Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad have vowed to conducting martyrdom operations in Israel as the Zionists continue to kill defenceless Palestinian civilians.
Sorry if this post is not appropriate for substack- I recently joined x to follow what's going on in Gaza. It's a horror show, and lots of Palestinians have gofundme fundraiser set up in the hope of raising enough funds to escape death. I've been trying to spread the word on x, but my account is small and nobody sees it. Anyway, here's a fundraiser a 17 y.o has set up for his parents and siblings (18,15,14 & 7) They are in a desperate situation, and even small amounts could help (I don't think they even have a tent yet). If anyone has a way of sharing this elsewhere on social media, I'd greatly appreciate it-
(I don't know him or his family, I just felt bad for him, especially since they have so far to go in raising money--I can't imagine what it's like to be a 17 y.o., having to set up a gofundme to try to save your life and that of your family, but that's the horror this world has been reduced to).
Hello Palestine Will Be Free. I really loved your article about the new recruites giving Israel hell. But this one I must say is the most scary thing I've read so far on Substack - since it sounds like you would support the idea of Hamas going back to martyr operations. I can't say it any clearer - it will be the end of Palestine. It will be the end of the support that is now overflowing the planet from millions of young people who never was engaged in this struggle from before. It will mean the end of the possibility that activists have today, to explain that Hamas are not terrorists; they are a resistance movement, fighting a legitimate fight against occupation, for freedom for all Palestinians, for peace and a sovereign state, on the internationally recognized borders of 1967. And when the occupation is over, the resistance is over. It’s a strong message, it is true and it is something everyone can get behind.
It will only take one bus explotion in Tel Aviv, and that description will be gone. All the thousands of young activists who spend hours on the social medias trying to tell others what is going on, they will be silent. They will be shocked, and start to doubt, and many of them will turn around and say that they were wrong, and that the Israel-supporters were right from the start: that Hamas is nothing but a religious extremist terrorist group with gruesome fighters, capable of any beastly behaviour.
It will be so bad for the Palestinian cause that someone should tip Netanyahu that the Israelis should do it themselves – nothing will support Israel more than a suicide bomb on a bus in Tel Aviv.
And now I will explain this – to be precise: The problem is not civilians casualties – that we can understand will happen in a war. The problem is the young man killing himself in the process. It is not in our culture, or religion, and very far from it. In Norway during the second world war, our resistance guys killed Germans and sabotaged them in all thinkable and unthinkable ways. They were smart, and fought smart with the little means they had. And they lived to be our national heros when the war was over.
If anyone reads this who is not living in a Western country or knows Western society well, I can make an example. There are some very clear differences between for instance our culture, and the Islamic one. In the West, a young woman can go to bed with as many men she desires, before marriage, and still be respected and get married. It’s a matter of equal rights. Some of us older feminists would rather see men sleeping with fewer, than the young women sleeping with more, but that’s a Western debate. The point is: The day that all the leaders of Hamas, jointly from all sides of the movement, together can say: «Yes, we understand and respect that part of Western society – even if we don’t want it in our own». That is the day they can think that we in the West will be equally understanding about martyr operations. Which is never.
Israel is killing extreme amounts of Palestinians. The resistance shouldn’t add to that number by killing their own precious young men, volunteerly. It’s the bragging, laughing Israeli soldiers who should be the primary target – not a single Palestinian fighter. The Palestinian fighters should live to be celebrated when freedom comes, to receive all the gratitude they deserve.
If a martyr operation happens, I have nothing more to say. It will be the end of my thirty years of activism for Palestine. It will be too much of a heartbreak to see all the sympathy that we now have all around us, dissapear from the public scene. What will be left in the West will be hate and anger and deathwishes. If any of you have any lines into the movement – brigades or otherwise, please tell them from me: don’t do it. Go into the struggle with Israel with all armed means, which is your right, and you have our heartfelt support. But make sure the fighters get home safely.
Sorry if this post is not appropriate for substack- I recently joined x to follow what's going on in Gaza. It's a horror show, and lots of Palestinians have gofundme fundraiser set up in the hope of raising enough funds to escape death. I've been trying to spread the word on x, but my account is small and nobody sees it. Anyway, here's a fundraiser a 17 y.o has set up for his parents and siblings (18,15,14 & 7) They are in a desperate situation, and even small amounts could help (I don't think they even have a tent yet). If anyone has a way of sharing this elsewhere on social media, I'd greatly appreciate it-
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-seventeenyearold-mohamed-and-his-family-escape-gaza
(I don't know him or his family, I just felt bad for him, especially since they have so far to go in raising money--I can't imagine what it's like to be a 17 y.o., having to set up a gofundme to try to save your life and that of your family, but that's the horror this world has been reduced to).
Hello Palestine Will Be Free. I really loved your article about the new recruites giving Israel hell. But this one I must say is the most scary thing I've read so far on Substack - since it sounds like you would support the idea of Hamas going back to martyr operations. I can't say it any clearer - it will be the end of Palestine. It will be the end of the support that is now overflowing the planet from millions of young people who never was engaged in this struggle from before. It will mean the end of the possibility that activists have today, to explain that Hamas are not terrorists; they are a resistance movement, fighting a legitimate fight against occupation, for freedom for all Palestinians, for peace and a sovereign state, on the internationally recognized borders of 1967. And when the occupation is over, the resistance is over. It’s a strong message, it is true and it is something everyone can get behind.
It will only take one bus explotion in Tel Aviv, and that description will be gone. All the thousands of young activists who spend hours on the social medias trying to tell others what is going on, they will be silent. They will be shocked, and start to doubt, and many of them will turn around and say that they were wrong, and that the Israel-supporters were right from the start: that Hamas is nothing but a religious extremist terrorist group with gruesome fighters, capable of any beastly behaviour.
It will be so bad for the Palestinian cause that someone should tip Netanyahu that the Israelis should do it themselves – nothing will support Israel more than a suicide bomb on a bus in Tel Aviv.
And now I will explain this – to be precise: The problem is not civilians casualties – that we can understand will happen in a war. The problem is the young man killing himself in the process. It is not in our culture, or religion, and very far from it. In Norway during the second world war, our resistance guys killed Germans and sabotaged them in all thinkable and unthinkable ways. They were smart, and fought smart with the little means they had. And they lived to be our national heros when the war was over.
If anyone reads this who is not living in a Western country or knows Western society well, I can make an example. There are some very clear differences between for instance our culture, and the Islamic one. In the West, a young woman can go to bed with as many men she desires, before marriage, and still be respected and get married. It’s a matter of equal rights. Some of us older feminists would rather see men sleeping with fewer, than the young women sleeping with more, but that’s a Western debate. The point is: The day that all the leaders of Hamas, jointly from all sides of the movement, together can say: «Yes, we understand and respect that part of Western society – even if we don’t want it in our own». That is the day they can think that we in the West will be equally understanding about martyr operations. Which is never.
Israel is killing extreme amounts of Palestinians. The resistance shouldn’t add to that number by killing their own precious young men, volunteerly. It’s the bragging, laughing Israeli soldiers who should be the primary target – not a single Palestinian fighter. The Palestinian fighters should live to be celebrated when freedom comes, to receive all the gratitude they deserve.
If a martyr operation happens, I have nothing more to say. It will be the end of my thirty years of activism for Palestine. It will be too much of a heartbreak to see all the sympathy that we now have all around us, dissapear from the public scene. What will be left in the West will be hate and anger and deathwishes. If any of you have any lines into the movement – brigades or otherwise, please tell them from me: don’t do it. Go into the struggle with Israel with all armed means, which is your right, and you have our heartfelt support. But make sure the fighters get home safely.