Viva Palestina dissapointment

The Viva Palestina convoy should not have accepted to leave to Lathqiyyeh in Syria based on what Egypt demanded they do. This is not resistance. The convoy should have held on their demands despite the Egyptian regimes refusal to allow them to pass through Nweiba'. What the Egyptian authorities are doing is to put off people, and they are succeeding in doing that as long as their is no persistence and resistance. Now, one other thing I would like to criticise Viva Palestina's Alberawy for is his statement that the convoy is "humanitarian and in solidarity" that does not wish to pressure the Egyptian government! Not that I am for the humanitarian discourse, but, I mean isn't it humanitarian enough for Mr. Alberawy to uncover the Egyptian regime's injustice and corruption? Couldn't Viva Palestina have took advantage of this refusal by Egypt to defy this wicked and torturous regime? They should have kept the half a million dollars to support the solidarity workers in Aqaba and work on a movement to Jordan in support of a civil disobedience.

When Dimwitted puppets of the Egyptian regime speak

It couldn't get any worse. Al Jazeera hosted Ezzeddine Shukri, the advisor of the Egyptian minister of foreign affairs and visiting professor at the AUC, and Abdelbari Atwan, the editor-in-chief of Alquds Alarabi, along with the spokesperson of the Viva Palestina, UK delegation. Shukri inssisted that the Viva Palestina delegation was simply battling with the Egytpian authorities on going into Gaza, when it shouldn't be doing that. He went on to declare that the convoy should obey the Egyptian authorities' idea of moving from Aqaba to Syria, to the Lathqiyyeh port, then sailing from there to el-Arish. That was the only way, he said, that they would be able to get into Gaza, and that there was no way that the Egyptian government will allow them to pass to Noueiba, and then across the Sinai to el-Arish and from there to Rafeh. He said this route challenged Egyptian state's sovereignty- I'm serious.
So, in other words, Mr. Shukri here wants a group of activists and civilians with aid to besieged Gaza to choose a route that would take them weeks to get to el-Arish, that is if they get enough finances to be able to do that (estimated to be at least half a million dollars), a route that will not even guarantee them entry to Gaza, as Atwan said "how will we guarantee that Israel doesn't stop or attack them as it did with the Lebanese and other international boats that were sailing to Gaza", a route that would subject civilians' lives to danger, a waste of efforts and time, just because his sleezy complicit government makes up a wittyless excuse of entering through Sinai as threatening the Egyptian state's sovereignty. But, Mr. Shukri, O, buffling bumbling, Mr Shukri, aren't the international and Arab marchers stuck in Cairo and not allowed by your government to leave to Gaza? Aren't your sovereign-full police bullying and attacking those civilians whose only wish is to get into Gaza and not plunder at your majestic pyramids? So, Mr.Shukri, dear Mr. Shukri, what is the way to enter Gaza other than falling from the sky? No sea, no land, and no underground is possible now Mr Shukri, so why don't you let those people in? Are those people a threat to your government's security and sovereignty? Or, is their only fault their solidarity with the besieged, numbed, traumatized, imprisoned, ghettoed, frustrated, hopeless Palestinians in Gaza? Mr. Shukri, your argument is immoral and twisted, no wonder your government resonated cohesively with the Zionist sick logic. Mr. Shukri the least you can do to the Palestinians is to let those in solidarity with them in, no matter what route- any route. Why do these people need to suffer to enter Gaza, when you should open the gates wholeheartedly for them? Mr. Shukri, why don't you just save time and summarize what you have to say in a simple non-monotonous, less painful sentence with less twists and turns than your paragraphs of apologetic attitude towards your oppressive racist sexist regime: "we hate the Palestinians, we won't allow any solidarity with them, we stick to what our masters allow us to do"- need I say who their masters are, or is it not obvious?
But, as Atwan said, Egypt is digging its own grave here. The 1363 marcher in Cairo won't simply head back from their tracks, and neither will the Viva Palestina convoy simply give in to the corrupt Egyptian government's wishes, there will be resistance, and this will give the media reporting all the more reason to question the regime- and if there is something uncle happy cow- la vache qui rit- mubarak doesn't like, is when he is spotlighted in the media in an image other than that his puppet media portrays him to be.
It is now, like when the International Movement to Open Rafeh Crossing were struggling, to build on this. The more the attention, the more the pressure and embarrassment, the more the participation, the more the encouragement and persistence.

