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May be the most difficult of all was to start writing about life , my personal , I do not know where that may lead me or how deep I should go , but sure there were so many hopes and there were so many people show love , of course there were the Rouse family ,and I am talking about the years 1970 -1972 almost ,the place was Exeter -Devon in England , and the talk will be about Mr.and Mrs Rouse
I used to live in their neighborhood , I wanted to move from the place I live , how did I choose that door as the first I tried ,I do not know , I knocked at the door , an old man opened the door and looked at me ,
-yes? he said . so I told him that I live nearby and I am looking for a place to live ,
and really if I could recall one reason to move ,may be that there were too many living in that house which all of them are of different Arab countries and I was thinking of a more quiet life than of theirs ,
The old man asked me to enter ,and he said : and how much were you paying . so I told him it was three pounds for a week . he said ok and when you moving .so I asked if I may see the room
The usual room that we use to hire ,mostly was a simple room , with a bed on a side of the room , kitchen on the other side of the same room , heater with a small table may be two or three chairs , the bath room and toilet was shared within the floor
The man introduced himself as Mr.Rouse he took me to the first floor one room , and he said this is your sitting -living – room behind it was a small kitchen next to the kitchen there were stairs , he showed me the cellar down bellow and called ..mother .. so an elderly lady looked from the cellar so he introduced me to Mrs Rouse and told her that I am going to live with them . he added we spend all our day down at the cellar and we go up to sleep ,and he took me up a floor to show me where was my bedroom, in the mid-stairs he showed me the bath room ,it was private for me only not shared , then few more stairs there was my bed room and next to it there was his own , there were a top floor but it was almost not used , but once it happened that I used it later ,
Well,,, that was some thing more than I can afford , but the man said that I am coming to live with them ,what the idea then ? I pay in the other place 3 pounds a week , for one room and a shared bath room ,so how he got my acceptance to the price that he will ask?
so he asked mother a cup of tea , and invited me down below to drink tea , so I took the chance to ask how much I will be paying , – three pounds a week he said . his other question was what date was convenient to me moving to the house and that was that
So I moved to the new place and a new form of living was
Knowing more about Mr.& Mrs Rouse
He is a nice man ,at that time he was of 74 years old , and she is a fine elderly woman of 72 years old , she was healthy with no complains ,but he has one of his hands not working well , always it was tide up to his side ,but generally no complains , she was working for a firm .but once she grew older ,she stopped going to the firm ,but the firm kept up bringing meat to her house , and what she used to do at the firm she do it at home , so each day she cut the meat into tiny little pieces good for the pie ,that the ordinary machine would not be able of doing ,
she is a mother of her own and he is a father for his own ,they met each another some time after each had his own family and lost his spouse , they had met in a park and choose to get married and live together ,both of his kids and her kids was away and for the years I spent with them I never met any of their kids ,not even at Xmas
We never had a shared meal or invited me to one , but one of the rules they put to them selves was the morning cup of tea , the time I wanted to get up Mrs Rouse was almost there with a cup of tea and a piece of cake , another rule she put for herself was the hot bottle ,ending her work of the day ,she usually put in the cold days of winter a hot bottle in my bed ,then she go bed , and that was how i lived for the period I was in England , some family that we not related or knowing them before all their aim was to make me happy in exchange for nothing and on the other hand no explanation for what ever good or bad I do during the day I am obliged to give , a home ,real home in which all is to be offered but in exchange nothing I am obliged to do to make them happy
One day Mrs Rouse gave a simple explanation . she said that her kids and her husbands kids were away , living with other people on different land than theirs (the sons ) so she believes that her kids will be treated on that far away place the same way she treats me ,
Later ,once the time due ,and I say goodbye to them , I know they missed me , one thing I remember about them in the days that I used to work hard in order to save some money to cover traveling , I used to work from 8 O clock at a chicken factory (so I need to get up by seven ) till 4 in the evening then in the Berni Inn from 6 in the evening till 11 .30 after wards i go to night club work till 3 am . Mr, Rouse used to call me saying the day is 24 hours you never can do it longer
the first Xmas , of being home ,I sent them Xmas greetings later I had the answer ” Mrs Rouse has died some months ago , our father can not live alone ,so we took him to live with Us ”
Since a long time I tried my best to understand why?
It never was only one why . they were so many , then comes the time that one can not just pass things.
