Back To School For Traumatized Kids!
Friends, this Al Jazeerah photo shows Gazan children returning to school for the first time since they were subjected to UMA, thanks to the IDF and America.
410 of them won’t ever return. Many others may come back eventually when their terrible injuries heal. All Gazan children will be psychologically scarred for life.
These kids are returning to a school but many are just piles of rubble on the ground. Nothing escaped the brutal attention of the IDF. Tents have been erected in many places and the children struggle to learn in difficult conditions given that the strangling Israeli siege is still in place.
Israel is not allowing in many construction materials for fear that the Palestinians, who they just crushed, might continue to make their ineffective homemade rockets, the ones that are virtually directionless, the ones that have killed 18 Israelis in 8 years, the ones fired by legitimate Resistance Fighters who, like their families, have been under occupation and siege for 60 years.
Teachers and counselors are working with the traumatized children and are trying to help them cope with the horrors that they were subjected to: the loss of loved ones, the horrific injuries others family members and friends sustained. They are trying to get the cork out of the bottle, release some of the terrible memories: the fear of being killed, the noise of bombs exploding, tanks firing phosphorous shells, of starving, of having no water, people screaming and crying, F16s passing overhead… That’s a heavy load for kids to carry.
And while they struggle with their trauma and try to learn in impossible conditions, the righteous Powers that be are working the phones, pulling the strings, trying to set up a situation whereby Israel can continue with its siege, can continue to make Gaza into the world’s biggest concentration camp, can continue to steal more Palestinian land, can continue to deprive the Gazans of food, fuel, electricity, medicines and all hope!
Everywhere there are meetings. None of them involve Hamas, the democratically elected Government. The traitorous Abbas and his Fatah collaborators are here, there and everywhere, toadying up to the ugly twins, America and Israel, staunch practitioners of UMA. Fatah continues to further split the Palestinians, weakening them, ending any hope that one day they might be free! If it weren’t so tragic, it would be laughable.
Meanwhile the Gaza kids have to cope as best they can with the terrible injustices that continue to surround them, injustices created by vile, brutal, sick people who have the gall to claim that they advocate concepts like democracy, human rights and freedom.
Hypocrisy rules this world! So does the gun and the bomb!
Another Dark Age has begun.
Yes, but Israel says that they killed 130 Hamas fighters who they claim were hiding behind those 400 or so kids. That’s about average for IDF marksmanship, and besides, to paraphrase Madeleine Albright, they think it was worth it. In any case, Israel’s spokesman says “Hamas Killed Palestinian Children to Make Us Look Bad.”
I think I’d better say no more. I can taste that bitter bile rising in my throat again.
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David G Reply:
January 25th, 2009 at 9:36 am
Arvy, these ridiculous claims by the Israeli-Jews demonstrates how concerned they are that world opinion is turning against them, that they are being exposed for the worthless scum that they are.
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Arvy Reply:
January 25th, 2009 at 10:02 am
It would certainly seem that they’re concerned about having been made to “look bad” somehow. Their reaction, however, appears to be basically unchanged from their usual propaganda techniques except, perhaps, in its intensity. Any thought of changing their actual behaviour never seems to occur to them.
What pisses me off is that their propaganda has usually worked for them where it matters most to armaments support for their mad strategies. But maybe — just maybe — not this time. Or is that merely wishful thinking on my part. So far I see no indication that the newly crowned U.S. monarch is prepared to disavow his own nauseating subservience.
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David G Reply:
January 25th, 2009 at 10:13 am
The American people, at least those who can think, have to keep the blowtorch to Obama’s feet, force him to abandon the pro-Israel bias, the one that the world hates so much.
America has tacked its colors to the wrong mast I’m afraid.
Cheers.
it’s not just the palestinian children (or the adults) who have to suffer with this. let’s not forget the poor people in iraq. iraq seems to have taken a dive in the information quantity. but those people are still suffering from the onslaught of a ‘devious’ entity. and will continue to suffer for many years to come with the manifestations of the horrendous weapons used to promote democracy………………………..
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David G Reply:
January 25th, 2009 at 10:34 am
Killing and inflicting suffering is the hallmark of the UMA practitioners, Coco. Israel in Palestine and America in…well, the list is a long one, isn’t it?
And with some of the weapons they both use the suffering will go on for decades!
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coco Reply:
January 25th, 2009 at 10:54 am
and don’t believe any of them will be brought to trial for their abominations…………
it’s only people from eastern europe who will be reprimanded……………
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Ken Reply:
January 26th, 2009 at 2:50 am
Exactly! A convenient distraction.
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hi david, just found this site and generally agree with much of the content. however, i detest the term atheist. to me, it is a term used by mythologists/irrationalist to denigrate those that are not indoctrinated into a cult. by calling yourself an atheist, i think, it only gives relevance/credibiliity to a theist centric world view that was born out of scientific ignorance millenia ago and has evolved into mind control that allows, itself and opportunistic elitist governments, to perpetuate theft of individuality on society. if i catagorize myself as anything, anti-religiously, it would be as a realist, rationalist or empiricist. the way i see it, i do not want to get caught up in playing their game at all which includes using their terminology to differentiate myself from their insanity.
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Ken Reply:
January 26th, 2009 at 8:30 am
This is such a good point. Why labels? They force constraints. Be free!
