GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH!
July 9, 2024Ghassan Kanafani, a renowned Palestinian politician and author, exposes the reality of the occupation and the tool of “diplomacy” to achieve liberation.
“People usually fight for something and they stop fighting for something. So you can’t tell me even why should we speak, about what? Of the Palestinian people who are uprooted, thrown in the camps, living in starvation, killed for 20 years and forbidden to use even the name Palestinians.”
Israel will NOT voluntarily surrender its occupation after decades of building its work.
It MUST be pressured and forced into doing so.
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English Script:
Ghassan Kanafani: It’s not a civil war, it’s a people defending themselves against a fascist government, which you are defending. It’s not a civil war.
Man behind camera: or conflict.
Ghassan Kanafani: That’s not a conflict, it’s a liberation movement fighting for justice.
Man behind camera: Well, whatever might be best called…
Ghassan Kanafani: It’s not whatever, because this is where the problems start. This is a people who is discriminated, is fighting for his rights. This is a story.
Man behind camera: Why won’t your organization engaged in peace talks with the Israelis?
Ghassan Kanafani: You don’t mean exactly peace talks, you mean capitulation, surrendering?
Man behind camera: Why not just talk?
Ghassan Kanafani: Talk to whom?
Man behind camera: Talk to the Israeli leaders.
Ghassan Kanafani: That’s kind of a conversation between the sword and the neck, you mean.
Man behind camera: Well, if there are no swords and no guns in the room, you could still talk.
Ghassan Kanafani: No, I haven’t been, I have never seen any talk between a colonialist case and a national liberation movement.
Man behind camera: But despite this, why not talk?
Ghassan Kanafani: Talk about what?
Man behind camera: Talk about the possibility of not fighting.
Ghassan Kanafani: Not fighting for what?
Man behind camera: Not fighting at all, no matter what for.
Ghassan Kanafani: People usually fight for something and they stop fighting for something. So you can’t tell me even why should we speak, about what?
Man behind camera: Stop fighting.
Ghassan Kanafani: Or talk about stop fighting, why?
Man behind camera: Talk to stop fighting, to stop the death and the misery, the destruction, the pain.
Ghassan Kanafani: The misery and the destruction and the pain and the deaths of whom?
Man behind camera: Of Palestinians, of Israelis, of Arabs.
Ghassan Kanafani: Of the Palestinian people who are uprooted, thrown in the camps, living in starvation, killed for 20 years and forbidden to use even the name Palestinians.
Man behind camera: They’re better that way than dead, though?
Ghassan Kanafani: Maybe to you, but to us it’s not. To us, to liberate our country, to have dignity, to have respect, to have our mere human rights is something as essential as life itself.