Isaac Epstein - who was an eyewitness to one of the cases of expulsion of the Palestinian population in 1948 - says in an article published in the magazine “Hashiloah”, which was founded by “Ahad HaAm”:
“I still hear the wailing of Arab women from the village of Al-Ja’una, now called Rosh Pina, a settlement in the Upper Galilee that was founded in 1882. On the day the families left the village to live in the Golan on the eastern side of Jordan, the men were riding their donkeys followed by crying women, and the valley was full of wailing. They would stop from time to time and kiss the ground and rocks.”
He goes on to say, "Will the expelled people remain silent and accept what happened to them? They will rise up in the end to take back by force what was stolen from them in terms of gold. They will take to the courts the foreigners who displaced them from their land, and then the expelled people may become the plaintiff and the judge... This people does not need to be revived because they never died." He did not stop living for a single minute... Be careful not to wake the sleeping lion.”
After the 1948 massacres and the expulsions and displacement that were imposed on the Palestinian people, the Jews thought that they had died and that years later they would dissolve in countries of asylum. However, what they thought was wrong and even disappointing. The Palestinians did not forget their land for a single moment, nor did they dissolve. Rather, they returned early and spoiled every moment of the existence of the Jews of the diaspora.
They returned and crushed the statement of Meir Kahane, who said that “the Palestinians are strangers in their own land,” and he did not know that the land does not deny its owners. As for the stranger, he was Kahane and his Jews who realized that they were the strangers with the first gift to the children of Palestine that brought Zionism back to square one, when The stone in the hand of the child is superior to the tank in the hand of the soldier, and the knife is superior to the nuclear weapon. The Palestinians turned from a disturbing dream to a threat to their existence, and the individual turned into a group and the group into a movement. The attacks continued and battles began to terrorize a country that considered itself a superpower in the Middle East and boasted of an invincible army.
The lion that Epstein warned about woke up. Wake up and destroy the legendary Zionist slogan “A land without a people for a people without a land.” The latter accused him of being a saboteur, a terrorist, and an anti-Semite, and forgot what she had done to his family, including murder, expulsion, and theft. The world believed this for decades, labeling the owner of the land and the right with those labels and neglecting that it was a movement like other liberation movements that fight those who assaulted and seized what did not belong to them in order to restore rights.
Despite that, despite the world’s fight against it, and I mean the resistance, it changed the balance of the leaders of Zionism, who thought that the owners of the land had forgotten their land and that they would be unable to recover it, and they dropped Golda Meir’s statement that she made in 1970 during a meeting with a group of Jewish writers in response to a statement by a Polish Jew. He visited Palestine in the twenties and summarized his impressions of it by saying, “The bride is beautiful, but she has a groom.”
Golda replied at the time, “I thank God every night because the groom was weak, and the bride could have been taken from him.”
But the groom did not forget his bride, Golda, and he returned as a powerful rebel, and it became difficult for a usurping country to stop the war he declared on October 7, 2023.
Today the genie is the resistance with its factions that have caused and continue to hurt this aggressor. This genie, who was a child yesterday, today made the occupying state lose its deterrence, destroyed its security systems, caused the dismantling of its joints, brought terror into the hearts of its residents, and caused countless crises for it and those behind it.
Today, Golda and Kahane, the genie who has been labeled a saboteur and terrorist for decades has become a resistance fighter who does not fear death, so the peoples of the world have blessed his resistance and demonstrated for him.
Today, the resistance has made the world raise its voice, repeating slogans that we have never heard before, such as freedom for Palestine and its great people, and the fall of the occupying state.
Today, the resistance monster came out to scream in the face of the malicious colonialist settler:
" I am not a surplus. I am the owner of the land and you are the illegal appendage. You are the cancerous tumor and I came out to uproot your artificial roots."
Lebanese Hezbollah publishes footage of the operation targeting the headquarters of the Northern Corps of the Israeli army in the Ein Zeitim base in northern occupied Palestine
