AC writes:
From a demonstration on Dec. 28th in Ni'lin, where "Israeli forces shot 20 year old Mohammed Khawaje in the forehead with live ammunition as he was demonstrating":
live in the village went out in solidarity with Ni'lin residents to
demonstrate against the massacre on Gaza. I was standing about 15
meters from the boys, when we heard the sound of live ammunition. I
heard screams and saw that 3 had been shot. One man was shot in the
leg, another in the head right above the eyebrow and a third was shot
in the back. Men carried all three, the one shot in the head was
bleeding profusely. The one that was shot in the back was unconscious.
We ran down to the street from the olive fields and the soldiers would
not stop shooting tear gas at us. It took the soldiers at least 5
minutes to let the ambulance through the checkpoint at the entrance to
the village."
on the coldblooded execution of a man in front of his family on January 5 by the
IDF, who next fired aimlessly at the family themselves, causing the
man's 4 year old son to die the next day from bullet wounds to the
chest.
Weiss adds: A friend came over to dinner tonight and spoke of the lasting damage done to Guatemalan society by the fact that radical students had been taken up in airplanes and dropped over the sea some years ago. How many students? I asked. It doesn't take many to do a ton of damage, my friend said. Look at Kent State, he said. Four students killed; that transformed American society, even though it was a mistake. I immediately thought of the fact that Israel killed 400 children in Gaza. And American Jewish leadership acts as if this is perfectly fine. Can Israel ever recover from this wanton damage to another people? Can American Jewish leadership?
