No word, no poetry, no art, nothing that can be
expressed verbally or otherwise may convey the majesty
and the glory of the human spirit as it was expressed
by this Palestinian mother and her children.
No, Bill Hijarah is not someone's name. In fact,
it's not a name at all. It's a phrase in Arabic.
To be phonetically more accurate, it should have been
written: "be al hijarah," or "b'll hijarah,"
which is how it sounds when you say it fast. The
phrase means: with the stones.
"B'll hijarah, b'll hijarah" is a cry I once
heard while watching the news on television some
decade ago or maybe longer. The cry became so engraved
in my soul, I can never watch a spin doctor labor to
denigrate the Palestinian people without the scene
which gave birth to that cry come to memory and scream
at me: "Don't believe a word of this."
The scene is that of a young Palestinian woman running
out of her house, one toddler on her arm and another
toddler following her. She was not running away from
something, she was running ahead to confront
something. That something was an Israeli tank that was
bigger than the house. The monster tank had come to
demolish the house, and upon hearing it approach, the
woman came out of the house with her children. She put
down the child on her arm, picked up a stone and cried
out to the toddlers: "b'll hijarah, b'll
hijarah," as she threw the first stone at the
advancing tank hoping against hope to stop its advance
on the house.
No word, no poetry, no art, nothing that can be
expressed verbally or otherwise may convey the majesty
and the glory of the human spirit as it was expressed
by this Palestinian mother and her children. And no
envoy from the Zionist establishment is big enough,
smart enough or powerful enough to change this
reality. But when someone from that establishment goes
on television to try and denigrate the Palestinian
people, they only prove that lowlife can sometimes
exist alongside a glorious majesty.
The glorious majesty is that of the Semitic
Palestinian woman, her two toddlers and all those who
hunger for justice while standing up to injustice with
no more than a stone small enough to fill the hand of
a child, and a heart big enough to envelop a love of
life that no lowlife can ever grasp.
The lowlife is that of the commanders who send their
tanks to demolish the homes of those whose homeland
they once plundered and whose children they now kill
lest they multiply and gain the political clout by
which to reclaim what was taken from them by force of
arm.
The lowlife is that of the spin doctors from the
Zionist establishment who go on television and
denigrate the Palestinian people so as to say that
Palestinians do not belong in the land where they have
lived continuously since the beginning of time.
The lowlife is that of characters who made a mess of
their lives throughout history in every corner of the
planet then committed the largest identity theft in
history by claiming they are the Semites and by
throwing the anti-Semitic accusation at anyone who
refuses to applaud their genocidal slaughter of the
Semitic Palestinians.
The lowlife are the spin doctors from the Zionist
establishment who create imaginary paradigms that are
mirror images of reality by turning reality upside
down and by enforcing the paradigms through schemes
that closely define the meaning of lowlife.
Finally, the glorious majesty is that of all the
people of goodwill who will chip away at the phony
paradigms one single grain at a time until the monster
that is producing them is exhausted and depleted by
attrition.
If a young Palestinian woman and her toddlers can
brave a monster Israeli tank, we can all brave the
monstrosity of the Zionist Lobby which seeks to
destroy the lives, the careers and the reputations of
those who seek to neutralize its toxic activities. And
we should all seek to neutralize the Zionist Lobby so
that humanity may live as it was meant to live, free
of a constant source of poisonous intrigues and
venomous demagoguery.
There is no loftier goal for all of us to accomplish
together as one human family than this lofty goal.
- The writer is a retired teacher living in Ontario,
Canada.
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