Palestine is alive, well and kicking (Israeli butt)

This is a letter my uncle wrote to one of his friends in Canada, that were concerned about hearing disturbing news about "echoes of the crusades". Here it is in full:

The war in Gaza today is a Palestinian Stalingrad, the first major battle between Israel and the Palestinians to be fought on Palestinian soil since 1948. It is also a battle over the future of Palestine. If Israel fails to win it decisively, all its future will come into doubt. In the forty two years since its victory in 1967, Israel failed to make " PEACE". If Israel now fails to win this battle that it has waged under "Super ideal terms and conditions" unprecedented in any known war, on a bedraggled Gaza that it had kept under siege and starved of all its needs for almost three years, in spite of its overwhelming superiority in technology, fire power and numbers, the conclusion will be that it has also failed in war .

This, and many other consequences, will emerge into the light when the dust of battle settles and the fogs of disinformation are dispelled. The Israeli – American- British – European fiction of a" PEACE PROCESS" will be found lying slain on the killing fields. The Oslo Palestinians will, not before long, go with it, and the two warring peoples on the land of Palestine will collide in spiraling armed conflict intermittently interrupted now and then by increasingly shaky truces and ceasefires.

That is why, in its impotent rage, bewilderment and disbelief at its escalating failure to subdue and subjugate this proud and brave people in spite of all the power and force it and its allies have brought to bear on them in over sixty years of savage conflict strewn with intermittent massacres, Israel now intensifies its levels of brutality in its wanton killing of Palestinians and willful destruction of Gaza. It will not work, but it will bring the Israelis much closer to realizing their existensial dilemma: They are damned if they do and damned if they don’t . Nothing will save them from the coming doom of their own making, and no amount of Palestinian blood spilled, women, children, and all, can conceal the writing on the wall.

We the Palestinians have a proverb that applies wonderfully to the current Israeli incursion in Gaza. It is about the coyote that swallowed a sickle. All went well until time came for the coyote to …t.