To my friends in Gaza (2)

Dear friends, it was wonderful to get your reactions on my weblog. And I love seeing the pictures I made and remember Gaza and our time together. I hope to be back soon.

Our team was already working on new plans to work together in the future on the plane back. We also learn a lot form working with you, and it is really a great joy. Especially Deny, who only had been in Gaza before once learned a lot. He says he can see now that the war against the Palestinians is not only with bombs and bullets, but also a war to make the Palestinians less human to the world, as if all of you are terrorists who are not interested in peace, all of you hate jews and that is why you fight the Israeli’s. Many people here still think that if the Palestinians would stop fighting, and sending Kassam rockets, than now you would have peace and a state of your own. We know this is not true, but people have so many lies in their heads. (Lees verder, in red, below, means continue reading. Push it and you get the rest of the text)
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Dagboek 24 november 2006

Gisteren nog taart, vandaag weer aan het werk.
En bekijken, wat de oogst is van de verkiezingen. Niet alleen de feestroes van zo’n winst. Want wat nu? Iedereen is het er over eens, de formatie gaat niet makkelijk worden. Hoe krijg je in deze verdeeldheid, met niet twee partijen die samen een meerderheid kunnen vormen, een regering die kan functioneren?
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To my friends in Gaza (1)

Today is an exciting day for us here in the Netherlands. We are having elections to-day. I have to go and vote. My party is the Socialist party, and we take a strong stand for Palestinian rights. We now have 9 seats in the parliament, which consists of 150 members. But after today we hope to grow much bigger. If this happens, we will know after tonight, we hope, together with the other leftist parties, to be able to get a government that will support the Palestinian cause more than before and get a better minister of Foreign Affairs. So wish us luck!
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Gaza, 21 november 2006

(Dear friends in Gaza. To-morrow I’ll write to you in english, and there will be more pictures of the party!)

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Derde dag. Deny zegt dat hij het gevoel heeft dat we onder een stolp zitten. We zijn in Gaza, maar het enige wat we zien is het hotel waar de training plaats vindt en onze flat. Ik heb dat gevoel niet, maar ik ben dan ook al naar Beit Hanoun geweest. We vragen Khaled of we naar de training nog naar Beit Hanoun kunnen, wat we vroeger een ommetje intifada-toerisme noemden. Vindt Khaled goed – als het kan.
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