"There are not enough people here to cover all the villages....The Israeli activists put out an urgent call for volunteers for this weekend, but we desperately need more people and, of
course, political action."
I just wrote this message to our coordination group. It caused my first fit of crying since I've been here.
"You've got the guns but we've got the numbers" sang Jim Morrison, and I believed him.
See, I grew up building my moral values on American protest songs. The first chords I played on a guitar - at about 11 years old - were the accompaniment to
Masters of War -
"You fasten all the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you sit back and watch
While the death count gets higher"
[and there goes another bomber overhead - as I write this, I swear]
Dylan was writing during Vietam, but the imperialist rationale which poured napalm over villages in the sixties is the same as the one using phosphorus in Gaza.
But where are our "numbers" today. Why is civil society not on the streets, writing letters, blockading offices... [Belgian trade unions are refusing to handle weapons being flown to Israel -
bravo!]
The UN, created when the world was saying "nie wieder faschismus", has given up on Palestine.
But right now, right here, in a tiny little corner of Palestine, there are a dozen villages that are under direct and immediate threat. When the handful of determined people that are here
manage to organize a group to sleep in the hamlets, we delay their expulsion. We reduce the level of violence the Zionists use. Obviously, this is not a long-term solution. The solution is
political.
You, personally, CAN do something. I really believe that awareness of #israelwarcrimes is increasing. Political pressure on Israel WILL save lives.
I'm here 'cos I really think our action is effective. Please make it more effective by getting involved too.
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