We're doing an informal roundtable on this site, challenging non- and anti-Zionists to utter some positive formula for peace in the Middle East. On the very-American theory, Now that we have the microphone, we have to step up to the plate. But Seham, our young Palestinian-American correspondent from California, isn't into the vibe:
I don't know how to move forward. I see why that's the direction we
should moving in but I don't know what moving forward means so long as
the people all over the Palestinian territories keep experiencing the
crazy shit they are experiencing in Gaza, E. Jerusalem, West Bank. It's sheer fucking insanity. For the first time in my lifetime I am
hearing a different tone from the media. And it's all because of the
internet. Wapo and NYT's don't throw a bone to the Palestinians every
once a while because they have a little fucking humanity in them, they're doing it because they don't want to become irrelevant, because
the truth is just a google search away. It's because of the internet
and the people who are documenting all these fucking crimes. Because
in reality, the mainstream media doesn't give a shit about Palestinians
and they aren't going to humanize them unless they are forced to and
then when they get forced to do that they are going to go look for Jews
that are humanizing them because it's the safest thing to do. So
basically, team Palestine needs you to keep doing what you are doing
because you're the only way that anyone in this country is ever going
to get to hear about them. No pressure or anything though.
