FREE Established 1961 Friday ISSUE NO: 18439 SHAWWAL 9, 1442 AH FRIDAY, MAY 21, 2021 Fighting rages as divided powers fail to rein in Zionists See Page 10 2 Friday Local Friday, May 21, 2021 Strong political stand needed New history books must be written about walls, fortresses and advanced internationally- JUST KIDDIN’, SERIOUSLY I can’t understand why some nations like what is happening in Palestine now, what is banned weapons which it uses liberally the US and some Arab countries continue to happening in Gaza now, what is happening in against Palestinians. However, nowadays support what is clearly genocide and ethnic Jerusalem now and how nations reacted, so people’s views are shifting thanks to the power cleansing. I don’t think you need to side with that future generations can learn from history of social media. People are expressing their By Sahar Moussa any political or religious party to stand up and avoid repeating the same injustice and views, and we are seeing that governments’ against what is taking place in Palestine. violence. statements do not necessarily represent their [email protected] Just be human, and realize that this violence We need books to be incorporated in people’s opinions. must stop. schools and universities that will inform people Last but not least, we are responsible for How can they blind themselves to what is about the siege. We need to talk about the impacting the Palestinian children’s future by person can only be born in one place. happening in Palestine, with the killing of wall that was built to shatter Palestinians’ the decisions we take today. What are we However, he may die several times Muslim and Christian Palestinians in the name dreams and hopes and about the gates and going to answer them when they ask about all Aelsewhere: In exile and in prison, and in of an apartheid regime? The Zionists are com- fortresses that the Zionists use to suffocate the violence? What are we going to tell them a homeland transformed by occupation and mitting genocide and getting stronger because Palestinians. when they ask why a six-year-old child is lying oppression into a nightmare. —Mahmoud no one is stopping them. Zionists have an Kuwaitis and non-Kuwaitis have protested with a blood-covered cloth covering its face in Darwish extremist agenda that justifies the theft of in Irada Square, although it is illegal for non- a morgue instead of being in school with Gaza. No more words to write or describe Palestinian homes and the murder of Kuwaitis to protest — unless they want to be friends? We need to use social media’s power the situation in the presence of the powerful Palestinian children. Why is that? Is it because deported. Despite this risk, many expats took to educate people about Naji Al-Ali, Ghassan images of shattered bodies of children, women and men under the debris. Let’s go back in time and ask ourselves what led to the massacre that we are witnessing today. It all started on Nov 2, 1917, when the British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour prom- ised the leaders of the Zionist movement they could establish their national homeland in Palestine, violating Palestinians’ right to self- determination. Balfour laid the foundation for the conspiracy launched against the people of Palestine, which later led to the Palestinian catastrophe in 1948 called the “Nakba”. Unlocking ‘Nakba’ The Nakba is one of the darkest periods in Palestine’s history. Zionist forces supported by the British attacked and ransacked more than 500 towns and cities throughout Palestine. More than 700,000 Palestinians fled the ram- paging Zionists forces, fleeing their homes to save their lives. The Zionists intended ethnic cleansing, to steal the land and make way for their own people by open dispossession, mass killing and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians living there. Today in 2021, history is repeating itself with another Nakba in Jerusalem, the West Palestinian demonstrators chant slogans and wave their national flags during protests against Zionist occupation and its air campaign on the Gaza Bank and Gaza. Zionists continue their policy strip, in the occupied West Bank town of Hebron. — AFP of ruthless ethnic cleansing – stealing homes and building settlements on Palestinian land. That is what they are attempting in Sheikh of Arab silence? People in Palestine don’t a stand against violence and the horrifying Kanafani, Souha Bechara, Muhammad Al- Jarrah – ethnic cleansing and land theft. need money or food donations. They don’t massacre taking place. Kuwaitis already know Durrah and Mahmoud Darwish to teach them Sometimes I wonder if the Zionist govern- need silence. They need a strong political what it feels like to be