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Palestine Uniting Humanity

By Salim Nazzal

07 January, 2010
Countercurrents.org

What a fantastic view we are witnessing these days. People from the four corners of the earth are marching towards Palestine. They are peoples from 17 nationalities among them Americans, Arabs, Africans, Australians, Britons, Canadians, French, Malaysians, Norwegians, Turkish, Swedes, Venezuelans, and a Jewish woman.

The occasion is sad, because it comes at the first anniversary of the Gaza onslaught, but the warm solidarity is converting the sad occasion into time of showing support and love towards the besieged Palestinians in Gaza. Humanity is under siege when Gaza is under siege, said one of the friends of Palestine who travelled 31 days in order to reach Gaza. Those persons has defied all the obstacles which stood in their way especially which made by the puppet regime of Egypt which did not hesitate to shoot at them and to do everything to hinder their solidarity work.

The friends of Palestine are sending several messages, a message to the state of Israel that the world is alert and the time Zionist Jews murder without being accounted for has gone forever. Israel has no weapon to stand against the voice and will of humanity. Israel failed in agitating cultures against each others. Opposite the Zionist policy to play off the cultural differences, Palestine is uniting humanity and the evidence that the solidarity persons arriving Palestine are of different ethnic, religious and cultural background. Because the vast majority of humans want peace and justice and mutual respect among humans and a world void of occupation and wars. And those who show solidarity with Palestine are working for the humanity because the human conscious cannot stand neutral when Israel occupy,oppress,torture, murder and starve a whole nation. At this moment in history the position towards the bleeding Palestine has become the rod instrument which separates between Palestine the symbol of love and peace and Israel the symbol of death and destruction.

The other message is addressed to the United States to end its support to the occupation after it has become clear that the US under Obama is the same US under Bush regarding supporting the Zionist occupation. The United States is judged by deeds and not by words. Its deeds are still the same in supporting and blessing the Zionist genocide policy.

They also send a message to the Palestinian leadership to unite just as the forces of good are united today to defend Palestine. And a message to Palestinians that they are not alone in the struggle against the Zionist Apartheid state. And that the Palestinian struggle for freedom is respected, admired and supported by the vast majority of the world which cannot tolerate any longer seeing Palestinians subjected to decades of brutality.

But the stronger message of those brave men and woman is to tell the world that the conflict in Palestine is first and last is about the human dignity. It is not a religious conflict, but about the rights stolen from native Palestinians by Zionist brutal force. And that in the final analysis the conflict is between the Apartheid state of Israel and the majorities of humans guided by their moral obligation to stand with the oppressed Palestinians.

This time the voice of humanity is stronger than all the military might which Israel owns. The voice of peace and love uttered by those people is louder than the sounds of the Israeli military machine. When Israel murdered Rachel Kory it thought that it silenced the voice of human solidarity with Palestine. Today the solidarity convoys demonstrate that there is millions of Rachel Kory in the world. And that the cause of bringing peace and justice to Palestine has become a question which unite humanity.

Dr. Salim Nazzal is a Palestinian-Norwegian historian in the Middle East, who has written extensively on social and political issues in the region.[email protected]



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