Occupation is made up of so many places and moments of evil and cruelty. Each is a world in itself. I came to Ein Rashash, yesterday – a Palestinian shepherd community that has been living for decades on one of the ranges descending towards the Palestinian Jordan Valley, just half an hour from Jerusalem. This is a poor community living mostly off its sheep and goat flocks. It is not connected to either electrical power or water.
For ten months we’ve been telling you that the whole point is occupation. We’ve explained that this is the source of the avalanche, not the whim of some whacko, but an ideology that has borne a plan and the commitment of brainwashed individuals to carry it out. That anyone breathing since birth Jewish supremacy and male supremacy and ethnic separation...
Early in the evening, while the stubborn sunlight still flooded the Shabbat day, a group of teenagers departed Shadmot Mehola. Being masked and armed with clubs and iron rods - their intentions were clear. They went out to attack, and they attacked. They jumped the Palestinian shepherd and the three Israelis who accompanied him, tried to kidnap the flock, and completed their Holy Sabbath "Mitzvah" by beating the shepherd up with the iron rod. They broke his arm.
If you were to come to Jaffa last night, your heart would be glad. A bit more relaxed, modestly hopeful. No, not hugely, stupidly, unrealistically hopeful – a normal kind of hope which normal people carry around with them when they live elsewhere, not in these raging streets. So if you had been in Jaffa last night, you would simply be there...
Our goal is to presence and prioritize the occupation on the Israeli and the international agenda. We wish to raise consciousness among the general public and expose it to the harsh realities of the Occupied Territories without the media’s mediation, but rather as we reflect it, through the voices of the activists on the ground.
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