Il y a trois jours, l’éditrice de la version anglaise du Akhbar répondait (sans le nommer explicitement, mais de manière transparente) à un éditorial du rédacteur en chef du même quotiditien, Ibrahim al Amine. Aujourd’hui, la version anglaise du Akhbar publie un article de Amal Saad-Ghorayeb, qui attaque nommément, et de manière très dure, l’éditorial l’Al Amine :
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Yarmouk Camp – Resistance Camp Needs to Reflect
►http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/yarmouk-camp-%E2%80%93-resistance-camp-needs-reflect
Yet such overgeneralizations and undertones about the Palestinian people were not lost on the more racist supporters of the Syrian government who lavished praise on Amin’s article for outing “Palestinian treason” and “highlighting their treacherous nature.” Nor were these racist tropes lost on outraged Palestinian supporters of the Resistance, including the widely celebrated poet and public intellectual Tamim Barghouti, who tweeted “the racist article of the Lebanese journalist who supports the killing of the people of Yarmouk, is the racism of those who carried out [the massacres of] Tel al-Zaatar and Sabra and Shatila. The resistance should not be associated with the language of its enemies."
Also derogatory was Amin’s demand that Palestinians “admit” that in Syria they “enjoyed advantages that their counterparts were deprived of in every corner of the world – advantages not even enjoyed in Gaza and the West Bank.” While factually correct, such demands for gratitude are counter-productive in that they easily descend into the logic of keeping score of moral debts accumulated by those we are supposedly collectively and morally obligated toward. Moreover, the theme of the “guests who bite the hand that fed them” is politically damaging to the Resistance in that it undermines its prioritization of the Palestinian cause as the leading moral and religious obligation, and reduces its longstanding solidarity with the Palestinian resistance factions and the Palestinian people as something conditional upon their “good behavior."
