Punk) Marcos dos Santos</i> would play in the background on that day. UN officials will be attempting to recognize a Palestinian statehood on September 20th, some of them even try to jump off the walls at the UN headquarters <i>JUST</i> to be on the Guest List.</div>
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The Palestinian-run national satelite television has been running a different ad to appeal to Palestinians though. The ad starts with a puzzle that shows the UN flag, with one puzzle missing numbered [GASP!] <i>the</i> number <b>194</b>. The future Palestinian State. The music playing in the background is "Mawtini" (<i>My Homeland)</i> (Please see yesterday's post to hear the song) which is Palestine's <i>original</i> national Anthem which was replaced by Fatah's Fida'i (<i>My Struggle* </i>or <i>A [Guerella] Fighter/ Revolutionary**) </i>in a classic case of admitting that the current official anthem rings no bells with Palestinians.</div>
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On November 15th in 1988, Yasser Arafat had declared a Palestinian State. The UN General assembly resolution to acknowledge the declaration for independence was passed. Furthermore, a decision to replace the PLO with "Palestine" in the United Nations System was suggested. "One hundred and four states voted for this resolution, forty-four abstained, and two – the United States and Israel – voted against. By mid-December, 75 states had recognized Palestine, rising to 89 states by February 1989." On September 20th of 2011 same thing happened, and the PLO, some 20+ years later proved that the World hasn't changed much <i>or</i> that history <i>does</i> repeat itself.<br />
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On a serious note. <i>Mahmoud Abbas, </i>Palestinian president and bad-ass, miraculously came up with an exact count of those who recognize the state of Palestine in what seemed like a "In yo' FACE!" move. Abbas had undoubtedly provided and accurate estimate of the number of human beings who recognize the state of Palestine <i>if</i> one could not imagine what a startling number three-quarters (3/4) of the World is. "Their total population is over 5.2 billion people, equaling 75 percent of the world's people." <i>Ma'an, </i>or <i>Abbas</i> guessed, not taking into consideration the fact that population numbers in this matter play absolutely no weight on government decisions.<br />
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I was trying to be slightly creative today.</div>
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I thought, what if I had the choice to change the Palestinian national flag, anthem, and choose an animal or a bird to represent us?</div>
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1- It was hard for me to escape the general design and color scheme of a typical Palestinian Flag. (Three Stripes, a Triangle, and the colors Red, Black, White and Green.)</div>
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3-These birds were: the Mourning Weatear (Oenanthe lugens) whose name and color could not be anymore appropriate and symbolic to our history; and the Black-crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) whose Arabic name is: <i>Malik al-Lail al-Hazin </i>or Wistful Night's King.</div>
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4- Flag #4, turned out to be the <i>Hukumat 'umum Filastin</i> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-Palestine_Government">All-Palestine Government Flag</a>, a quasi-government that served under the Egyptian military rule of Gaza Strip following the defeat of the Arabs in 1948 war. The flag won't be adopted by me at any time.</div>
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I am not spreading a myth of any sort, and I am <i>not</i> trying to swim against the current for publicity. (I have absolutely no disciples, and I am not even using my real name). But Palestine <i>really</i> never had an uprising that took the shape of a real revolution.</div>
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The last time Palestinians went out in masses was in 1936 during what came to be known as the <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936-1939_Arab_revolt_in_Palestine">Great Arab Revolt</a>. </i>The revolution was one of three major revolutions that took place under the British Mandate of Palestine, The Arabs of Palestine had revolted in 1920, 1929 and in 1936. The Great Arab revolution is said to have initiated the concept of an independent Palestinian identity. This claim, if true, already dismisses the first two "revolution"- mostly riots that claimed the lives of numerous Arabs as well as local Jews (In 1929, an ancient Jewish community in Hebron was eradicated by ignorants who were never educated about the difference between colonialist Zionists, and their fellow Arabs of Jewish heritage.)</div>
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The Great Arab revolution started as diplomatic civil disobedience by an Arab elite committee which consisted mainly of affluent, westernized and privileged Arabs who pursued their demands through civil strikes and "other forms of political protest". According to sources of Wikipedia by "October 1936 this phase had been defeated by the British civil administration using a combination of political concessions, international diplomacy [...] and the threat of martial law."</div>
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From that date on, regular Palestinian peasants fully backed by the elites and urban residents carried on a violent resistance movement that targeted British forces and others accused of efforts to swamp in more European Jews who the peasants were convinced were clearly intending to take over their lands. But the revolution was crushed. It is a major disappointment to history to see a nation so eager for independence and self-determination lose ten percent of its male population to either death, injuries or exile due to a brutal British crack down on their most organized form of civil disobedience... and local Arab greed.</div>
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<b>If Palestine was to have it's freedom, it was supposed to have happened in 1936, or 1937 at most. </b></div>
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In 2011, Egyptians stormed down-towns in defiance of their brutal regime. Within 18 day they toppled their government and are now slowly but surely replacing an outdated and completely rejected government with one that meets their aspirations.</div>
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In 1936-1939, Arabs of Palestine led their one and only real revolution which was succumbed with brutality and greed. On Wikipedia, a picture of Palestinian Arab nationalist intellectual Khalil al-Sakakini has a caption which claims that he "called the revolt a 'life-and-death struggle.'" If we assumed he was right, then that revolution may be the reason why until this day we have not gained any of our nationalistic aspirations.</div>
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In 2011, Egyptian revolutionaries were scared. As the riot police and the scariest of them all "Amn ad-Dawla"-<i> </i>the<i> State Security Investigations Service</i> were brutally facing the revolution at Tahrir Square and everywhere across Egypt, the young revolutionaries were making it very clear: there was no way for them to back off. It was either life or death. That was not a motto. Egyptians knew that if they backed off they will be tracked down, tortured and even killed. They knew that it would cause the revolution to fade-away and they won't know when it will be rekindled again. They knew their government will do all it could for at least the next half a century to stop any form of civil disobedience and will only grow into a more brutal regime. The choice was simple: You either die as a martyr inside of Tahrir Square and hope that those who remain get a better future, or you die somewhere underground, tortured and deprived of humanity, while others <i>still</i> live under the same violent system you tried to overcome.</div>
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The Arab revolution of 1936 had only one <i>minuscule</i> success: It is attributed to the birth of a Palestinian identity, one that was unique to those who were part of the revolution, and all of us who came afterwards.</div>
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But the revolution failed. Thus, the majority of its demands faded as soon as it was gone, and those who won got everything instead.</div>
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Go further in history to 1965. The birth of the PLO which was called a revolution. Excuse my language but if everytime its a revolution when a woman gives birth to a baby, we'll all be Che Guevaras without the cigars. The 1965 birth of the self proclaimed representative of the Palestinian people was merely an attempt to evolve the nationalist identity of Palestinians, using guns, high-jacking of airplanes, as well as other forms of terrorist activities. The PLO also embarked on an endless diplomatic cycle to further elaborate on its political aspirations.</div>
