مش هنمشي السفير يمشي

أيها الأخوة المواطنون في هذه الظروف التاريخية التي تمر بها البلد ماتسيبوش أم السفارة قبل ما السفير يغور وده أقل واجب تجاه شهدائنا

أبوس الأيادي ماتغلطوش غلطة 11 فبراير وتتطمنوا إن مطالب الثورة هاتتنفذ وتروحوا، احنا مات لنا 25 شهيد على الأقل على الحدود في الكام سنة اللي فاتوا وقبل كده مبارك كان كاتم على نفسنا ومقلل قيمتنا لكن دلوقتي احنا مقدرين قيمة نفسنا ومفيش حد حيجيب لنا حق اللي ماتوا غيرنا

ولما بنقول السفير يمشي وحتى وقف تصدير الغاز وإلغاء اتفاقية كامب ديفيد كل ده مش إعلان حرب ولا حتى تلويح بإعلان الحرب دي اسمها هيبة دولة، هيبة الدولة وقوتها في إنها ماتسمحش لأي حد أياً كان إنه يمس طرف من أرضها فما بالك يقتل ولادها، ودم ولادها غالي

في 100 حل وسط ما بين الخنوع والذل وخيانة دم شهداء الواجب وبين إعلان الحرب، استجدعوا وخليكوا ورا السفير لحد ما يغور

وماحدش يقول مش وقته، المثل الإنجليزي بيقوللك أطرق الحديد وهو ساخن إنت لو قعدت تقنع الناس سنة إن إسرائيل مش عايزة نظام ديمقراطي ولا انتخابات حرة ولا نزرع قمحنا ولا نصنع ولا نبني ماحدش حيعتصم جنب السفارة عشان يساهم في إسقاط هيمنة إسرائيل علينا، لكن بما إنهم استغبوا وقتلوا إخواتنا ومتوقعين مننا نسكت زي ما كان المخلوع بيسكتنا، يبقى لازم تستغل الزخم اللي في الشارع وتكسر عين إسرائيل واللي ساند إسرائيل واللي مطاطي راسه قدام إسرائيل وكل واحد عارف نفسه

ماتســــــيـــــــبـــــــوش أم الســــــــــفـــــــــــــارة

In Loving Memory of Vittorio Arrigoni

I met Vittorio at a protest against the proposed Gaza Steel Wall, in Cairo. He was standing quietly holding a banner in Arabic saying: no to the wall of shame. He wasn't trying to grab attention or make a show. We exchanged a few words and I was immediately impressed by his modesty and sense of humour.

A few days later, I was surprised to find that the friendly stranger I met was a famous blogger and author who blogged and reported relentlessly from Gaza to the World, in Italian and English. To him, every Palestinian mattered. To the world, they were just numbers. He spent his time as a human shield with Palestinian fishermen who are randomly shot at by the Israeli navy just for fetching food and a source of living. He danced with the Palestinians, sang with the children, received Israeli fire on their behalf. Throughout Israel's brutal onslaught on Gaza in late 2008-early 2009, Operation Cast Lead, he was one of the few, brave voices who wrote down the madness and delivered it for the world to know.

On every single day, my and 5000 people's Facebook timelines would be filled with a story from Vittorio. He chronicled every single bomb, every death, every smile, every good piece of news that happened in the crowded and impoverished strip. On every single day, he risked being the next Rachel Corrie or Tom Hurndall. To find a Palestinian resisting Zionism is normal and understandable, but to find an Italian national putting his life on the line, leaving behind the relative safety and comfort of family and home, to live in Gaza and support its people in every way possible, is an act of heroism. And Vittorio is a hero.

I have always wanted to write this post, ever since I knew him. For some reason I never did. I did thank him in person for his activism, but he had always rejected any kind of praise. I knew that if I had written this post and showed it to him, he would have never read it. I expected him to die in Gaza, in one of the random missiles perhaps. But he has suffered, he has been singled out and murdered. Maybe this was the only way for him to not be a number, to make him known in more parts of the world, to let his voice, his Palestinian voice, be reached.

Vittorio Arrigoni is killed, but Gaza is not. Palestine is not. Our spirit is not broken. Every brave and just citizen of the world will continue to carry out what Vittorio Arrigoni stood up for; a free Palestine. Vittorio lived, and died, for Gaza to be free. We shall see to that, we promise. We will end the siege and set Vittorio's brothers and sisters free.

