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9 Jul 2024 <\/em>– I tried to cross into Jerusalem today (where I used to be a high school teacher) and was denied by the apartheid colonizers. My wife too. Our US passports notwithstanding. This is a clear violation of the agreement reached with the US State Department that allowed Israelis to enter the US on a visa waiver program. US citizens are not treated with respect agreed to. Over the weekend we were stopped from doing our field work in the Jordan valley by these apartheid regime forces. This was not the first time. In so many occasions we are harassed and prevented from having any normalcy. In other parts of Palestine, the situation is much worse.<\/div>\n

In the Gaza Strip alone over the past nine months 186,000 Palestinians were killed by bombing them, by denial of food, water, medicine and by destroying their infrastructure etc. As I am in touch with many families in Gaza by phone I hear horror stories including literally starving to death and if there is a food it is only bread or only rice (no proteins, vegetables, milk, fruits etc.). And what worries me more are families we lost touch with (no phones). The regime tramples our right of religion, right of movement, right of education, essentially our rights of life.<\/p>\n

I reflect on these horrors. I reflect on Western (US, Germany, UK, Australia, etc) collusion and collaboration with an ongoing genocide and ongoing process of ethnic cleansing. I reflect on hypocrisy and on cowardice. I reflect on racism and hate that left 8 million of us refugees and displaced and the rest squeezed into concentration camps. I reflect on 21,000 Palestinians in Israeli jails being treated worse than any regime ever treated its oppressed people in its prisons. Torture, starvation, amputations, denial of medical care and dozens killed under torture that we know off (but fate of 98% of prisoners unknown since no legal representation or visit by Red Cross\/Red Crescent is allowed). I reflect on the control of western mainstream media that ensures little or no coverage of reality and lots of regurgitation of lies and distortions. I reflect on all of that but I do not get despondent. Why? Because of one thing: resistance. My book “Popular Resistance in Palestine: A history of hope and empowerment” summarized over a 120 years of resistance, 14 uprisings (this Gaza Ghetto uprising makes number 15). This includes hundreds of forms of resistance; only tiny minority armed and that is also legal and encouraged by international law.<\/p>\n

May He Live (and Die) Resisting<\/strong><\/p>\n

by Mazin Qumsiyeh<\/em><\/p>\n

Bulldozers uprooting 2000 year old olive trees
\nWhile refugees still to doors they hold the keys
\nSettlers and soldiers marauding and killing
\nOf lands and homes they enjoy pillaging
\nA grandfather laments 7 year old girl, soul of his soul
\nColonial partners send money and soldiers to play a role
\nChldrens’ brains in their fathers hand
\nWhile Netanyahu’s son on florida beach gets tanned
\nBloodied heads tossed far from bodies
\nDecaying bodies left in destroyed hospitals
\nWhile politicians verbal acrobatics belittles
\nthe 2000 pound bombs leveling neighborhood supplied by the USA
\nwhile Zionist Blinken pressures ICC and ICJ to stop or delay
\nA girl insists that she recognized a mother from her hair
\nBut a consumerist world shrugs – we don’t care
\nSoldiers and politicians of a most fascist army threaten and mock
\nas F35s bombs Nuseirat, Gaza city, Bureij, Rafah… and every block
\nNo safe place in a concentration camp packed by refugees
\nBeing denied food, medicine, fuel, and all amenities
\nD9 bulldozers, buzzing drones, white phosphorous, fire belts,
\nmoans of death under the rubble and babies flesh melts
\nto get stock prices of weapon makers soar
\nwhile genocide Joe plays the role of a whore
\nall for Palestine’s gas fields to steal
\na new Asia-Europe 6 trillion road deal
\nthe Suez replaced by the Ben Gurion Canal
\nNile to Euphrates “promised people” cabal
\nBelt-and-Road initiative replaced
\na new empire to be created
\nOld ones subjugated
\nVia lobbies dominated
\nOlive trees destroyed
\nPine trees planted
\nCommunities uprooted
\nRacists validated
\nA global war initiated
\nTo make the rich richer
\nand the poor poorer<\/p>\n

To all this there is antidote available
\nResistance is possible
\nWe resist by insisting on our rights
\nto return, to live, to eat, to kindle our lights
\nto hope, to live, to plant our trees
\nto tend to our vegetables, and our bees
\nfor we believe that to exist
\nmeans to resist
\nand to resist means to live free
\nlike human beings should be
\nFor there is no other path
\nto avoid the wrath
\nto live meaningfully
\nand die peacefully
\nAnd when I am dead
\nLet it be said
\nhere lies a good troublemaker
\nof actions and ideas a baker
\nborn poor, died poor
\nhelped others in the short tour
\nin the land of his birth
\nlived a rich life in resistance
\nwith dogged persistence
\nthe hope alive he kept
\nfor injustice he wept
\nthe path of struggle he travelled
\nthrough storms he peddled
\nmay he get his wish to die resisting
\nas he lived joyfully participating
\nIn life’s sorrows
\ndodging arrows
\nNot resting
\nFully Loving
\nMeaningfully Living
\nPeacefully Dying
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\"\"<\/a> Mazin Qumsiyeh, associate professor of genetics and director of cytogenetic services at Yale University School of Medicine, is founder and president of the Holy Land Conservation Foundation and ex-president of the Middle East Genetics Association. He won the Raymond Jallow Activism Award from the national Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee in 1998. He is co-founder and national treasurer of Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, and has written extensively about the Middle East. Qumsiyeh is a member of the<\/em> TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a>, author of <\/em>Sharing the Land of Canaan and <\/em>Popular Resistance in Palestine, a professor at Bethlehem University and director of the Palestine Museum of Natural History in Bethlehem.<\/em> http:\/\/palestinenature.org<\/a><\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 popular-resistance.blogspot.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Join the BDS-BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT, SANCTIONS campaign<\/span><\/em><\/strong> to protest the Israeli barbaric siege of Gaza, illegal occupation of the Palestine nation\u2019s territory, the apartheid wall, its inhuman and degrading treatment of the Palestinian people, and the more than 7,000 Palestinian men, women, elderly and children arbitrarily locked up in Israeli prisons.<\/p>\n

DON’T BUY<\/strong> PRODUCTS WHOSE<\/strong> BARCODE STARTS WITH<\/strong> 729<\/strong>, which indicates that it is produced in Israel. DO YOUR PART! MAKE A DIFFERENCE!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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