The journey of peace starts when Man is first born: he is so young that he does not understand the simple alphabet, and ends when he dies: he is so old that he can barely remember how to read. Throughout this journey, humanity spends long time quarreling over silly matters; who’s got more oil, who’s got more gold, and who’s got more credit for having killed thousands of innocents. Guess who is winning the race these days? Forget about the oil and gold, they apparently come and go but the one thing that is renewed: death rates. And why wouldn’t they since humans are born every day? Palestine has been occupied since 1948 and no Palestinian has seen peace nor comfort since then. It is dark, literally dark, in the Gaza Strip most of the day and it is dark, metaphorically dark, for the rest of the day. There have been all kinds of shortages in the Strip for the past years: no electricity, no medications, no building material, and no travelling. “They’re dead?” You must be thinking. No, they are alive or to be clearer, they are surviving. We are surviving and it was not easy, is not easy.
How many dreams have been demolished along with the houses of their owners? How many children have lost their mothers or fathers or both? The discrimination practiced against the Palestinians is very obvious if one decides to open his\her eyes and see. The Gazan Patients are kept waiting to be permitted to leave for medication for days (then it is too late and they die before they get to leave), the students are left hanging on a thread of hope near the border so they would travel and get their scholarships only to have their threads cut by continuous closings, the children are made orphans every day with every bombing heard, and mothers lose their children who left for school in the morning and were unlucky enough to be killed by random raids. The situation has been growing worse lately specially in the West Bank. The Israelis are showing no mercy or respect to any Palestinian; young or old, man or woman. “Death to the Arabs” and other slogans have been spread all over the occupied territories. No one is safe in the West Bank; everyone is at the risk of being kidnapped, killed and tortured.
A couple of weeks ago three settlers went missing and no Palestinian officials claimed to have kidnapped them. However, the IDF did not rest from the second they found out and kept targeting Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, though they were missing in Hebron which is not a part of the Gaza Strip. The streets of the West Bank took action too. A street war was launched against every Arab leaving no one safe. Mohammed Abu Khdeir, a Palestinian teenager, was found killed after being tortured and burned as an act of revenge. He was a young boy who had nothing to do with anything. He is not a number added to the death-rates. He had a family, dreams, a life and all of that was taken away from him without having committed anything. There is absolutely no way to defend such barbaric actions held against innocent people who only hope for a life.
“I have a dream” said Martin Luther King in 1963 and I, in 2014, say the same. I have a dream to find my people living a life of love and peace. I have a dream to see my young brothers and sisters playing in their backyards not afraid of hearing drones or sudden bombings. I have a dream to see them going to their schools and going back from schools, in one piece. I have a dream to feel safe during my university classes and feel safe in my bedroom at home. But no, that’s not happening. There is no safe place in Gaza. We wake up like any American does, we wash our faces like any French does, we eat our breakfast like any Chinese does; however, we do not enjoy the silence of the mornings like they do. There is always a drone buzzing in our heads, there is always an ambulance siren ‘wewing’ rushing to rescue an injured or take a chopped to pieces body to the morgue. The dream of a good life is that of any human being living on this planet. It is not a crime, it is not a felony, and it is definitely not a violation of any law.
It is so sad to read this article, and realize the world has totally failed in helping these poor people, who are being punished, for retaliating to a brutal occupation, years of blockades, continuous loss of their lands, their homes which has been their safe haven, demolished, and collective punishment which ends up with loss of lives. The UN has let these poor people down by not resolving this nightmare, that they, with the support of the UK and the US, initially started, by dumping vicious and dangerous, homeless Europeans, among these indigenous people. The Palestinians have lost all hope and have nothing to look forward to. There are hundreds of thousands of children, who have no normalcy of any kind in their short lives, and have been born into this life of fear, massacres, bombs, and brutal occupation.massacres. They live with a vicious armed force constantly pointing weapons at them. The terrorist state has inflicted so much of pain and suffering, especially for the Palestinian children.
These victims are abused by the illegal terrorists, who have stolen their lands and trees.
What dreams? They are not entitled to any, and the US has helped their abuser, strip them off any. Meanwhile their abusers makes sure it’s people live such a good life, frolicking in their beaches, sipping cocktails, and living their dreams. US tax payers make sure they are very comfortable and give them all the support, all due to our congress, who do so willingly, at the expense of their own people.
Their arrogance makes them believe that the Palestinians suffer not because of them, but because of choosing to live that life of unbearable suffering.
Their arrogance makes them believe that the Palestinians suffer not because of them, but because of choosing to live that life of unbearable suffering.
Two days ago I asked:
Where is the footage of the jubilant Israelis on a hill watching Palestinians in Gaza be murdered that we saw so much of in 2008/9?
…and like clockwork the ziobots deliver.
The banality of evil. Pass the cronuts.
@- sumud…
‘ The banality of evil,’ and the obscenity of the banal.
I have to admit, I felt a rush of euphoria on learning that a Hamas rocket had taken out a gas station at Ashdod. I’ve developed a complete revulsion toward Israelis and I want to see them suffer. I’m not proud of this fact but I’d be lying if I said is wasn’t true.
I no longer believe in one state or two states. Israel is going to have to be dismantled and managed by an outside presence. The notion that they can ever self-govern as a non-terrorist entity seems absurd on the face of it. Their society is essentially one giant criminal gang at this point.
@No More Israel:
I have to admit, I felt a rush of euphoria on learning that a Hamas rocket had taken out a gas station at Ashdod. I’ve developed a complete revulsion toward Israelis and I want to see them suffer.
Thank you very much. I thought you participate in this site to call for the end of the war and to promote peace. Just don’t call yourself in the future “peace activist”.