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Recognized by most Arab countries as the sole representative of the Palestinians, the PLO seesawed its nationalist aspirations according to place and time. Soon after its establishment and out of fear of being ousted by the Jordanian King they proclaimed <i>very revolutionarily </i>that they had no intention of taking over the West Bank, claiming that the West Bank was an integral part of the Jordanian Kingdom, its citizens fully nationalized Jordanians, and that their hopes were merely to take over the lands taken under the Zionist entity!</div>
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The revolutionary thought of the PLO did not stop there: In 1970 they attempted a coup against the king of Jordan who exiled all of them to Lebanon. Sometimes I wonder why he did not kill them all? It just looks like a well-organized plan to force Palestinians to lose their longest frontier with their enemy (Jordan has the longest borders with Israel) while keeping an establishing grass-root for a typical Arab dictatorship in a healthy ground to further sprout.</div>
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For the next 20 years, the PLO played an endless depletion war that absolutely contributed nothing to the liberation of Palestine for the years following their exile. Becoming a major part of the Lebanese civil war and fighting endlessly the wrong enemy.</div>
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Soon they were exiled. </div>
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Sooner, Palestinians began their 1987 uprising in the West Bank and Gaza. The uprising was far from a revolution. Despite having the PLO as its primary leadership, the uprising consisted mainly of stikes, boycott actions and peaceful civil disobedience and sit-ins. The uprising was faced by heavy Israeli response against the infamous Palestinian child carrying a rock in one hand and a peace-sign in the other.</div>
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The uprising, known as the <i>First Intifada,</i> had no clear message to the occupier. "End the Occupation" was the vague motto which should not have been our message at that time in history specifically. It only makes me suspect that the PLO had to throw-together a "revolution" quickly before Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza started demanding equal-rights from the Israelis. Palestinians did not just suddenly evolved from demanding their entire historic homeland (which includes Israel) to suddenly demanding that Israel leaves their West Bank and Gaza. </div>
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Why should they? In reality, the PLO was the secret hand behind the Palestinian uprising. It's already established agenda for a two-state solution which were first laid out in the early 1970s by Yasser Arafat, had to finally see the light.</div>
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Palestinians were being mocked and tricked into making dangerous demands to "end the occupation", meaning that Israel moves back to it's territories then everyone lives happily ever after.</div>
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The PLO, by the time of the 1st intifada, had not given up it's demand to act upon its name: the Palestine Liberation Organization, was making its first concessions, but with Palestinian blood that they did not see with their own eyes.</div>
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Fast forward to <i>post-Oslo</i> agreement. The PLO, now represented by Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority, attempted its second uprising: al-Aqsa uprising in 1996, which was a reactionary response to Israel violating the sanctity of the al-Aqsa mosque and threatening its foundations. The aprising claimed tens of lives of Palestinians but was crushed quicker than it started.</div>
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Then came Camp David. Arafat was presented with the most Israel could offer. After all, Israel thought the Palestinians were on the defeated side. Israel was the winner and was the one to make the calls.</div>
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Arafat refused becasue accepting meant Palestinians could revolt against the PLO. So it was better to delay the process, start a new uprising which demands are still as vague as ever, and waste five more years until he was gone.</div>
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In 2011 alone, Palestinian attempted and still will be attempting few "revolutions".</div>
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The first was probably the most ridiculous of all. It was a twitter and facebook advocated-for-revolution to: End the Palestinian division between Hamas and Fatah. Meaning if it got violent I'd be killed to have Hamas and Fatah officials make out and stay on their high-seats. The "revolution" also demanded new elections for the PLO's Palestinian National Council (PNC), a cowardly undercover attempt to erase the PLO's ancient status quo without appearing too direct when addressing the issue.</div>
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This so-called revolution was mostly a media-run battle that Palestinians were not part of. The few numbered Palestinians, mostly honest individuals who wanted to brainlessly participate, were about the only ones to ever be part of this "revolution". People on the streets walked past the "revolution" and never realized anything was going on.</div>
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Soonest than I thought, I met Moeen Koa, a Palestinian who worked at the Palestinian president's media desk. Koa was the least-brightest person I've met in a very long time, and with a Bachelor's and Master's degrees from some of the UK's and the US' top universities, it was shocking to see how little his knowledge in English extended.</div>
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Koa was the secret force behind the <i>kidnapped</i>-End the Division Facebook page, one that attracted thousands of online supporters. Later on, I secretly obtained a copy of a draft letter which he had requested its translation from a foreign source.</div>
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The document was adressed to the "<i>Dear Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton"</i> </div>
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<i>Since we are committed to the two-state solution we look forward to restarting direct negotiations concerning the final status immediately. We are fully prepared for the prospect of amending state-borders and swapping lands as required for the interest of the future Palestinian state. We are prepared to negotiating a just solution to the issue of the Palestinian refugees and the affirmation that East Jerusalem will become the capital of the Palestinian state.</i></div>
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<i>We are committed to, and the protection of, human rights and we abide by the rule of law. Procedures Items: 1- This is a youth-driven trend that has been influenced by transformations taking place across the Arab World and utilizes the same peaceful means. We are ready to jump aboard and get out on the streets to implement peaceful demonstrations and other peaceful activities. 2- We will be working on true influence in decision-making in government institutions and regulatory frameworks. a. Item has to do with Palestinian Authority and its associated institutions</i></div>
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After having read the letter, it was nearly impossible for me to ever trust #Mar26 movement. Plus that was the date of birth to my crazy ex, whom I don't trust either.</div>
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On June 5th, another revolution was planned. It was supposed to commemorate the <i>Naksa</i> or the defeat of the 1967 war. The revolution was supposed to bring Palestinians out of their coma. Alas, it failed as most Palestinians were busy with the daily routine which they have grown too used to since Fayyad decided to build an economy based on foreign aid which employs 80 percent of the working force and produces nothing in return.</div>
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The latest in these revolutions is the Olive Revolt. Using an olive tree symbol and a shade of pink both of which resemble those used at the Bank of Palestine, the Olive Revolt surely caught my attention. Reading about this revolt I realized how uneducated and what a pseudo-intellect I must be, as I simply did not get it. This time again.</div>
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Why was Egypt's revolution so successful? Why are ours so... not.</div>
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This brings us to the moral of the story which is quite simple: In Egypt, it was citizens who ran the revolution, despite being those who had access to internet, or those who did not. The motto everyone repeated and understood perfectly was "ash-Sha'b Yureed Isqat Annizam", or <i>the people demand toppling the system.</i></div>
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<b>And<i> that</i> they got, in 18 days. </b><b>Exactly what we failed to gain in nearly 100 years of struggle, 70 out of which were nationalistic armed and/or diplomatic resistance.</b></div>
