People can have such
different ideas of what a warrior is, what side they are on, how they fight.
Today we met a warrior in Bethany who was armed only with a camera but was far
more courageous than the soldiers who have shot him, thrown bombs at him,
arrested and threatened him and tried to break his resolve.
We had spent the early
afternoon in the music and art centre but the jovial atmosphere was abruptly
halted when our co-ordinator came in and bade us to stop. Even while the echoes
of the precession were still bouncing off the walls he told us that a pack of
Israeli soldiers had raided some houses in the previous night and that we were
going to see a man who was somehow involved.
The man was named Rami; we
went to Bethany to his media studio and he showed us his base of operation for
his media company. Last night he had gone to the spot where the Israelis had
invaded a man’s house, ravaged his possessions and beaten him in front of his
two-year old. He had photos of a ransacked apartment and drops of blood all
over the floor. He could not film the event, the soldiers had blocked his
entrance.
It was a moderate battle for
a man who has been shot many times, has had his possessions and id taken from
him. A man who fights theses gangs with only the truth of his filming against
millions of dollars of armaments and thousands of thugs. He proceeded to tell
us, then show us some of the savage episodes of his career which you can find
for yourself on www.alqods.ps and which some of the other blogs describe.
He himself will have to
appear before a military court for filming the shooting of a 12 year old lad.
By the time we left, the
streets in Bethany that had felt so hospitable to us could be seen for what
they were. We passed a grocery store that we has seen moments ago on Rami’s
computer with soldiers firing from it. Every piece of graffiti, every piece of
rubble was now inseparable from the occupation and I can only imagine what
living with this could do to you.
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