Democratic Palestine : 28 (ص 38)
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sidered evil. To punish him does not require any evidence... All
this put together motivates the Palestinian to resist, but it also
leads to revenge, tension and frustration. The Palestinian re-
mains the innocent accused person. The third dimension,
perhaps the least complex, is the political one, The Palestinians
do not fight seeking sympathy or death in battle. They are
fighting for their legitimate right to an independent state. The
Palestinians are a people with an identity, language, culture
and history, elements which make them a people entitled to
have their own state where they can exercise their national
rights.
In the Palestinian reality, there is a set of paradoxes.
Zionists as well as Zionized Arabs deny the Palestinian people
their right to an independent political entity. Zionists resort to
the easiest way. They claim that the Palestinians do not exist,
that ‘Israel’ is a gift from God and nobody has the right to go
against his will. Americanized Arabs, on the other hand, say
that Palestine is an Arab affair. When the Palestinians fight,
the Arabs stop them because, fighting independently, they
betray Arab unity. What an irony of history! A national cause
is being betrayed in the name of sublime pan-Arab unity! This
paradox does not apply to Palestinian culture which, contrary
to political struggle, compels recognition, although the two are
united in significance and objectives. Zionists do accept
Palestinian culture as an Arab culture belonging to the pre-
Zionist state period. The Arab regimes also accept it, as long as
it does not threaten the Zionist-Arab reactionary ambitions to
convert the Middle East into a politically homogeneous region
under US control.
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Reactionary recognition of the Palestinian culture does not,
in fact, offer anything. This culture hardly needs such recogni-
tion. Through the pages of the Palestinian culture, one reads
the entire patriotic experience with all its moral, emotional as
well as political aspects. It remains the culture of the
persecuted who fight against despotic forces, and create a
democratic culture to counter all cultures of despotism. Thus,
this culture has emerged as an act of resistance. The patriotic
culture in the occupied territories is a political-cultural act
which confirms Palestinian national identity, and contributes
to the struggle against occupation. It is a culture that is born
and developed on the background of the colonized who refuse
colonization, who join their present with their past, and keep - هو جزء من
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