Sunday 8 February 2009

Ramallah is now "The Green Zone"

Reports from family, friends, and other eyewitnesses are quite disheartening…Many now in Palestine speak of Ramallah as Palestine’s version of Iraq’s “Green Zone” and liken the situation faced by students trying to express their anger and frustration with what the Zionists are doing/done to the people of Gaza as the same in other despotic Arab countries and regimes, particularly that of Egypt!


Students at Bir Zeit University were severely beaten by masked PA security forces when they tried to demonstrate against the war crimes in Gaza. Students suffered many injuries including broken bones as the PA tried to snuff out any form of expression of sympathy amongst the general Palestinian population in Ramallah and other parts of the West Bank (many of you can now understand why the Israelis allowed the PA to send hundreds of its Egyptian/Jordanian trained security personnel to enter Hebron/Jenin/Nablus in the run-up to the Israeli invasion of Gaza)!


As Israel was starving and blockading the people of Gaza and during barbaric invasion of Gaza, the PA security wrote the sermons for the Friday prayers and warned the Imams from deviating from the scripts that were written for them AND as an added precaution, masked PA security personnel in full riot gear (supplied by the US and trained by the US in Egypt and Jordan) awaited the faithful as they existed Friday prayers, making sure that no one dared to demonstrate or express their anger to what was happening to their brothers and sisters in Gaza (Thank you Israel and America for teaching the PA about democracy and freedom of speech and expression. I guess those freedoms are reserved for Americans and Israelis only and do not apply to Palestinians)! The PA goons who are doing the dirty work for their Israeli masters are out of work young men who, after six months of extensive training in Jordan or Egypt are sent into areas “foreign” to them (young men from Ramallah are sent to Nablus/Hebron, while those from Hebron/Nablus are sent to Ramallah and so forth so as to eliminate or minimize any chance that the people they are charged with abusing and or oppressing are recognized by them. I guess they don’t want “brothers” beating up their brothers and or fathers and so forth)…


The few expressions of sympathy the PA did allow was the “candle light” vigils in central Ramallah whereby the young people had to follow a script (I can understand this in Europe or in the US, BUT NOT in Palestine) and it seems that the young people in Ramallah have been infiltrated by these so-called foreign “peace activists” who have essentially “neutered” them, turning them into nothing more than stupefied hooka smoking/coffee guzzling “pacifists”…


It seems that the famous Palestinian street, which has stood up to some of the most barbaric and inhumane forces on earth, has been pacified in the “Green Zone” whereby trendy café’s, restaurants, and shops flourish, to keep the young people distracted while the people of Gaza are being massacred and starved, serving as an effective “disconnect” as if the people of Gaza were in a “distant” and “far away” land! The “Green Zone” keeps it’s prisoners “happy” and distracted, and makes “examples” out of those that are not so “content in their cage” one way or another…


A sad day has dawned on us indeed when one finds much more expressions of solidarity in the streets of Europe and the US than in the “Green Zone” of Palestine. This is precisely what the Zionists had wanted from the late Yasser Arafat when the late Israeli Prime Minister Rabin famously said that he didn’t want “a democracy in Palestine”, he said “we need a strong and ruthless dictator to lead the Palestinians”…


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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

thanks for an intersting Article. Yes ramallah goons should be ashamed of themselves, Palestinians are known around the world for their love for dignity and a love for freedom , the ramallah gangs are the opposite of what a true palestinian is . I hope the Palestinians in the westbank will soon get rid of them . I also hope the palestinians (diaspora)are given the right to Vote in the next elections , then fatah will have no chance . But right now they must be preparing fraud and cheating for the next elections .