السبت وقفة احتجاجية على الحصار وضرب أسطول الحرية

نرجو الحضور ونشر الدعوة

السكوت على حصار غزة خطيئة لا تغتفر

أعلنت الحملة العالمية لكسر الحصار على غزة 5 يونيو يوما عالميا للإحتجاج على الحصار وضرب أسطول الحرية

ويأتي هذا في الوقت الذي يتفنن فيه النظام المصري في

وضع العراقيل أمام حركة المساعدات والأفراد في معبر رفح

والحد من المواد المسموح بدخولها عبر المعبر

وهو ما يكشف زيف إدعائه بفتح المعبر

لنقف معا ضد الحصار الذي دمر غزة ويهدف لتركيع مقاومتها

من أجل فك الحصار على غزة ومن أجل فتح معبر رفح بشكل حقيقي

وتضامنا مع شعب فلسطين ومقاومته الباسلة وقوافل فك الحصار الشجاعة

نشارك أحرار العالم بوقفة احتجاجية غدا

السبت 5 يونيو، الساعة 6 مساءا

أمام نقابة الصحافيين

أفتحوا معبر رفح بشكل حقيقي

أفتحوا معبر رفح أمام قوافل المناصرة

تمرير التبرعات لقوات الإحتلال عبر معبر العوجة على أنها فتح للمعبر أكاذيب ساذجة لا تخدع أحدا

حركة كلنا مقاومة

Anti Wall of Shame Protest

مقتل مجند مصري عل الحدود: عشان الغباء ليه ناسه

أي حد مابيفهمش أ ب سياسة حيفهم إن طريقة مصر في التعامل مع قافلة شريان الحياة والحرية لغزة تميزت بالغباء السياسي الشديد...السلطات المصرية المفروض إنهم عارفين إن الناس مش سايبة أهلها وبلدها ودراستها وشغلها ومتشحططين ونايمين على الأرض ودافعين مبالغ عشان يقولوا لهم هش يتهشوا، منظمو القافلة ضحوا بحاجات كتير أهمها سلامتهم وحياتهم عشان يقدروا يناصروا غزة ويقدموا للمحاصرين اللي يقدروا عليه من المساعدات...

دلوقتي أنا ماقريتش الخبر بالتفصيل لإني لا أثق في معظم وسائل الإعلام لكن أي سيناريو حصل معناه إن السلطات المصرية متحملة المسئولية...لو الفلسطينيين هما اللي بدأوا الضرب ده لإن الأمن المصري مستأسد عليهم وسايب الإسرائيليين ينتهك الحدود ويقتل المجندين من غير ما مصر تقول بم حتى...ولسه امبارح الشيخ حازم أبو إسماعيل (من القلة أصحاب الضمير في الفضائيات) قايل إنك كل ما تخنق ناس أكتر كل ما مقاومتهم بتزيد، لما مصر محاصرة غزة وكمان تبني جدار عازل عشان يموتوا ويستسلموا لإسرائيل وده مش حيحصل يبقى لازم ده يسبب غضب ويشعل الموقف أكتر ما هو متهبب، ولو المصريين هما اللي بدأوا الضرب وده الأرجح لإن منظمي القافلة اتضربوا أصلاً من وهما في القاهرة برضو مصر متحملة مسئولية المجند اللي مات...وطبعاً دلوقتي بقى في إيديهم دليل واضح جداَ إن مصر أمنها القومي مهدد وإن الفلسطينيين بيضربوا النار علينا!

والكلام ده مش أنا بس اللي بقولوه، ده عماد الدين أديب حبيب الحكومة قالها والمستشار جودت الملط قالها، إن سوء إدارة الأزمات مستشري على جميع المستويات...والقافلة كانت ممكن تعدي بسهولة أكتر من كده بدل الفضيحة اللي اتفضحناها واللي هندفع تمنها غالي قوي وأهو أول مصري دفع التمن مات النهاردة...لكن الأمن طبعاً لا يرحم ولا يخلي رحمة ربنا تنزل.

هكتب إن شاء الله تدوينة عن رأيي في الجدار قريب.