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We simply never had a "demand". It was always vague, or at least problematic. If we demanded ending the occupation, we are automatically recognizing the existence of Israel. If we denied Israel's existence, we embark on acts of resistance and terror. We simply never played it right.</div>
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At least two other "Revolutions" are coming our way in September. I do not place much hopes on them. One is being planned on-line with Arabs living outside of Palestine, the second will be Sulta's attempt to further-delay the real revolution from happening. Much like they did in 1987 and in 2000.</div>
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I do, however, think what we need <i>is</i> a revolution.</div>
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<b>Since Palestine gave birth to its Palestinian Arab identity, it failed to produce a real revolution.</b></div>
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What we need now is a real revolution that comes with all the bells and whistles: a new flag, a new anthem, a real simple motto, but most importantly: people who are convinced their lives will not be wasted if they're gone. Real revolutionaries who do not aspire to aid the governing body, and a call that can never be challenged at the international level. Not as vague as previous ones but perhaps as clear as "one man, one vote, Justice an Equality for all", for instance.</div>
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There is a saying that Palestinians started using, even those most enthusiastic about the PA, that has become a big open <i>secret</i>: "What the Arabs dispose, we use". It does not sound as lowly in Arabic as it does in English. The saying is <i>not</i> a proverb, but it certainly rhymes in Arabic as it does in English. The saying refers to the entire legal, political and even cultural aspects of the Palestinian Authority. It mostly resembles the English proverb: " One man's trash is another man's treasure".</div>
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Long before the Arabs started revolting against their own governments, and way before anyone realized that the archaic regimes of the Middle East have rotten so badly that new trees were ready to replace them, Palestinians, including the most enthusiastic supporters, were already mocking everything about the PA.</div>
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From an incompetent legal system, to the hoards of useless police officers smoking and chitchatting on the sideroads as cities were in chaos, and even from the time we lost track of the number of security forces that aided one PA subsidiary or even individual. The first name I recall people using to refer to the PA was "Salata", meaning <i>Salad</i>, which sounds closest to the word "Sulta" meaning <i>Authority</i>. In reference to its chaotic and disorganized nature.</div>
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Coming of age when the Sulta were trying to establish their roles as the sole authority in the land (despite being under occupation) I could see the disappointment everyone was suddenly experiencing towards the same people they welcomed with flowers and rice sprinkles in 1994 following the endorsement of the <i>Oslo Accords.</i> </div>
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The <i>Returnees</i> or "al-Ayedoun" mostly disappointed the Palestinians with their inflated egos and their sudden wealth which was unrightfully and corruptly distributed between each other. One of the confirmed stories that happened at the time was never documented and this may be the first time to be revealed in writing. It happened with Yasser Abed Rabbo, PA official who held several posts following his return to Palestine which was permitted by Israel and who currently serves as an adviser to the head of the PA. The story goes that a Palestinian who has endured much hardships during the first <i>Intifada</i>, and has lost most of his wealth to closures and the shattered economy has had heard enough stories about financial corruption practiced by the PA officials and semi-officials at the time, and has had heard enough repulsive roistering stories about sex, drugs and alcohol in Beirut and Tunisia by his childhood friends who had joined the PLO and were driven out to Tunisia after Israel's invasion of Beirut in 1982 but have returned home following Oslo. </div>
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The narrator of the story, in an effort to assist his friends in trying to gain the acceptance of the local society, told them that Palestine lacks infrastructure, has no hospitals and was segmented due to the lack of paved roads, he urged them to show their decency by beginning to work for the people, and not appear as crises-beneficiaries and war profiteers. </div>
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Ashamed of boastfully recalling their stories and their satisfaction with their current financial corruption, they promised to speak to Yasser Abed Rabbo, who was a prominent cabinet member under Arafat. Few days later one of those friends came back with an answer: "<i>inti 7mara?!</i>" was Abed Rabbo's answer, which literary translates as "Are you a moron (female)?!" Yasser Abed Rabbo continued to serve many posts under Arafat, he is considered to be one of the godfathers of the Geneva Accords which agreed to allowing Israel to determine the number of Palestinian refugees allowed back, and the location to where they will be allowed back into. The priority was given to Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, who were suffering the most. The location was close to Israel's major landfill in the Negev Desert in what seemed like a surrealistic depiction of Palestinians being dumped into the ash heap of history.</div>
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Abed Rabbo, also responsible for the rise and fall of the satirical TV show <i>Watan ala Watar</i> in 2011<i> </i>which criticized the PA, the PLO, Hamas, social and cultural aspects of Palestine but was shut down after it remotely touched on the <i>sanctity</i> of Arafat in one of it's episodes, also appeared in one of the infamous propaganda videos as one of the perpetrators of the Geneva Accords, videos accessible <i><a href="http://www.geneva-accord.org/mainmenu/-i-am-your-partner-are-you-my-partner">if you click here</a>.</i></div>
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<i></i>The videos, part of the PA's PR/ reach out campaign to improve the PA's image infront of the Israeli society was mocked by a poster which was heavily distributed amongst the youth in Palestine, and was heavily cracked down on its distributers. The poster showed the men appearing in the videos above with their pants down proclaiming "<i>I am your partner, are you my partner?</i>" Some of those accused of posting it on their Facebook accounts were called in for questioning at the offices of the <i>Palestinian Intelligence Services</i>, whose name "al-Muxabarat" now brings shivers to the spines of Palestinians who no longer feel capable of freely speaking under a growing oppressive regime that <i>still</i> does not have an official state. The <i>Services</i> are now an all-time favorite hosting compound to anyone who dares criticizes the PA, its policies, agreements, or even individual official.</div>
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Today, I met a veteran who worked at the Palestinian-Israel Coordination and Liaison who recalled a story that happened to him during the 1990s. His role at the time as a coordinator according to him was to "limit or deny Palestinians on this street or that road" he claimed that the Liaison was integral for the security of Israel and the Palestinians and he has done his role perfectly. The veteran with a strange combination of a very healthy body, decent sense of fashion, and an extremely old face, recalled one time when a young Israeli official at that Liaison office insulted the Palestinian officers by making his orders disrespectfully then walking out in an uncivil way. The narrator of the story goes on to say that he stopped the Israeli officer, humiliated him but in a well-mannered fashion telling him that his young age and lack of "experience and proper home education" has clearly demonstrated themselves in these short moments since he made his entrance. The Palestinian officers then left angry and insulted.</div>
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The next day the narrator was called into the office of Yasser Arafat in al-Muqataa headquarters. People were already making speculations that Arafat was going to shoot him in the head (lack of law and security, anyone?). Arafat, however, was very proud of the narrator for making that stand to the Israeli officer. "What I did was the least my patriotism calls for" the officer declared. Arafat gave him one of his infamous kisses, then passed a small envelope that carried five thousand US Dollars. The narrator, proud of Arafat's move yet proud<i>er</i> of his own response, turned down the "gift" saying "It is not my position to refuse for I shall not turn down a <i>king</i>'s gift, but I am a patriot and my patriotism has no price". End of story.</div>
