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28.01.06, 09:26
Congratulations To The
People Of Palestine
By Israel Adam Shamir
1-27-6
My beloved countrymen, sons and daughters of Palestine, you defied the orders
of the Living Dead, you dared the threats of his servants in Washington,
London and Brussels. You chose the party of faith and resistance. You
manifested your spirit unbroken by oppression. I feel so proud of your noble
daring, of your steadfast belief in God, of your defiant rejection of Tel
Aviv's diktat. Even under the foreign military rule, you are the freest
people in the world, the most unbending and resilient. You are freer than
Americans who submitted to their Patriot Act, you are freer than Europeans
who repeat the instructions of Washington and threaten Iran with sanctions
and war. You are more pious than Vatican who toys with the mad idea of
beautifying Judas in order to curry favour with the Jews. You can't even move
from a village to a village without Jewish permission, but you are free in
spirit, and it counts most. Even today they kill your daughters and sons, but
can't kill your indomitable spirit.
Vox populi vox Dei, the voice of people is the voice of God, said the
Romans, and as every oracle, it can be interpreted in many ways. It can be
seen as a normal and regular election of the opposition party after the
ruling party overstayed its course. It can be seen and the change of
generations in power. It can be seen as rejection of PNA's willingness to
give up on refugees and al Aqsa, of their inability to bring in the young
generation of Marwan Barghouti and Intifada warriors. It can be seen as the
vote for clean uncorrupted rule.
However, we shall be mistaken if we miss the spiritual lesson of this
election. Islam is a native Eastern form of Christianity, akin to the
Nestorian church of Presbyter John. It is a faith of solidarity and equality.
The native people of the Holy Land rejected the materialist neo-liberal
paradigm of Mammon and went the way proposed by the great Anglo-American poet
TS Eliot of creating a true Christian society. We can follow their example
and chose solidarity and spirit in stead of consumerism and aggression.
The Holy Land won't and can't be profaned. The mad idea of turning it into a
military base, a refuge for crooks, Jewish dating agency cum the gay capital
of the world collapsed. Islam is exceedingly generous and tolerant to all
believers, and believing Christians and pious Jews will have no problem with
the choice of their brothers. Nor will the free of spirit: they will enjoy
the benefits of protective society. The Hamas rule in Bethlehem proved there
is nothing to fear. The Hamas leaders expressed their willingness to share
power with their Fatah brothers.
Should the new Hamas-led parliament recognise the supremacist and racist
Jewish state? Certainly not. It may reject the partition and invite all
permanent residents of the Holy Land to form together a new authority for the
whole of Palestine from the River Jordan to the Sea. It may use the lesson of
Greece that refused to recognise the former Yugoslavian republic of Macedonia
as 'Macedonia', for this name is already taken. Likewise, the noble name of
Israel does not fit the Jewish state. Whether is belongs to the Christian
Church, as we believe, or to the pious Jews, as they think, or even to the
descendants-in-flesh of the historical Israel, the Samaritans of Nablus, this
title does not suit the Zionist state. We should not use the holy name of
Jerusalem for the synonym of the Zionist government, either. The West never
called the government of the German Democratic Republic by the name of
Berlin, as it would provide them with the legitimacy they lacked they called
it 'Pankow Government', after the neighbourhood of Berlin they were based in.
Likewise, we may refer to the Jewish authority by the name of their de facto
seat, Tel Aviv, and seek to replace it with one rule from Jerusalem the Holy.
The racist Jewish state forbade us, its citizens, to participate in this
election, and banned you from voting for the Knesset in Jerusalem. Let it be
the last separate elections for the native and adoptive dwellers of the Holy
Land.
Israel Adam Shamir
