During the last two days, a video of scholars and graduates of an Egyptian faculty of pharmacy, throughout a visit in Dahab, has unfold on social media. The scholars are dancing and chanting “My blood is Palestinian” after they had been provoked by the presence of Israelis on board the boat they had been on. It was a spontaneous expression of the Egyptian common rejection of normalisation with the Israelis, which prompted the Israelis to depart the boat.
There isn’t any want for a lot analysis to substantiate that the blending of Egyptian and Palestinian blood is just not a metaphor, however reasonably a reality all through historic and trendy historical past, because of army campaigns from Egypt to the Levant, joint campaigns within the face of overseas campaigns, emigration as a consequence of injustice, persecution and evasion from paying exorbitant taxes, or with the purpose of settling for political and army functions, resembling Ibrahim Pasha’s switch within the nineteenth century of 140,000 Egyptians to settle within the Levant. There was a widespread escape to Palestine from pressured labour digging the Suez Canal since 1860,which is why there are villages in Palestine whose residents are of Egyptian origin, resembling Kafr Misr, a big a part of the residents of Jisr Al-Zarqa on the coast south of Haifa, and plenty of households, particularly within the Triangle space and the Gaza Strip, such because the Masarwa, Al-Masry, Al-Baz, Fouda, Al-Rais, Bayoumi, Al-Qarnawi, Al-Basiouni, Al-Nono, Al-Bibi, Ashour, Farroukh, Al-Jayyar, Abu Khadra, Abu Rahma, Al-Astal, Belbeisi, Fayoumi, Al-Beltagy households and plenty of others, along with the Negev tribes extending between Egypt, Palestine and east Jordan.
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Which means the blood of the 2 peoples is definitely blended, not figuratively. As for the explanations that forestall normalisation between the Egyptian individuals and the Israeli individuals, it’s the rising sense of injustice that the Palestinians are subjected to, or the return of consciousness, in addition to the rejection of immoral neutrality between the felony and the sufferer, and between the occupier and the fact below occupation, which is condemned by worldwide legal guidelines. The Egyptian individuals retailer painful recollections which might be nonetheless skilled by generations that haven’t but departed, recollections of Israeli assaults towards Egypt and its individuals. Infrequently, horrible information concerning the brutality and barbarism exercised by Israel towards Egyptian prisoners, troopers and civilians, throughout its aggressive wars, the place the purpose was to kill merely for the sake of killing and in sadistic methods, removed from any human emotions, come to gentle, with confessions from Israeli officers and troopers. The overwhelming majority of the Israeli public adopts excessive right-wing ideologies; they despise Arabs and examine them with conceitedness and racism. This conceitedness is obvious via Israel’s assaults on the holiest cities for Muslims after Makkah and Medina, the altering of its options via inhabitants expulsion, demolition, and bulldozing of cemeteries, amongst different actions. The Egyptian unions stand as an impenetrable barrier to common normalisation with the occupation state. Egyptian intellectuals, artists, sports activities followers and legal professionals take a agency stance on this difficulty. The overwhelming majority of them see Israel as a rogue, aggressor state and so they realise that the peace agreements between Egypt, Jordan and the PLO and the frenzy in the direction of normalisation don’t result in peace, however to extra barbarism and aggression, and the additional uprooting of the Palestinian individuals from their land. It additionally results in the assaults on different Arab international locations and peoples, and Israel’s help for the tyrants ruling them.
The large growth within the technique of communication, with audio and video, has performed an important position in exposing the felony practices of the occupation, as it’s now not straightforward to cover what is going on on the bottom, and it clearly exhibits the fact of the occupation and its felony goals. It uncovered the lies and absurdity of the presenters, who had been insulting the Palestinians and inciting towards them, and accusing them of promoting their nation. The Palestinians are being expelled from their land and houses, their agricultural crops are stolen or destroyed and so they themselves are in peril of loss of life by the hands of the occupiers, all of which is being broadcast stay.
The place of the Palestinian individuals is resistance and whoever holds on to their rights should discover solidarity and attentive ears from the individuals of their nation and the free individuals of the world. The Arab nations have come to know that the individuals of Palestine aren’t solely defending themselves however are defending the sanctities of the nation. The final American and Western bias in favour of the occupying state on the expense of the Palestinian individuals are based mostly on premises and calculations hostile to all the nation, and never solely to the Palestinians. The Egyptian individuals really feel that they’re the older brother of the Palestinians, and it’s their obligation to bear the ethical and historic duty in the direction of them in all types and fields. There can be no normalisation between the Arab peoples and the occupation, which assaults, to a humiliating and provocative diploma, anybody who carries of their physique Arab or human blood.
What the individuals of Egypt are expressing applies to the remainder of the Arab peoples, who bear the identical emotions of affection and appreciation for the resistant and steadfast individuals of Palestine of their homeland, and the identical emotions of hatred and anger in the direction of the felony occupiers and their accomplices.
This text first appeared in Arabic in Al-Quds Al-Arabi on 10 November 2021
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