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Did I hear him say a "king's gift?" I almost laughed at this patriot's lack of knowledge about basics of democratic elections and, oh, corruption. As I was least-shockingly listening to the story, I recalled a TV report that appeared a month after Tunisia ousted it's former president, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. The report was showing one of his palaces filled with cash that was directly sent to him from the central bank of Tunisia. Millions, maybe billions, the report estimated. The money was everywhere, inside drawers, desks, pantries, even cup-boards! The report then filmed thousands, if not tens of thousands of envelopes, some of which already had names of people written on them, and most were almost on their way as "bribes" and "illegal benefits" according to the report.<br />
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Today, an article titled "<a href="http://maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=415804">UN statehood bid 'threatens Palestinian rights</a>'" appeared in <i>Ma'an News Agency</i>, the popular Palestinian news outlet which literary means <i>Together</i>.</div>
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In theory, the subject of a Palestinian right to self-determination is unquestionable. In my opinion, anyone who questions the "readiness" of Palestinians to have their own state from the perspective of available state-run institutes and work-force is questioning whether Palestinians have had enough humiliation for the past 63 years or the same as asking if Palestinians are human enough to be at the same mental and cognitive level as other humans to be capable of running a state.</div>
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Palestinians have been subject to all kinds of atrocities, oppression and violation of their human rights way before the creation of the Zionist state of Israel and still are to this day. During the British mandate, local indigenous Palestinian Arabs were treated as second-class citizens compared to newly arrived European Jews escaping the persecution of the Nazis and the Holocaust in Europe. In reality, the mal-treatment of Arabs only increased after the rise of <i>Third Reich</i>, but the truth is that Palestinian Arabs were always viewed in light of their skin color and their un-European cultural background as less human from the a preconceived perspective of a racist colonialist. The Jews, on the other hand, have already guaranteed their goal to establish a modern <i>European</i> state and were simply being rewarded with an established country.</div>
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Palestine was a country of only less than one million Palestinian Arabs who were distributed across nearly a thousand towns and villages. In a sense the landscape would appear to be vast and empty (only 28 thousand square Kilometers). This fact was altered into the Zionist agenda which marketed for Palestine as a land without people. The truth is, Palestine was not any emptier than any other Mediterranean region or most modern countries, and with at least a dozen major cities and centers, it was certainly an established region with civil centers as well as vast farmlands.</div>
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On the other hand, Palestine had its share of institutes and not only empty buildings. Palestinian institutions and orders have always been implemented in a way or another and most were set by rules and endorsed agreements. These institutes changed with time but they have always existed. Palestinian civil institutes have already been established through local units such as <i>Maxtara (Mayorship) </i> or Islamic rules, yet under the Ottoman rule, Palestinian leadership fell under the rules and legal system of the Ottoman empire and was directly serving its interest. Palestine, like all other countries and region which were part of the Ottoman empire, had few attempts to self-determination some of which succeeded even if only for a short period.</div>
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Palestine, when lost to Zionist colonialism, offered its already established cities, theaters, houses, and public buildings to the new colonialists, but not the local indigenous population who were forced out of their lands whether at gun-points or out of fear for their lives. Some of the Palestinian rules and regulation which were adopted during the British mandate still apply to the Israeli legal system nowadays.</div>
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Today's Palestinian leadership, however, was not the natural result of an established civil order. It was the result of an agreement which was secretly endorsed by the head of the PLO at the time: Yasser Arafat.</div>
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The way <i>Oslo</i> produced a Palestinian government is very questionable or at least problematic: for how would a hand-full of unelected officials at a self-declared sole representative of the Palestinians determine the fate for millions of Palestinians scattered across the globe with an admitted agenda for concessions? Oslo produced a new concept for a two-state solution which meant Palestinians not only give up their aspiration for a unified landscape for their historic homeland, but also meant that many Palestinians <i>will</i> be excluded from the political equation.</div>
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<i>Ma'an</i>'s article was the first attempt of its kind I have seen at a PA-loving media source to shed the light on the Palestinian statehood from a perspective other than the official fiery speeches about self-determination and putting an end to the suffering of the Palestinians, plus the question about the right to have a state. The news excerpt quoted a high authority on the international legal system, Guy Goodwin-Gill, who is a professor of international law at Oxford University. Offered in seven pages, the legal advise warns about the possible exclusion of most Palestinians had Palestine been admitted as a legal entity other than the PLO, which is the only body which is accepted universally to represent the Palestinians anywhere they're found.</div>
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The advise argued that losing the status of the PLO as the representative of the Palestinians means that "there will no longer be an institution that can represent the inalienable rights of the entire Palestinian people in the UN and related international institutions". Losing the status of the PLO means that the 65 percent of Palestinians, mostly refugees, will lose their sole representative. Having their authority and Israel mutually recognize each other's states means that the Palestinian refugees might lose their 63-year old plea, and may only have the choice to move into the West Bank or Gaza, if allowed by the future State of Palestine.</div>
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The legal advise also questioned the role the PA will play after <i>dissolving</i> of the PLO in favor of a recognized state at the UN, a state which is effectively still under occupation. The advise noted that the PA "has limited legislative and executive competence, limited territorial jurisdiction, and limited personal jurisdiction over Palestinians not present in the areas for which it has been accorded responsibility [the PA] is a subsidiary body, competent only to exercise those powers conferred on it by the Palestinian National Council. By definition, it does not have the capacity to assume greater powers."</div>
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The legal advise however fails to point out that the PA intentionally excluded the representation of many Palestinians to their countries of citizenship, including those Palestinians who held the Israeli citizenship. In reality, many of those Palestinians, whether fully nationalized Israelis, Jordanians, Egyptians, Europeans, Americans, or any other nationality who felt sentimental about Palestine, or who wish to one day move to their ancestral homeland despite enjoying <i>full</i> rights of their new citizenship, will not be allowed to do so.</div>
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Palestinians today account for nearly 11 million people scattered across the globe and in every country on earth. The PA has <i>practically</i> a legal authority over nearly 2.5 million Palestinians in the West Bank, and 1.5 million in the Gaza Strip (depending on how you think of the current agreement to end the division between Hamas in Gaza and Fatah in the West Bank). These account for less than 31 percent of the entire Palestinian population world-wide. I am not sure if the legal advise took that into consideration.</div>
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The Palestinian Authority in its desperate battle to build it's civil institutes in the West Bank, coordinate with the IDF on security issues, and cosmopolitanize Ramallah to make its future capital have practically left all Palestinians outside of the West Bank un-represented, including the residents of Gaza who were left to look for themselves through digging tunnels in the sandy rocks of Gaza.</div>
