Lapho ngiqala ukuya ePalestine ngiyintatheli esencane ngeminyaka yawo-1960, ngahlala e-kibbutz. Abantu engahlangana nabo babesebenza kanzima, benomoya futhi bezibiza ngamaSocialists. Ngangizithanda.
Ngobunye ubusuku esidlweni sakusihlwa, ngabuza ngemifanekiso yabantu abakude, ngale komngcele wethu.
โAma-Arab,โ bathi, โama-nomadsโ. Amazwi acishe aphuma amathe. Abakwa-Israel, bathi, okusho ukuthi iPalestine, iningi labo beliyihlane kanti omunye wemisebenzi emikhulu yebhizinisi lamaZayoni kwaba wukuguqula ugwadule lube luhlaza.
Benza njengesibonelo isivuno sabo samawolintshi e-Jaffa, athunyelwa emhlabeni wonke. Yeka ukunqoba ngokumelene nobunzima bemvelo nokunganakwa kwesintu.
Kwakungamanga okuqala. Iningi lamawolintshi kanye nezivini kwakungezabasePalestine ababelima umhlabathi futhi bathumela amawolintshi namagilebhisi eYurophu kusukela ngekhulu leshumi nesishiyagalombili. Idolobha langaphambili lasePalestine i-Jaffa lalaziwa izakhamuzi zalo zangaphambili ngokuthi "indawo yamawolintshi adabukisayo".
Ku-kibbutz, igama elithi "Palestinian" alikaze lisetshenziswe. Ngabuza ngani. Impendulo kwaba ukuthula okukhathazekile.
Kuwo wonke umhlaba ophethwe amakholoni, ubukhosi bangempela babantu bomdabu besatshwa yilabo abangakwazi neze ukufihla iqiniso, kanye nobugebengu, ukuthi bahlala emhlabeni owebiwe.
Ukuphika ubuntu babantu kuyisinyathelo esilandelayo - njengoba abantu bamaJuda bazi kahle kakhulu. Ukungcolisa isithunzi namasiko kanye nokuzigqaja kwabantu kulandela udlame.
E-Ramallah, kulandela ukuhlaselwa kweWest Bank ngu-Ariel Sharon ongasekho ngo-2002, ngahamba emigwaqweni yezimoto ezibhidliziwe nezindlu ezibhidliziwe, ngaya e-Palestinian Cultural Centre. Kwaze kwaba yilolo suku ekuseni, amasosha akwa-Israyeli ayekanise lapho.
Ngahlangatshezwa umqondisi wesikhungo, umbhali wamanoveli, u-Liana Badr, imibhalo yakhe yokuqala yayilele ihlakazekile futhi idabukile phansi. I-hard drive equkethe inganekwane yakhe, nomtapo wezincwadi wemidlalo nezinkondlo kwakuthathwe amasosha akwa-Israel. Cishe yonke into yaphihlizwa, futhi yangcoliswa.
Akukho neyodwa incwadi eyasinda nawo wonke amakhasi ayo; hhayi itheyiphu eyodwa eyinhloko evela kwelinye lamaqoqo angcono kakhulu e-cinema yasePalestine.
Amasosha ayezichamele futhi azikhulule phansi, emadeskini, emifekethiso nemisebenzi yobuciko. Babegcobe indle emidwebeni yezingane base bebhala โ ngeshit โ โBorn to killโ.
U-Liana Badr wayegcwele izinyembezi emehlweni akhe, kodwa wayengagobile. Wathi, โSizokulungisa futhi.โ
Okuthukuthelisa labo abenza amakoloni futhi badle, bantshontshe futhi bacindezele, abacekele phansi futhi bangcolise ukwenqaba kwabahlukunyeziwe ukulalela lokho. Futhi lesi yinhlonipho okufanele sonke siyikhokhele amaPalestine. Benqaba ukulalela. Baqhubeke. Bayalinda - baze balwe futhi. Futhi benza kanjalo ngisho nalapho labo ababusayo besebenzisana nabacindezeli babo.
