Pretend Azmi Bishara Is a Syrian Citizen

I never concealed my admiration of Azmi Bishara’s fluency when he ‎talks about Israel, unmasking it in public, and using the Arabic language ‎too, especially that I don’t know any other languages to understand what ‎he says in Hebrew, under the Israeli Keenest or even the German ‎language which Azmi Bishara is very good at. ‎
Despite this admiration, whenever I see Azmi Bishara with his confident ‎face and sedated words, I feel a psychological stomachache, sever ‎schizophrenia and "unknown" psychological diseases which I never read ‎about in the books of Freud "the Jew". Whenever I hear or saw him on a ‎satellite or ground channel, I curse my failure and the complicated ‎circumstances around me, and I feel a great disappointment. I may not ‎exaggerating when I say that I become malicious and malcontent of my ‎personal conditions, my place of birth, and my home, because they are ‎the main reasons that I could not become a great struggler “which is the ‎characteristic preceding the name of Azmi Bishara in the Arab mass ‎media”. I do not think that this is due to the lack of my struggling ‎abilities, or lack in eloquence and delivering speeches, since I was a ‎‎“pioneer” in the school level, and the neighboring schools, when Al-‎Baath Pioneers Organization “the revolutionary” hold competitions in ‎eloquence, in the Elementary stage. This means I began my struggle ‎ahead of Azmi Bishara who began his struggle when he was in his ‎secondary school. ‎
The second problem, which is more grievous is that, when I hear Azmi ‎Bishara, I become to more admire the Zionist entity “as we was taught in ‎the Arabic national studies at schools and universities” our mortal enemy, ‎and this is a dangerous matter in my opinion, which may be called ‎psychological gargling. I might not be disclosing a secret when I say that ‎insinuations and hallucination (May Allah protect you from) urge me ‎sometimes to say, that if I was an Israeli citizen, I would have become a ‎struggler easly. This, as you see, is referring to my personal failure, to ‎general reasons out of my hand. Let us be logic and discuss the matter ‎seriously away from my swollen ego (according to the translated English ‎expression). Therefore, I will accept your consultation and your judgment ‎in modifying my struggling course if it became clear that the failure was ‎due to me personally, not to my conditions which I curse at day and night. ‎

What if Azmi Bishara was a Syrian citizen, and a member of Syrian ‎People of Assembly? This "what if" which opens the route before devil ‎‎(Allah forbids) applies to all Arab countries which enjoy elected ‎assemblies (or to be more precise, elected by the authorities), but I took ‎Syria as an example for reasons. Firstly, it is my country and the place ‎which witnessed my first struggling failure, and Secondly, because I ‎know the consequences of the matter. ‎
We will not think about unimportant nominal matter which is the ‎impossibility for Azmi Bishara to have a seat as a free thinker and ‎struggler in this Assembly. Let us compare some simple struggling ‎matters only, and we will get away from grievous matters such as Azmi ‎Bishara, the Syrian MP meets the Israeli President publicly and on TVs ‎while we are at war with Israel. Not only that, but he discloses this ‎meeting after all. ‎
We will not mention normalization holocaust which affected Arab ‎thinkers and writers who met Israeli thinkers and writers on the occasion ‎of international conferences and called for fair peace that includes ‎recognizing Israel. Azmi Bishara, for sure, knows how Ersan’s Union ‎expelled Adonis from the union because Ersan was sure of the existence ‎of Israelis in the conference attended by Adonis. ‎
I recall one of the appearances of Azmi Bishara (this was not long time ‎ago) on the Syrian Satellite Channel when they phoned him in Israel (I do ‎not know how) but he was not on the phone. So, they sent a message for ‎him on the moving news bar in the channel and some who was watching ‎the Syrian channel told him (in Israel) about the matter, and then he came ‎at once. How terrible! This is a public contact with an enemy state. Let us ‎imagine that one of the enemies of Azmi Bishara who became a Syrian ‎MP wanted to punish him and asked somehow the Israeli broadcasting to ‎broadcast the song of Um Kulthum "Take me to your affection" claiming ‎that the song is a present from him i.e. Azmi Bishara to our struggling ‎people in Galil and not to Sharon and the matter became known to the ‎Syrian intelligence. At this point we do not need to imagine, and you ‎have to read what the Syrian prisoners wrote about this matter. ‎

