26 April - 2 May 2001
Issue No.531
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Al-Ahram Weekly On-line 26 April - 2 May 2001 Issue No.531 |
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Against barbarity
The current crisis in Palestine has become unbearable; it is more and more painful every day. I do not know how the bloodshed can end. Perhaps the reason the crisis induces such pain relates to our own -- torn -- position. Over here, we cannot ask the Palestinians to stop putting up a resistance. If we did so, how would we be different from barbarians who accept or endorse the brutal massacre of an entire people with impunity?
When a people is subject to occupation and oppression, one cannot ask it to quietly acquiesce. But at the same time, the more aware we become of the price the Palestinians are paying, the more difficult it is to cheer the Intifada on. It is impossible to encourage them wholeheartedly to keep fighting, unless one partakes in their suffering in a concrete manner.
If they are to give their life and blood, we cannot simply sit back and grieve quietly for a few moments. Unless we side with the barbarians outright, we cannot afford to be mere onlookers in the ongoing saga of their destruction.
Every day I wake up hopeful that maybe a way out of the crisis has been found, and every night I go to bed with no hope at all. I really do not know how all this will end.
Based on an interview by Mohamed Salmawy.
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