Exiled is a blogger who recently left Gaza – and he is in no hurry to return. In this translation of a recent post of his, we hear his opinions about political propaganda and self-interest, the tunnels to Egypt and the planned steel fence, and the nature of the outside world's concern for the Gaza Strip.
Exiled writes at his blog Nostalgia:
غزة بلد الكلام والانشاء الرخيص لا يفهمها احد، ملعب بعشرات الفرق ومئات المهاجمين والمدافعين ولكن بلا حكم ،يختلط فيها الحابل بالنابل ويكثر فيها الهرج والمرج كلوحة سرياليلة تستعصي على بيكاسو وسلفادور دالي
تحفر الانفاق لتهريب البضائع من مصر الى غزة…في حين انها عملية بيع وشراء تتم تحت نظر السلطتين في غزة ومصر ولكن تبقى تحت مسمى التهريب كي يستفيد منها الطرفين كل لمصلحته،كي تشحت سلطة غزة على شعبها المسكين الذي يشرب اطفاله الحليب مهربا،وكي تكون ذريعة لمصر لتحمي امنها القومي وحدودها من مخاطر التهريب
Gaza is a place of cheap talk and bombast. No one understands it. It is the playground of dozens of teams and hundreds of strikers and defenders, but without rules. Everything has become totally mixed up and chaotic, like a surreal painting that even Picasso or Salvador Dali couldn't decipher.
Tunnels are dug to smuggle goods from Egypt into Gaza…and while this is a buying and selling deal carried out in plain sight of the authorities in Gaza and in Egypt, yet it is still called “smuggling” so that the two parties will benefit from it for their own ends – so that the Gaza government can sponge off its poor people who are feeding their children contraband milk, and to serve as a pretext for Egypt to protect its national security and borders from the dangers of smuggling.
فضحت مصر ونشر غسيلها الوسخ واحتشد المتظاهرون المتضامنون امام السفارات المصرية في العالم تنديدا بالجدار الفولاذي على الحدود، في حين ان مصر كانت قادرة ببساطة وبكل هدوء وبدون اي شوشرة اغلاق جميع الانفاق مع غزة دون اي شوشرة اعلامية
تبني مصرجدار فولاذي عالي…ولا احد في غزة يدري لماذا؟ فاغلاق الانفاق لا يحتاج الى هذا الجدار، ولن يمنع الجدار الانفاق!
Egypt was exposed and had its dirty laundry hung out publicly when solidarity demonstrators gathered in front of Egyptian embassies worldwide to condemn the steel wall on the border, while Egypt could have simply and very quietly closed all the Gaza tunnels – without any media circus.
Egypt is building a high steel fence…and no one in Gaza knows why! To close the tunnels does not require this wall, and the wall will not prevent the tunnels!
يأتي اهل الخير والضمير والثوار النبلاء من العالم نحو غزة ليتضامنوا معها، في حين ان غزة هي من تتضامن معهم وتمنحهم راحة الضمير والالق الثوري والبروباجندا الاعلامية
لا احد يفهم غزة
Charitable people with a conscience, noble revolutionaries come to Gaza from every part of the world to show their solidarity. In the meantime Gaza is the one that is in solidarity with them, and gives them peace of mind, revolutionary aura, and propaganda materials.
No one understands Gaza.
Update: This blog has since been deleted.
3 comments
This is an amazing post which cries for understanding. There´s nothing that makes sense about the way Gaza is dealt with. No justice or coherence, no wonder whoever has an option escapes the jail that it´s been forced into becoming.
You know, building a fence to keep people out will only breed further anomosity between nations whilst creating the catylist through which the Gazian people will establish further innovative methods by which they can feed their starving and subjegated people, fence or not. Fences don’t work, the Mexican/American example has been a testiment to that. One would hope they would not follow our terrible example.
Hello:
The situations in Palestine are extremely illegal and must end. I dont understand how the Palestinians are being treated in THEIR OWN country.