Even before Israel became a state, it was torn between “we want to live in peace” and “there’s no one to talk with”.
During Israel’s history, the pendulum swung between those two sentiments.
In this war, the Israeli government has totally taken the side of “there’s no one to talk with” and bombs Lebanon like hell. Each and every bomb that the Israeli army drops on Lebanon adds more hate to the hearts of people around the Arab world and beyond it. Every bomb makes sure that there will be less and less people to talk peace with.
When you write and show on your blogs how the Israeli army is doing terrible things in Lebanon (and Gaza), you add hate to your hearts and the hearts of your readers. And let’s not be mistaken, there’s a lot to hate.
But can’t we go further than this while not forgetting all the suffering?
Can’t we not NOW, in these terrible times, think of how to make this tortured region a place of peace?
I think we all should.
I have some faint ideas on how to do this but I am not quite sure.
What do you think each and every one of us should do?
July 26, 2006 في الساعة 12:10 am
I appreciate your call for peace, but I have certain comments to clearly show who is responsible for curbing peace in the region:
First: Talking about what Israel is doing in the Palestinian territories and in Lebanon is not the reason for instigating hatred against Israel, rather it is Israel’s practices that are instigating hatred.
Second: Where are Israel’s prospects for peace if it is fighting the whole Palestinian people for demoractically electing Hamas?
Third: Did not Mahmoud Abbas show his willingness more than once to make peace? Why were his calls disregarded?
There is no people in this world that choses to live in war rather than in peace, but I ask: how can I feel living in peace when Israel is launching a war to wipe my people? how can I feel safe when I see pictures of little Israeli girls signing on rockets that will soon be launched to kill little Lebanese children? We more than others want to live in peace because we are the ones who are being killed, we are the ones who lived under occupation, we are the ones whose country’s sovereignty is being violated. You are thinking of ways to make peace, and you need help to find a way. I tell you one thing: Peace cannot be built on the bodies on slain innconent people, peace cannot be built by forcing a certain people to yield to the demands of superpowers and their allies. This is not peace. This is execution.
July 26, 2006 في الساعة 9:46 am
The way to peace is built by people who want peace.
I am opposing the Israeli policy not less than you do. I don’t represent the Israeli government as you (I assume) don’t represent Hezbollah.
Instead of “hate talks” and “blame talks” I want to engage in “peace talks” with people like you and like many others who want peace.
I takes a lot of mental energy to switch from of state of mind to the other, but I encourage you to do that. Talking peace without ignoring the terrible things that are going on.
July 27, 2006 في الساعة 10:26 pm
I represent all the oppressed, I represent all the trends that refuse to live by the rules of superpowers who want to plan the way I live and the way millions of other live according to their own interests, I represent all the people whom the US and their allies kill everyday economically and militarily in any place in the world. I live that everyday, and millions around the world face that everyday. I have one state of mind that is I want to live with my family and with my people without being oppressed, and without being under occupations, and it does not take a lot of mental energy because I and my people have never attacked, massacred or invaded anyone, so please don’t ask me to forget the past, when your people of course and you ( I assume) do not forget the holocaust and do not miss a chance to remind the whole world about it and make the whole world pay for it and for those who dare to doubt about it. So please address this speech to your people first that is your consecutive governments. And then I will be more than welcome to discuss ways of peace with you.
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