invaded and deported about resistance, sacrifice and justice. ment wants to avenge the Holocaust — where stand against violence and genocide before a from their homes, which is why they have As for Palestinians, who despite being six million Jews were murdered by Nazi whole generation, ethnicity and civilization dis- always supported unfortunate countries like trapped and pushed each and every day to Germany — by ethnically cleansing the appears. Lebanon and Palestine. drown in the sea, get swallowed by walls and Palestinians. Nazi Germany argued that it was be killed like flies, have always managed to “racially superior” and that Jews were “inferior” Another brick in the wall? ‘Neither death nor suicide’ survive and rise with every dawn like and thus tried to justify their ethnic cleansing. Now with the power of social media, we I have a dream that someday all nations, phoenixes. They draw doors on the walls to Zionists argue they are the “chosen people” can’t hide the truth. We can’t keep blaming especially Arab nations, will stand united cross to the other side simply armed with and they are justified in the ethnic cleansing Palestinians, assuming that they sold their against violence in the name of humanity, faith and hope, which is the strongest and genocide of Palestinians. ‘Holocaust ’is a houses to the Zionists willingly in 1948 without because bloodshed and mass destruction is weapon of them all. word of Greek origin meaning ‘sacrifice by being forced to, just because there were no not the solution. There is no doubt that the fire’, and by fire and blood, Zionists are sacri- witnesses — which gave them the chance to Zionist entity is considered to be one of the ficing innocent Palestinians. fabricate their own stories throughout history. most powerful countries, hiding behind its Friday 3 Local Friday, May 21, 2021 child hurling a rock, or meeting unarmed pro- We all fell for the “peace” efforts, some And there is no need to say that the occu- In My View testers with skunk spray and chemicals to dis- countries even going so far as to make it offi- piers have the right to defend themselves. Let perse “threats to security”. Even at a mosque cial. Bit by bit, many of us began wanting them say it plain and clear: They want the right during the holiest month of the Islamic calen- peace between the occupiers and the to kill, to attack, to steal land, to persecute and dar, the military spares no mercy, using Palestinians. This is what is known as the to flagrantly violate international law. Let them By Nejoud Al-Yagout grenades against people worshipping. People Stockholm Syndrome. Much of the world fell say it. And even if they can’t say it, we are have lost their lands and their eyes and their for it. Except this form of the Stockholm onto it now. And they know we are, they know [email protected] children. Syndrome is dangerous because the rapist, so well, that an official Twitter account twisted Yes, but they insist, they have the right to the kidnapper claims innocence, and spreads the words of a supermodel to garner sympa- defend themselves against worshippers and it far and wide, enough to penetrate hearts thy, only to be met with more criticism against or the first time since the occupation of unarmed children. As Trevor Noah pointed and minds. Such a tactic includes spiritual them. It’s a classic example of blatantly lying Palestinian lands, the world is waking up out, when discussing the issue at hand, his bypassing: Pretending everything is alright for to further an agenda. That’s how far the propa- Fto the reality of the situation. For years, mother told him not to fight his younger broth- the sake of love and peace. ganda is losing. They must be surprised that we have been blinded by rhetoric reminiscent ers because they are not strong enough to But it doesn’t work that way. The violence the entire world has caught on after years of of the chief propagandist of the Nazi regime: handle his punches. has to stop by those in power, those in a place winning in the domain of propaganda. Joseph Goebbels. The way to justify violence And the most dangerous propaganda is the of privilege; then, peace comes. First, the land We will no longer be fooled by invitations to is to make people believe in the lies, to make one that blends with spirituality, using scripture has to return to the Palestinians, then peace peace and love. Those days are over. The people hate the victims. to justify one’s presence, although this is being can come. When we befriend the aggressor, occupiers should invite themselves to peace But what propagandists forget is that what and love, instead of spewing the same tired goes around comes around. History has narrative of being attacked by everyone.