Resistance

By Adel - PeaceMaker

Kennesaw, GA

We Must All Resist Against Injustice Around The World.

Resistance begins in doubt. Then it grows into the adolescence of skepticism and matures into defiance, confrontation and struggle. Resistance is above all the determination to say, no. No! to bureaucratic euphemism and deceit. No! to falsehood and lies. No! to broken promises and assurances.

Resistance is the precise opposite of acceptance of what the Occupying Power offers and the resulting retreat into submission. Resistance is the rejection of the Occupiers version of life. It is rejection of wide-eyed acquiescence to the Occupiers lure.

People prefer freedom of choice. They want to be respected and want to be recognized. The sentiment (born from fear) that justifies the abandonment of that for which one should struggle. People don’t want to be tamed by obedience to a way of life that does not respect human beings. Otherwise, fear wins out.

Fears such as the fear of terrorism, ironically, of terrorist acts executed by ourselves against ourselves. Does one not talk openly today about the next institutionally organized terrorist act permitting occupation and subjugation?

We have to resist. It is not necessary to be a hero to resist. It can be much less than throwing rocks or Molotov cocktails at the Occupiers, or going to prison. Resistance is to refuse to be a tool in the lurid machine of “their” assurances that we are “happy” or to be a cogwheel in the great machine of the Occupying Power.

Abandon concepts of the Occupying Power centrism, which is no less than the view that the real world begins and ends with the Occupier. We know that the Occupiers are a small part of our planet earth. The reality is, the rest of the world is out there.

Resistance thinking, leads to unexpected directions. For example, the opposite of peace is not necessarily war, abandonment of social inequalities, the lack of respect for fundamental rights and justice; it is everything that closes the proximity between the rich and poor, whether nations or individuals.

Resistance to injustice should not be seen as revolutionary. Resistance does mean rejection of the Occupying Powers expansionism and imperialism as if it were the end goal of human behavior. Expansionism and imperialism has created and fomented the “culture of exclusion” and its gradual and massive death toll among a great part of our human society.

Resistance is Yes! to equality, human rights, social justice, and No! to colonialism (the US invasion of Iraq and the Israel occupation of the Palestine land are a clear example).