When does the Palestinian intensity player die?
Firas Hajj Muhammad| Palestine
I often find in the popular song some political shades, even if the song is political, but the reader can see in it something of that, especially in the field of human relations, between two people or two groups, and for this reason in the general mental abstraction any relationship between two can form a politically deviant sphere; To describe the relationship between the government and the people, as a whole, at least a homogeneous party, with regard to what the peoples agree on in matters of their daily life, their national dignity, or their rights that were stolen from them. Saying following saying comes with a standard deviation of a Palestinian governmental political standard and another of a Zionist occupation of a short popular lullaby, quartet, with a funny meaning, open to joke and sarcasm more than to serious interpretation.
This popular rural lullaby, my father – may God have mercy on him – used to recite it ecstatically while he was communicating with us when we were young, with a beautiful melody, I felt ecstasy while listening to it, for I was and still is shivering with joy, and I am nostalgic for my father’s voice and his calm and reassuring chants. The words of the trill say:
Hey, tan, oh beautiful, bring me a strap and my players
And if I beat you, I would take your mother, and if you beat me, take me
The lullaby represents a funny situation. The narrator plays “shadda” – cards or cards – as the Egyptian brothers call it, and a beautiful brunette woman participates in the game. At the end of the game, he will be either victorious or defeated, but he determines the price if he is victorious or defeated, either he marries the mother if he is victorious or He marries the girl if he is defeated, so he is the winner in both cases. It seems that there is a hidden struggle between the mother and her daughter over the victory of the one who says, with his inclination towards the mother and not the daughter, because he says that you beat me, take me as if he is challenging the girl, but if you win, your mother will be mine. The one who set the conditions will not allow him to lose, and as it was said in the popular proverb, “He does not build a righteous son.”
From this parable, political displacement begins. Whoever “plays” with the government that is falsely called a “national government” will find himself a loser, as it is the one that sets its conditions and will not allow itself to lose, and in the past they said: “The enemy of the state is weak.” Note, for example, how it deals with the teachers’ strike. And in its policy that we have become obsessed with, we are always the losers. Here we mean the people and their employees, including the teachers. And the government is inevitably winning. The sons of the government, including the president, ministers, governors, deputies, members of central and revolutionary councils, and secretaries-general of our failed parties, are the ones who have the many privileges that they suck from the blood of the people who struggle for a living, and these “patriots” only suffer the pleasure of enjoying good things at our expense. “With the government, it played with us and set its conditions. Either you marry us or you marry our daughter. For example, one of the government’s geniuses in solving the problem of teachers is that it left the Tawjihi to be a decision in the hands of parents with regard to explaining the remaining subject. It exempted itself from the consequences of the strike. The other classes are also not concerned with the needs of the teachers, and the crumbs that you donate to them, such as crumbs that do not make you fat or make you hungry, will return to them in different ways, not only by raising prices, but you will find a thousand ways for him to make teachers lose, for what the government paid 5% to teachers It is nothing compared to their dues that you do not want to work on paying and scheduling within a specific time limit. Except that the government is openly lying, its president has decided to pay the employees a full salary before the holiday, so that is withdrawn first, and then the retraction is retracted so that it is decided to pay 30% of the salary, and not from the dues that are originally owed by the government, as circulated by websites Email and Facebook pages.
This is the government that is falsely and slanderously described as “patriotic.” It is similar to the occupation in its actions and the occupation is similar to it in its action. It also activated popular wisdom and the logic of the Palestinian player of distress, so he set his eye on the mother, and if the daughter appeared to him, it would be good and blessed. In fact, the occupation won the mother and her daughter at once. . We, who mean all Palestinians, including a minority of the Palestinian political authority, are losers if we resist the occupier, losers if we remain silent, losers if we work with him, and losers if we do not work. Outside of his necessary and inevitable dependence on the occupation, the proverb applies to us that says “Your husband is where God wills.” I mean, behind you, behind you, to enslave you in all cases, and if they defeat us, they take our mother, and if we defeat them, their daughter takes us, and so we know nothing but loss because we applied the logic of the player of distress, so distress befell us, and we retreated, and we lamented our luck, and perhaps we have no relief except that this player of distress dies, or He finds someone to budge him from controlling the game. Can we do that? Perhaps if we get rid of the Palestinian player of distress, it will be easy for us to get rid of the occupation, for nothing compels the occupation like our “national” government, so God bless its pillars that are regarding to crack sooner or later.