Phakathi nokuqhunyiswa kwamabhomu kwa-Israel eGaza ngo-2014, intatheli yasePalestine uMohammed Omer akazange ayeke ukubika. Yena nomkhaya wakhe bashaywa; washaya ulayini ukuze athole ukudla namanzi futhi wakuthwala ngemfucumfucu. Lapho ngimshayela ucingo, ngangiwezwa amabhomu ngaphandle komnyango wakhe. Wenqaba ukulalela.
Imibiko ka-Mohammed, ekhonjiswa ngezithombe zakhe eziyingcaca, yayiyimodeli yobuntatheli obuchwepheshile eyahlazisa ukubika okuthobelayo nokulangazelela kwalokho okubizwa ngokuthi yi-mainstream eBrithani nase-United States. Umbono we-BBC wokubheka izinto - ukhulisa izinganekwane namanga egunya, umkhuba oziqhenya ngawo - uhlazeka nsuku zonke ngabantu abafana no-Mohamed Omer.
Iminyaka engaphezu kwengama-40, ngiqophe ukwenqaba kwabantu basePalestine ukuthobela abacindezeli babo: i-Israel, i-United States, iBrithani, i-European Union.
Kusukela ngo-2008, iBrithani iyodwa inikeze amalayisense okuthekelisa kwa-Israel izikhali nemicibisholo, ama-drones kanye nezibhamu zama-sniper, ezibiza u-ยฃ434 million.
Labo abaye bamelana nalokhu, ngaphandle kwezikhali, labo abenqaba ukuthobela, baphakathi kwamaPalestina engibe nenhlanhla yokukwazi:
Umngane wami, ongasekho uMohammed Jarella, owasebenzela inhlangano yeZizwe Ezihlangene i-UNRWA, ngo-1967 wangibonisa ikamu lababaleki basePalestine okokuqala ngqa. Bekushubile ebusika izingane zesikole ziqhaqhazela amakhaza. โNgelinye ilangaโฆโ wayesho. "Usuku olulodwa โฆ"
UMustafa Barghouti, ubugagu bakhe buhlala bungakafihli, owachaza ukubekezelelana okwakukhona ePalestine phakathi kwamaJuda, amaSulumane namaKrestu kwaze kwaba, njengoba angitshela, โamaZayoni ayefuna umbuso izindleko kwabasePalestine.โ
UDkt. Mona El-Farra, udokotela waseGaza, intshiseko yakhe yayiqoqa imali yokuhlinzwa kwepulasitiki yezingane ezidilizwe izinhlamvu nezinhlamvu ze-Israel. Isibhedlela sakhe sashaywa ngamabhomu akwa-Israel ngo-2014.
UDkt. Khalid Dahlan, udokotela wengqondo, imitholampilo yakhe yezingane eGaza - izingane ezithunyelwe cishe zihlanyiswa udlame lwase-Israel - kwakuyizizinda zempucuko.
UFatima noNasser umbhangqwana umuzi wawo owawusesigodini esiseduze neJerusalema esibizwa ngokuthi โIndawo A no-Bโ, okusho ukuthi izwe limenyezelwe ngamaJuda kuphela. Abazali babo babehlala lapho; ogogo nomkhulu babo babehlala khona. Namuhla, ogandaganda babekela amaJuda kuphela imigwaqo, evikelwe yimithetho yamaJuda kuphela.
Kwakuphakathi kwamabili lapho u-Fatima eyobeletha nengane yabo yesibili. Umntwana wazalwa ngaphambi kwesikhathi; futhi lapho befika endaweni yokuhlola isibhedlela sibhekwe, isosha lase-Israeli lathi lidinga enye incwadi.
UFatima wopha kabi. Isosha lahleka lalingisa ukububula kwakhe lathi kubo, โHambani niye ekhayaโ. Ingane yazalelwa khona elolini. Kwakuluhlaza okwesibhakabhaka ngenxa yamakhaza futhi ngokushesha, ngaphandle kokunakekelwa, washona ngenxa yokuchayeka. Igama lomntwana kwakunguSultan.
Kubantu basePalestine, lezi kuzoba yizindaba ezijwayelekile. Umbuzo uwukuthi: kungani bengajwayele eLondon naseWashington, eBrussels naseSydney?
