Between Kabouji, Jerusalem’s process …. And the voice of the Arabs

Written by Nasser Kandil,

In many rare times the history sends unexplainable symbolic coincidences that cannot be accepted as mere coincidences, as the coincidence of the conjunction of the return of the body of the resistant Bishop Ilarion Kabouji from Rome to Beirut, who is a symbol of Jerusalem’s symbols and its icons, and the heroic martyrdom process of Fadi Qanbar the young man who drove his truck and ran over twenty-one injured as twenty-one bullets for the spirit of the Bishop who neither obtained the glorification of the rifles of any Arab army nor the artillery had opened fire at his farewell greeting. Jerusalem which the Syrian army is the only army among the Arab armies which still considers it the compass of its national security knows that the war which was waged against it is a war by proxy, so it excuses it, while the Lebanese resisting army was confined with settlements that observe it and make it under the influence of sects and the regional dependencies, so how the shots and the greetings, so it waits for it.

The value of Jerusalem’s process and its symbolic relation with the departure of the Syrian Bishop Kabouji after the liberation of Aleppo surpasses just the confidence that the Palestinian cause will remain and will not die, and surpasses the feeling of pride for the presence of a Palestinian Jerusalem youth that is persistent in fighting, does not recognize theories and the balances of powers which at their limits many armies, countries, parties, and organizations recoil in dread, and a Palestinian authority appeals for a negotiation. The process raises two issues at the intellectual level that need to be focused in front of the nations, elites, intellectuals, those who deal with the public affair, and the public opinion-makers, the first issue is the mechanical linking which is made by the Arab collective mind between every call to support the right cause and asking for a ready integrated clear recipe for achieving the victory, stemming from the absence of the ability to present such of this recipe for the withdrawal, even from the verbal support under the slogan of what will we benefit? And how will the owners of the issue get the benefit? The second issue is to hide behind an equation; its basis is what is the value of the words? Since the change is made by deeds and we do not have but the words?

Quite simply the matter is like that; the liberation of Palestine or some parts of it from any bargaining accomplished by the resistance against the occupation does not seem a current project, so does the project of attrition seem possible realistic project?, the facts which are shown by the confrontations and the acts of the resistance show that it is possible, realistic and may happen. The question here is; Are prolonging the conflict, preoccupying the occupier, and proving the apparent right, the cause, and the identity facts against the world which is blind toward the right as a mute Satan?. Are not they necessities for the transition from this bad time till the time of renaissance, and the change where there will be data that make the resistance which aims for liberation a legitimate project? Is not that attrition a consumption of the mental, material, intelligence, and tactic efforts of the enemy,  which the occupation and the settlement will suffer from and will be obliged due to this resistance to consume them in confronting it as a threat?. Is not it a resounding fact around the world, so the search for the reasons for these questions lead to the fact that the cause is still alive and it says that in vain you try to set the stability without a solution that recognizes the rights. Was not that the significance of the immortal word of Che Guevara “ We will continue screaming in order not to let this world sleeps with its weight over the helpless bodies”  who has the right to utter a statement of the absurdity of the scream and the attitudes as  the attrition of an enemy, occupier, and oppressor? Who has the right to judge with the uselessness of the confusion and the preoccupation if the termination is impossible? Even in the science of medicine the doctors become talking about antibiotics which they know that they are useless in curing the chronic diseases, but hoping to weaken them, till they find another way or till the Medicine reaches to what is more effective.

In the second issue, which is the issue of the words and saying, here we are not talking about the philosophy of religions and the thoughts which changed the world and which based on sayings, we will satisfy to respond to those who said about the uselessness of that saying, since we do not have the act. Therefore the invitation here is precisely to everyone who writes and communicates through the press and the satellite channels, to those who have the prestigious statuses as some leaders, writers, thinkers, or some celebrities and artists, even to everyone who has narrow scope of opportunities to promote a word that reaches to his friends who are active in the social media. The intention here is narrower than what some imagine, a devotion of a word once in a month as “we support you” and “we will not forget Palestine”, or republishing a saying or a poem, a greeting, or an attitude of a leader as Gamal Abdul Nasser, Hafez Al-Assad, Yasser Arafat, the President Bashar Al-Assad, and Al Sayyed Hassan Nasrollah, or a saying from the sayings of Al Imam Al Khomeini, a poem for Mahmoud Darwish to say to the youth of Palestine and its people that they are not alone and their cause is still the issue of the Arabs even if it is left by the rulers or betrayed by the leaderships. For those who do not know, let them know that the youth of Intifada and the resistance fighters are those who asked for that. They say that in each time Al Sayyed Hassan Nasrollah or the President Al-Assad say and devote a sufficient time for Palestine, their discussions revive and send in their souls and memories a determination that leads to such processes, but whenever the interviews and the speeches of the leaders who belong to the resistance axis resort in brief about Palestine, they feel of disappointment, anxiety, and weakness, they are searching and observing every word dedicated to Palestine, so do not think that your words without feasibility, they are the spirit which revive their hearts with strength and determination.

The Bishop said, and Fadi Qanbar did, so the occupation has stunned twice….. So just say…..  “VIVE PALESTINE” .

Translated by Lina Shehadeh,