Palestine 2008 You who live safe In your warm houses, You who find
returning in the evening, Hot food and friendly faces: Consider if this is
a man Who works in the mud Who knows no peace
...
Okay, I read 10 times, "If this is' a man" and every time I'm excited;
I saw it 10 times "Schindler's List" and each time I'm excited;
when I discovered a great-grandfather jew I even emotions, feelings
proud to have some 'blood of Marx, Freud and Christ;
but when I arrived in Israel / Palestine I am not there' and 'take long to figure out who oppresses
these days ... also in bioenergy,
There 's something that differentiates the two people deeply, and which can' be used to distinguish which
ethnicity and 'who's in front, even more' in the somatic
and how to dress ... a bit 'harsh, strict, rigid, frowning and defensive
Israelis, urchins and playful, expressive, and dreamers sgaruppati,
maybe a bit' sad, depressed and frustrated, the Palestinians.
The wall seen on television is not the same effect as seen live
when you're at the front and 'a sense of its absurdity falls upon you and you shook
off, a great zoo, invented by a ghetto of fine show of social engineering, worthy of the best
Nazi. On the other side of the wall after passing the checkpoints and barbed wire
painfully, the Palestinian ghetto.
The ghetto "the ghetto and 'freedom'," says paradoxically a jew in "Schindler's List", "here we are far
by our oppressors, the walls of the ghetto are our protection ".... so 'I feel in Ramallah,
on this side there are Jews, Arabs only, with sgaruppati their clothes, their way of life on the streets,
the stalls, their kebabs and street vendors of coffee' .. . carefree living here among us and far
sgaruppati dreamers from predators. But this is 'a false sense of freedom', often at night, around 3 am in
so as to have no witnesses and no resistance, Israeli tanks arrive to "pick up"
(I would also kidnap) of the alleged militants of the armed resistance. I seem to live in the tale of George Wells,
the time machine, where behind the apparent prosperity of Eloi there 'the nightmare of the raids
of Morlocks who kidnap and eat the Eloi. Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails will rot
11 000, quite a few, these Palestinians are just bad, all terrorists, more 'or less as we Italians
when we oppose the German occupation. Gia ', anyone who opposes a strong and power', by definition, a terrorist.
the Palestinian territories are full of Israeli checkpoints, we tourists pass without much supervision, but Palestinians
make an ass so if you do not have the permission does not pass even if the place you want to go and
'inside the Palestinian territories, even if you had an accident and
lose blood in torrents and the only hospital that can 'save and' beyond 'the checkpoint. In fact, many have died at checkpoints.
I speak with a Red Cross volunteer (here called the Red Crescent, but does the same), said in an ambulance and
'a play to pass the checkpoint, the soldiers can not be' reasoning, even if the patient and 'very serious if not allowed
not pass. And permission is not 'easy to get. So the more 'of the times you die, the bureaucracy, but it 's death intentional
part of the process of annihilation of a people.
At a checkpoint at night and under a pouring rain, a medieval vision, absurd, I seem to be in a comic
war scenes that I did not think they would ever see in a civilized country ... but in fact a country ruled by a military regime
NOT 'a civilized country, and' a total institution, an asylum, a prison camp,
where violence reigns supreme and should never ask why '. A young Palestinian
and 'on his knees, drenched in rain, surrounded by 4 or 5 dudes in uniform and Israelis with machine guns.
The bus driver says "they do it often, without reason, you are stopped at the checkpoint and you take 2 or 3 hours on his knees in the rain. Although a
and 'the person most' peaceful world, after a couple of experiences like that joins the armed struggle. "
The Israelis know this very well and stack 'nisciuno and' stupid, and it 's what want to achieve,
many episodes of "terrorism" to be able to suppress the weapons by 10 times more 'victims of terrorism.
What's the point? What to exasperate the people and push the
violence, only to have the excuse before the world to destroy him militarily. Both TG never show
Palestinian youth kneeling in the rain. My dear Palestinian friend, your play in the rain it 's never happened,
what the media does not tell is not' the case, does not exist.
The trip to Hebron ... along the way we see several Israeli settlements in the heart of the Palestinian territories, would be illegal but who
and 'establishing the legality here,' certainly not the UN, which continues to secure convictions against Israel
but here certainly does not send its troops, and who sets himself against Israel and the United States.
