محمد السيقلي

ANOTHER WAR WILL BE BREAKING OUT IN GAZA. Ali Tarek Izzeldine was assassinated last night by the IDF, Ali Tarek Izelldine was part of the collateral damage from the illegal assassination of senior members of the Islamic Jihad. Ali Tarek Izzeldine will not be remembered as he is now a member of the thousands strong children killed by American made and supplied rockets. When the rockets fly from Gaza in response to the terrorist attack by the Israeli forces, Israel will claim self defense. Jeff Halper wrote: Operation Shield and Arrow (reminiscent of Sharon's Operation Defensive Shield in 2002 against "terrorist infrastructure") is underway. In the early morning the Israeli army assassinated (against international law) three senior members of the Islamic Jihad in Gaza -- and killed nine Palestinian civilians, including children; collateral damage. Attacks were also reported in Nablus.This was entirely predictable; indeed, the Israeli Ministry of Defense announced that it will initiate "cleaning-up" operations against "terrorists" (the quintessential colonial term for resistance fighters) throughout the West Bank and Gaza after Ramadan and Israeli Independence Day. The results will also be painfully predictable: a tit-for-tat escalation in which the Palestinians will suffer disproportionately, and another step towards the violent pacification of the Palestinian people and the industrial quiet Israel and its international allies need (including many Arab and Muslim states) in order that the apartheid regime over Palestine be secured and normalization with the Arab governments (if not their peoples) completed.We will hear all the ghastly news that emerges from Operation Shield and Arrow over the next days and weeks. My question is: What should we, Palestinians, their Israeli comrades and supporters of Palestinian rights worldwide, react? Or more to the point: How do we switch from reaction, protest and analysis to a pro-active POLITICAL stance? Engagement in the Palestinian struggle is extremely emotional, as it should be, for Palestinians and people who come into contact with the reality Palestinians are living. The outrage, protests and demonstrations are understandable, even necessary, as is the analysis of how Israel is pursuing its colonial apartheid project of transforming an Arab Palestine into a Jewish Israel. But they are insufficient. The point is not to become incensed but to change the political situation, to defeat the oppressive regime and liberate the oppressed. And in that we are collectively failing -- a failure that generates feelings of helplessness that feed back into the outrage.We have to get political. This is not easy. Attacks like those of today arouse in us great emotions, as they should, but that stands in stark contrast to political analysis, organization and mobilization around a political program and an effective strategy for achieving it. All those essential elements of political struggle are cold and calculating. Political actors must be able to disassociate themselves from the immediate and the emotional if they are to evaluate where they are, where they are going and how to get there. The enormous amount of information and analysis on the Palestine issue -- the Educational Bookshop in East Jerusalem is packed from floor to ceiling with books, journals and films on the subject -- dwarfs the presentation or even discussion of a political plan for (as my latest book pus it) decolonizing Israel and liber

‏مع السوشل ميديا اصبح الجميع يتصنعون المثالية‏ولم نعد نعرف من الصادق من الكاذب ‏اصبحوا أكثر الناس لهم عدة وجوه وأقنعة وتغير الاقنعه حسب ظروف الزمان والمصلحه