Democratic Palestine : 28 (ص 36)

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Democratic Palestine : 28 (ص 36)

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The Revolution of the Stones and
Palestinian Culture
An essay on the significance of Palestinian national consciousness by Faysal Darraj.
Upon arrival in Palestine, the Zionist project claimed «a
land without a people for a people without a land.» After the
establishment of its state, Zionism did not change its attitude.
Once Golda Meir said, «Palestinians do not exist.»
Years later, Rafael Eitan declared, «A Palestinian is no
more than a _ cockroach.» Quite extraordinarily, this
«cockroach» has been occupying the political stage in the
Middle East for more than twenty years. I’m not going to
quote the German saying that: «In the mirror, an ape can only
see an ape,» to avoid a possible racist trap. Yet, I would say
that the struggle of the Palestinian militant does clearly show
that Zionism has just been raving. Cockroaches can never
throw stones.
The tragedy of Palestine stemmed from the emergence of the
Zionist project, more exactly, from the position and function
of the Zionist entity in the imperialist strategy for the Middle
East. It is impossible to talk about the present, past or future
of the Palestinians without reference to the history of the
Zionist movement. The Palestinian or militant Arab fighting
against imperialism is incapable of scoring victory without
defeating the Zionist project. Palestinian victory, when realis-
ed, doesn’t mean more than enabling the Palestinians to
restore the conditions of their existence as ordinary human be-
ings, with the right to freedom, peace, security and happiness
in a democratic state.
Zionism is not only a racist political movement, it is the
movement in which the Palestinians read the whole history of
their innumerable tragedies: Deir Yasin, Kafr Qassem,
Samuu’, Sabra and Shatila, the bombardment of peaceful
camps, the siege of Beirut, etc. Thus, the struggle of the
Palestinian against the Zionist project is a moral necessity and
defense of human values like freedom, dignity, reason and in-
dependence. The Zionist entity is not a state in the traditional
sense of the term; it is the political expression of an obscurant,
racist, colonial ideology, which confiscates land, ruins people
and violates all standards of democracy and rationalism. In
Burhan Karkutli

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