Can the eye fight the needle?
...if you make people forget that there is continuous violence being waged against the Palestinians, every instance of Palestinian violence directed at Israel will be perceived as illegitimate...
“The eye cannot fight the needle”. This Arabic phrase, I have heard it many times and its message is clear: there are fights you cannot win, there are battles not worth sustaining, because defeat is certain.
Everyone who has made the decision, historically, to resist Israel's might, its occupation of Palestinian terr…
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