E-Syria, imbangela yakamuva yenkululeko - imbangela kaGeorge Clooney - igcinwe kahle eBrithani nase-United States, nakuba abahlomuli, ababizwa ngokuthi amavukela-mbuso, bebuswa abashisekeli be-jihadist, umkhiqizo wokuhlasela kwe-Afghanistan ne-Iraq futhi. ukubhujiswa kweLibya yesimanje.
Noma kunjalo, umsebenzi omude kakhulu nokumelana ezikhathini zanamuhla awabonwa. Lapho iNhlangano Yezizwe Ezihlangene inyakazisa futhi ichaza u-Israyeli njengombuso wobandlululo, njengoba kwenzeka kulo nyaka, kuba nentukuthelo - hhayi ngombuso "inhloso yawo eyinhloko" kuwukucwasa ngokwebala kodwa ngokumelene nekhomishana ye-UN eyaba nesibindi sokuphula ukuthula.
โIPalestine,โ kusho uNelson Mandela, โindaba yokuziphatha okuhle kakhulu esikhathini sethu.โ
Kungani leli qiniso licindezelwa, usuku nosuku, inyanga nenyanga, unyaka nonyaka?
Kwa-Israel - umbuso wobandlululo, onecala lobugebengu obubhekiswe esintwini kanye nokuphula umthetho wamazwe ngamazwe ukwedlula noma yimuphi omunye-ukuthula kusaqhubeka phakathi kwalabo abaziyo nomsebenzi wabo okungukugcina irekhodi liqondile.
Kwa-Israel, ubuntatheli obuningi buyesatshiswa futhi bulawulwa iqembu elicabangayo elifuna ukuthula ePalestine kuyilapho ubuntatheli obuhloniphekile sebuphenduke inkani: isingathekiso esingaphansi komhlaba.
Igama elilodwa - "ukungqubuzana" - lenza lokhu kuthula. โAma-Arab-Israyeli ukungqubuzanatโ, kuzwisa amarobhothi kuma-tele-prompters awo. Lapho intatheli ye-BBC engumakadebona, indoda elaziyo iqiniso, ibhekisela โezindabeni ezimbiliโ, ukonakala kokuziphatha kuphelile.
Akukho ukungqubuzana, akukho ukulandisa okubili, ngokuziphatha kwabo okugcwele. Kukhona impi yokuvinjezelwa ukuphoqelelwa amandla ezikhali zenuzi asekelwa amandla ezempi amakhulu kunawo wonke emhlabeni; futhi kukhona ukungabi nabulungisa okubabazekayo.
Igama elithi "umsebenzi" lingase livinjelwe, lisuswe kusichazamazwi. Kodwa inkumbulo yeqiniso lomlando ayikwazi ukuvinjelwa: yokuxoshwa okuhlelekile kwamaPalestine ezweni lakubo. "Plan D" ama-Israyeli ayibiza ngo-1948.
Isazi-mlando esingumIsrayeli uBenny Morris sichaza indlela uDavid Ben-Gurion, undunankulu wokuqala wakwa-Israyeli, abuzwa ngayo ngomunye wojenene bakhe: โSizokwenzenjani ngama-Arabhu?โ
Undunankulu, wabhala uMorris, "wenza isenzo sokucasula, esinamandla ngesandla sakhe". โBaxoshe!โ uthe.
Eminyakeni engamashumi ayisikhombisa kamuva, lobu bugebengu bucindezelwa esikweni lengqondo nelepolitiki laseNtshonalanga. Noma kuyaphikiswana, noma kumane kuyimpikiswano. Izintatheli ezikhokhelwa kakhulu futhi zamukela ngokulangazela uhambo lukahulumeni wase-Israel, ukungenisa izihambi nokuthopha, bese ziba nesineke ekubhikisheleni kwazo inkululeko. Igama elithi, โizilima eziwusizoโ, laqanjwa bona.
Ngo-2011, ngahlabeka umxhwele lapho omunye wababhali bamanoveli abahlonishwa kakhulu eBrithani, u-Ian McEwan, indoda eyayizigqaja ngokukhanya konxiwankulu, yamukela uMklomelo we-Jerusalem wezincwadi zemibhalo ezweni lobandlululo.
