Democratic Palestine : 2 (ص 35)
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Our first meeting with the peasants took place in the groves
of Sheikh Ali Dallul. He had heard about the Burayj demon-
stration and was interested in the Party. He had brought for
entertainment a minstrel with his rabab. In times of trouble
they seek the poets, just as some seek God when they ride an
airplane.
We began to discuss the Sinai project. To the peasants, the
land that is under their feet, which they. till, sow, harvest, and
smell, is the only land. The peasant is like a cock that crows
both when it is hungry and when it is full. And how often he has
had to crow from hunger.
The peasants supported a complaint to the military gover-
nor against the Sinai project...
Through a friend of the Party we were able to obtain the
Sinai Project Report written by the Agency’s experts. It was an
appalling document. In spite of the Agency’s engineers’ ad-
mission that it would be impossible to live in that piece of hell
due to the lack of water and the prohibitive cost of reclaiming
the desert, and in spite of the doctors’ forecasts of the diseases
that would plague the refugees, especially those resulting from
the effect of dust-saturated air on the lungs and eyes of the
children - in spite of these reservations, the report carried the
Agency’s experts’ approval. They proposed an initial experi-
ment with 20,000 refugees, on the basis of which they would
then consider the relocation of additional numbers of refu-
gees.
The Party decided to print the report and to distribute
copies of it to all patriotic persons in Gaza. The date we
selected was February 15, 1955, at 7 P.M...
In the morning the Intelligence and secret police held a joint
meeting. They had not imagined that the report of the Agen-
cy’s experts would make its way to the Party, and that the latter
would translate it, print it, and distribute it. They undertook a
vicious search operation. They were not satisfied with turning
things upside down; in some homes they dug up floors, and in
one home they ripped out tiles in search of the mimeograph
machine. ;
But the machine lay there, beneath a trough filled with
water. And the water was dripping, drop by drop, into the
trough, as if each drop were a leaflet falling on the cement.
On the night of February 28, 1955, an Israeli raid on the Gaza
railroad station took place. And on the morning of March 1,
hundreds of thousands, from Rafah to Beit Hanun took to the
streets shouting: “No settlement! No relocation! Oh, you
American agents!”
They sit on the sidewalks and imagine that they know every-
thing that goes on in the capital. But the masses in Gaza who
walked the sidewalks knew what had happened in the Gaza
railroad station. Egyptian and Sudanese soldiers had been
killed with bayonets, and others had died in the rubble. And
the refugees who had demonstrated in the Burayj camp ,
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against the Israeli raid there were now demonstrating against
the Israeli raid on the railroad station.
It was as if the Israelis wanted to say: There is no one to
protect you from the Sinai project. But they were wrong... ©
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