Legitimate Palestinian Questions In The Christmas Time
By Dr Salim Nazzal
15 December, 2014
Countercurrents.org
In the Christmas time we chant for peace in Palestine and the Middle East, and for humanity.
In the Christmas time Santa cause arrives at night while children sleeping, to give a present to the Good kids, according to the story. So the naughty kids might learn to be good, to get Santa clause presents next Christmas. And soon a new year will pass, and a new year will be born. Human being celebrates the New Year eve with hopes of a better world for human beings, for peace and progress and stability for all.
But in Palestine, and since the Zionist occupation, year after year, there is no peace, no freedom, and no stability in the holy land. And Santa clause could not reach due to the Israeli checkpoints, and the Zionist wall. Instead, Israel arrests children, and murder them as in the war in Gaza, where more than 1200 children get killed. And the town of Bethlehem is blocked by the Zionist wall.
The Palestinian Christmas is loaded with many questions which Palestinians ask all the time.
Why Israel steals our land?
Why Israel murder our people?
Why Israel denies us our natural right to be free?
Why Israel use prohibited weapons and escape punishment?
Why Western leaders are cowards, know the truth about Israel, yes close eyes, and support Israel?
Why justice is selective in Palestine?
Why Israel is a declared apartheid state and not sanctioned yet?
Why Israel is a state of endless war since its plantation?
Why Israel uses depleted uranium that will poison next generations of Palestinians ?
Why Israel murder Palestinians in Palestine, and outside Palestine?
Why Israel own atomic bombs enough to ruin the whole region, and beyond, and would bomb any country in the region which own peaceful atomic energy?
Why Israel arrest children without parents or legal counsel?
Why Israel built a wall that makes Palestine a large prison?
Why Israel besiege Gaza, which is the biggest opened air prison in the world?
Why Israel invades any country in the region at its own convenience?
Why Israel attack boats in international waters?
Why Israel builds roads only for Jews?
Why Israel defies All UN resolutions, and defies whole world, and all laws?
Why Israel legalize torture?
Why Israel violates every existing law and never punished?
Let’s chant for peace on earth, but let’s remember that there is no peace in Palestine before ending the occupation, and the restoration of all stolen Palestinian rights.
Merry Christmas Palestine. Happy New Year.
Dr. Salim Nazzal, a Palestinian-Norwegian historian on the Middle East, He has written extensively on social and political issues in the region.
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