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If only the Palestinians were Syrians…

I’m having a hard time getting over the misleading and inadequate attention that the MSM is placing on the daily struggle for freedom that has been going on in the occupied Palestinian territories for decades now.  There are political arrests, mass detentions, torture, military trials for children, detention without charge-one fourth of the Palestinian population has been imprisoned, wanton killing of civilian population, forced exile, government sponsored lynch mobs roaming the streets, colonists using cars *not camels* to attack civilians on a weekly, if not, daily basis in the Palestinian territories, too.

Can you imagine if Americans turned on the news and actually heard the following?

“Today/this week Israeli troops demolished a Palestinian home in Hebron, bombed Gaza, riddled a mentally disabled boy’s head full of bullets, attacked Gaza fisherman, shot a 75 year old woman while she was farming in the West Bank, and approved hundreds more illegal settlements.”

Neither can I.

If the Al-Qawasmi family was not Palestinian their story would be prominently featured on every media outlet.  Well intentioned Westerners and self proclaimed leftists would know their names and the media would be naming and shaming all those politicians and corporations aiding the oppressors.  But, they’re Palestinian so the Israelis can compete with the region’s tyrants and know that the mainstream media will at best feature one of their atrocities a month, but, only after confusing the reader so much  that he no longer understands who is the occupier and who is the occupied.

Snapshots of Al-Qawasmi home, ripped apart by Israeli military
Hussein Al-Qawasmi was arrested 10 days ago. Yesterday Qawasmi was escorted back to his home by Israeli soldiers, who claimed there were explosives as well as a memory stick and other forms of information. The family home was ransacked and a section of it was destroyed.

Two  sons have been arrested, 2 have been killed, and one is exiled.

His brother Hassan is also held in jail while another family member, 16 year old Abdel Razaq  was taken to the Russian Compound, an Israeli court, in West Jerusalem after he returned from his travels outside of the West Bank. He is currently in prison, but his location is unknown. None of the family members were able to reach him.

The mother of Hussein saw her son handcuffed, blindfolded, and beaten as she tried to approach him. The soldiers pushed her back. She suffers from heart conditions and was severely affected and needed medical attention. The soldiers would not allow an ambulance to come, and when she tried to walk down to the road to go to reach the ambulance they blocked her way. Only after the soldiers had left around twelve thirty she was taken to the hospital at that moment in an ambulance full of injured protesters.

She was taken to intensive care in Al Mazan hospital where she remains.

The explosion in the yard blew up all of the windows of the house and burned the grape vines. There was shrapnel found in the yard and the neighboring house was also damaged.

For pictures click here.

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