Terrorism Has Man Thinking Palestinian Resistance Might Not Be Peaceful

He wonders whether maybe the definition of “peaceful” is not as rigid as he had assumed.

Hebron, March 7 – Nearly seventy years of Arab Palestinian violence against Jews in Israel has prompted a local man to think that, perhaps, if all the facts are taken into account, it might appear that such resistance to Israeli control of any part of the land does not exactly dovetail with the denotation of the word “peaceful.”

Muhammad Qawasmeh, 25, was reading reports of the latest Palestinian attacks on Israelis – by means of stabbing attempts or vehicular homicide, in addition to daily rock-throwing at Israeli vehicles – and wondered how such incidents square, if at all, with the Palestinian Authority and Fatah leadership’s pronouncements to the international community that their people only resist Israeli by peaceful means.

“I guess it’s theoretically possible that no one has told them what everyone is doing day in, day out,” mused Qawasmeh, who works as a nurse in a local hospital. “But that would make them lousy leaders, and only Hamas really insists that’s the case. Hamas of course has an agenda in pushing that case, so such claims must be taken with a grain or two of salt. I’m really struggling to account for the dichotomy between what they keep telling foreign dignitaries and journalists, and what they keep glorifying, which is killing Jews by the most violent means possible.”

Qawasmeh, whose older brother has been arrested several times by Israeli security forces for involvement in Hamas activities, wonders whether maybe the definition of “peaceful” is not as rigid as he had assumed. “I’ll have to consult various dictionaries to help me figure this out,” he continued. “I might even discover that land mines, nuclear warheads, artillery, and tanks shells are also classified under ‘peaceful’ means. Our leadership could use that information.”

If he does, Qawasmeh’s coworker Jibril Mustafa would like to know what he discovers. “I’m losing confidence in my ability to understand words,” he confessed. “‘Non-violent’ apparently doesn’t mean ‘without seeking to perpetrate violence,’ and ‘indigenous’ apparently doesn’t refer to the people who began here, always maintained an attachment through thousands of years of exile, and finally managed to return and establish sovereignty again. In fact I went into nursing only after getting thoroughly confused by academic studies. None of the terms seemed to match the way everyone outside Palestinian society was using them. I got out of Political Science pretty quickly. At least in nursing no one yet claims that anatomical terms mean something different here.”

“Well, except for those Jews. I read somewhere that their ape-pig ancestry makes their tissues incompatible with everyone else’s in organ transplants and blood transfusions.”