Occasional Resistance
The
Palestinian resistance should not become an occasional one because the
Israeli occupation is not, the Israeli occupation attacks are not
occasional, the Israeli occupation checkpoints, land looting, killing,
kidnapping, house demolition, stealing our natural resources, raids,
uprooting our trees and much more are not occasional. The international
community should hear, see and read about our peaceful resistance
activities against the Israeli occupation on daily basis, it has to be
very intensive popular resistance everywhere in Palestine, not only in
certain places, it should not be only on weekly basis and or in
commemoration of certain occasions, it has to be on daily basis and Beit
Ommar town is a very good example of such peaceful popular resistance
and made good achievements.
In
1987 Israeli occupation authorities have built a colonial outpost to
the west of Beit Ommar, in between Beit Ommar and our neighboring town
Sorif, they called it Tsurif, it was both a colony and military outpost,
and the only way to reach it is through my Town Beit Ommar, so they
have organized 4 supplies convoys very well guarded by Israeli
occupation forces to and from this colonial outpost, and parallel line
the Beit Ommar citizens also organized 4 protests on daily basis to
conside with these convoys, for six years nonstop on daily basis of
peaceful popular resistance Israeli authorities have finally understood
the lesson but not the easy way, they understood that they are not
welcome, the citizens of Beit Ommar will continue as much time as it
takes to force the Israeli occupation to dismantle this colonial
outpost, and in 1993 Israeli occupation authorities have dismantled
this colonial outpost once and forever, the colonial outpost was later
replaced with Palestinian houses everywhere, and now after 21 years you
only see a little Palestinian neighborhood in that area, it was not
easy, many citizens of Beit Ommar were killed, hundreds were injured by
only live ammunition and hundreds were kidnapped (arrested) to get this
goal accomplished but finally we won our land.
Did
Beit Ommar stopp its struggle since then???????, Absolutely not, just
like other Palestinian villages, towns, cities and refugee camps they
continued the struggle to end the Israeli occupation, but in Beit Ommar
its not on weekly basis, its on daily basis since 1987 until now, we
used the weekly protests just to attract more media attention to cover
the situation in Beit Ommar and shed more lights on the Israeli
occupation forces and colonists attacks against the Citizens of Beit
Ommar, their land and properties, and during the past 4 months we had
protests two times a day, day and night time to make them get the
message again that the only way to stop us is by ending the occupation,
even if they end us we will chase them in their dreams until the
occupation is over.
Since
the year 2000 until now Israeli occupation forces killed 17 citizens
from Beit Ommar mostly under the age of 18 years old, the last 3 were
killed in 27 July 2014, Hashem Abu Mariya, Abdulhamid Ibregaith and
Sultan Za’aqiq, more than 2000 citizens were arrested, hundreds were
injured, hundreds of Beit Ommar land were stolen in favor of colonial
expansion and 10s of houses were demolished in addition to the Israeli
occupation military watch tower that stands at the entrance of my town
Beit ommar since 1988. All these sacrifices have not kneel Beit Ommar
citizens but made them even stronger and more determined to continue the
struggle.
Palestine’s
popular committees have to develop their ways and tactics, yes protests
are not the only way of resistance but they are the most important,
everyone has to be involved, every Palestinian NGO has to be involved,
every Palestinian political party and syndicates have to be involved,
every Palestinian politician has to be involved, its not a one man’s
show and / or an elite popular resistance the way it is now in the West
Bank, it’s a collective effort, it requires everyone’s input and it has
to be on daily basis, the Israeli occupation forces should not rest, the
Israeli occupation economy should not be stable, they should suffer
constant losses, they should always suffer of moral pressure if they
have any and the world should understand that the Palestinians shall not
stop until the Israeli occupation (the last occupation on this planet)
of Palestine is over.
By: Younes Arar
Coordinator of South West Bank Popular Committee
Cofounder of Beit Ommar Popular Committee
Cofounder of The High Follow up Popular Resistance Committee in Palestine
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Younes Arar
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