Part of my daily routine is to go about mainstream media sources and well, see how deep in it we are - compared to yesterday.
The main article that struck me was on CNN. It didn't really strike me like falling off my chair kind of thing, but in a sense that the blame for Middle-East peace is wrongfully placed. It's no longer making sense when, the US, who's always "defended" Israel's right to defend itself and so on, is now being ignored when making "simple" demands. For all these years that Isreal's received countless financial and military aid, you'd expect that the gov would, at least, consider a request by the US. But eventually, the truth of the matter and the intent surfaces. It's been a long standing goal, this continuous construction of settlements, illegal I need to add, will not end. An interesting read at The David Trinh blog voices similar concerns of mine. Indeed, as David states, there's no legitimacy to these claims, to the last of my knowledge, Occupied Territories meant and actually still means illegal occupation. So how is that legitimate?
This anti-Semitism, in my opinion, is an overblown scheme at pitying the Jewish people... But who pities the Palestinians, or the Armenians. Is it that their genocide is not "worthy"? Those with conditions so lamentable, it borders genocide but not just the conventional way... We're not just talking slaughter of the masses, like in Gaza not too long ago - enough that people already forgot the atrocities committed.
My 2 cents on how it's happening
- economically: restricting movement = people can't get to work, no money made on an individual basis but also on a national level as well. Small shops have to close down because of lack of materials getting to them. This also means children can't go to schools which takes me to the next point.
- socially: when you have a nation whose illiteracy rate is soaring, it's definitely not going to end up positively and surely would mean more food for the radicals... is it just me or is Israel completely missing the point? Or maybe it's their goal to give themselves the pretext to mass murder, not that it's not the case already.
I always remember this common say in the Arab world that goes like this, "darabni w baka, saba'ni w shtaka" which translates to he hit me, cried and ran to tell on me. Kind of puts things into perspective.
- biologically: Israel's use of illegal ordinance (also testing new weaponry) isn't only felt during combat - phosphorous and depleted uranium shells - these have long term effects like birth defects and severe illnesses.
Those are the main points I can think of at the moment, reiterating this always sets a sad, downsome mood in me as it's unjust and there's nothing an individual, just one, can do about it. This sense of helplessness pains me because we're on this Earth, we're Humans, it doesn't matter where we came from, what color our eyes or our skin is... We're all the same...
Who am I kidding?
