Happy New Year Palestine, Happy new year humanity!

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December 30th, 2009 10:39 AM   

Salim Nazzal

When Mahmoud Darwish, Palestine great poet was asked in one of the most difficult period in Palestine history, what Palestinians can do now, his immediate answer was to grow up hope. For more than 70 years, Palestinians move from war to war, from occupation to occupation, from exile to exile, from siege to siege yet they continue to hope. Hope and resistance are interacted, one resists because one hopes, and because one hopes one resists.

I asked a Palestinian who lost almost all his family by Israeli air raid how he manages life alone, he said hope. I asked Palestinian lost his arms due to Israeli raids and insisted to go one in life, I won’t let Israel murder our hopes, he said.
Hope jumps even in the most difficult times to whisper to the oppressed to stand firm. During the occupation of Lebanon in the 1980s, I saw a proud young Palestinian woman walking opposite Israeli soldiers bearing in her neck a cross and the Palestinian map, she told me she wants to convey a message of challenge and hope, the crusification of Palestine is a temporary thing, and Palestine will rise again.


View how things in Gaza to realize the strength of hope among Palestinians. One and half Millions impoverished Palestinians are besieged, starved and deprived of almost everything and yet the will is not broken. The NATO boats are “guarding” the Gaza shores to ensure that no arms is smuggled to Gaza freedom fighters , the Israeli boats is patrolling the Palestinian shores of Gaza, to shoot, and to torture Palestinian fisher men who have no other source of living except fishing.

The French employs a surveillance satellite over Gaza, and the American made Israeli planes, of all sorts, are 24 hours flying over the skies of Gaza. As this is not enough, the puppet regime of Egypt is constructing an iron wall made by American and Zionist and engineered by Americans and the French to strangle Gaza. That in addition to the inhuman way the Egyptian intelligence and soldiers deals with Palestinians on the Rafah crossings.

Despite all this, there is hope coming from Palestine.

In the first anniversary of the Israeli genocide Palestinian actors and singers sang and performed plays and sketches.

Palestinian artists drawing on the walls of Gaza messages of hope that Gaza and Palestine will live no matter what the Zionist do. The Palestinian young girl who lost her limps has joined the club of the young journalist to realize her dream to become a journalist.

Solidarity friends are arriving from the four corners of earth to Palestine to show their solidarity, all this show that the culture of love is still strong among humans. And shows that the Zionist wall of misleading and falsification is falling. And indeed it is great to see all those people guided by their conscious showing love and affection to Palestine. All these are signs of hope.

Very soon the dawn of the 2010 will be rising in Palestine. The tears of three generation of Palestinian mothers and sisters, is the Jordan River which will heal the wounds of the Palestinian souls suffered seventy years of Zionist cruelty and brutality. And hope is the fuel which makes Palestinians strong to face the Zionist culture of death. Happy New year Palestine, Happy new year humanity!

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Dr. Salim Nazzal is a Palestinian-Norwegian historian in the Middle East, who has written extensively on social and political issues in the region. who has written extensively on social and political issues in the region.

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