Signs of end of the civilization and signs of its rejuvination
Mazin Qumsiyeh
Posted at my blog
http://popular-resistance.
There are many signs of end of the human civilization and signs of its
rejuvenation. These difficult times do test people’s souls and minds and
while we find those who fail the test (Netanyahu, Trump, Hagee, BinSalman,
etc), we do find so many that pass it and light the way for us.
The signs of an end are so many and they are mostly related to the behavior
of the rogue regimes of Israel and te USA: the efforts to challenge climate
change, collapse of disarmament deals (first with Russia then with Iran),
stealing a city from its people to gift it to immigrant European Jews and
celebrating that theft (bad as it is it is horrible when it is related to
the most sacred of cities: Jerusalem), massacres and ongoing genocide in
Gaza that two million are subjected to (mostly refugees), governments that
no longer even pretend to care about human rights or international law. In
fact, one sees that most governments support apartheid and ethnic
cleansing. I could go on. But there are also signs of hope and struggle.
My book “Popular Resistance in Palestine: A history of Hope and
Empowerment” goes over a part of our 130+ year history of amazing
resiliance and success. Palestinians around me give me hope. People of Gaza
(maligned by racist thugs in international media owned by racist thugs)
give us hope. Today a strike is total among millions of Palestinians living
under Israeli occupation. My students give me hope. They and all young
Palestinians are willing to sacrifice even with their lives for the cause
(they just need leadership that is sorely lacking). I see hope in the
Palestinians demonstrating in Jerusalem and inside areas of Palestine
occupied/colonized in 1948. I see it in the angry looks of Israeli colonial
soldiers ripping flags out of civilain hands, beating people, frustrated
that they are unable to colonize people’s minds like they colonized their
lands. And while governments in the mentally colonized gulf states (Saudi
Arabia and UAE) are silent, people and other governments ACT. South Africa
pulled its embassador from “Israel” and so should other countries. People
of all faiths act. Naturei Karta (Orthodox Torah Jews) demonstrated in
Jerusalem together with their Christian and Muslim Jerusalemites against
the imposter false prophets (Kushner, Freedman, Greenblatt, Netanyahu, and
Hagee). Boycotts, Divestments, Sanctions will grow. I think people should
also boycott and sanction the country that is “the biggest purveyor of
violence in the world” (the words of Martin Luther King Jr), that is the
USA. We all must ACT now.
More and more people are recognizing Zionist propaganda in the so called
mainstream media. For example CNN reports using Zionist speak and
interviews mostly Zionist politicians and US politicians who are Zionist.
They use terminology that is rather sick: “Dozens die in Gaza as US Embassy
opens in Jerusalem” (who died, who killed them we are not told) or people
die “in clashes” at the borders of Israel and Gaza (it is not clashes when
unarmed civilian refugees are gratuatously massacred as they demonstrate
for their Internationally recognized right to return to their homes and
lands. The real story of the blood bath over the past 24 hours is that as
it “celebrates” having twisted the arm of an American administration to
violate International law by relocating its embassy to stolen lands,
Israeli apartheid forces massacred 60 unarmed civilians many of them
children (including 8 month old baby), one a double amputee and injured
over 2000 civilians, over 700 of them with live ammunition.
“The shock from Trump’s declaration re the Iran Deal was amplified by his
disregard of int’l community, and information provided by international
agencies and his relying solely on the word of one man, Benjamin
Netanyahu.” https://ahtribune.com/world/
syria-crisis/2257-israel-war-
Al Walaja: the Palestinian village being slowly squeezed off the map
https://www.theguardian.com/
palestinian-village-being-
Articles below by a visitor who spent three months with us in occupied
Palestine. Personal Stories of Everyday Violence Under Israeli Occupation
of Palestine
On violence https://thewire.in/world/
violence-harassment
On Children https://thewire.in/world/
On women https://thewire.in/society/
women-under-israeli-occupation
On politics https://thewire.in/world/
palestinian-israeli-conundrum
Donald Trump, spokesperson for US President Benjamin Netanyahu. Philip
Weiss gets it right “There is a powerful rightwing Israel lobby, and
Netanyahu is the leader. These are the same forces that pushed for the Iraq
war 16 years ago to such ill effect for the Middle East, and they are
sowing destruction once again.”
http://mondoweiss.net/2018/05/
wrecking-politicized-israel/
The Original Mother’s Day Proclamation
Julia Ward Howe
Arise, all women who have hearts, whether your baptism be that of water or
of tears! Say firmly: “We will not have great questions decided by
irrelevant agencies, our husbands shall not come to us, reeking with
carnage, for caresses and applause.
“Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able
to teach them of charity, mercy and patience. We women of one country will
be too tender of those of another country to allow our sons to be trained
to injure theirs.”
From the bosom of the devastated earth a voice goes up with our own. It
says, “Disarm, disarm! The sword is not the balance of justice.” Blood does
not wipe out dishonor nor violence indicate possession.
As men have often forsaken the plow and the anvil at the summons of war,
let women now leave all that may be left of home for a great and earnest
day of counsel. Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate
the dead. Let them then solemnly take counsel with each other as to the
means whereby the great human family can live in peace, each learning after
his own time, the sacred impress, not of Caesar, but of God.
In the name of womanhood and of humanity, I earnestly ask that a general
congress of women without limit of nationality may be appointed and held at
some place deemed most convenient and at the earliest period consistent
with its objects, to promote the alliance of the different nationalities,
the amicable settlement of international questions, the great and general
interests of peace.
Stay Human
Mazin Qumsiyeh
A bedouin in cyberspace, a villager at home
Professor, Founder, and (volunteer) Director
Palestine Museum of Natural History
Palestine Institute of Biodiversity and Sustainability
Bethlehem University
Occupied Palestine
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