My Daughter, These Are Tears of Struggle Ahed Tamimi's father: I'm proud of my daughter. She is a freedom fighter who, in the coming years, will lead the resistance to Israeli rule
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My Daughter, These Are Tears of Struggle Ahed Tamimi's father: I'm proud of my daughter. She is a freedom fighter who, in the coming years, will lead the resistance to Israeli rule
This night too, like all the nights since dozens of soldiers raided our home in the middle of the night, my wife Nariman, my 16-year-old daughter Ahed and Ahed’s cousin Nur will spend behind bars. Although it is Ahed’s first arrest, she is no stranger to your prisons. My daughter has spent her whole life under the heavy shadow of the Israeli prison — from my lengthy incarcerations throughout her childhood, to the repeated arrests of her mother, brother and friends, to the covert-overt threat implied by your soldiers’ ongoing presence in our lives. So her own arrest was just a matter of time. An inevitable tragedy waiting to happen.
Several months ago, on a trip to South Africa, we screened for an audience a video documenting the struggle of our village, Nabi Saleh, against Israel’s forced rule. When the lights came back on, Ahed stood up to thank the people for their support. When she noticed that some of the audience members had tears in their eyes, she said to them: “We may be victims of the Israeli regime, but we are just as proud of our choice to fight for our cause, despite the known cost. We knew where this path would lead us, but our identity, as a people and as individuals, is planted in the struggle, and draws its inspiration from there. Beyond the suffering and daily oppression of the prisoners, the wounded and the killed, we also know the tremendous power that comes from belonging to a resistance movement; the dedication, the love, the small sublime moments that come from the choice to shatter the invisible walls of passivity.
“I don’t want to be perceived as a victim, and I won’t give their actions the power to define who I am and what I’ll be. I choose to decide for myself how you will see me. We don’t want you to support us because of some photogenic tears, but because we chose the struggle and our struggle is just. This is the only way that we’ll be able to stop crying one day.”
Months after that event in South Africa, when she challenged the soldiers, who were armed from head to toe, it wasn’t sudden anger at the grave wounding of 15-year-old Mohammed Tamimi not long before that, just meters away, that motivated her. Nor was it the provocation of those soldiers entering our home. No. These soldiers, or others who are identical in their action and their role, have been unwanted and uninvited guests in our home ever since Ahed was born. No. She stood there before them because this is our way, because freedom isn’t given as charity, and because despite the heavy price, we are ready to pay it.
My daughter is just 16 years old. In another world, in your world, her life would look completely different. In our world, Ahed is a representative of a new generation of our people, of young freedom fighters. This generation has to wage its struggle on two fronts. On the one hand, they have the duty, of course, to keep on challenging and fighting the Israeli colonialism into which they were born, until the day it collapses. On the other hand, they have to boldly face the political stagnation and degeneration that has spread among us. They have to become the living artery that will revive our revolution and bring it back from the death entailed in a growing culture of passivity that has arisen from decades of political inactivity.
Ahed is one of many young women who in the coming years will lead the resistance to Israeli rule. She is not interested in the spotlight currently being aimed at her due to her arrest, but in genuine change. She is not the product of one of the old parties or movements, and in her actions she is sending a message: In order to survive, we must candidly face our weaknesses and vanquish our fears.
In this situation, the greatest duty of me and my generation is to support her and to make way; to restrain ourselves and not to try to corrupt and imprison this young generation in the old culture and ideologies in which we grew up.
Ahed, no parent in the world yearns to see his daughter spending her days in a detention cell. However, Ahed, no one could be prouder than I am of you. You and your generation are courageous enough, at last, to win. Your actions and courage fill me with awe and bring tears to my eyes. But in accordance with your request, these are not tears of sadness or regret, but rather tears of struggle.
read more: https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.831873
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A palestinian woman tries to detonate a car bomb at a checkpoint. Ends up only causing a fire in her car, resulting in her sustaining serious burns on her face, hands, back and chest, and resulting in her hand being amputated.
And in typical palestinian style, they have found a way to blame her hand amputation on Israel.
32-year-old detained Palestinian mother-of-two had her hand amputated due to the Israel Prison Service’s medical negligence.Israa Jaabis, from the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabal al-Mukabbir, sustained serious burns on her face, hands, back and chest when fire broke out in her car due to a faulty domestic gas cylinder she had in the back seat while she was near an East Jerusalem checkpoint in Oct. 2015.In Nov. 2016, Israa was sentenced to 11 years in the Israeli jails on an alleged charge of attempting to set off a car bomb to the Israeli military checkpoint. She was also imposed a fine of 20,000 shekels ($5,243).Jaabis had to have eight of her fingers amputated following the fire in 2015; Israel’s deliberate medical negligence has worsened her health condition that she had to have her hand amputated
You read that correctly: she already had 8 fingers amputated following the attempted detonation. So losing her hand really means losing her remaining two fingers.
And what is deliberate negligence? Negligence is by definition a form of carelessness.
Incidentally, her story involves more lameness.
Her family says the incident was an accident and the fire in her car was caused by a faulty domestic gas cylinder she had in the back seat while she was in the process of moving to a new home in East Jerusalem — a decision she made so as to retain her Jerusalem residency.
And I am sure her shouting “Allah Akbar” (God is the greatest) right before the explosion was because she was just so happy to be moving house.
Liar liar, pants (and everything else) on fire.
http://www.israellycool.com/2017/12/28/palestinians-blame-israel-for-injuries-sustained-in-premature-explodation/
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This is the woman, this Pallywood child looks up to, her relative
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a new white widow terrorist in the making
best thing for a terrorist is a bullet in the back of the head
the only good terrorist is a dead terrorist i say
best thing for a terrorist is a bullet in the back of the head
the only good terrorist is a dead terrorist i say
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What's this Palestinian propaganda night on here?. See you later when there's more variety to the dicussions.
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Vintage wrote:What's this Palestinian propaganda night on here?. See you later when there's more variety to the dicussions.
Indeed, the puppet of Hamas, is on a roll, to make herself look very silly
Its great to watch
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Now these are what real freedom Fighters look like
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