Good Essay be Ramzy

Ramzy is a good friend from Gaza, he still lives there, we studied English together and even went on a trip to Norway with a student exchange program. He has a good heart and he is genuine...in light of the insanity of the killing in the seminary school, he wrote this essay....

IF I DARE TO SAY THIS !!
By: Ramzy Hassouna

It is always like this… violence here triggers violence there. It is an endless chain of tit for tat and the civilians are the ones who always pay the lion's share of loss and grief. I just read a very heartrending story of a two-month-old little baby girl, Amira, who was shot dead, Tuesday, in her mom's arms at the house's door step after the Israeli forces ordered through loud speakers the residents of the house to evacuate. Many other kids were killed in a more or less similar vicious way during the Israeli army several incursions in different parts of Gaza strip in the past few days. We must realize that we are dealing with an army that knows no mercy and that is trained to kill indiscriminately the young and the old. An army equipped with the most advanced devastating and deadly weapons in the world. We are not like Hezbullah. we don't have effective weapons to stand up to this army and Gaza strip is a plain area, any target can be easily spotted by the Israeli war planes hovering 24/24 over Gaza. It is suicide what the fighters are doing here. Why don't we spare the lives of the hundreds if not thousands of the innocent civilian Palestinians who have been killed and will be killed in a battle we already know we are losing!!

If I dare to say this !!! Some of the deceived by the parades of fake victories that the resistance claims every time there is an Israeli incursion in Gaza Strip, though usually one or two of the Israeli soldiers would be killed or injured in such incursions sometimes non, while tens of Palestinians ,mostly civilians, would perish.

If I dare to say this, some of those young guys who are happy maybe with the rifles given to them by some Palestinian faction or with being called "heroes" and who for them joining a Palestinian faction is the best way and shortest rout to support himself and his family even after he gets killed in an Israeli attack or incursion … the outside-funded faction would take care of every thing and would hail him an unprecedented hero in his funeral ( who would dare to say something other than that even if He didn’t actually shoot one bullet) what other option does a young poor guy like this have, this seems to be the best option in a country ravaged by war and without any future or opportunities even if he got some education… the chance to find a job or work is very slim because thousands of other graduates would be fighting for and with the Palestinian interior a complete mess.. there is no state hiring any more also because of the siege there is no hiring elsewhere.

Also if I dare to say this, one of the big-belly and big "head" seniors of the Palestinian "Islamic" factions who usually features on T.V political shows or newscasts magnifying and praising the Palestinian feeble poorly equipped and trained fighters as if they are an army equal in power to the Israeli army and claiming that they have achieved the balance of terror on the Israeli part by home-made rockets usually fall in the Israeli open field and have caused a few causalities in the Israeli side ever since they were used while on the Palestinian side the scale of destruction, causalities and deaths sustained in the Israeli attacks and invasions into Gaza allegedly in response to the Palestinian rockets ,which are more or less like fireworks but of course magnified by the Israeli media to Scud or even tomahawk rockets, is beyond belief. Nevertheless he would call upon the Palestinian helpless who can barely afford bread to their hungry children to give more sacrifice, to lose their homes, children, property and land for nothing in return but more suffering… But of course he is getting a lot in return from the country that hired him and his tongue to speak on behalf of the Palestinian people and to serve not the Palestinian people of course but that country's best interest in the region. It is dirty business stained with the blood of thousands of innocent Palestinians. The times when the Palestinian freedom fighters would fight only for Palestine not for another country or for a faction has unfortunately gone. And now is the time of the blood traders who play the Palestinian people's future and fates as if they are puppets. I am sure, for those sadists the Palestinian blood means nothing, the more is spelt the better !!! Ever since, the Palestinian cause has been minimized from an Arab-Israeli cause to a Palestinian – Israeli one… the Palestinian cause has been sold in a public auction for any one who can pay.

If I dare to say this… I would be called a traitor, a supporter of Israel or at best a defeatist. When all I want is for my people and myself to live in peace and stability and to build up a model state in the small portion of land we have now be it Gaza Strip to prove to the world that we are worthy of our land and worthy of our greater land Palestine. But it seems for many here, self-homicide is the easier more lucrative option .. building a state is a hard job.