Ngabe uMcEwan ngabe waya eSun City eNingizimu Afrika yobandlululo? Banikeza imiklomelo lapho, futhi, zonke izindleko zikhokhiwe. UMcEwan wasithethelela isenzo sakhe ngamazwi e-weasel mayelana nokuzimela "kwenhlangano yomphakathi".
Inkulumo-ze - yohlobo lukaMcEwan alulethile, nokushaya kwakhe uphawu ezihlakaleni kwababejabule - iyisikhali sabacindezeli basePalestine. Njengoshukela, isho cishe yonke into namuhla.
Ukuqonda nokuqeda inkulumo-ze yombuso namasiko kuwumsebenzi wethu obaluleke kakhulu. Siyiswa empini ebandayo yesibili, leyo inhloso yayo ekugcineni kuwukunqoba nokuqeda iRussia nokwethusa iShayina.
Lapho uDonald Trump noVladimir Putin bekhuluma ngasese isikhathi esingaphezu kwamahora amabili emhlanganweni we-G20 eHamburg, ngokusobala ngesidingo sokungayi empini, ababephikisana kakhulu yilabo abaye bagunyaza inkululeko, njengomlobi wezombusazwe waseZiyoni. kwe Guardian.
โAkumangalisi ukuthi uPutin wayemamatheka eHamburg,โ kubhala uJonathan Freedland. "Uyazi ukuthi uphumelele enjongweni yakhe enkulu: wenze iMelika yaba buthaka futhi." Khombisa ukuhayiza kuka-Evil Vlad.
Laba abakhuluma inkulumo-ze abakaze bayazi impi kodwa bayawuthanda umdlalo wasebukhosini wempi. Lokho u-Ian McEwan akubiza ngokuthi โumphakathi womphakathiโ sekuphenduke umthombo ocebile wenkulumo-ze ehlobene.
Thatha igama elivame ukusetshenziswa ngababheki bomphakathi - "amalungelo abantu". Njengomunye umqondo omuhle, โintando yeningiโ, โamalungelo abantuโ ayisaphathwa nakancane incazelo nenjongo yawo.
โNjengenqubo yokuthulaโ kanye โnebalazwe lomgwaqoโ, amalungelo abantu ePalestine athunjwe ohulumeni baseNtshonalanga kanye nama-NGO ezinkampani abazixhasayo futhi abathi banegunya elixakile lokuziphatha.
Ngakho lapho u-Israyeli ebizwa ngohulumeni kanye nama-NGOs ukuthi "ahloniphe amalungelo abantu" ePalestine, akukho okwenzekayo, ngoba bonke bayazi ukuthi akukho lutho lokwesaba; akukho okuzoshintsha.
Phawula ukuthula kwe-European Union, ehlalisa u-Israyeli ngenkathi yenqaba ukugcina izibopho zayo kubantu baseGaza - njengokugcina umzila wokuphila wokuwela umngcele waseRafah uvulekile: isinyathelo eyavumelana ngaso njengengxenye yendima yayo ekuqedeni ukulwa. ngo-2014. Ichweba laseGaza - okuvunyelwene ngalo yiBrussels ngo-2014 - lishiywe.
Ikhomishana ye-UN engikhulume ngayo - igama layo eliphelele yi-UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia - ichaze u-Israyeli ngokuthi, futhi ngicaphuna, "eyakhelwe injongo eyinhloko" yokucwasa ngokobuhlanga.
Izigidi ziyakuqonda lokhu. Lokho ohulumeni baseLondon, Washington, Brussels kanye naseTel Aviv abangakwazi ukukulawula ukuthi isintu ezingeni lomgwaqo siyashintsha mhlawumbe kunanini ngaphambili.
Abantu yonke indawo bayanyakaza futhi baqaphela kakhulu, ngokubona kwami, kunanini ngaphambili. Abanye sebevele bavukele obala. Isihluku seGrenfell Tower eLondon sihlanganise imiphakathi ekuphikisaneni okunamandla cishe kwezwe lonke.
