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Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 10:59 AM
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Subject: [iDC] "We want to be free, we want to live, we want peace" - FREE
GAZA YOUTH!
>From organised youth in Gaza - as the tension spreads from Egypt:
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Fuck Israel. Fuck Hamas. Fuck Fatah. Fuck UN. Fuck UNRWA. Fuck USA! We,
the youth in Gaza, are so fed up with Israel, Hamas, Fatah, the occupation,
the violations of human rights and the indifference of the international
community! We want to scream and break this wall of silence, injustice and
indifference like the Israeli F16's breaking the wall of sound; scream with
all the power in our souls in order to release this immense frustration that
consumes us because of this fucking situation we live in; we are like lice
between two nails living a nightmare inside a nightmare, no room for hope,
no space for freedom. We are sick of being caught in this political
struggle; sick of coal dark nights with airplanes circling above our homes;
sick of innocent farmers getting shot in the buffer zone because they are
taking care of their lands; sick of bearded guys walking around with their
guns abusing their power, beating up or incarcerating young people
demonstrating for what they believe in; sick of the wall of shame that
separates us from the rest of our country and keeps us imprisoned in a
stamp-sized piece of land; sick of being portrayed as terrorists, homemade
fanatics with explosives in our pockets and evil in our eyes; sick of the
indifference we meet from the international community, the so-called experts
in expressing concerns and drafting resolutions but cowards in enforcing
anything they agree on; we are sick and tired of living a shitty life, being
kept in jail by Israel, beaten up by Hamas and completely ignored by the
rest of the world.
There is a revolution growing inside of us, an immense dissatisfaction
and frustration that will destroy us unless we find a way of canalizing this
energy into something that can challenge the status quo and give us some
kind of hope. The final drop that made our hearts tremble with frustration
and hopelessness happened 30th November, when Hamas' officers came to Sharek
Youth Forum, a leading youth organization (www.sharek.ps) with their guns,
lies and aggressiveness, throwing everybody outside, incarcerating some and
prohibiting Sharek from working. A few days later, demonstrators in front of
Sharek were beaten and some incarcerated. We are really living a nightmare
inside a nightmare. It is difficult to find words for the pressure we are
under. We barely survived the Operation Cast Lead, where Israel very
effectively bombed the shit out of us, destroying thousands of homes and
even more lives and dreams. They did not get rid of Hamas, as they intended,
but they sure scared us forever and distributed post traumatic stress
syndrome to everybody, as there was nowhere to run.
We are youth with heavy hearts. We carry in ourselves a heaviness so
immense that it makes it difficult to us to enjoy the sunset. How to enjoy
it when dark clouds paint the horizon and bleak memories run past our eyes
every time we close them? We smile in order to hide the pain. We laugh in
order to forget the war. We hope in order not to commit suicide here and
now. During the war we got the unmistakable feeling that Israel wanted to
erase us from the face of the earth. During the last years Hamas has been
doing all they can to control our thoughts, behaviour and aspirations. We
are a generation of young people used to face missiles, carrying what seems
to be a impossible mission of living a normal and healthy life, and only
barely tolerated by a massive organization that has spread in our society as
a malicious cancer disease, causing mayhem and effectively killing all
living cells, thoughts and dreams on its way as well as paralyzing people
with its terror regime. Not to mention the prison we live in, a prison
sustained by a so-called democratic country.
History is repeating itself in its most cruel way and nobody seems to
care. We are scared. Here in Gaza we are scared of being incarcerated,
interrogated, hit, tortured, bombed, killed. We are afraid of living,
because every single step we take has to be considered and well-thought,
there are limitations everywhere, we cannot move as we want, say what we
want, do what we want, sometimes we even cant think what we want because the
occupation has occupied our brains and hearts so terrible that it hurts and
it makes us want to shed endless tears of frustration and rage!
We do not want to hate, we do not want to feel all of this feelings, we
do not want to be victims anymore. ENOUGH! Enough pain, enough tears, enough
suffering, enough control, limitations, unjust justifications, terror,
torture, excuses, bombings, sleepless nights, dead civilians, black
memories, bleak future, heart aching present, disturbed politics, fanatic
politicians, religious bullshit, enough incarceration! WE SAY STOP! This is
not the future we want!
We want three things. We want to be free. We want to be able to live a
normal life. We want peace. Is that too much to ask? We are a peace movement
consistent of young people in Gaza and supporters elsewhere that will not
rest until the truth about Gaza is known by everybody in this whole world
and in such a degree that no more silent consent or loud indifference will
be accepted.
This is the Gazan youth's manifesto for change!
We will start by destroying the occupation that surrounds ourselves, we
will break free from this mental incarceration and regain our dignity and
self respect. We will carry our heads high even though we will face
resistance. We will work day and night in order to change these miserable
conditions we are living under. We will build dreams where we meet walls.
We only hope that you - yes, you reading this statement right now!
- can support us. In order to find out how, please write on our wall or
contact us directly: freegazayouth[at]hotmail.com
We want to be free, we want to live, we want peace.
FREE GAZA YOUTH!
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