Quando sarà il mio tempo?

Tutta la mia intera vita da adulto sotto occupazione. Ma quando sarà il mio tempo per la libertà? E’ la sintesi del commento di Mustapha Barghouthi sul New York Times di oggi. Con un appunto su quella parte dell’attivismo palestinese che non si vede. La parte non-violenta. Eppure è una parte che, negli ultimi anni, ma soprattutto negli ultimissimi mesi, è forse la parte più consistente dell’opposizione palestinese allo status quo.

Through decades of occupation and dispossession, 90 percent of the Palestinian struggle has been nonviolent, with the vast majority of Palestinians supporting this method of struggle. Today, growing numbers of Palestinians are participating in organized nonviolent resistance.

In the face of European and American inaction, it is crucial that we continue to revive our culture of collective activism by vigorously and nonviolently resisting Israel’s domination over us.

These are actions that every man, woman and child can take. The nonviolent movement is being built in the villages of Jayyous, Bilin and Naalin where Israel’s segregation wall threatens to erase productive village life […]. A new generation of Palestinian leaders is attempting to speak to the world in the language of a nonviolent campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions, precisely as Martin Luther King Jr. and thousands of African-Americans did with the Montgomery bus boycott in the mid-1950s.