"In Palestine and Iraq the vast majority of people simply resist by simply surviving, a fundamental and hopeful act. For Palestinians, the Zionists of Israel simply want to make life unbearable enough for the Palestinian people to simply leave and never be allowed to return, one of the final acts of colonialism. Yet, look at the people of Gaza, who live in prison, regularly bombed and invaded by the Israeli military, and yet, they survive, often barely, but they're surviving, still having weddings, births, funerals, eating, farming, teaching and keeping on.
"For the people of Iraq, the U.S. simply doesn't care about them, nor does the U.S. want to steal their land; the U.S. simply wants to control the oil and be a military buffer against nationalism & pan-arabism, and, ultimately China. Yet, the struggle to just live and survive has not been decimated, and for that we can be hopeful.
"How about all the Palestinian villages who have led the most inspiring nonviolent direct action campaigns to stop Israel's apartheid wall and the seizure of their pastoral land? You'd think the white liberal Left in the U.S. would be all over this incredible David & Goliath struggle, lending money and bodies to the courageous Palestinians defending their land. Villages like Bil'in offer examples for all us in the face of adversity.
Found on Counterpunch.org
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