"Wow" imagine what would happen if all people around the world become like Irish people" We will get our freedom".
Nada Elia is a Palestinian scholar-activist, writer, and grassroots organizer, currently completing a book on Palestinian Diaspora activism.In aMondoweiss posting this week, "On Nakba Day I want the right to be angry", Elia thinks of Nakba 69 and other milestones of 2017:
I am angry at the fact that this is a year of milestones, each adding to the previous one's devastation, with none celebrating a major victory. 2017 marks one hundred years since the Balfour Declaration, 69 years since al-Nakba, 50 years since al-Naksa. And yet for many, it is only that most recent blow, 'the occupation,' that registers as wrong, as if imperialism, settler-colonialism and genocide were perfectly acceptable. 2017 marks 50 years of al-Naksa, which is Arabic for 'the setback,' an assertion of previous harm.
That harm continues with Israel's continuing "imperialism, settler-colonialism and genocide".
Muhammad Majid Bakr died because, Israel claims, his fishing boat "deviated from the designated fishing zone". Who determines the size of that zone? The answer starts with the Oslo Accords, one of those international depraved steps the great powers of the West took to enable Israel to expand its colonial state into absolute control of Palestine.
In their 2003 book, Beyond Intifada: Narratives of Freedom Fighters in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian author Taher Shriteh, and two Israeli authors, Haim and Rivca Gordon, examined the history of Israel's "designated fishing zones".
Like every other purely arbitrary imposition Israel establishes over Palestinians, the "designated fishing zones" shift through Israel's whims. And, the zones are always imposed in the name of that most precious tool in Israel's control system, "the security of the Israeli people".
Such an absurdity and such a deprivation of Palestinian freedom, led to the death of Muhammad Majid Bakr.
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