{"id":317323,"date":"2023-10-17T22:11:23","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T22:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularindinews.com\/?p=317323"},"modified":"2023-10-17T22:11:23","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T22:11:23","slug":"poor-palestinians-are-too-tired-to-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/popularindinews.com\/india\/poor-palestinians-are-too-tired-to-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Poor Palestinians are too tired to fight&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8216;People coming from the slightly upper section of Palestinian society want to fight and I see vengeance in their eyes.&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nibedita Sen<\/strong> spent three years travelling across Israel, Palestine, Egypt, Syria and other West Asian countries as an independent defence correspondent and a marketing communicator.<\/p>\n<p>Nibedita, who returned from Israel in May 2023, tells <strong>Prasanna D Zore\/<em>Rediff.com<\/em><\/strong>, &#8220;What&#8217;s terrorism for others is patriotism for Palestinians.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Part 1 of the Interview: &#8216;Nobody is scared in Israel&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/im.rediff.com\/news\/2023\/oct\/09israeli-attacks14.jpg?w=670&#038;h=900\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell us about your meetings with ordinary Palestinians, their daily lives and how they look at the Israelis&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I started a community of travellers in Israel called Happiness Activist through which not only did we travel (<em>through many parts of Palestine<\/em>) but also promoted the cause of mental health.<\/p>\n<p>Hence I initiated attending old age homes in Israel and Palestine for spending time with people. That was my opening move in Palestine.<\/p>\n<p>I remember the first day very well as I was dressed in a sari and got questioned five to seven times by normal people if I was from &#8216;Hodu&#8217;. The word &#8216;<em>Hodu<\/em>&#8216; comes from Hindu. India is known as Hodu in Palestine.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Palestine is pronounced as Balestine. They don&#8217;t have &#8216;H&#8217; and &#8216;P&#8217; in their dictionary.<\/p>\n<p>I met a cute little girl who kept admiring me. I didn&#8217;t notice her. It was my husband who drew my attention to a red-cheeked girl and how she was staring at me. When I smiled at her, she shyly ran away.<\/p>\n<p>Then I met people on the bus who enquired if I my husband was a Muslim because I made him wear a Punjabi pajama, traditional Bengali wear.<\/p>\n<p>While crossing the road, a group of teenaged boys came forward and stopped by me to see if I was bleeding from my forehead. They mumbled as they weren&#8217;t very fluent in English and I did not know how to speak Arabic.<\/p>\n<p>I told them I wasn&#8217;t bleeding and that was my <em>sindoor<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It was fun strolling around and knowing people. They are also curious people just like us.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Did you get to speak with Palestinians whom you have known after Israel launched its offensive against the Hamas in Gaza?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes I work with them as a marketing communicator. I worked with a software company and later founded &#8216;Happiness Activist&#8217; where I help Palestinians in establishing tourism in a better way in Palestine. I work with them closely.<\/p>\n<p>I have friends who are primary school teachers turned taxi drivers, political tour guides, students and more.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/im.rediff.com\/news\/2023\/oct\/09israeli-attacks5.jpg?w=670&#038;h=900\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>About the death and destruction in Palestine ever since Israeli bombing started in the Gaza&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They have two different kinds of opinions. People coming from the slightly upper section of the society are politically aware. They want to fight more and I see vengeance in their eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Again, poor Palestinians who are anyway not helped by their government and also mistreated by the upper class are the ones who give me a different perspective. They want a solution to this.<\/p>\n<p>They need good governance, good quality food, water, electricity and peace.<\/p>\n<p>These are people who I personally find are rational and humble.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I feel these sections of people are too tired to fight anymore. Because of living in the border areas their lives that are at risk.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/im.rediff.com\/news\/2023\/oct\/09israeli-attacks2.jpg?w=670&#038;h=900\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>What kinds of tragedies are unfolding in Gaza? Do you have Palestinians sharing their plight with you, describing the mayhem and destruction wreaked upon them by the Israeli bombings?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Besides turmoil, the only tragic part is the number of constantly decreasing Christian population at the birthplace of Christ. I am connected to people near the border areas. Even though I went inside the country, I was not allowed to move freely everywhere, especially the centre of Gaza, even though I wanted to.<\/p>\n<p>I do have videos bytes of Palestinian people, but they live near the borders and there&#8217;s no sign of destruction as such. The place in Gaza that has rumbled is in the central part where there are banks, mosques, offices etc.<\/p>\n<p>The videos circulated in the media are also the ones shared by the Israeli army because they click the footage of places they are bombing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How do Palestinians look at Hamas? As saviours who will help them establish their national identity or a terrorist organisation that is pawning the interests of ordinary Palestinians for their idea of liberation and freedom of Palestine?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have never thrown this direct question at them because they will not talk to me if I do. I took time to understand them.<\/p>\n<p>What I understood from their behaviour is that they have no other option than supporting Hamas. Here by &#8216;they&#8217; I mean the common people of Palestine, not the rich and powerful ones.<\/p>\n<p>I got a chance to visit the Palestinian president&#8217;s home. It is built in the shape of a ship. There the arms and ammunition are well exhibited. The windows are covered by sacks of sand to prevent any bullet entering their rooms.<\/p>\n<p>An AK-47 is neatly kept beside the bed of every security personnel. It was a thrilling experience. They have a museum in the same building where their side of the story is well depicted.<\/p>\n<p>Political tours in Palestine have this as the main viewpoint. Both activists and ordinary people want tourists to visit this place.<\/p>\n<p>So, yes, what&#8217;s terrorism for others is patriotism for Palestinians.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>ISRAEL-GAZA: BATTLES FOR THE PROMISED LAND<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rediff.com\/news\/interview\/nibedita-sen-poor-palestinians-are-tired-to-fight\/20231016.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;People coming from the slightly upper section of Palestinian society want to fight and I see vengeance in their eyes.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":317322,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&#039;Poor Palestinians are too tired to fight&#039; - 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