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If the future Palestinian state was to be declared and recognized, Palestinians should have an exclusive right to a dual citizenship immediately, and if their country of residence happened to insist on not allowing a dual citizenship they should be given an immediate right to hold a semi-governmental document that allows them to live, work and vote in Palestine. After 63 of unusual events and bizarre responses to these events including UN resolutions and whathaveyou, it may be only be apprehensible to allow for exceptional new measures.</div>
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As Palestinians, we should start demanding equal rights for our fellow Palestinians anywhere they are. Excluding Palestinians for simply <i>not</i> residing in the right locality has been an Israeli tactic to push Palestinians out of Palestine. Let us not allow our government to mimic these tactics.</div>
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Sari Freitekhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01002082841175095095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1767468339264232832.post-60578054745616976422011-08-23T03:07:00.000+03:002011-09-01T01:21:00.067+03:0026th Day: Grey Deserts<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Shots were heard on live television as Mohammad was talking to Aljazeera, "In my house!" he answered the TV anchor who asked where was the shooting noises coming from. "In my house!" he repeated at least five or six times sounding very nervous. The call was cut short. Shortly the news were out: He was said to have escaped his home arrest with Gadhafi forces.<br />
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I felt a slight sympathy to him, perhaps as he was making his last prayers, "lā ʾilāha ʾillallāh, Muḥammad rasūlu-llāh" (There is no god but God, and Muhammad is the messenger of God). But I could not feel any sort of remorse to the man who owns the Libyan <i>General Posts and Telecommunications Company</i>, the company responsible for blacking out Libya for months, cutting phone calls and internet to suppressing the truth away from any possible international support of the Libyan revolution and not allow the free flow of information from Libya to reach past Bab al-Azizia.<br />
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Saif al-Eslam was a whole different deal. If he was my neighbor, we'd be on eternal bad terms. I never quite felt gloat over anyone more so than I did on the day the obnoxious, spoiled-brat was said to have been arrested. The invalid jerk who sounded equally delusional as his father made all sorts of insulting comments about the revolution and was equally responsible for heinous war-crimes committed against the Libyan people. His appearance showed the same repugnant arrogant kid challenging the revolution, as if the Capital he was speaking from has not arose against his family's tyranny. When asked about his alleged ICC trial his answer was "TOZ!" an Arabic slang losely translates as "To Hell with!"<br />
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Their was a shared sense of betrayal. As I followed the tweets, some where already losing faith in the Libyan NTC and ICC.<br />
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I felt enraged, and my heart was slightly being eaten out as Saif al-Eslam was confidently and provocatively walking among the reporters claiming NTC was lying. Guessing how both sons of Gadhafi were captured then freed I allowed myself to believe the Libyan pre-revolution rumors about Gadhafi working directly with the devil! It took the rebels another 20 hours to capture Bab al-Azizia, Gadhafi's last remaining stronghold in Tripoli. Footage showed the rebels climbing the statue of the Airplane and Iron-fist (picture in yesterday's post) located inside the compound in an effort to bring it down. So, knowing that the Gadhafi family were wandering around aimlessly was enough revenge for me for today's little disappointment. <i>(Following the tweets of CNN journalist Matthew Chance, it seems like the Rixos Hotel in Tripoli where Saif al-Eslam appeared was still under the Gadhafi forces.)</i><br />
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As Libya was nearing it's inevitable route to freedom, the Syrian dictatorship was still living in its imaginary world. Up until today, the Syrian media were in full denial about Tripoli's capture by the revolutionaries. The state-run media focused on the footage of a free Saif al-Eslam [I am assuming] in an effort to prove to their Syrian audience that Western Media and the much despised-by-Arab-dictatorships Aljazeera and even Alarabya Satellite televisions were spreading lies, in an effort by the government to further harness the public outrage over the numerous atrocities that were being committed against the Syrian people.<br />
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Around 3:00 AM this morning Aljazeera showed a mobile-phone clip of an army officer, said to have split away from the army, being tortured by his former superiors who were forcing him to "swear" by Bashar and Maher al-Assad in blasphemy. The words he was being forced to utter in "worship of" Bashar and Maher will certainly have an equal response as that of the footage of mosque towers in Lattakia and Hama being bombed by the Syrian army. These footage are spreading outrage and convincing more Syrians to fight their government which they now see as not only anti-human, but also as <i>Kuffar</i> or blasphemous.<br />
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Today started with a disappointment but ended with utter content. Libya has now sealed the coffin on over four decades of brutal dictatorship and will start building itself from scratch. A good post on twitter to describe the situation came from a jubilant @<a href="http://twitter.com/#!/Jonny_Hallam">Jonny_Hallam</a> who wrote: "A front line Dr in <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23Benghazi">#Benghazi</a> just told me: 'we've done the easypart, now here comes the hard part... starting a country from Zero.'"<br />
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Today witnessed a new heart-break which I will not go into it's details as it requires further brainstorming. It was the Turkish attack on the Kurds in Northern Iraq. The act could not have come at a worst timing costing the lives of at least 100 Kurds (armed or otherwise), and only days after Turkey's official criticism of Israel's attack on Gaza. This assault will most likely expose the double standards of the Turkish government to the Palestinians as it will strengthen Israel's public position equating Israeli actions to those of Turkey, and the Gazans to the Kurdish population when it responds to Turkey's allegations. Palestinians so far look highly up to the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan; however, finding common ground between Turkey and Israel will most likely jeopardize Turkey's position and the trust it has gained so far in the region.<br />
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Israeli war cabinet has voted against expanding the deadly attacks on Gaza into a full-fledged war. Some media guessed that Israel took this stance to stop the assault as a precautionary step which will evade Israel from an international isolation. Equally, other media assumed that it happened out of lack of international support for such an assault which was only supported by an Israeli version of the story that simply did not add up together.<br />
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However, Israel never needed international legitimacy to attack Gaza or elsewhere. Infact, Israel has always simply ignored international discontent and supported its own unlawful decision by playing the "security" cards claiming a war was a "precautionary necessity". Perhaps the most convincing argument as to why did Israel decide to pull back came today from an article written by Ali Abunimah, a Palestinian writer and blogger who co-founded the website <i><a href="http://electronicintifada.net/blog/ali-abunimah/how-protests-against-israel-and-flagman-saved-lives-gaza">Electronic Intifada</a>. </i>The article argues that Egyptian demonstrating in front of the Israeli Embassy in Cairo demanding an end to the Egypt-Israel peace treaty were the strongest element which helped in stopping a major bloodshed. Abunimeh wrote that the "people's power" put a stop to the assault thus saving more Palestinian lives. He wrote: "...it is governments being forced to respond to people power – especially in Egypt, where tens of thousands of people rallied outside the Israeli embassy in Cairo, in protest at Israel’s killing of five Egyptian military personnel during the Eilat operation, and Israel’s attacks on Palestinians." He argued that "not only actual protests, but even the mere threat of mass, nonviolent, popular protest can constrain Israeli occupiers".<br />
