Games and Death in small dosesOne killed, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, 11, 12, 20, 35, 267, 579, 893, 1347, 2186, …. 2893 Palestinians dead since September 28 of the year 2000.
One…. About 34000 Palestinians injured since September 28 of the year 2000.
One, two, three…. To be determined, the houses of Palestinians demolished and yet to be demolished since the creation of the only democracy in the middle East, i.e. the Great, the Unique, the State of Israel…
It seems that Israel want to teach the Palestinian in particular, and the world in general how to count. But that is too simple… The idea I think goes to make people used to the idea of death, so no need to be afraid or to panic, because as you see, death can reach you wherever you are : in the street, in the house, in your bed, in a demonstration, in the shop or restaurant, at work or in the fields… No place is secure for you, palestinian, because the eyes of the excellent soldiers of the best oppression army in the world, are there to make sure that you get it, one day, one way or the other.
But of course, death becomes a game sometimes, or sometimes the game come before it is sent to take you… Now, the IOF soldiers, nice as they are force you to choose the way… A small paper and you choose the meal of the day… You can have a nose, an arm, a leg broken…
You can be asked kindly to participate in a beauty contest, and show your muscles… No need to say that IOF soldiers are crazy about guessing what type and model of underwear Palestinians wear… Sometimes they win, but mostly they lose… Palestinians don’t have a lot of variety in their underclothes, and mostly they are not in relation with the latest fashion.
Sometimes even you could have a free kiss from a girl who is in the same taxi or on the same road with you… It seems that most of the Israeli soldiers have a degree in social work… They work very hard to make Palestinians break their tradition and shyness barrier… They want people to make love, not war… What could be a better place than the streets in public to do that?
I have witnessed once this kind of show, and I enjoyed it very very much. There was that girl, wearing the Islamic dress you know, and the soldier asked her very kindly to kiss the man next to her… the soldier said to her: you know, I will let you pass if you kiss this old man…
Of course that man could have the age of her father… She seems to think about it, but the soldier more kind than before says : you know I have my time… Nobody will pass unless you kiss that man…
The savage, barbaric, uncivilized girl, who doesn’t even seem to know how to kiss, looked at the man and said in a law voice to him : I will consider you as my father, I will kiss you…
And there she goes… her lips on the wrinkled cheek of the old man.
The soldier was happy for her of course… He gave her the chance for the first time in her life probably, to kiss a man… Though he might not be the man of her dreams, but at least, he was a man… The soldiers seemed very happy… they wanted us also to be happy, asked us to smile… It seemed strange that Palestinians do not smile to Israeli soldiers, and they seem not to be able to do anything about that…
On another level, the new technologies do not work anymore… The ancient men were right… Why should one use sophisticated weapons, while one could do simple… Nails seem to be a good way to kill… Have you heard about a bomb of nails and iron darts… No body can accuse IOF of using excessive force now. What if IOF shell children in a football playground, or at least what is supposed to be a playground, with two bombs of nails and iron darts in Gaza? The advantage is that the bomb spreads when it explodes on a wide range, so you have people touched even in their own beds… I think that gives them a lesson not to leave their windows open, when they still have windows of course… People should remain in their houses, hiding under whatever thing they find, they should in no way walk in the streets. Children of course, should not play outside, or inside in fact. They should not go to school… after all, what do they learn in a school which is most of the time closed? Curfews are occasions for people to be alone, to relax… to make love, make more children… and to listen to the new Israeli singers when they perform in a tour using the loud speakers in their military jeeps…
The best singer I heard was singing :
By the orders of the prince of Believers
The camp is under curfew… till further notice…
Hahaha hahaha hahaha
I know that they seem to be beginners, but you know, Palestine is the land of opportunities. Take for example the demolitions: you may think it is done because Israeli soldiers are bad, or they make it for revenge or by pure sadism… No…
You may think that they kill Palestinians because they are terrorists, or they want to kill them… again the answer is know…
Palestine seems a good land for training: so, snipers when they want to train on walking targets, they happen to be in Palestinian territories… If they happen to be trained in Israel, they will also shoot on Israeli children, men, and women as well. Wouldn’t they?
The tank drivers or bulldozers’ drivers: the same case. These drivers have driving schools and trainers, who work in Palestinian territories… so sometimes they make mistakes, and hit a wall by here, kick a house by there, crush a car in the way…. It’s just by mistake, but with time, you will see… At least now, they practice more in the fields, making large roads in the lands of Palestinians to give them the privilege of watching Israeli colonizers pass through in their bulletproof buses.
What is still amazing about IOF is his interest in scientific experiments. Take for example Rafah. Destroying the water wells in the camp, open the way for a comparative experience between humans and plants: could these Palestinians adapt themselves like the plants in their region and drink from the sea? Genetic Engineers have been working hard to make plants that could resist salinity, so why not humans… These soldiers continue to surprise me….
And to tell you another thing, I would not be surprised if I discover one day that IOF have a contract with Hollywood to prepare our lands for a new film: after the catastrophe, or after an earthquake, or after a war… however, I don’t think after a war would be a good title, since the work is done mostly by peaceful means… a bulldozer is not a weapon of mass destruction, is it ?
Well, I just can’t detail all the profits the Palestinians have the chance to acquire by living under such occupation… They become fearless, or completely foolish, hysteric, violent, despite all the efforts of IOF to silence them forever… I think the IOF has still a huge and heavy task, and I doubt that they will continue their training on our lands, properties and bodies…
I think, and it is rare that a palestinian thinks, that the great success of the IOF is to make these poor palestinians get used to this death, demolitions, continuous gifts in small doses, and so when we speak about numbers as if we speak about any common matter. It is normal that Palestinians die, that their houses are demolished, that their landscapes are changed on daily bases, that their trees are uprooted and their fields are ruined and their streets turned upside down… it is normal that these palestinians, epidemics of the last and the present century are to be erased from the world dictionary, and wiped out of the maps…
And they could find the United Nations of America, presented by Kofi Anan, the International spokesman of G.W. Bush to regret what happens… Because after all we are speaking about a race on its way to extinction. Don’t you think?
AbdelFattah Abu-Srour, PhD
Director of Al-Rowwad Cultural and Theatre Training Center
posted by AbdelFattah at 3:56 AM
