(Your Voice in a World where Zionism, Steel, and Fire have
turned Justice Mute)

(from the series: Revolutionary Tales on the Light Side)

Once upon a time, early on in the First Intifada, a bunch of guys from a certain West Bank town in Palestine convinced and trained a mentally-challenged person called Faheem to drop a good eggplant inside an "Israeli" military jeep that always passes at around a given hour through the downtown area where Faheem spends most of his day.

A little bit around the afternoon, the invader was passing through in his jeep when Faheem hurled his eggplant right in the middle of the soldiers in the back of the jeep.

Then he just stood there laughing loudly but ran away when the soldiers started shooting.

The jeep veered off the road then bumped into something hard, a pavement, a wall, or a pole.

In the meantime, the soldiers were throwing themselves out of the speeding jeep anywhich way into the street causing them several light injuries and a great deal of anguish.

But they were so terrified, they started shooting their machine guns in every direction.

They literally freaked out according to eyewitness reports.

Surely there was some damage done to Palestinian businesses in the vicinity, but it was definitely worth the laugh, and the psychological warfare visited on the invader.

Later on one of them must have thought: "Oh, but it didn't explode yet!"

So that was when the soldiers looking back realized: OH, IT'S JUST AN ... EGGPLANT!

Of course they took their revenge out on passers-by. But that was how that particular eggplant made it into the modern history of Palestine, just to prove that when there is a will, even an eggplant can bring us one bite closer to liberation. And even a mentally-challenged Palestinian can contribute something to the cause..

So long live the vegetables of Palestine!

Later,

Ibrahim Alloush