Palestinians Are Like Cactus


Cactus is hard, can survive without water for long periods of time, and has all these thorns on the outside with a complete mushy juicy nature on the inside.


Likewise, Palestinians are survivors who can live long without enough resources.




They look so tough while absolutely absurd and tender as all human beings are. Harder still, they stand out in resilience, totally stranded by a long sorrowful legacy of exile!



I look at Gaza people and get astonished of how they endure what they endure




Do you know Handala, the young boy in Naji Al-Ali's cartoons?


He has hair like cactus thorns as if professing that our children will live in drought.


Their life is simply a quest for survival.



Barefooted as he is and poor, he turns his back on us and on all, looking at something, thinking of something deeply, faceless in accusation. Will he ever look us in the eyes?


Will he ever grow old? Or will he just shrug his shoulders in indifference and walk away from contemplating the Palestinian cause. Entrapment that it is in a static infertile complex surrounding.


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