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05 21st, 2008| 
I was actually supposed to write a blog about the Palestinian “Nakba” on May the 15th, but since I’m not a professional writers, I only write when I feel there’s something needed to be said, not when I’m suppose to.
So, while reading some of the note written on Facebook I came across a note in Arabic written by May Shalabieh. The note was about a silence protest where the participants couldn’t keep it “silence” as they where talking the whole, I agreed with post, with one comment, protests is a punch of crap to begin with, it never changed any thing, and it’ll never will.
Yeah, I know it’s my right to protest, that doesn’t mean it’s effective, one thing got nothing to do with the other.. and yes I do agree that we Arabs have no sense of serious commitment, when ever something happened, everybody (most people any way) get angry and they wanna go for protests and rise their banners.. few days later, no body can even remember what they were protesting about!.. seriously, it’s the same thing happening every time that it’s becoming like stupid sitcom.. and that we are as far from being organized as earth from the next life inhabited planet..
What I think should be done is the same what Ralph Nader used to do back in the 70’s and 80’s.. he used to organize a VERY WELL PLANNED boycott campaigns against big corporation, and it worked.. the key word here is organized (specific goals, time table, plane B, … etc), it should be something practical, protests is just an expression of emotions.. tell me how many people in those protest drink Coke or go to Starbucks or use Nokia phones or have a P&G product in his home.. all previous brands are BIG BIG supporters of israel, specially when it was commenting the massacre of Jenin!
So, this is the message we’re sending: If you keep doing massacre, building settlements and ignoring the Palestinian people rights we’re going to do a protest that no real action coming from it, and that we’ll only last for a short time, then every body will return home and life goes on as usual like nothing happened, plus, we’ll keep on funding you by buying the products that keep supporting you.. if I was an israeli, I wouldn’t ask for any thing more, I’m actually surprised why the Israelis don’t occupy the entire Arab world if that’s the response they’ll get!
Other thing we can do, is rise awareness to our side of the story, and before that could happen, we should learn our side of the story our selves! Can’t say how many times I’ve seen Palestinians and Arabs debating cluelessly about the ancient history of Palestine, how many Palestinians know about Canaan and the timeline for Palestine history as much as they know Abu Jahel and Khaled iben al Waled stories! How many of them know the details of modern Palestine and how the Zionist immigrations started in the late 19th century.
Some other effective methods is media PR, i.e. writing letters to the foreign press (western or other wise), See how many calls the BBC World or CNN International comparing to SMS sent to support some spoiled teens on reality TV shows.
One last thing; before we start talking to others, we should set our differences a side (e.g. Hamas vs. Fatah, Lebanese government supporters vs. opposition, Wahhabi vs. Shi’a), not solving every damn thin.. just do what the Jewish do, they can have all the differences in the world between them selves, but when they talk to non-Jews, they stand one front.
I came across a group on Facebook the other day about fake holocaust photos, it’s not made by Arabs (no surprise there) as Arabs would usually make groups like “let’s see how many people love Palestine” (in Arabic usually) along with other 5000 almost exact groups!
P.S. If you didn’t figured out the title yet, see the original song
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