Let us expand our imagination and reach the fantasy of Syrian drama ‎series written by Hany Al-Saadi, and directed by Nagdat Anzor. Let us ‎imagine that the Syrian MP Azmi Bishara announced (not on Israeli TV ‎but on Al-Jazeera Channel) that Syria is not a democratic state and it is ‎not for all those who lives in it. If Azmi did not know what will be ‎inflicted upon him, I only tell him briefly that: you will be a food for ‎birds and what Allah has destined in a twinkling of an eye. ‎
Let the Syrian MP, Azmi Bishara, demands (not through satellite ‎channels watched by millions of people but secretly in Al-Rawda café ‎where he will spend most of his time as a thinker, that the detainees in the ‎Syrian prisons must set free. How terrible! He is blaspheming and you ‎don’t need to imagine this point since the all evidences are known. ‎
Imagine the Syrian MP, Azmi Bishara who enjoys immunity, speaking ‎under the doom of the people s assembly (metaphorically speaking as our ‎assembly has no doom), not about the demands of equity of Syrian ‎opposition, nor about corruption without even naming any corrupt, nor ‎about the right of the Syrian Kurds who are deprived from obtaining ‎their nationality, but he is speaking about what is the security department ‎where the Syrian writer Ibrahim Zoro was gone for few days only; and ‎even without demanding to release him or to release the rest of the ‎political detainees, and without even inquiring about the reasons they are ‎in prison in the first place. Let him announces at the time being free that ‎he is traced for political reasons and the Syrian authorities “after he ‎became a Syrian" uses judiciary in its political fight with him. He must ‎remember that the immunity which Riyad Sief and Mamoun Al-Hamsai ‎enjoyed for years while in the prison though they did not demand to ‎change the identity of the state the way he does. ‎
I think Azmi will know what will happen to him if he opens his mouth ‎with any of these words as he will suffer a lot, and I feel the necessity to ‎advise him to read the series written by Yassin Al-Haj Saleh about the ‎worlds of political detainees to know how to adjust with the situation ‎after he gets out of prison in case he remains alive, and released after ‎twenty years. I am sure that he knows all these as Azmi Bishara ignored, ‎even when he is enjoying Israeli immunity, to refer to Syrian political ‎detainees during his frequent visits to Syria, Arabic Satellite channels or ‎his articles about democracy and human rights; as he does not want to ‎spoil his struggling relations with Syrian authorities because of some ‎hundred Syrian detainees. Enforcing struggling relations is more ‎important than these marginal issues. ‎
Azmi and other great nationalistic may not comprehend my comparison ‎regarding demanding him to release the prisoners and detainees in the ‎Israeli prisons and his ignorance of the Syrian detainees (and the Arab ‎detainees in general at least in the countries he visits and meets its ‎leaders) in national prisons and detention camps. Those detainees are in ‎national prisons, on national and independent land, supervised by national ‎warden and even most of torture instruments are national innovations. ‎
You may recall for example the attitude of Azmi Bishara under the dome ‎of the Keenest defending the right of Hezbollah to resist occupation, and ‎you may imagine him while a Syrian MP demanding the right of legal ‎existence not only for the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood (which has a ‎suspicious start and black history according to a three volume books ‎published by Al-Baath Party) as this is a grievous issue which may cause ‎Abdul Qader Qadura to suffer an immediate clot and may even cause all ‎MPs including the independents to clot; nay, the right of legal existence ‎will be claimed for the People s Democratic Party (as an example) of ‎leftiest secular tendency, whose members are always imprisoned because ‎they are members of an underground organization aiming at overthrow ‎the regime and opposing the slogans of communist revolution. ‎
The comparison is lengthy and it is meant only to justify my struggle ‎failure and persuade myself that if I was in a state like Israel I would have ‎easily become a struggler without my mother dying wanting direly to see ‎me or even spend half of my age in prison, or my bones become broken. ‎The Arab struggling writers will rush to join Azmi Bishara, the national ‎struggler, in the face of the aggressive attack of the Zionist departments ‎against an Israeli MP and whichever the case that these departments will ‎fabricate, this fabrication aims surely to affect the resistance of our people ‎inside the green line "the Israeli Arabs". As it is said by the mass media, ‎the accusation against Azmi Bishara is still unknown, and it is necessarily ‎the contact with a state enemy to Israel. This accusation which Azmi ‎Bishara acquitted from it only with a notice from the Israeli jurisdiction ‎counselor; while at the same time some educated persons are still in the ‎Syrian prisoners because they only visited America which we are not in ‎the state of war with, and is not an enemy state, rather the Syrian officials ‎wish to visit it and someone receives them. ‎
Allow me, Azmi Bishara, you and the Arab writers not to unite with you ‎whatever the fabricated case is, because you never united with any ‎detainee in my country, but this does not prevent me from admitting that ‎you are always welcome in my country in case you decided to stay out of ‎Israel as some predictions claim. As you know, you are always welcomed ‎from our hospitable people as well its regime (and the opposition too) and ‎our country s authorities may grant you the Syrian nationality ‎immediately (overstepping the national decisions) as well as a ‎membership in the new people s assembly. On this stage, I will ‎be ‎awaiting to hear about your “struggle”. ‎

Translated by Nuha Hanifa

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