tlcorbinMy Palestinian Heroine (LINK)
July 31st 2008 11:51
What possible differences can a young woman, a female teenager in a passionate male dominated world affect? Can she change the heart and mindset of historically abused and war scarred people with her brilliant rhetoric, knowledge or simple action? Normally, I’d say no, she can’t.
But then the diary of Anne (Annelies) Marie Frank comes to mind. The power of her quiet strength spoke volumes to a world that finally had time to hear her words that indicted a vicious regime we knew as the Nazis. Whose evil knew no boundaries and was over looked by a world bent on appeasement at any cost.
Here we have Salam Kanaan, a 17 year old girl, a young woman showing the way of non violent resistance while documenting absurd instances of abuse by a world class military against civilians. Digital or video records of abuse speak loudly in a world turned upside down by turmoil.
Finally, an illustration of the point I was making with a blog I posted, “Peace Starts When the Rockets Stop.” Throwing rocks, fire bombs, or engaging an armed military in the rubble of civilization will not foster peace. The camera will have an impact, when used in place of make shift weapons to make a point or to draw attention to a painful and cruel situation. A situation that has been inflamed by self serving radicals on all sides of the pitiless conflagration. There aren’t any innocents any longer on either side, save the youth with hope filled hearts.
Palestinian Arabs have been left as cannon fodder by educated Arab elitist neighbors because it serves some vague purpose, and Israel, has at times acted the cruel aggressor that they resisted for decades, shedding lakes of their own blood for their freedom. Can they fail to see their former plight reflected in the eyes of Palestinians?
The brilliance of Salam’s advice is in its simplicity; record your life and real abuses then serve them back to a historically abused people to remind them of their former chains. And do so, without violence. It’s brilliant.
Photo Credit: AP Photo
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