In the heart of Hebron, a small part of the city 'and'
occupied by the Israelis, there is' an Israeli checkpoint to enter with barbed wire everywhere, I wonder if they are jew and not let me enter.
The Palestinians have had to put guards on the streets that pass next to this enclave, 'cause the Israelis
throwing stones and rubbish from the windows at passers. It 's all nonsense. I wonder what kind of people you can pay to live here
to give life to this farce, set up only to humiliate the Palestinians. Of poor people without art
it 'part, I guess. Without a job and without a future outside of the Israeli state subsidies that go to their
lend itself to this shameful farce. Basically do not envy them, are slaves to a system, could not live off this
pattern of violence and oppression, not as an Executioner bell without killing people.
meet a group of women from Jenin, the poor part of Palestine, most
them and their husbands have lost their jobs after the construction of the wall before working
to Israel but now is not 'given them permission to pass the checkpoint blessed;
for them to meet and even' a problem, sometimes for to 20 km it takes 5 hours because of
checkpoints. Asking for computers to be able to keep in touch via the internet.
want to learn English to speak with us and tell us their problems.
say that the world thinks of them are terrorists, not 'real, want peace, are the Israelis who do not want
leave them alone.
I make friends with the physiotherapist physiotherapy four students, all with their good veil
say they like Italy very much, say the Italian football players are all
of cute guys at school all the girls are in love with them.
Many Palestinians speak Italian, English, French, many of them have spent years working abroad
. I know someone who has worked six years in Italy, with a valid permit, and then 'run away' cause
could not take any more 'ignorance of racism and discrimination. A little 'I'm ashamed. Many have studied in Perugia,
some in Sicily, they say "beautiful Italy, Italians good people". Many people ask me where I am,
the presence of a foreigner always curious, especially the kids who you are
throw him, and want a photo. When I say I'm Italian
say "well Italy, Spain well, so England 'so', bad America, Bush and 'crazy."
Curiously, I never hear words of hatred towards the Israelis. All I hear is words of regret and resignation,
"we want to live in peace, we make their life impossible." The only sentence of racial hatred, I heard from a taxi driver isrealieno
"go to Ramallah? What are you going to do, there are only Arabs, ugly people ...".... never in 10 days in Palestine I heard someone say "Jews bad people."
Maybe you think they are discreet enough not to throw him in the face.
Omar, professor of mathematics and Leisure taxi driver, from eight months have not been paid;
fact Israel collects taxes in the Palestinian territories, but by March this year to pass stopped
that money to the Authority 'Palestinian, and thus no longer' a penny to pay officials.
Israel says it does 'cause Hamas (the ruling party) and' a den of terrorists ... Meanwhile, however, 'continues to draw
taxes from the pockets of Palestinians. Omar loves his students - or afraid of losing their jobs if they leave -
and continues to teach without salary.
Especially the first few days with me the shadow of Angelo Frammartino, the young volunteer who was stabbed in Jerusalem ...
a Palestinian tells me and that 'was a political motive, that the Palestinian who has committed the offense was more' than anything else jealous
that Angelo was in the company of girls ... it all seems very doubtful, very poorly told by both parties, especially the fact that
Angelo did not receive aid for half an hour ... Jerusalem and 'full of hospitals, police and people, it seems impossible that anyone
gave the alarm and called a autoambulaza. However, to go around the crowded streets a little 'wink
of the test is when you go sliding a group of Palestinian boys tighten the buttocks and hope that, if you should happen,
at least has a good shot and do not you face troubles are to time. Then after a while, 'that does not happen no one lets go quiet in the streets.
arrival in Israel make me some questions, nothing tragic where you go, you know someone here,
as you stop ... I expected the third grade, but I look very amateurish and bored ...
already ', wait: the day of departure, I stop at the checkpoint before the airport,
I wonder, then two other times I wonder at the entrance of the airport, then the first
checkin after I tell him that I was naively in the Palestinian territories,
I completely emptied the luggage, I submit for 20 minutes to an interrogation, even a little 'aggressive
tell and where do I justify my every move to Israel / Palestine I do
thousand questions about my private life, my profession, my movements over the past two years,
want to see my work contract in England, my website, I submit to a thorough body search, looking for traces everywhere
of gunpowder ... as if those who are interested in the fate of the Palestinians was necessarily a potential criminal,
that one must necessarily justify their being different.
