I can’t remember how I started following @sarahonline but it was one of my first days on Twitter. She generally posts events from Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem. Sometimes I imagine how every single violation deeply impacts one person or one family or one neighborhood and it sends rings of ripples like a pebble in water until it reaches me and I call back..I can hear you. Tonight I read how 11 year old Muhammad Abbasi had been abducted by ‘Israeli forces’…and other news.
This is just one of those stories.
Exiled activist Adnan Ghaith returned to Silwan on Wednesday 12 October after serving a 9 month ban sentence from his home town. Ghaith’s exile was extended by one month after serving the original 8 month sentence, when he was arrested and removed from Jerusalem the day that he finally returned home last month. The order was enabled on the strength of an old military order from the Mandate era in Palestine.
Ghaith has frequently been targeted by Israeli officials for what they deem “illegal activities” – Ghaith’s role as a local activist in the Popular Committee and his position as Secretary-General for Fatah in Silwan. Ghaith has been arrested and detained many times in recent years, including a 6-month administrative detention sentence.
Everyday Sarah and Kate and Seham bring us lists, how many can we even absorb? Someday justice will come to Palestine. Welcome home Adnan Ghaith.
What was that nonsense the other day about Palestinian Ghandis? Well if you want to find one, there are a multitude of them, here is but one. For organising politically and non-violently Israel puts people in prison and calls it ‘illegal’. We hear you, Adnan, and the thousands like you, who stand up for their rights are punished by the fascists’ militia for doing so. More power to you, and your family.
There might be a lesson here. How violent is kidnapping? Probably a 4 0r 5 on a scale of 10 and as compared to the Israeli way of killing Palestine and other civilians.
Given the Israeli belief that a Jewish life is worth more than anyone elses, the most benign type of violence..lets call it bargining… if necessary might be more kidnappings of Israelis. Israel kills two civilians, then kidnap 4 Israelis, they kill 4 civilians then kidnap 6 Israelis where ever they can find them. Don’t kill them just hold them indefinitely…to be released when Israel ends the occupation. In fact since Israel claims their occupation is actually a “war” hold them as prisoners of war until the day “their war” ends.
Diabolical? Violent? Unfair?…not really, just using their supremacist achilles heel.
If every time Israel imprisoned or killed a civilian Palestine they knew they would lose a Jew would it deter them?…maybe.
What could they do about it…attack Palestine more to have more Israelis kidnapped? We would soon see if they really valued Jewish lives or just valued their supremacist zionism.
http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=241807
Hamas: Hezbollah taught us to deal with Israel
By JPOST.COM STAFF
10/15/2011 12:44
Hezbollah is credited with teaching Hamas how to secure release of prisoners; Hezbollah kidnapped 6 Israeli soldiers in past decade.
i think of these families. sometimes it feels the weight of what is going on there is so heavy it has the power to crush the spirit out of even the strongest of people. some days it seems overwhelming.