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It was relieving to know that Gaza was mostly quite after Israel's war cabinet decided to pull back from a major escalation. To that, I say thank you to the tens of thousands of proud and strong Egyptians who demanded a stop to Israel's aggression. Also, to the Libyan people (population number similar to that of the Palestinians) whose regained independence would be a new incentive for Palestinians to realize that they don't have to pick the lesser of the worst possible options, and to know they can have it their way through diplomacy and armed resistance at the same time.<br />
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Sari Freitekhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01002082841175095095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1767468339264232832.post-26106045182214388382011-08-22T22:21:00.000+03:002011-08-22T22:37:20.134+03:0027th Day: Libya Overcomes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">Again, I was unable to go to sleep before I was sure the news were completely true and before I examined the euphoric chants of tens of thousands of residents of Benghazi (freed during the first phases of the revolution). Those were enough proof that the revolution has overcome months of fighting. Young Tripolitanian men stomped the portraits of the colonel, firing guns in the air in celebration, and news about residents welcoming the revolutionaries with open arms were spreading across the news. I am still amazed by how fast things have unfolded in the past 24 hours.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The revolution had officially started on February 17th (Twitter's Hashtag #Feb17) after Libyans called for marches against nearly 42 years of brutal dictatorship under Col. Muammar Gaddafi. During the first days of the revolution, Television stations brought clips of demonstrations literary growing as they marched on high-ways across Libya. </div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">Some said that a joke that dispersed quickly from Tunisia to Egypt had stirred the uprising. The joke goes as follow: "Tunisians, having won the revolution and got rid of their own tyrant, ask Libyans [whose country is situated half way between them and Egypt] to stoop a little so they can see the real men of Egypt". The joke quickly dispersed across the region, touching on the traditional and historic machismo of Libyan men. The joke may have brought few laughs here and there but it certainly was an insult to the man-hood of Libyan men who quickly wanted their leader out. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</tbody></table>Certainly, the joke could not have toppled a regime, but people went out on the streets two days before the proposed date for the revolution in an act of rebellion on February 15th inspired by two successful revolutions in their Arab neighboring countries and in defiance of Gaddafi who was claiming that Libya cannot be as "stupid' as it's neighboring nations. Gaddafi who had praised Tunisia's Ben Ali <i>after</i> he was ousted and claimed Egyptian revolutionaries were hired US Agents with Agendas, was already way too overdue in the eyes of young Libyans who now wanted to be part of a changing region. Gaddafi first claimed that the uprising in Libya was being run by mislead kids who brought <i>some</i> of what remained of the alleged agendas from Tahrir Square (suggesting the agendas were actual documents!). </div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The further the revolution ignited the more Gaddafi was finding creative terms to brand the revolutionaries. During his infamous cuckoo speech at his compound which was left in ruins for 25 years after it was bombed during a US assault on Tripoli in 1986, Gaddafi called the rebels "rats" "roaches" "stray dogs", and claimed they were victims to "hallucination pills" and other drugs, urging their parents to "take them inside their homes" before they would cause further damage. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">But the revolution continued, and soon, it was no longer being referred to as a revolution on various televisions and other media sources as terms describing the situation shifted from "civil unrest" to "civil war". Soon, I lost track of what was happening there since the news were similar everyday and I feared Libya will be divided into two countries: The Eastern Libya with Benghazi as it's capital city (historically known as Cyrenaica) and Western Libya with Tripoli as it's capital city (historically known as Tripolitania). </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The NATO intervension was making the picture even bleaker. With the little trust I and so many numerous Arabs had of it (regardless of the , it was hard to continue openly support all of the decisions taken by the revolution. Nonetheless, I could not disapprove of bringing in the NATO decision, as I was certainly not the one living under a maniac and an oppressive dictatorship. My discontent was the decisions taken by the NATO alliance especially with the war taking way longer than having anticipated which I feared will be paid for heavily by Libyans after the revolution.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Today, I felt quite jealous of Libyans. I do admit it, but I felt ecstatically proud as well. The Libyans have taken the route of diplomacy as well as armed resistance in order to achieve their goal towards freedom. Whereas we, the Palestinians, were still discussing the feasability of calling in the NATO forces, affirming our embracement of sterile Arabist nationalist polimics, and the futile support of losing non-armed martyrs with absolutely zero-gains and losses on all ends.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Today, so many Libyans expressed their joy via twitter. Some of the most disheartening tweets came from @<a href="http://twitter.com/#!/ShababLibya">ShababLibya</a> (LibyanYouthMovement) who recalled his uncle “Sadig Al Shwehdi, one of the most famous victims of Gaddafii's crimes hanged on live TV in the 80s”. To recall every single crime committed by Gaddafi is a taint in the face of humanity, one that stood in silence watching decades of brutality go unaccountable for. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Most Palestinians I know were happy that today marked the day Libya’s Gaddafi was gone. Many Palestinians recall Gaddafi with utmost abhorrence: On the one hand he was the one who kicked Palestinians out to the borders of Libya ordering them to go back home to liberate Palestine if they so wished to. His insults towards the Palestinians were not over even only last week as Gaddafi branded fleeing Tripolitanians and other Libyans as “Palestinians and Somali’s”, in an attempt to stigmatize these nations, and degrade Libyans taking refuge far from fighting. On the other end, few Arabs and Palestinians were quick to judge the revolution based on its decision to allow NATO forces. Via twitter, one of the most expressive tweets regarding the situation came from @<a href="http://twitter.com/#!/Cyrenaican">Cyrenaican</a>, a Libyan who wrote in admonition: “How dare you let NATO intervention trump ur sympathy or support for the Libyan ppl, who fought vs this brutal regime w/ everything they had […] We fought and died, with incredible bravery, sacrifice. How can you not be happy for us? Why should we not celebrate?” </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I felt an urge to respond to him, to tell him that we supported him and all other Libyans who were hungry for liberation and freedom. Palestinians have made numerous mistakes when it came to our POV regarding other’s decisions when it concerned freedom and liberation: We made the mistake in Iraq, in Kuwait, even in PLO’s official stance on Western Sahara which angered those who assumed they could find in a Palestinian supporter further reason for an international sympathy. The mistake could not have repeated itself in Libya. Why should we exemplify revolutionaries yet dare make so many numerous mistakes when it comes to the freedom and independence others seek? </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I showed my support of Libya from the beginning, and I still do. I know Cyrenaicans now know the true taste of freedom, and so are all Libyans who fought tirelessly until this day. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">On the 27th day prior to an alleged Palestinian Authority “Statehood”, I am not confident the PA has stood on the right side of the equation. Once again, we are frowned upon by those seeking freedom. The Palestinian Authority is too cautious to take strong sides, and to assert itself as a decisive decision maker in the region. What seems to matter to the PA is to keep a neutral stance as to keep the room open had things shifted in the future. The PA, once again, proves to be playing an endless political game in order to secure the most gains, even when it came to a revolution already won.</div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>PS: By the time this article was written, Col. Muammar Gaddafi's whereabouts were unknown. Two of his sons were arrested and one of them already escaped with the help of some of the remaining Gaddafi forces.</i></div></div>Sari Freitekhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01002082841175095095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1767468339264232832.post-85317598302728693402011-08-21T05:25:00.000+03:002011-09-01T01:17:57.010+03:0028th Day: #FLAGMAN and the Resurrection of Karama<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Around 3:00 AM, again on Twitter, there was a mysterious new Hashtag: #FLAGMAN.<br />
