No name, no nation… By Dr. Busena Shaban

Dam Press:

The most striking feature of today’s world is the anxiety that plagues most of the inhabitants of this planet: anxiety about the passing of the past without a permanent link to the present and the future, anxiety about a generation that is as if its roots have been uprooted without anything else. Anxiety about the decline of the highest values ​​and dignity of the human being, which has become so that everyone has become a number, a group of people or a category of people whose fate is mentioned in passing.
There is no clearer proof of this than what we have seen happening to the people of Gaza, where hundreds of thousands of people have been killed, including tens of thousands of children and babies who, to date, have died without the world knowing their names or having any current records about them or their history and dreams, and tens of thousands of Palestinian prisoners in the prisons of the hateful occupation, where they are subjected to the most horrific torture, ill-treatment and insults to human dignity, as well as hunger that degrades every human being. The letter of human dignity shows that the entire world, not just the Zionist Western governments, not just the Western media run by Zionist money, has abandoned its responsibility for human life, rights, freedom and dignity. .

Perhaps this explains the controversy caused by the release of Dr. Mohammed Abu Salamiya, the director of the Shifa Medical Center in Gaza, after seven months of arrest, because he is a living example of the injustice and ongoing crimes of Zionism, and because he is a person with a name, a face, and people believe what he says. He has principles and morals, and it is dangerous for people around the world to know people with names, faces, and credibility who speak about what really happens in Zionist prisons, which are far more brutal than Nazi concentration camps, and most people know the real situation of Zionist prisons. Perhaps this is the hidden reason why the occupation forces are committing unprecedented crimes by bulldozing any center related to Palestinian cultural, social or professional memory, because the goal is not just the annihilation of people, but the annihilation of memories, including real historical memories, which carry the smell of the place and the components of identity inherited for centuries, which disturbs the newly created occupiers who are crossing this land, who neither know the roots, nor the smell of history, but do not know the taste or texture of the place.
To counter this machine that crushes humanity, we, the defenders of human dignity and the human right to live a free and dignified life away from war, destruction, humiliation and abuse, must embrace their cause, record and honor every one of them. To support justice, we must build an army of storytellers to tell humanity the stories of those who sacrificed themselves and their families to hold high the banner of truth, and the stories of those who fought for the truth, to change the equation of power and set a new definition of war, so that no force, no matter how oppressive, how armed, with all kinds of weapons and money, can break the will of those who resist, who have nothing but faith in God, the land, and sacrifice themselves so that the injustice does not spread to them and affect other innocent people. The victims and resisters must not be left with names and referred to as groups and dozens, instead we should give them a massive historical record of everything they did, everything they dreamed of accomplishing, everything they sacrificed for and resisted. The ideals they embodied through their beliefs and actions.

Just as the invaders and the dark forces deliberately turned human beings into objects, stripping them of every human characteristic that encourages empathy and participation, some of the Zionist Western governments that support these crimes are imposing another kind of oppression and deprivation of dignity on people. Thus, they continue to do wrong, practice all types of war, killing and violence, completely ignoring the opinions of their own people and the needs of these people for policies and expenditures that are completely different from those approved by their own governments. For reasons that have nothing to do with the real interests of the people.

When the military-industrial complex in the United States is focused on creating and perpetuating wars to reap trillions of dollars in profits and finance and develop the weapons industry, this is at the expense of all other areas of society, such as education, health, and infrastructure. For example, in the United States, the education, transportation, and health sectors are severely under-resourced and have been asking for years to allocate a small portion of tax revenue to these sectors instead of developing the weapons industry for war. But the stakeholders work on a completely different track from their people, and they are still interested in increasing their wealth, maintaining their status, and keeping their partners in decision-making positions, to the point where it is as if a real rift has opened up between the rulers and the ruled.

This problem also clearly emerged in the elections that took place in France and the United Kingdom, when it became clear that decision-makers were not engaging with the people who were demonstrating in the streets and could do so without listening to what they wanted, let alone putting them aside. What they wanted on the agenda, discussing it, and perhaps implementing it for the common good. We witnessed this clearly through the movement in support of the Palestinian people that spread across American universities, which, instead of listening to the voices of the elites representing American society, was suppressed in an insulting manner, with university presidents investigated, professors investigated. University deans and department chairs were dragged to the ground in an insulting image, not for them, but for the reality of American governance and its so-called democracy.

The lesson to be learned from nameless victims and no-man governments is that these methods are undoubtedly unsustainable even if they bring false results to those in charge, who cooperate with them, ignore reality and are overly detached from it. The causes of things lead to disastrous results with undesirable consequences. Injustice, killing and occupation cannot perpetuate the oppressor, no matter how powerful he is, no matter how great his power. Instead of stepping back and thinking with some wisdom about what can be done, continuing in this way is a real suicide for the oppressor and his tools, and when time turns a few pages, no one will be able to separate the results from the causes, and the time interval between them will be shortened to the point of being almost invisible.

In the same way, when a government thinks it is strengthening its power, but its mistakes continue to accumulate, this will not only not help to retreat after a while, but will lead to the complete collapse of the whole system, and then the people will try to build a new system with rulers, ideals, laws and institutions that have nothing to do with the system that the upper level is trying to protect.
The sadness, grief, pain and frustration in the world today are due to the disregard of tyrants for all the values ​​and laws that arise from nature, and for all the lessons that history has repeatedly repeated. This may be the result of ignorance or incompetence, because they are close to the end, and today they have no power to change their course, their actions have gone too far, and there is nothing left to do but to continue on. After a while, it will inevitably reach the abyss.