His name is Robert Paulson. Or Ahmed Al Falasteeni.

This is NOT one of my happy cheerful good mood days. It’s one of these days when I lose faith in humanity. When I realise that some people are just too fucking dumb to grab the hand they’re given. That some people are so blinded by their power that they are willing to step on people’s lives, dignity, and everything else.

Eight Palestinians in Gaza were assassinated. EIGHT. That’s eight families that will have an empty seat for the Ramadan dinner tonight. The mere thought of this, with sunset coming up in hours, brings tears to my eyes.

It infuriates me that our dead are nameless, while the name of their wounded, shocked and merely sad are hammered in our collective memories. Why else do we know the face of the father of a soldier that was kidnapped last year?

I’ve got cable TV in Arabic these days and I was watching Al-Jazeera which was interviewing the weeping mother of an assassinated boy in Beit Hanoun, Gaza. She was saying this: “I was cooking iftar (dinner) and my son said he wanted molokheya (a type of soup). I had just finished the molokheya and was going to do the rice. I had just put the rice and was about to add the water, because it was close to iftar time, when I heard my son screaming from outside: Mama! Mama! Mama! Help me!! My brother is dead! They killed him! My brother is dead!”
You should have seen her. That would have broken your heart.

I am tired of this hypocrisy. Our victims are at least as valued as theirs, if not more: we are the victims. We are the ones being forced out of our houses, are children are the ones being killed as they play in the yard of the refugee camp where they forced us 40 years ago.

BBC News report the 4 killed in Beit Hanoun (there were 4 more in Gaza City, too). “At least three of those killed in the reported shelling of a house in the town have been named as civilians. Witnesses said the fourth victim was a gunman.”.

No names. No faces - just the photo of a bombed car. THREE civilians - that makes it a war crime. And the fourth was a ‘gunman’? Says who, the Israeli soldier who murdered them? And assuming the man carried a gun, in his own town, that gives NO RIGHT WHATSOEVER for the Israelis to murder him. Did anyone hear about trials?? The Israeli Occupation army behaves on a ‘annihilate first, find excuse second - or don’t bother about excuses”.
I looked everywhere I could - I didn’t find their names.

Goodbye, nameless persons. We are lesser persons because we let you go.

I can't help but remember this line of Fight Club: "In death, a member of Project Mayhem has a name. His name is Robert Paulson. His name is Robert Paulson. His name is Robert Paulson."