[New-imc] [IMC-Palestine] palestine imc / update from Jenka

[azalai]

Hello!

I've been equally astonished about Jenka's causal remark updating this 
list about the situation of a possible/future IMC Palestine but being 
really distressed about the terrible events going on currently I dind't 
want to say the mine until the two people named (Boud and Petros) had 
pronounced themselves.

 From the time I was in Palestine and tried to get involved with all my 
good will in helping to put a network functioning there I've been 
thinking that maybe Indymedia's network was not the best "recipe" for 
the Palestinian situation: too many hierarchical bonds, too many 
difficulties for moving and meeting, the level of access to the network 
is too low, difficult and costly to allow the people to collaborate and 
work in a regular basis... just to name some of the problems I thought 
would make things too difficult.
But I didn't like Jenka's way of exposing the situation and I don't 
think it's fair to Boud and Petros to make them appear as intrusing.
They work hard not in their own interest but trying to make the network 
a functional and useful one for the end which was created: to produce 
independent, grassroot communication. I don't know if there has been any 
other moves I didn't read about in other lists but, as far as I know, 
they have not been intruding but trying to facilitate the difficult process.

What about me? I've got more than enough work to do in the projects I'm 
involved in. I subscribed to this list because Palestine got deeply into 
my heart and even though I had a bitter experience trying to do 
something useful while being there I made my mind to give it a second 
opportunity because I thought that maybe I could help in any way. But 
after reading Jenka's rather spiteful mail I realized that the situation 
have not changed and people,like us, not living there were still seen as 
intruders.

If anyone wants my help I'll try to give it but I don't want to force 
anything, so don't worry about me that I will not impose myself.

Th only thing that lets me sad is that the situation is so terrible that 
a tool of communication is truly necessary and this discussions doesn't 
build one.
I wish you all the luck working on it and I rest avalaible if I can be 
of any help.

In solidarity,


marais-marga