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For those of you unfamiliar with Twitter, hashtags are "keywords" one inserts within the available 140 characters allowed to express oneself. They are preceded by the pound (#) sign. Twitter explains that this is an easy way to find similar posts (tweets) to follow, or posts of common interest. It is pretty addictive actually. I think I personally had started few Hashtags that never "trended" on twitter.</div>
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It did not take me a long time to find out that FLAGMAN was a mysterious Egyptian guy who climbed, ropeless, 14 stories yielding to the Israeli Embassy in Cairo, to replace the Israeli Flag with an Egyptian one.<br />
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The guy became an instant hero.<br />
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I was following the tweets of his arrest as he climbed down then his immediate release upon the demands of thousands of cheering demonstrators. The guy became a national hero within seconds.<br />
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His Hashtag trended on twitter becoming the top tweet within minutes. In less than half an hour, a new <a href="http://www.facebook.com/batal.masry">Facebook Page</a> was created for him dedicated to an Anonymous Hero who "climbed and took down the Flag" referring to the Israeli flag which was soon in ashes. Within seconds of it's creation, it already boasted 1000 members <i>(please click on the highlighted link to see the current count)</i>.<br />
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First tweets about his identity came from strangers claiming his name was Mustafa Kamel, which coincided with the name of an Egyptian nationalist from the late 19th century. I joked about the name of #FLAGMAN claiming his mother had planned for this coincidence to happen from the day he was born.</div>
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But soon the real name was out. Not as impressive as the first it was <i>Ahmad as-Shahat </i>BUT it was a perfectly Egyptian-sounding name: The Egyptian "Average Joe". It was baffling to watch the video later on during the day, to see what the thousands upon thousands of chants were all about. The best tweet, retweeted by someone I follow on twitter came from @LadyBlueeeeeee who wrote "Egyptian Beans give you wings!" in Arabic. Egyptians were proud, and made everyone else proud. They certainly boasted my ego as a Palestinian.<br />
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It was clear that Egyptian do not want Israel on their soil. The Camp David peace treaty with Israel is worthless to them, and one Egyptian with wings can take down the lie about peace that was forcibly shoved down their throats for decades.<br />
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The peace treaty with Israel, I come to learn, is part of the past that Egyptians now want to be completely done with. Their former dictator Hosni Mubarak has suffocated their freedoms in the name of Israeli safety and an alleged national security that they never felt. It was a big lie, everyone knew it, and now they don't want to live it anymore.<br />
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#FLAGMAN ignited a new hope for Egyptians who after months of ecstatically celebrating their winning revolution were yet to truly experience a complete change, and were tired of feeling Israel was placed before their own interests as Egypt's priority. "The People Want" was not just a slogan they perpetually repeated for 18 bloody days, they want their demands to be met. Israel's safety is not on their list of priorities. They toppled an entire system, a dictator who ruled them with corruption and an iron fist, and secret agents that counted their every breath. It was not hard for them to at least decide who stays and who leaves Egypt after they have won, to decide who they consider a friend and who they do not welcome. Very simple yet profound logic.<br />
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With the Israeli flag down and people calling against the acts of normalization with Israel, I anticipate that the Egyptian-Israeli relationship will no longer stay the way they used to be under Mubarak. The Egyptian people want, and their wants are not to be ostracized by their own people in favor of what they consider enemies/ outsiders, and their natural resources given away practically for free to a foreign obnoxious and unwelcomed power.<br />
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#FLAGMAN gave back to the Arab World a feeling they almost thought they lost. <i>al-Karama</i>. Karama is a word that should enter the Merriam Webster dictionary with a simple explanation: Origin: Arabic First use in English: 2011. It should explain how the sense of pride, the demand for respect, dignity and self-worth, were combined together on that day. Arabs felt they regained their own Karama. Israel, they know, was part of the oppression they experienced through their dictators and tyrants. The feeling of regaining one's Karama is the same one felt when Tunisia was Free from it's Dictator, when Mubarak was overthrown by the people, and when the next dictator is stomped over by people long-suffering people who deserved much better all along.<br />
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#FLAGMAN will be a decisive day in the Arab History, which will directly affect the Palestinian history. Egyptians will now play their strategic role but with Karama and not merely answer to a higher authority, represented by the US and other foreign powers, and certainly not by Israel.<br />
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The Palestinian Authority, long passively submitting to all foreign powers against the people's wants, will soon have to look for alternative ways to appease a very likely public outcry and discontent. The PA is not different than the rest of the Arab Dictators, except with the privilage (and curse) of ruling under an occupying foreign power, and allowing for a bantustanized situation to formulate in Palestine (Israel). The PA now is fully aware that it has lost it's back-up support after Mubarak. They cannot wait for September 20th to arrive to see what they will do next.<br />
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During the Tahrir Square celebrations following the overthrowing of the Mubarak regime, there was seen a young man standing above a thin and high street-light pole, he was relaxed and waving an Egyptian flag as if he was standing on the most solid ground. It took us months to find out his identity. It was the same #FLAGMAN, and with him comes a new hope for all of us fearing a complete fracture in our already stained history of surrender and bad-leadership. We know that if we give up, our closest neighbour to the West [the Egyptian people] won't allow it. They're already challenging Israel's bid on building a wall separating Israel's Negev from Sinai Desert saying: "you can build all the walls in the world, we have 80 million flagmen."<br />
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Nothing came as a surprise to me as I witnessed the <i>Show-de-Force</i> everyone was suddenly too eager to boast. </div>
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Israel continued its airstrikes on Khan Younis in the “wee small hours of the morning”, right after <i>Suhour. </i>I got my updates instantly from Twitter: the unfortunate tragic irony of being excited about knowing you're the first to know about the strikes from twitter followers and followees, yet knowing they are right in the center of not only a dangerous zone but a potentially fatal situation. I recalled the horrors of air-strikes ten years ago, they don’t have to be F-16s to terrorize you to the bones. Just knowing you could be mistaken for the next target or knowing your refuge is in fact the actual target. It is not so much about death as it is about surviving then living with a permanent disability: lost arms, limbs, sights, or any sort of dis-figuration. </div>
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Graphic pictures today surfaced from yesterday’s deadly attacks on Gaza Strip: Men who have been blown up to pieces, weeping women, a child completely disfigured, burnt and his viscera exposed. I knew I saw too much, but surprisingly like most fellow-Palestinians I have grown too used to seeing blood (or bodies cremated by missiles and fire). </div>
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Today Gaza fired back. I must assert that Gaza was plunged into this for few apparent reasons. Located relatively far away from the site where an attack took place near the Israeli Red Sea resort town of Eilat (the ethnically-cleansed Bedouin Palestinian village of Imm-ar-Rashrash), completely besieged by Israel and Egypt, and not having a single faction adopting this highly-moderated attack: Gaza was the first to take the blame and the people living there were anticipating a fast response from Israel. </div>
