Sunday, November 11, 2007

34 minutes in the lifetime of Ali Bin Abi Taleb

8:45 am, starring the scene seemed to be a captured brave heart, dragged by Israeli Special forces and police that were accompanied by their fleet of vehicles, with proud faces emerging from the thrill of their capture.

Through the dark bullet proof windows of an armored vehicle, surmounting the military presence was a sparkle; the sparkling eye of a 19 year old teenager, hand cuffed to his waste and feet, daunted by his confusion and wondering where will this charade lead him to as he is dragged out of the vehicle.

As he is escorted out of the vehicle, a shock of despair dominates the minds of the surrounding audience as the shackling metal and the sound of the royal witnesses’ arrogant giggling tune in to produce the acing symphony to which people were forced to tap their way to work. An abnormal scene, reminding them of their abnormal life...

Time stops as he is brought into a place that communicates nothing to him but blame and rejection through the angry voices and pointing fingers, and presented to an old occupier. An occupier whose face resembles nothing to him but memories of his murdered, imprisoned, and departed family, an occupier whose face lines are drawn by nothing but hostility and aggression against those he loves. Yet his rapid heartbeat racing to keep up with his breath is worthy of keeping time still....

The hammer falls, and a ‘bang’ ends the Charade! The "State” prosecutor presented his flimsy case that is deprived of any evidence. Teenager Ali is sentenced to 30 years in prison for loving his country, love that was translated into lifetime in prison, killing his youth, determining his future, and creating an enemy to the so called state with premeditation. Three minutes and a ‘bang’ were enough to cause young Ali millions of hours, minutes of his life in a cell.

I think that if Ali bin Abi Taleb was alive he wouldn't have approved to have this street that holds the Israeli court in the heart of Jerusalem be named after him ,if the above mentioned case happened to an Israeli ,what would have happened