Is this war or just hatred? [Archives:2002/22/Focus]

SAADI SALAMA
PALESTINIAN DIPLOMAT IN SANA’A
Why is the foreign media is focusing on the Palestinian arena and not the Israeli arena?
The answer is simple; it is Israeli president Ariel Sharons underestimating the situation. The entire world, not only the media, began to realize the size of Israeli crimes, upon seeing the scenes of the massacres and other atrocities and violations committed by Israeli soldiers. That included tying Palestinian youngsters hands behind their backs, stamping them like livestock, and blindfolding them. Their only guilt is being young Palestinians.
Add to that the assassinations in the streets of Palestine. All these scenes call for international rage including the usually one-sided pro-Israel media. Furthermore many are asking why do we blame the Palestinians? Didnt this war waged against them exceed all limits of the human endurance?
One day the Jews will judge Sharon, not only for his crimes, but also because he has subjected them to another wave of international hatred. This is the first time since World War II, when Europe gas awakened from its feeling of guilt towards the Jews, because the victims of the Nazis have impersonalized their executioner and exceeded their executioner in practicing racism and war crimes.
Sharons practices have changed the European role from protecting the Jews into condemning them, aside from piling European rage that might lead to taking severe actions against his government. Because of Israels organized state terror, many countries are joining Europe in taking measures against it.
Some public rage is growing also in Israel, but their actions are dull and their free writers are hiding, because Sharon threatens them with the accusation of breaking the Israeli national consensus. Yet they are not asking themselves, where does Sharon lead them? Especially when he is waging a criminal unconventional war that could never be conclusive.
After all this is not a war at all. It is merely a wide military operation, against civilians that possess some rifles at the most and much rocks: civilians that are a detrement to struggle at all costs for their freedom. Some aspects of the struggle consist of violence, and some of terror, but only to match and respond to the state organized terror.
When can such a war end and how?
We can imagine few options while we face this criminal attack wave.
First, according to Sharons publicly declared presumption, finishing the Intifada within 90 to 100 days, which means that he will practice horrible massacres frightening the Palestinians, forcing them to collectively flee from the country, thinking that uprooting trees, destroying houses and burning pre-harvested crops might increase the odds of massive Palestinians migration out of Palestine.
No mass migration
This did not happen. No mass Palestinian migration was detected. Yet another wave of migration was detected. It is the Israelis migration that recorded a new record of fleeing from the country, meaning that what Sharon has anticipated has boomeranged to his people. This is an indication that this option is doomed to fail.
Second: This option is a Palestinian one, because they have decided to struggle and stand up for their rights. They believe that this is their last resort that should be defended until the last drop of their blood, because they know it is a matter of life or death. Some Palestinians went further on to suicidal acts against the Israelis, sacrificing their lives for their believes.
Deep in the Palestinian collective memory lays the first and the second compulsory expulsion, and the pain, agony, and suffering that goes with it: memories that have charged them with super powers to stand against any other attempt of a third one, even demolishing several thousands of houses failed to weaken them instead it raised their moral and charged them with more determination to achieve their internationally recognized rights.
This is the option that the Palestinians gambled on. When the holocaust reaches its climax proving the military options failure, the political option will replace it. This option has turned facts upside down establishing that the military superiority is never decisive, but when the organized state terror with all its capacities is confronted with a small hidden power with all its unexpected surprises, equation could be established and goals could be achieved.
At this point, after every Palestinian suicidal operation against the Israelis and after calls of George W. Bush the USA President to the Palestinians President Yasser Arafat to stop the terror, they become shallow calls unable to understand the Palestinian transformation that now influences the whole region.
More failures on the way
The USA Administration has put President Arafat in a position where he has nothing, yet he possesses undetected powers to unite the whole Palestinian people in one line like trained soldiers, but does not say the magic word because there is no light in the end of the tunnel.
This Palestinian option is the most probable to materialize because it is based on the right of two nations to live in peace, security and independence side by side each in its borders, as equal partners, over this Holy Land, nothing less.
And Sharon shouldnt bother anymore because he will only harvest more failures, gaining only a growing public opinion against him, in Europe, in international communities and eventually in the USA.

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