World stands up for Gaza

Something to smile about for the new year:

From Al-Jazeera

Photos by 3arabawy

By Iman Badawi

آراء المثقفين المصريين المعارضين للجدار الفولاذي

علاء الأسواني: هل تدفع غزة ثمن التوريث؟

فهمي هويدي: الجدار حماية لأمن إسرائيل

Gaza Freedom March

I knew about the march around a month ago but got busy in everyday shit until I found the link to the event on FB only to find out in the end that the registeration is closed!
For a couple of days I kept thinking how I can get my parents to agree on this. I won't have to even ask anymore. What a bummer. Not only this, but the Egyptian authorities do not usually let Egyptians or Palestinians in and out easily at all!
So put simply, we are stuck here when we should be showing solidarity with Palestinians in every way we can. Instead of being part of what hopefully will be another pressure on Israel to end the inhuman seige on Gaza, I am supposed to just move on with my life and do everyday stuff.

ذكرى استشهاد محمد الدرة

Obama contradicting himself

Perhaps the only difference between Obama and Bush is the first's eloquence and intelligence; intelligence, however, but not fairness or justice in any way.

I believe any discussion of a conflict should begin and end when it comes to human life. Obama has been so kind-hearted as to bring to light the torture and genocide that Jews have faced in the Holocaust and, to reduce us to tears, he spoke in numbers: We have been bereaved by losing 6 million innocent Jews who had been persecuted for many years...three thousand American men women and children who did nothing, nothing, were killed in 9/11.

What about our numbers? Has no one told you that your troops in this war you did not choose (!!) killed more than a million and a half Iraqis? No mention of them? No mention of the children killed in the Haditha killings? No mention of forcing running water into people's mouths and then ruling it out as torture? Has no one told Obama of the young boy whose brain has been dashed out under US rockets and dead body shown on the 20th of March 2003 on AlJazeera? No equality for him? So as I get it, the equality he spoke of for much of the speech applies to Muslims and other minorities in the US and for Copts in Egypt, but not to our children.

No one expects him to be the saviour, and the poeple incessantly cheering and clapping during his speech are basically dumb to think that just because his middle name is Hussein, he will be fair and just. He wants Palestinians to recognise Israel, though he also said that Palestinians have long suffered from occupation! So, according him, Palestine is occupied by a most bloody state, but who cares, the bond between the US and Israel is unbreakable, so you have to be squeezed in between.

Never in his speech did he mention anything about Muslims being victims of unholy wars and monstrous submission on the part of the rest of the world. Only Bosnians and Sudanese people have suffered, but Palestinians are muderers who fire rockets at the poor Israeli people. Palestinians who are killed, tortured, imprisoned, denied a home, denied clean water and food if any at all, should abandon violence. So when Israel fires rockets and bombs at the densely populated Gaza, when one out of four victims of this war is a child, Palestinians are simply expected to abandon violence, fill their mouths with dust, their hands with soil from their children's graves and their bellies with White Phosphorous, just be quite and take it like a man!

Pictures of the lastest Gaza holocaust are available here:
www.tahyyes.org
www.justicenownetwork.blogspot.com

Ahmadinejad Circus?

We know that in the dirty world of politics, there isn't much to say, weapons always speak louder, so here are simply a few notes on the Ahmadi Nejad furor:

• Israel is a racist state. It specifically targets Arabs whether in Gaza and the West Bank or within Israel. Arab-Israelis are denied proper housing and healthcare. They are denied proper education and are not allowed to study their own history. The Israeli war machine targets Arabs in particular, and has fought six wars against Arabs since it was planted in the Middle East. A recent study showed how Israelis even take up four times the amount of potable water allowed for the Palestinians. Israeli rabbis have repeatedly described Arabs as insects. If this is not racism, I wonder what is.
• Europeans champion freedom of speech. That is why they snubbed Muslim fury at the Prophet Muhammad cartoons, saying we even attack Jesus in our plays and books, so why are Muslims so angry. Now, when the President of Iran, not an amateur cartoonist, states not only his opinion but also a historical fact, the ambassador of Britain in Geneva sees that he has gone too far! So depicting our Prophet as a terrorist, when he wasn't, is freedom of speech, whereas criticising the discriminatory polices of the state of Israel, which is a documented fact, is not?
• All due respect to the victims of the Holocaust. I don't get why Netanyahu linked between the two events; the anniversary of the Holocaust and Nejad's statements. Israel as a Zionist state was the object of his criticism, not Jews per se, and I don't see why any righteous Jew should see his statements a threat!
• It takes courage, nay, it takes absolute power, to speak the truth in this circus of a world. I bow to Ahmadinejad.