PALESTINIAN SELFLESSNESS ARE INSPIRING
March 9, 2024Dr Mads Gilbert, is the Norwegian Physician who has become one of the loudest and proudest advocates for Palestine adn Palestinians throughout this recent war and even before that.
It is not for any other reason than the fact that this noble doctor has spent the past 15 years or so volunteering his expertise and medical skill in hospitals in Gaza and the West Bank to aid the Palestinians.
So he is someone who knows the character of a Palestinian which he describes as unbreakable or in Arabic “SUMOOD”.
Sumood is a kind of “SELFLESSNESS” that the Palestinians possess innately and demonstrate instinct ively despite their hardship and suffering!
“In the time of utter hardship confronted with death and starvation, they ask: ‘HOW CAN I BE OF HELP FOR THE OTHERS’,”
Gilbert explains in this interview.
If those who are still sitting on the fence about whether the Palestinians are “terrorists”, “animals” and any other adjective the Zionist propaganda is feeding the world about them, maybe watching this video will help you shift your viewpoint and support humanity.
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English Script:
Dr. Mads Gilbert: Now, for the Palestinian people. I think it is a virtue to be selfless, to be supportive of the other. And they have a name for it in Arabic, it’s called “sumood” and “sumood” actually, it’s an Arab word, meaning steadfastness. And this steadfastness is part of Palestinian culture. There’s no doubt and there is no doubt that both in the West Bank and in Gaza and in the camps around the world, when you meet Palestinian people, they are all in a way filled with a sense of being in this world also, not just for yourself, but for the other. And you see it during times of hardship and bombing. And I totally agree. When you look at the video clips from Gaza, when you see a bombing take place, of course, people try to to find cover. But immediately when the bombing is over, you don’t see people run away. You see them run into the smoke and they start digging with their hands immediately. Why do they dig with their hands? Because Israel does not allow any fuel to come in, so they can’t use the cranes and the, you know, the machinery. But you see them digging anyway with and without their vests. You see them lifting carefully. The injured, the dying, the dead, the martyrs into an ambulance or running them into a hospital. Endless actions of compassion, solidarity and “sumood” and this is also, I think, a lesson to the world, a message to the world, a cry to the world. We are maintaining our dignity. We are not allowing ourselves to degenerate to the animals that they are treating us like. And not only are they treating like animals, but they’re even naming them as animals. The Palestinians resist and they stand tall in their dignity and their humanity with their “sumood”. And it is, as you say, extraordinary. And we all should take a lesson from Gaza and from the West Bank. We should take a lesson from Dr. Mohammed El-Erian. From Dr. Nafiz Karim, from Dr. Halil, and from all the other healthcare workers and the people and the volunteers and the ambulance paramedics, because they are actually telling us what it means to be human in times of the utter hardship, confronted with death, confronted with starvation, losing your child. They stand tall and they ask themselves “when there’s bombing, how can I be of help for the other?”
