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Suspended struggle

First of all, let us draw your attention, dear reader, to the fact that this refugee community is a special case, especially with its added restrictions and tragedies, especially with its political status.

But a sad truth still indicates that we are an integral part of historical Palestine, and we are its extension forced to seek refuge. We have already come to several forms of struggle and support against the “Israeli” colonialist, and we have concluded that it has three weights.

A first weight is fully involved in the military, political and popular struggle, a second weight is peacefully involved in the political and popular struggle, and a third weight is finally desperately involved in the popular struggle, and there are no weights for the struggle after this. And as it is evident, we are on the weight of the desperate for private and general considerations, we are fighting a lame popular struggle... to show you how lame the struggle is.

On past times when we were in contact with the atmosphere in Palestine, the popular committees would knock on school doors and suddenly invite us to the streets of the camp. We would know as we prepared at the starting point that the enemy had dared to attack Jerusalem, and we, the young lions and flowers, would shout without a roof above us, or follow-up committees might take us out. Palestinian movements and organizations of varying shades spread to the heart of the city in the host country. We chant with the large crowds here a chant rejecting the aggression that makes a boastful colonizer in Tel Aviv tremble.

But here is the picture for today, the streets are devoid of angry people. In a way, the mediator stood between us and the host side, softening the judgments, and issued a binding decision, that “in anticipation of slipping into political alignments or friction with the fuse of sectarianism in the host country, we will abandon the option of dismounting in the streets and chanting in high-pitched voices against colonization'...

Among them is the mass mobilization carried out by young people who are familiar with the course of events and the security and political fluctuations in Palestine, whether on the initiative of civil society or on the initiative of a refugee who is jealous of his rights, and its main field is social networking sites.

One may think that after a series of training workshops on human rights, international law, and contradictory United Nations resolutions, in addition to training workshops on methods of public discourse, correct marketing, and broadcasts of human experiences that have been reported or at least heard, one will think that he will launch his struggle until he finds his mind and expressions sifted!

Or waiting, in a difficult circumstance, for the quality of the Internet to improve so that he can publish a brief speech in the colloquial narration in which he tells the truth about a crime committed by the colonizer, and attaches to it a picture of the reality, but the websites’ policy rejects violence!

These seem to be serial crimes aimed at severing the refugee community from the society in colonial Palestine, leading to the conclusion that a people who do not struggle do not deserve it. Here, a question arises: How does an individual declare his desire to return unless he struggles?

The struggle itself is a right that is being taken away from us little by little for pretexts. The international community has actually shown reservations regarding the Palestinian situation, ruling that the legitimacy of the struggle is suspended.

However, all of this did not eliminate the role of the Palestinian refugee youth in the struggle and in investing their asylum in support of a renewed struggle machine in Palestine. The refugee youth are a mobile speaking media that serves the Palestinian news, a corrective narrator of poisonous narratives broadcast through the enemy’s media machine, and a steadfast person who clings to “no settlement.

Written by: Marwa Kindi