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The Daily Life of
Kawther Salam
..: The Death of Dror Weinberg :.. November
17, 2002
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Killing is killing everywhere and all the time. I don't like to hear news about killings, even if the slain one is one of my enemies. On June 12, 2002, Colonel Dror Weinberg expelled me from my house in Hebron, which had been occupied by the IDF in 1997 during the peace time. I left Hebron without valediction. How difficult it is to leave your homeland, family and friends without words... Farewell words... Love words... Kisses and hugs ... I still remember how the IDF soldiers denied me the right of return from Jerusalem to my home. I remember how the IDF soldiers were ready to shoot and kill me if I argued with them at the border of Gush Itzion south of Hebron. I still remember my hot entreat tears at Gush Itzion border ... but the IDF soldiers didn't learn any mercy or human feelings ... I used to take some pictures on their uniform with big signs of "BORN to KILL". Colonel Weinberg brought alienation between me and myself... Between me and my history... Between me and my love... Between me and my childhood... Between me and my family... Between me and my homeland... Between me and my people... Between me and my memories... How difficult it is to express departure and strangeness feeling in such small words ... ! On Friday November 15, 2002, I was reading the fresh news, which carried the news that Colonel Dror Weinberg had been killed in Hebron. And that 12 soldiers and armed settlers had been killed with him. Oh God, the military commander who made my life hell in Hebron was killed ! Oh God, how this happened ... I felt scared... Scared of the occupational soldiers and settlers acts and revenge toward my people. Who will be killed tomorrow, I asked myself. Who had killed Dror Weinberg ? The daily murdering and killing of Palestinians in their houses and in their own homeland will never bring peace and security for the military occupation and settlers in heart of Hebron and the West Bank. The media carries daily new Palestinians murdered and arrested. The occupation killed kids, old men, women, patients ... they even killed our hope and our human feelings. There is no future for the occupational settlers and soldiers between us in hour homeland. No Israeli accepts Arabs from Israel to live with them in Tel Aviv and ... , while they allow themselves to live in what so called Israel in the cities and villages of the Arabs everywhere ! How will the Palestinians accept the occupational settlers and soldiers to live them ? The Israeli State is based on discrimination between even it's own citizens. This carries an "a" I.D and live in Tel Aviv ... This carries "b" I.D and live in other cities around Tel Aviv ... This carries "c" I.D and live in the small Israeli villages ... This carries "A" I.D and live in the West Bank Settlements ... This is an Arab Israeli citizen living around Tel Aviv ... This is an Arab Israeli citizinez living in Jerusalem ... The Jewish immigrant are divided between a, b, c and ... These are western immigrants, These are Russian immigrants, These are Flasha immigrants, These are Arab Jewish immigrants, These are, and these are, and ... Israel is based on discrimination in all sectors of public life. The governmental sectors, the Public sectors and the private sectors. Even the IDF units structure is based on discrimination: Sakhlav, Kolam, Golani, Nakhol, Dovdovan, Paratroopers, Shimshoni, Giva'aty, Border police, Air force, Marine force, ... The "Flasha" immigrants (black jews from Ethiopia) are not allowed to be in the air force units or ... Israel is a racist society. These are Oriental Jewish ... These are Western Jewish ... And both of them are separated into small communities ... This is the reality of the Israel State ... This is the reality of the occupational state ... Even the Israeli civil society is a victim of the State and it's racist and fascist divisions. So how we can accept to be occupied by this racist and fascist occupation and to live with them in the middle of our cities and people in the West Bank, beyond the borders of 1967 ? The Palestinians circle of blood, hate, and revenge will be stop when the occupation stopped. Colonel Weinberg was killed by the occupation, the occupation of the Palestinians, killing him self and his people in the West Bank... I'm counting the days in which the media will not be not carrying any news of the killing of Palestinians and Israelis. Since over two years we hear about the daily killings and collective punshiments. Colonel Dror Weinberg was a victim of his own support for criminals, the fanatic occupational settlers in the heart of the city of Hebron. He was a victim of his racist discrimination policy toward the Palestinian citizens in Hebron. For over 600 days the 40.000 Palestinians lived under Colonel Wienberg's curfew in Hebron. He denied the Palestinians under the poverty line to take their own volunteers under the regular curfew. He blocked the Palestinian streets, denying them the right of free movement and to reach their houses in same city and even in the same quarter Colonel Weinberg closed the Vegetable market, the gold market, the metal market. About 1500 shops were looted by settlers with the help of his soldiers. Thousands of dunams of Palestinian lands was confiscated for growing the Jewish settlements in the city and around it. Many Palestinians kids were killed by Colonel Weinberg's snipers on their ways to buy bread or while going to school. Thousands of families were made homeless. Thousands of military ordered from Colonel Weinberg stopped the Palestinian economical, social, cultural, and educational sectors in the city. Hundreds of Palestinians houses became military posts and were occupied by his soldiers. The soldiers were involved in sexuallyharassing women and raping men in the city. I was a victim of Colonel Weinberg, there are thousands of other victims the same like me ... Several time I was harrased sexually by his soldiers who were occupying the rooftop of my house. I sent hundreds of letters to this commander to please stop the inhuman harassment and the trauma they caused me. I lost my house, my family, my work and everything in Hebron under the command authority of Dror. I fled to Europe twice from the behavior of his soldiers. This was the reality of Colonel Dror Weinberg ... and this is all made by the commander of the IDF soldiers, who was killed a couple of days ago in my homeland in Hebron. When Colonel Weinberg was killed, he was leading the criminals and fanatic settlers who had organized a violent demonstration against the Palestinians citizens in Hebron. All the anti–Arab signs and official threats were scrawled on the Palestinians homes in front of him. Colonel Weinberg always used to share in the settler's violent demonstrations. The settlers bombed 10 Palestinian shops in Hebron only during April, 2001, while Colonel Weinberg gave legal backing to the settlers terrorism and their terrorists actions. The death of Dror Weinberg should mark the end of the occupational government in the Palestinian cities. The only way to bring peace for both nations, the Palestinian and the Israeli, is to stop the settlements and the military occupation in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. |
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 Another view of the same
scene: the woman and her sister trying to argue about passage with the
IDFs. The problem is that the language the IDFs use with Palestinians
is reduced to insults like "sharmuta" (whore), beating and shooting. In
addition to the trouble with the IDF, these women are at risk of
trouble with their families for talking to strange men (the soldiers),
or for not arriving at home in time.
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