“It’s as if our efforts to kill, maim, abuse, and dispossess Jews don’t even exist, leaving only the option of trying to kill, maim, abuse, and dispossess Jews until people notice again.”
Ramallah, February 20 – Cumulative frustration at seeing their demonstrations and violence exert minimal effect on regional and global affairs, Palestinians have declared they will hold demonstrations and engage in violence to remedy the situation.
Decades of having their cause headline every major gathering of Arab officials led to an assumption by Palestinian leaders that opposition to Israel remained the top priority for the region, and resulting in confusion when recent developments all but removed Palestine from the policy agenda in the Arab world. Whereas Palestinian protests and terrorism once commanded attention in the international arena, the same phenomena now get overshadowed by developments in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Europe, and elsewhere. However, Palestinians have yet to develop techniques for expressing their displeasure that do not fall into the category of violent demonstrations or terrorism, leaving them few options for behaviors that might attract the attention they crave. That injustice has prompted many Palestinians to threaten violence and call for protests unless the international community again focuses on their violence and protests.
“Palestine represents the ultimate cause,” argued Saeb Erekat, a Fatah official. “If the world will not give due attention to the demonstrations of our displeasure and our acts of resistance, we will be forced to engage in demonstrations of our displeasure and acts of resistance. That way, the Zionist-controlled media will perhaps acknowledge the justice and central status of our aspirations.”
“You can’t just ignore the fact that we’re rioting, or we’ll riot,” agreed Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum. “The international press doesn’t even report when we fire rockets at the Jews anymore. We have no choice but to register that ignoring of our noble resistance by firing rockets at the Jews.” He added that it is simply not fair that the tunnels, bombs, rockets, and other achievements of his movement get little or no coverage in the world media, which appears to care only when Israel retaliates for such attacks. “It’s as if our efforts to kill, maim, abuse, and dispossess Jews don’t even exist, leaving only the option of trying to kill, maim, abuse, and dispossess Jews until people notice again.”
In a rare show of Fatah-Hamas unity, both groups have called for a demonstration and firebombing of Israeli cars south of Jerusalem this Wednesday, until regional reportage addresses the shortfall in coverage with the centrality of Palestinian suffering.
“Otherwise, we will get violent,” warned a Fatah student leader.
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