It is 6:30 am. I’ve been in the library for the night, because my hard drive crashed on Wednesday, working on the Rodrik papers that were due on Wednesday :) And trying to focus on the boring topics we've been offered... no distractions, no blogging!!
But there is so much a soul can take.
And THAT was it. I am more frustrated and angry than I've been for a long time, towards to Israel-Palestine thing.
Maybe because I am evolving in an environment of reasonable people? Getting to learn about the humans, not the Army? Maybe because even in the nastiest conversations we still agree that the end target is peace, dammit.
But this really pinched my heart to the tears.
Israel decided an incursion in Beit Hanoun (nothing new.) and decided to assassinate some people (nothing new here either. The soldiers need their training, right? We're an easy target).
So anyway, 20 Palestinians dead later, including victims as old as 4 years old (they had trouble labeling this one as a Hamas militant!!:) and 1 Israeli soldier dead, they decided they wanted some more, so they went on another deer hunt and ended up cornering more than 70 people who went to hide inside the mosque (the Israeli claim is that among them were a dozen armed people - which I can surely believe and is quite irrelevant, for that matter).
So the Army wanted to smoke them out - well, crush them out: they had already demolished a wall, when...........
TATARARA RARAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! (Cavalry horns :).
About 100 women came to the mosque, on a radio call from the Palestinian Government! Building a human barrage, the allowed the poor ppl stranded in the mosque to go out.
Now that's more guts than i'll probably ever have.
So the Army opened fire at the women. Killed two.
Tssk, tssssk. Shooting in anger at unarmed mammas? I don't know what they told you in military school, kids. But that's not classy.
See, what pisses me off the most with the Israeli Occupation Army is that whenever I start seeing a bit of light, whenever I manage to convince myself that most of the people in Israel actually want peace, they burn down half a village, kill 25 people and then call it self-defence or whatever lousy excuse they can fight.
Alright then, so you're trying to tell me that Israelis are looking for a fight... thank you, message received.
Don't come weeping when the war comes a tat closer your way. Blame it on your own incompetent political leadership and your bloodthirsty trigger-happy teenagers gang you call an army.
Oh wait, wait!!
Here's a real conversation from the first Intifada days (1987-1991):
Whenever the Israeli Occupation Army would grab a kid in the street, you'd have all the women around try to grab him back from the hands of the soldier (Gosh they have guts...) and all of them saying "Ebni, ebni!!!" (my son, my son!!). An exasperated soldier once yelled back at them "How come your son? Are all the children your children??" at which point a woman replied "Yes. Our children have a 1000 mothers. Unlike yours - with a 1000 fathers".
Touché :)
(for the French: Putain si ça c'est pas de la CASSE, quand même.. :)))))
And on that, back to my paper on the Medical reform in Cambodia. Let me know if you know anything that would help!!!!
Frustrated and burnt out yours,
So the Army opened fire at the women. Killed two.
Tssk, tssssk. Shooting in anger at unarmed mammas? I don't know what they told you in military school, kids. But that's not classy.
See, what pisses me off the most with the Israeli Occupation Army is that whenever I start seeing a bit of light, whenever I manage to convince myself that most of the people in Israel actually want peace, they burn down half a village, kill 25 people and then call it self-defence or whatever lousy excuse they can fight.
Alright then, so you're trying to tell me that Israelis are looking for a fight... thank you, message received.
Don't come weeping when the war comes a tat closer your way. Blame it on your own incompetent political leadership and your bloodthirsty trigger-happy teenagers gang you call an army.
Oh wait, wait!!
Here's a real conversation from the first Intifada days (1987-1991):
Whenever the Israeli Occupation Army would grab a kid in the street, you'd have all the women around try to grab him back from the hands of the soldier (Gosh they have guts...) and all of them saying "Ebni, ebni!!!" (my son, my son!!). An exasperated soldier once yelled back at them "How come your son? Are all the children your children??" at which point a woman replied "Yes. Our children have a 1000 mothers. Unlike yours - with a 1000 fathers".
Touché :)
(for the French: Putain si ça c'est pas de la CASSE, quand même.. :)))))
And on that, back to my paper on the Medical reform in Cambodia. Let me know if you know anything that would help!!!!
Frustrated and burnt out yours,
Mohamed.
PS: the story above is related in Morid El Barghouti's fabulous book 'I've seen Ramallah', with the name of the lady and the location and all!! :)
UPDATE. 50 dead people since wednesday in Gaza. That makes 10 murdered people a day.
I am ashamed of being in a world that allows that to happen.
4 comments:
Dispair, thy name is Mohamed.
My friend just got back from Beit Laham, where there were snipers, and men were taken out in teh middle of the night, women thrown out of houses and houses destroyed. She is palestinian, but born in sweden and we kept contact through sms. Thank god she made it safe back home...
But you know, the other day I met with a swedish jewish organisation that basically got together back in '82 after sabra and shatila...when they felt "enough". We must not forget that there really are good forces out there..even on "the other side".
I truly bow down to these women for their bravery. I think they were indeed very brave for doing what they did. You know the soldier that pulled that trigger will pay for that, in one way or another. If not here on earth, then he will have to answer to a higher being for this one.
I have never understood, the whole story of all of this unrest and hate for each other. Why can't they just leave each other alone.
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