Ngenxa yomkhankaso wabantu, abezomthetho namuhla bahlola ubufakazi bokushushiswa kukaTony Blair ngamacala empi. Noma ngabe lokhu kwehluleka, kuyintuthuko ebalulekile, ediliza esinye futhi isithiyo phakathi komphakathi kanye nokubona kwawo ubugebenga bamandla ombuso - ukunganakwa okuhleliwe kobuntu okwenziwa e-Iraq, eGrenfell Tower, ePalestine. Lawo ngamachashaza alindele ukujoyinwa.
Okwningi lwe21st ekhulwini leminyaka, ukukhwabanisa kwamandla enkampani azenza intando yeningi kuye kwancika enkulumweni yokuphazamisa: ikakhulukazi enkolelweni โyobuminaโ eklanyelwe ukuphambanisa umuzwa wethu wokubheka abanye, wokwenza izinto ndawonye, โโwobulungiswa bezenhlalo kanye nokuthanda amazwe ngamazwe.
Izigaba, ubulili nobuhlanga kwahlukaniswa. Umuntu siqu waba ipolitiki kanye nabezindaba umyalezo. Ukukhuthazwa kwamalungelo onxiwankulu kwethulwe njengepolitiki โeqhubekayoโ. Bekungenjalo. Akukaze kube njalo. Kuwukukhuthazwa kwelungelo, namandla.
Phakathi kwentsha, i-internationalism ithole izethameli eziningi ezintsha. Bheka ukwesekwa kuka-Jeremy Corbyn kanye nokwamukelwa kwesekisi le-G20 e-Hamburg okutholwe. Ngokuqonda iqiniso kanye nezidingo ze-internationalism, kanye nokwenqaba ubukoloni, siyawuqonda umzabalazo wasePalestine.
UMandela wakubeka kanje: โSazi kahle kamhlophe ukuthi inkululeko yethu ayiphelele ngaphandle kwenkululeko yamaPalestine.โ
Enkabeni yeMpumalanga Ephakathi kukhona umlando ongenabulungiswa ePalestine. Kuze kube lokho kuxazululwa, futhi amaPalestine anenkululeko yawo kanye nezwe lakubo, futhi ama-Israel angamaPalestine ngokulingana phambi komthetho, ngeke kube nokuthula esifundeni, noma mhlawumbe kuphi.
Lokhu uMandela ayekusho ukuthi inkululeko ngokwayo iyingozi kuyilapho ohulumeni abanamandla bangaphika ubulungisa kwabanye, bethuse abanye, babophe futhi babulale abanye, egameni lethu. U-Israyeli uyaluqonda ngempela usongo lokuthi ngolunye usuku kungase kudingeke kube yinto evamile.
Kungakho inxusa layo eBrithani kunguMark Regev, owaziwa kakhulu ezintathelini njengomshicileli wenkulumo-ze, futhi kungani โinkohliso enkuluโ yamacala okulwa nobuJuda, njengoba u-Ilan Pappe akubiza kanjalo, avunyelwa ukuba aphikisane neLabour Party futhi abukele phansi uJeremy. Corbyn njengomholi. Iphuzu liwukuthi, ayizange iphumelele.
Imicimbi ihamba ngokushesha manje. Umkhankaso omangalisayo Wokuduba, Ukuchithwa Kwezimali kanye Nezijeziso (BDS) uyaphumelela, usuku nosuku; amadolobha namadolobhana, izinyunyana zabasebenzi kanye nezinhlangano zabafundi ziyakugunyaza. Imizamo kahulumeni waseBrithani yokuvimba imikhandlu yasendaweni ukuthi iphoqelele iBDS yehlulekile ezinkantolo.
Lezi akuzona izinhlanga emoyeni. Lapho amaPalestine evuka futhi, njengoba ezokwenza, angase angaphumeleli ekuqaleni - kodwa ekugcineni azophumelela uma siqonda ukuthi yithi, futhi singabo.
Lena inguqulo efushanisiwe yekheli lika-John Pilger kuMbukiso wasePalestine e-London ngomhla ka-8 Julayi, 2017. Ifilimu ka-John Pilger, 'Palestine Is Still the Issue', ingabukwa. lapha.
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