Over the past 77 years, we Palestinians have faced an absurd type of multilayered injustice, unspeakable barbarity, chronic brutality, and compounded oppression with a twist.
* We are the only oppressed group who are vilified, condemned and labelled as terrorists, for merely existing.
We are the wronged, named as oppressors, the scorned named as haters, the slaughtered named as criminals, the dispossessed named as villains, we are the murdered named as the killers.
* We are the only oppressed group who are not allowed to identify or name their oppressor.
* We are the only oppressed group who are manipulated to grief for and bemoan the alleged suffering of their oppressor before their own, otherwise we are shunned and blacklisted as “holocaust deniers”
Our persistent suffering is secondary, diminished by the “eternal victimhood“ of our occupiers. Our pain is peripheral, dwarfed in comparison to theirs and validated only by the magnitude of our reverence to the “unique suffering“ of our oppressors
* We are the only oppressed group who are demanded to:
– Gracefully lay down their only means of survival, their resistance
– Obediently protect the security of those from whom they saw nothing but savagery and barbarity
– Humbly guarantee a permanent presence and a prosperous future for those whose very ideology views the other with utter contempt as mere “animals, created only to serve them” and calls for their annihilation.
* We are the only oppressed group who are forbidden to discuss or ask questions about the ideology of their oppressors who claim to be the “chosen” above all others and that “God gave them the land”.
* We are the only oppressed group who are barred from investigating the extended tentacles of their oppressors, namely the extend of power and role of the global Jewish lobby in supporting and maintaining the regime that caused and maintained our Nakba for eight decades, under the pretext that there are some Jews who are against it.
As if all that is not enough, even as we get slaughtered, maimed, starved and eradicated, with our babies shredded to pieces we are still expected to watch our words and not to ever offend or hurt the feelings of our oppressors otherwise we are defamed as “hateful antisemites”.
Is it any wonder that our Nakba is still raging, eight decades and counting!
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