Situation in Cairo and Gaza

There's a lot of tension in Egypt. 31 Gaza Freedom Marchers were arrested yesterday in el-Arish. 1000 GFMers are under house arrest in hotels in Cairo around Tahrir square. They are not allowed to have gatherings. No meeting of over 6 people is allowed. Activists in front of the French embassy have been living in tents, surrounded by the Egyptian police who have not yet began hitting and dragging like they do to their own people. The bus companies that were going to transport the delegations were stopped by the Egyptian police, and the delegations decided to choose to walk from Cairo to Rafeh if it continues to go on this way. Of the few media outlets out there Al Jazeera is doing the good reporting on the situation- still not enough! The Egyptian media has been complicit in silence. They are so busy promoting exculsive Egyptian nationalism against Algerians in football games. I mean can you imagine if Egypt was not a US-Israeli ally? Wouldn't the US media freak to these acts if it were... Iran? These are the democratic, human righteous allies of Barak Obama: Apartheid Israel, public beheadings Saudi Arabia, and corrupt and torturous Mubarakistan.
In Gaza, the Hamas government is pressuring civil society activists and trying to control all solidarity initiatives. If the GFMers manage to get in, they should make it clear that they are NOT in Gaza to support Hamas- that is no longer a resistance by the way and which causes harm to the Palestinian cause- but as a civil society call and people to people solidarity ONLY.
Viva Palestina UK delegation is stuck on Aqaba and is not allowed to proceed by the Egyptian police. Now, Mubarak, the laughing cow or "al baqara el dahika", and his regime has planned well for this silence, surveille and control. I wonder how much long it will take them to suppress and repress a group of 1363 person. If the solidarity delegations get in, or not, this is an important historical act. For the first time, such masses, across nations come together to stand in solidarity with Palestinians and take such measures ie: try to get into Palestine. It is also a turning point.
The Egyptian police, those tools of the Mubarak regime are of the most corrupt and nauseating-in the Sartrean sense- believe me, I have lived and seen what they are capable of doing to women, men, children and the elderly alike. They are bullies of the worst kind you can imagine.

Don't cry for me Zionesia

Al Jazeera was just discussing the Tzipi Livni UK issued warrant for war crimes. They had a Zionist on, Shimon Shit-reet, professor of international law at the Hebrew University, who said that the warrant was absurd, the Goldstone report was "muzayyaf" or fabricated, and that the Israeli army "is better than the british and american, because they sent sms messages to people and sent down brochures and pamphlets from the sky that they were going to bomb" before actually bombing. I mean looking at his face, I felt he was going to go down crying, at one point the hostess interrupted him, and he threatened to leave if she didn't let him speak. I mean, just having him on AlJazeera as the "other opinion" is equating betweent the executioner and the victim (al jallaad wa aldahiyya). Why, o, why do you try to impress the White man, Aljazeera?

I wonder how Mr. Shit-reet would react if he were sent a message that his home was going to be bombed right now and that he needed to evacuate immediately. If a rapist told his victim to run as fast as she could because he was going to rape her, and he ended up catching her and raping her- then, it's not his fault- it's just hers because she wasn't fast enough to run away from him? Oh, but this is the Zionist logic. As they once wrote on a pamphlet that I caught: "we have warned you, and if you do not obey, we are not to blame." Zionism is racism-- did I not mention that the pamphlet bomb was dropped on a little boy's head? The boy must have been in the way of the bomb.

Shitreet also called the slaughtered Palestinians in Gaza as "some casualties." To him, millions of Palestinians need to be killed before we start speaking of crime and punishment. Zionism is racism.

9/12: Intifadat el-Hijara

22 years ago, on 9/12/87, after a hate-filled Zionist settler crashed the cars of Palestinian labourers on the Salah E-ddine main road*, who were on their way to work inside the Green Line, a mass movement against the Israeli occupation, an upheaval occured. This was just the beginning of the First Intifada of 1987, the intifada (upheaval) of stones or intifadat el-hijara. Hit them with the stones and... the kanader**.

*the main road leading from the Beit Hanoun (Erez) Crossing to Rafah, in the Gaza Strip

** pl. of Kundara: shoe

'Why does America hate us?'

"American hegemonic political philosophy judges a belief by its effects not its causes. The emphasis is on the connection between the truth of statements and their practical applicability by one measure only: how will they work for America? This is American pragmatism. That is, White, liberal American politicians (including President Obama!) are interested in the function of ideas and statements and their effects rather than the sources and conditions of their production."

Ghazzawiyya at King's Cross Station

I was stopped by a volunteer from the British Association for Cancer Research at King's Cross Station in London. She was explaining to me about the organization and she suddenly asked "where are you from?" For the mere sake of it, I said "Palestine." And, to the mere shock of it, she said "where is that?" The only answer that came to my mind was "it is under Israel." She got really confused and perplexed and suddenly said, "oh, anyway, I was just asking because you look Moroccon."

Anthropology and its Discontents

Ethnography: now, doesn't this word by itself divide and create difference by classifying people into different ethnic groups? I will choose to never write an ethnography until a native from Gaza, or Riyadh, or Aleppo, or Kabul would visit London, or Berlin, or Paris, or Washington, and conduct an ethnography of any social aspect concerning the White population there.

Nazi... Israel

Mainstream Tv stations in the civilized, egalitarian, reasonable, and rational so-called first world reported on the terrorist Palestinian being cold-bloodedly driven over by an Israeli Jewish settler in Hebron. The reports did not mention the intensified forced removals the West Bank, and particularly Eastern Jerusalem, has been subject to such as the viscious removals of Palestinians from their homes in Jilo during the past month, and they clearly did not give the report a context in which this happened. The reports certainly do not mention the Apartheid wall, the history of killings, the occupation, the history of settler racism and blind hatred towards Palestinians. Simply out of the blue... a Palestinian decided to jump and stab an Israeli woman and man. Palestinians must have an intrinsic blood thirsty attitude. I mean, that's what I got from the first report below. And notice that Fox news in the first video gives the supremicist settler an incentive to drive over. So, I have 61 years worth of incentives for the Palestinians- want to compare?

Compare the first report to the second:
First video by Fox News


second video by Al Jazeera International