What can I do? kick the Israeli ambassador out of the country? Out of Jordan? Close the embassy down?
What about the ass covering peace treaty?
Does it really cover only our ass? Maybe one cheek, maybe less? What do we take in return? Israeli tourists who contribute nothing to the tourism income as they bring their food ,their water, as a result of the paranoia they are living in, and in result are really hated by everyone in this sector? This is extremely ideological free, just business.
On the other hand, to visit Palestine and if you don’t have a Palestinian ID or permit or lamm shamil then you’d probably have to get a visa, an Israeli one, which will probably be hell to get if you get it in the first place. Not that it’s easier with Palestinian papers on borders. All is just as humiliating as hell. So the catch isn’t very big obviously other than avoiding a couple of rockets and bullets and invasion eventually.
Oh, I forgot, we don’t have a trained army to protect the country in case anything happened. All soldiers are of approximately middle age with probably honorary positions with big bellies somewhere in the medical city or some other prestigious place.
Was that part of the treaty? What does it take to stand up and say get the hell out of here?
If this is the culture we are trying to promote, culture of cowardice, meekness then maybe we should consider promoting that in schools as well as universities and work places. In order to expect less of the people, no rebels, just people who function as machines, flawless and emotions free and right on track, on procedures and stupid human made laws.
We are so damn contradicting, we’re poor, but we look pretty polished on magazine covers and on international TV channels, we’re very sophisticated as we graduate from American and English schools and Universities, but we’re still poor, we need more loans that we cannot commit to close, but instead we give up some values from here and there, to satisfy money lenders, at the end we’re still poor but we have a zillion investment projects and enormously big towers and maybe sky scrapers compared to Al Burj building in the third circle, that I have no idea who is going to go there, live there, rent there?
No clue.
What I’ve found out is that we are not poor financially, we are greedy and we are racing with the wrong people, comparing ourselves with the wrong people to an extent that we lost ourselves, we lost our identity. We are poor in identity, in values, what we do is exactly the opposite of what we say and what we call for and encourage people to do and to have; such as free will and free mind, we are not able to measure up to the first article of human right declaration, we don’t want to care that people have the right to life, a good one.
If we don’t want to care about that why should we punish sinners, stealers, killers?
Isn’t that all contradicting.
Lets cut the bullshit, try to lessen hypocracy, reality check, lets try to search for us. The real us. We are strong, rich in minds, but faithless in ourselves, and that shall get us nowhere.”
– Deema Shahin
ZENID co-worker, Youth Media Unit
