Against their leaders and against their occupier. Against the Grim Reaper and a grimmer, dimmer future. Against deception, oppression, injustice and submission. Against everyone and everything that humiliates them, Palestinian youth en mass have taken to the streets of the West Bank, Jerusalem and Gaza for five days in a row today – a passion for freedom and an anger at the poverty of their life exploding in their bony chests. Masked youth, stone in hand, stones stuffed in denim pockets, they duck behind walls and corners and cars, taking turn to leap balletic: throwing rocks with all their might at what can only be described as platoons of armed Israeli robots.
The number of young casualties in combined areas of unrest is growing – and so is the number of the fallen, 6 youths today.
This is the forth generation of Palestinian youth under occupation since the rise of the young Ghassan Kanafani back in the 1960’s (R.I.P). This is a generation of West Bank Palestinians who have never seen their own sea waves or hiked their own mountains. Never even been allowed to step on the soil of Jerusalem, a mere handful of miles away. Never been allowed freedom of expression or freedom of movement – and so now they are rebelling against both their leadership and against the violence of their occupier. Symbolically, they raised the Tunisian flag in Bethlehem today.
Only the youth are on the streets shaking stones in fists and rattling adult’s nerves. This is a Palestinian generation that has no fear and no more patience – unlike previous generations. They are demanding that their leaders immediately unite and immediately address solely the end of the occupation by any means necessary. They want the occupation to end and they want it ended now.
The news cameras roll. A stone and a bullet pass each other in mid air. It will be a tie again for today. Tomorrow the passion and anger in Palestinian youth will be that much more adrenalized, agitated. The Israeli robotic forces will be that much more sadistic. And Palestinian leaders will foolishly be hoping that their youth will run out of energy and cause within a handful of days.
It is just sickening to know the inevitability of more Palestinian deaths, more Palestinians maimed for life, with no end in sight.
An old rousing song but very timely for the occasion by Julia that’s half Armenian-Palestinian on her mother side and half Lebanese. In a nutshell since I couldn’t find a proper English translation because it’s filled wall-to-wall with idioms, she is asking where are the millions of Arabs that are not helping the Palestinians, where is their rage and where is their dignity. It’s saying the Palestinians will win in the end because justice is on their side and the Zionists are on the side of the elephants::
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xnn33h_julia-boutros-win-al-malayin-chant-pour-la-victoire-de-la-palestine_news
US Refuses to Label Israeli Attacks on Palestinians ‘Terror’
The State Department said Friday that recent attacks by Palestinians against Israelis are “acts of terror” but failed to apply the same standard when violence is committed against Palestinians by Israelis.
“We would consider these violent acts [by Palestinians] that we’re talking about specifically here as acts of terror,” spokesman John Kirby said in response to a question about violence in the occupied territories.
But when asked whether he also considered to be terrorist acts the stabbing of a Palestinian by a 17-year-old Israeli in the city of Dimona, Kirby brushed it aside and said he was not aware of the incident.
“I don’t have the details on that, so I’d really rather not get into this event by event,” he said.
“But we do consider these particular acts of violence that we’ve seen – the stabbings and the killings there particularly in East Jerusalem – as terror,” he said, referring to attacks by Palestinians while being careful not to label Israeli attacks as “terror”.
He added, however, that “all the violence needs to stop and calm should be restored”.
In the last seven days, several violent clashes have erupted between Palestinian youth and Israeli troops in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
At least 1,600 Palestinians have been injured during clashes with Israelis since Oct. 3, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent.
US refuses to label Israeli attacks on Palestinians ‘terror’
State Department spokesman John Kirby … added, however, that “all the violence needs to stop and calm should be restored”
calm being when
ONLY PALESTINIANS
are being
MAIMED AND MURDERED