Same for democracy, communism, patriot, libertarian.
Citizen of the world, not so bad.
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lastdregs Reply:
January 26th, 2009 at 11:14 am
i get libertarian social views, not the business/free market views. just an excuse for upward flow of wealth. it is not a complete system, to me, but one based on the founders goals, which i think was based on self-interest anyway.
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The Americans are still mistreating the natives, known as Indians, even deliberately voting against their interests in the UN, as recently as in Sept. The day after the inaugeration, the Bureau of Federal Prisons suddenly transferred the well known American Indian Movement leader, Leonard Peltier, to a distant prison, where he was immediately assaulted by a gang of convicts, and thrown into solitary, with one meal a day. This after thirty years in jail, and just before he is to be brought up for parole.
You can get info and addresses for letters, at the Russell Means Freedom Foundation website. He refers to these tribes as our Palestinians, and it is amazing how heartless and savage history shows whites and Black soldiers have been toward the ‘redskins’.
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“Why labels?”, you ask. Precisely because they are powerful manipulative tools that can be and are readily misappropriated on the basis that he who controls the definitions wins the debate.
Example: Freedom and democracy are inherently good things. We are (by our own definition) spreading “freedom and democracy.” Ergo, what we are doing is a good thing. It’s really quite a simple syllogism and it almost always works, especially with the audience that wants to believe in its own superiority. (Who doesn’t.)
Those actually experiencing the process, on the other hand, might disagree, but they don’t matter. Why? Because, once again by definition, “freedom and democracy” are not theirs and therefore they cannot possibly know or appreciate how good it is until they get it — by whatever means we “good people” deem necessary, even if it kills them.
Religiion — always the “right” religion, of course — follows precisely the same “logic” and utilises essentially the same human self-perceptions and desires for “goodness” in its labelling and arguments — which is to say no logic whatever.
It would be equally mistaken, however, to condemn the real thing based solely on the misuse of its label. Some aspects of real freedom and democracy may actually be good. (Perhaps even some moral values represented as religious ones.) It’s hard to say. The real things are quite scarce.
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Lastdregs, that is an interesting view! However, as ‘amoral’ means to have no morals, atheist, to me, means to have absolutely no truck with religion at all. I feel comfortable with that!
Ken, labels allow us to put people and things into categories which makes discussion must easier. For example, if we view 6.5 billion people as separate individuals we wouldn’t be able to debate anything about humans!
Swan, the world is filled with injustice. Most of it is unreported and goes unpunished. How can we keep up with it all? Thanks for the info. though!
Arvy, you say, ‘real things are quite scarce.” What is real? Is it like beauty? – in the eye of the beholder!
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Arvy Reply:
January 26th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
What I actually said was: “The real things are quite scarce.” It was said in the context of my previous commentary concerning labels like “freedom” and “democracy” and their misappropration for purposes of imposing a U.S. system that is anything but free and democratic.
If you require a further example, you need only consider the recent rejection by the U.S. and its principal Middle East ally of the results of the Palestinians’ free democratic choice of their own political representation. Such choices, even when internationally supervised and certified, don’t fit the U.S. “freedom and democracy” label unless they accord with the interests of USA Incorporated.
As for your much broader philosophical question, I’m sorry to say it, but your position, as poetic as it may be, seems to me like a major copout. If there is no such thing as objective reality, if it exists only in the eyes of the beholder, every viewpoint is as valid as any other and all argumentation becomes pointless.
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Arvy Reply:
January 26th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
Correction:- I should not have referred to your tentative repsonse to your own question as “your position.” Its not entirely clear whether you were proposing it as the answer or just asking another question.
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We will never forget.
We will never forgive.
“Israel is a Nazi state that has no right to exist. The Christian West sought to establish it as a means to repent of its crime at our expense. There was never a Smaller or Greater Israel. The history of the Torah is fiction and not history. The same goes for Peres justice.
What does Israel expect after a long occupation? To be welcomed by Palestinians with roses and wedding rice?
Many Israelis, including Livni, evoke the Transfer (Palestinian displacement). In return, we demand a transfer that would send the Israelis back to the countries they came from. Only original Arab Jews, who were in the lands before the establishment of Israel, would remain.”
J. Al Khazen
“What we see in Gaza is holocaust denial in its making. The Jewish state exercises hardcore barbarism. Yet, the world keeps silent. Once again we are confronted with the realization that giving a mandate for a national home for the Jewish people has been demonstrated to be a grave lethal mistake. The only question is how to dismantle this monstrous suicidal hawkish creature without turning our planet into a fireball.”
Gilad Atzmon, Israel-born musician and anti-Zionist activist
More:
http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/59000
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Arvy Reply:
January 27th, 2009 at 8:15 am
Hail, O Bringer of Fire! And have you, perchance, an answer to Gilad Atzmon’s question? From where I sit, it looks very much a longshot at least so long as the U.S. persists in its pledge to “oblterate” the originators of any such attempt — as if Israel needed their help.
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My point is the way we did and are doing the American Indians, is the way we helped Israeli jews do to and still are helping them to do the Palestinian Arabs.
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Looks as if those kids won’t be back in school for long. One soldier dies and Isreal resumes its attack on Gaza’s population. Another soldier is held prisoner and Isreal threatens to assassinate the head of Gaza’s elected government.
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