Another Monday has arrived. Israeli troops have left the Gaza Strip (after 1330 deads). A new American president took office in the White House. In Italy the army is sent to the streets to "protect our women from rapists" (but the soldiers in history have not been the greatest rapists?), the demonstrations are prohibited in places where there is a church (everywhere in Italy), unemployment is increasing, and justice is the slave of power: "tu sei il potere, vuoi essere giudicato? vuoi essere assolto o condannato?" = "you are the power, you want to be judged? want to be acquitted or convicted?". My dear regime is done. It is called "sliding strategy", it means gaining an inch at a time, because for an inch more or less who should complain? But in the end you find yourself in a regime and you didn't realized. We are tired of the "sliding strategy", right? We are tired of the "better worst", right? We are tired of the accusations against Israel stated by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and then in Kurdistan Turkey can do much worse (40 thousand deaths in the last 20 years).
I have suffered too many "sliding strategies" in my life. Because I am an optimist, because I have always confidence in the others, because I always think that nothing is compromised, that what is lost today can easily be regained overnight. Then came those days, usually on Mondays, when you realize that the world you belong to, has just slipped from under the ass and you're fucked up, there is nothing more to do for those things you really cared of. Let's turn the table, eh?
I have suffered too many "sliding strategies" in my life. Because I am an optimist, because I have always confidence in the others, because I always think that nothing is compromised, that what is lost today can easily be regained overnight. Then came those days, usually on Mondays, when you realize that the world you belong to, has just slipped from under the ass and you're fucked up, there is nothing more to do for those things you really cared of. Let's turn the table, eh?
Last declaration from the "Chain Unger Strike for Gaza" Campaign:
<<There was another war live on TV. Oh, that should be one of the fruits of the 21st century! Though, it has not been that long since we saw the atrocity in Afghanistan and Iraq. This time, the most killer of the states, namely USA, assigned its envoy in Middle East. And the State of Israel did it again: Created a reason, and conducted the bloodshed for Palestinians which was similar to the one carried out in Lebanon in 2006.
We sat back and watched it… Neither UN, nor Arab states or EU showed a sincere reaction in order to stop Israel. Gaza was destroyed, and the city was perfectly cleared of from its terrorists, who were children mostly (!) Thank god, our brand new president’s oath-taking ceremony was about to start and Israel had to hurry so as to give him a welcome present, in other words, a Gaza Strip wiped off the map. Otherwise, the figure of 1300 dead -one third of which are children- and 5500 casualties would increase drastically…
…It would increase and we would watch silently again. But in order to change the current of history instead of being a dumb witness, in order to bawl against this racist attack and in order to show our solidarity with Palestinians, we listened to the voice of our conscience and started a chain hunger strike. Maybe the world heard about us as much as it heard the outcry of the children of Gaza. However, we carried our action on up to its 20th day with eight people until the fulfillment of our first demand, which was the abandonment of Israeli troops from Gaza.
But we still have two more demands: Firstly, the economic embargo on Gaza Strip which devoid even the basic needs of civilian Palestinian population and at least partly prompted the Hamas’ attacks on the Israeli civilians, should be removed. There, the Palestinian people’s basic human rights to live must be restored by ending the embargo. Secondly, those responsible for this attack should be denounced by an International Court as war criminals.
We are dreaming of a world without wars!
We are dreaming of a free Palestine.
Istanbul Action Group for Chain Hunger Strike in Protest against Israeli Invasion of Gaza Strip>>.
We sat back and watched it… Neither UN, nor Arab states or EU showed a sincere reaction in order to stop Israel. Gaza was destroyed, and the city was perfectly cleared of from its terrorists, who were children mostly (!) Thank god, our brand new president’s oath-taking ceremony was about to start and Israel had to hurry so as to give him a welcome present, in other words, a Gaza Strip wiped off the map. Otherwise, the figure of 1300 dead -one third of which are children- and 5500 casualties would increase drastically…
…It would increase and we would watch silently again. But in order to change the current of history instead of being a dumb witness, in order to bawl against this racist attack and in order to show our solidarity with Palestinians, we listened to the voice of our conscience and started a chain hunger strike. Maybe the world heard about us as much as it heard the outcry of the children of Gaza. However, we carried our action on up to its 20th day with eight people until the fulfillment of our first demand, which was the abandonment of Israeli troops from Gaza.
But we still have two more demands: Firstly, the economic embargo on Gaza Strip which devoid even the basic needs of civilian Palestinian population and at least partly prompted the Hamas’ attacks on the Israeli civilians, should be removed. There, the Palestinian people’s basic human rights to live must be restored by ending the embargo. Secondly, those responsible for this attack should be denounced by an International Court as war criminals.
We are dreaming of a world without wars!
We are dreaming of a free Palestine.
Istanbul Action Group for Chain Hunger Strike in Protest against Israeli Invasion of Gaza Strip>>.
I want to thank from my heart all the friends we have been together in hunger strike during the aggression on Gaza: Muzaffer Özgüleş, Özhan Önder, Veli Metinoğlu, Ebru Döne Goker, Özgür Gençer, Lobna Al Lamii, Ahmet Faruk Keçeli.