AS we nad learned from history ,not a far away history , the Iraqi case , in which Iraq invaded Kuwait , many Arabs has refused the case even more ,some refused to have an Arabic solution to the problem and joined the armies to destroy the Iraqi army . but was more than that almost 2o years now is behind us and we do not see in the near future that the Iraqies are looking to Kuwaities in no brotherly manner , after we had learned this do we try in a way or another to build and establish a similar situation , are they not aware that might happen?
of course between Egypt and Gaza ,
Is Gaza a threat to any one ? is Gaza a threat to Egypt?
there are so many question to be asked connected to this aspect , when I think of bringing it up I start to think what idiot I would be accused by others ,because so many of them have the answers inside the question , so it would not be a question .more than statements , even so . these statements are so obvious in itself that all knew them , so what the point in repeating facts all are well aware of any how let us establish few facts
Mr. George Gallawi was attacked for some reasons ,if we assume that he was wrong and he did not arrange well his good will to support Caza , what about the Egyptians who just demonstrated in Cairo roads and streets wishing support to their Palestinian brothers and refusing the preform of their own government?
Sheikh Yosof Qaradawi claimed the illegality of the wall that Egypt is establishing ,on Gaza borders. it is not the place here to praise Qaradawi but he has a history ,he was never attacked for his views for over half a century ,why now in this concern others started to condemn his views and in this in particular . you can meet his views by being one of those who volunteered to meet Afghan leaders ,the time they planned to pull down the statues in Afghan , these statues were connecting to a different religion than Qardawi ,but he was ready to go and discuss this caring for some other culture .
The tunnels , the trade through tunnels , this is the most contradict act , how long is the tunnel , how long is the borders? how difficult to control 14 kilometers , tunnel has two openings one in Palestinian Rafah and the other in the Egyptian side of Rafah
Can any body claim that the Mafia is running trading business in these tunnels . how could it be ? the two opens of a tunnel is in Egypt only few meters far from the border line, more than few meters? 14 kilometers long is the border with Gaza . if you need to control these 14 kilometer it needs less than a dozen , a land rover jeep can go to and fro in 10 minutes time for a round controlling the 14 kilometer , so for perfection let them be 2 cars ,no 3 cars for a well done jop . for 24 hours patrol .8hours each one so you need three men for the clock round , what that would reach ? 9 men three cars would discover all tunnels within few hours ,
Are these tunnels more complicated than that , no to bring one full car to deliver to Gasa it needs to travel over two hundred miles in a single road , one patrol would in one day know all the trucks and what they are carrying .
In short tunnels can be detected in no time , tunnels can be discovered in no time
These facts are they knew?
of course not every single Egyptian including the Police force and the officials in that area and on the three sides of the conflict know it very well
I was listening to Mr. Sabri Shibrawi from Egypt , ” the head of department in strategic academia ” and I heard the term talklogy . which he said it in Arabic kalamlogy and I thought how right he is ,
I applied the things he said on what is really happening in our area , all rules needs to be discussed , it is obvious that all talk about the change , to talk is to go under the term talklogy , but what we need is the term actology which we do not see ,
In here I will take some examples for the required changes and what actually we are doing about that ,
One of the examples that needs to be discussed is teaching , in some cases or actually many cases we suffer of illiterates were there still so many who just unable to read or write, not because they are having some learning disabilities ,
Some time ago . may be a hundred year before I was born , may be before that , or more than that , could be one thousand years or more , all what I know that they were kids grew up together , they faced a lot of history together , but Paliestina that pretty girl was there all the time , as well as the others all the way up . through history , a big brother or a cousin called Egy with Syrio and Lebo Raqu ,Saudu , Sudano ,Ligro , and all the others , they were all together for better or worse that was the case , hundreds ,thousands of years , the case was the same , most of the others who lived near or far from them was jelous of that protective way of living that this big family enjoyed, if Raqu suffered of pain then you see Ligro in the west run to him ,in order to help out . Egy was always there as well as Syrio .
All of sudden the rules were changed . some for a reason or another such as Saudo gets very rich so he surrounded himself with a circle and started to act deffirent ,started with his other brothers and cousins , saying : “You are most welcome to visit but you ought to phone me before hand “, Egy was the first to anwer ,he said ” you sound that you forgot , I was always there for you , and always I was rich , Palistina also said the same ,
Forigno interfered , he said “no ” there is no such a thing Laurance is here to help you out in arranging your things
Palistina is to protect herself so all agreed that Palastina is to get married to Arabo ,
Forigno was ready for such a thing so he draw a circle arround Arabo and told him not to cross it out , Forigno said ” Arabo you must stay in the circle ”
you should play in the circle , and do not stretch out of it.
Forigno came to palistina , Palistina screamed out , shouted for help , Palistina was raped ,
Palistina between a time and another looked to Arabo complaining .demanding and urging for help , Arabo looked at Palistina in the eye and said ,
Palestina you do not know how much I helped ,
Palestina answered ” but I did not see you any were near me protecting me ”
Arabo answered ” yes Palistina but I did so many times I did that in 1916 , 1929,1936, 1948 , 1956 ,1967 ,1973 and more
Palestina answered “but how I even did not see you round me”
Arabo said ” Oh palestina do not you know the Circles that Forigno drew arround me ”
yes Palistina answered
Arabo said I crossed these lines many times , each time forigno was raping you I sretched my leg behind the line .
