How to Recruit a Collaborator
“Sometimes it’s crazy to be normal !”
The other day I went to visit a friend who came back from working in Haifa City with a bizarre story !!! … life here is full of bizarre and queer stories under occupation… the story of almost every Palestinian !!!
My friend (like me) is a skilled worker, and his precious hands are very wanted in a healthy society but not in a crippled economics under occupation like ours. And as a part of a well woven plan, he’s been chased by a Palestinian businessman in the Palestinian city of Haifa. This businessman kept annoying him with phone calls and generous offers of salary for three months, but my friend kept saying that he wont take the risk and sneak inside (or outside anyway) without a “legal” permission (as if there is a one single “legal” thing in this “zionist” land), there are “legal settlements” anyway.
Finally the businessman told my friend that he’s got him a permission but he has to come first “illegally” to Haifa. He gathered himself (like me this summer, some of you know that I sneak to work in construction, but not for the Zionists in no way) and went in a tiring and risky journey that last 15 hours to cross some 50km to HIS original hometown Hifa (from which the zionists kicked his father out in 1948). He was given a humble dwelling place to manage and they used his hands for a low salary compared to his Israeli peers, but this wasn’t part of the whole trick !!!
My friend, who was still dwelling there “illegally” and permission-lessly. Kept asking his Palestinian recruiter of the promised-permission in the “promised land”. The recruiter kept lying and lying till after two weeks he said, Yes ! the permission is ready BUT !!! My friend was rejoiced to be able (still waiting) to move freely and work in his hometown, but this BUT killed him.
This BUT conditioned that the permission is still with the person who provide it named (Abu-Jamal), and that my friend was conditioned to meet Mr. Abu-Jamal to thank him for his endless endeavor to attain the permission. “OK, why not to meet him” said my friend anticipating to have the permission!!
The next day, Mr. Abu-Jamal “honored” my friend with a visit in his humble dwelling, with the presence of the Palestinian recruiter, of course. The surprise was that Abu-Jamal was a Zionist jew, as they, the Zionists fake Arab names to fake a faked friendship, or to hide their real identity!! The Zionist Abu-Jamal told my friend that he toiled (faking that he is not a Shabak officer) to get him the permission for free, and that he wanted a “small” service from him. “What is it?” my friend asked bewildered. Abu-Jamal told him that he will know later on and showed him the permission, (an excellent one with 24/7 full free movement, as if it is “illegal” for him to move in his original hometown of Haifa) but also he is not allowed to take permission BUT later on “after they have bread and salt together and become friends” as Mr. Abu-Jamal added cunningly.
The next day, the recruiter told him that he has a paid-day off. “but I came here to work!!” said my friend. “Today is your lucky day, Abu-Jamal is going to take you for a free trip, on the house” said the recruiter (shall we say cunningly), anyway.
The “benevolent” Abu-Jamal took my friend to the shore, they swam and chatted (Abu-Jamal showed my friend that he knows everything, every single thing about his personal life to threaten him, but my friend thought “So what!!”), then took him to a luxurious restaurant. They had a fat dinner (just to have bread and salt together “as the Egyptian saying” and be friends), and after the dinner Mr. Abu-Jamal pointed to the luxurious bar and said: “You see all those drinks? Just pick anyone and all on the house”. (Wooow, if it was me, I would drink the whole bar.. lol) BUT my friend is not that type in no way, he can never drink alcohol and refused to order but soft drink, and here “after they became friends” the serious discussion started.
Abu-Jamal: Look !! Now we are already friends, take this mobile number, its mine. Whatever happened to you, wherever you were and face troubles, just call me, my men will come to help you.
Friend: OK, but what about the permission?
A-J: You will take it late, but don’t worry, even without a permission you wont face troubles.
Friend: OK, but what you want from me (pretending to be gullible)
A-J: Nothing, just a small service!! We know everything about you, your village, you family and can get you anytime!!
F: So, what is that service?
A-J: Simple, to follow 4 persons from your village and tell us everything about them !! (is Sami, the Bedouin. included?)
F: Who are they?
A-J: Not yet, you are not trusted yet.
F: OK! Just a small question (knowing that he would never get out of the Zionist dirty circle if agreed). Can I resign and say bye whenever I want?
A-J: Sure, it’s your choice finally !!!
F: (waiting for the chance to run away) OK ! Agreed.
A-J: Great, lets celebrate now.
Yes, it’s my friend’s choice finally to live the hell under occupation, to be humiliated and to be forced finally to serve the oppressing Zionists “willingly”. !!
My friends’ choice was NO, never !!! and he waited to gather his things and salary to leave at the first chance !!!
At the crossing (Apartheid Wall) point, the sweet girl officer who checked my friend leaving out smiled at his face after scrutinizing her computer screen saying: “Nedal, you are great, you are recommended here!!” and he left home frustrated and disgusted of the whole computerized connected system of the racist Israel !!!
After crossing the borders, my friend called Abu-Jamal and told him: “Abu-Jamal, F-U-K YOU !!! You cant eat the flesh of every Palestinian” and broke the mobile!!!
Nobody in the whole world can force you to collaborate with the Zionist oppressor if your heart said no !!! They can kill you, torture you, lynch you or imprison you for years, but even God cant force you if your heart Simply said: NO! and F—K YOU ! Mr. Abu-Jamal !!
Sami, the Bedouin.
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In a situation of occupation, humiliation, degradation, alienation, annihilation…etc(ation), It is abnormal to be normal!!! You either be corrupt leader (by nature of the corrupting occupation in its endeavor to create an “Elite” of collaborating leadership), a collaborator (within the circle that the invader never stops from spoiling, forcing, using, raping or bribing people to enlarge its diagonal), a “terrorist” that is using the counterpart or the blind “inhuman” contra-power of occupation, a peaceful resistant that watches dreamingly and wait the occupation to be “human”, a freedom-fighter that knows his goals and tools of honorful fight to get free and free others, or you are just driven crazy in an endless search for logic in this illogical situation of “democratic” occupation of annihilation….. and I am the very later type of hallucination under dehumanization of zionizational occupation!!!
Sami, the Bedouin.