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On the far-right of the Palestinian political spectrum: Today Hamas abandoned the seize fire and vowed not to stop firing its rockets on Israel until Israel stops its raids. Some of Hamas’ rockets reached the Israeli town of Be’er Shiva (formerly the ethnically cleansed Palestinian desert city of Beer as-Sabe’, literary: the Lion’s Well), killing two Israelis and injuring others. </div>
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And on the hippie-socialist left-side-that-bows-to-dictators: The PFLP (having lost all credibility, supporters, and position since the late 1980s) was back on stage firing few rockets into Israel, but not getting much applauds. </div>
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Egyptians demonstrated in the thousands in Cairo, Alexandria, and else-where in front of the Israeli embassy and consulate offices since last night. At 3:00 AM, there were hundreds of angry men chanting and waving Palestinian flags, demanding a firm response from the Egyptian government following Israel’s attacks on Sinai- Egypt, which killed three Egyptian soldiers and injured others. The chants also called for an end to the peace treaty with Israel, and the expulsion of the Israeli Ambassador from Egypt. By the early hours of the morning, when thousands stormed the streets across the Israeli embassy, SCAF issued two statements announcing bringing home the Egyptian ambassador until Israel officially apologizes. Until now, SCAF has not delivered it’s promises, and Egyptians are only growing further resentment towards them. </div>
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The simple answer is that Egypt is Gaza’s only Arab neighbor, Gazans have strong ties with/ and feelings toward the country that ruled the Strip prior to the 1967 War. Also, because for decades under various dictatorships, Egypt has been the mediator and anchor to [the Western influence and] America’s policies in the region. Egypt has been the substrate that balanced the region through war and peace, and the change that took place there is yet to show some decisive consequences with an orphaned Palestinian Authority following the fall of Mubarak, and a new generation of Egyptians who want over with the old ways of not having things their way. </div>
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Today was certainly not just another day, the 29th day before the supposed “statehood” saw further blood and modern artillery. Palestinians still sit and look for clues. Ramallah is definitely the worst place to be at the moment if one wants solid clues. Today's funniest tweet came from @<a href="http://twitter.com/#!/LinahAlsaafin">LinahAlsaafin</a> who tweeted "<i><a href="http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23Abbashole">#Abbashole</a> asked Arab league whether armed resistance would be ok if UN fake statehood didn't work out. Can someone poison him already?"</i> I just had to respond with a line from <i>Chicago</i>: "some guys just can't hold their arsenic!"<br />
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Sari Freitekhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01002082841175095095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1767468339264232832.post-26055270731612556842011-08-19T21:17:00.000+03:002011-08-20T03:33:28.070+03:00Pre-State Statement: On the 30th Day Towards "Statehood", Gaza bleeds<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;">... Saeb Erekat has spoken, and the nation rejoiced! For he has finally come out on the first pages of all Palestinian Authority-controlled media on August 18th <a href="http://maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=414271">warning </a>the Zionist entity with a firm [verbal] response if they chose to attack Gaza, calling it an irresponsible action, following a deadly attack on a bus in the South of Israel. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Affirming how the leaks were "slander", not expressive <br />
enough of [a worst] reality.- </i>[The guardian]</td></tr>
</tbody></table>"Israel is the occupying power.” Declared Mr. Erekat, “Under international humanitarian law, it is responsible for the welfare and safety of the Palestinian population living under its occupation,". </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The former chief negotiator in the name of the Palestinians has supposedly <a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/02/2011212135152355248.html">stepped down</a> back in January after Aljazeera news channel made public what came to be known as the Palestine Papers which exposed him as a lying sack <strike>of shit</strike> [of candies] in the way he has literary lived his life to negotiate (confirming the title for his Semi-Autobiography in Arabic “Life <i>is</i> Negotiations”), and after having under-gone a face-blushingly embarrassing near-death experience on live-television on Aljazeera where he foolishly agreed to appear to defend his back-door deals with Israel and the years he bamboozled the Palestinian people into an endless cycle of negotiations that they paid for with their own blood and economic well-fare. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The former chief negotiator was back, now in full-fledged obnoxiousness, complete with the Palestinian Kaffiyeh and the infamous threatening finger that decorates the iconic portraits of all un-voted for traitors who happened to lead all Third World Countries [and semi-countries] around the World. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Erekat the Savior, as portrayed on Palestinian Maan-News<br />
complete with a Kaffiyeh and a Finger. The Halo on top of <br />
his head partially visible - </i>[Maan News Agency]</td></tr>
</tbody></table>But I must admit that for months all Palestinian-controlled media had given small doses of Erekat to the public, typically a small unnoticed news excerpt where he just had to appear wearing his Kaffiyeh and making that same finger gesture of strength and dominance for months until the meat was ripe and he was ready to be served on a plate of empty promises. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The funniest tweet I read on that day came from someone I cannot recall (darn it), but it went something like this: “Erekat is warning Israel against any irresponsible Action in Gaza, or else… he’ll go back to negotiations” (please tweet-mate, if you ever read this provide me with the right tweet!)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Erekat was back, the hero of the Palestine Papers, the same papers that exposed how the PA probably knew about the war on Gaza back in 2009, that same war which resulted with over 1500 deaths amongst civilians and few armed men, yet did nothing to stop it and continued to negotiate their way before and after, because that is what the Palestinian Authority does best: forever negotiating.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Erekat was back when now Israel was making it no secret that it intended to retaliate (collectively punish) the entire Gaza Strip for an attack that was not adopted by any Palestinian faction, much less to be specifically linked to Gaza. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Was that Erekat's way to apologize to the Strip after having stood in negotiative silence when a war was being planned against it? I ain’t no Conspiracy Theorist, but with only 30 days left until September 20th, I am not sure Israel wanted to lose its favorite chief-negotiator of all time. The one who has given the longest time any Palestinian would have for Israel to expand settlements, practically annex 60 percent of what remained of the West Bank, and the one whose best interest lies in an Israeli-controlled Rafah border in Gaza. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Israel attacked Gaza again earlier this morning, I followed the tweets of, mostly, cynical Palestinians from Gaza who have grown way too accustomed to living under daily attacks of Israel and F-16 noises breaking the sound barrier. By 5:00 AM, there were six confirmed deaths and over 23 injuries. By the end of the day, there were 15 deaths and over 40 injuries. Once again, praise shall be to the political corruption of men who know they cannot save lives nor stop the blood rollercoaster, yet are in need of making strong statements that help repair their shattered reputation and gain their former spot as… chief negotiators.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">With only 30 days left towards "Statehood", Gaza bleeds. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">In order to spare myself the headache of having to explain the September 20th bid (or the so-called September Entitlement) on a bantustanized and much debated PA statehood, please visit Aljazeera for further details:</div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">(or just use your collective-memory and imagination):</div><br />
<b><a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/05/2011525105036617619.html#.Tk6oa0KcKm8.blogger">Abbas: Palestine to go to UN in September - Middle East - Al Jazeera English</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Abbas, too ready to run a "State"?- </i>[Reuters] </span></td></tr>
</tbody></table></div></div>Sari Freitekhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01002082841175095095noreply@blogger.com0