Palestine, to me it is almost black and white, good & evil. To me Israel is the colonial occupier and a brutal one at that, which shows no sign of ever treating the Palestinians as human beings or allowing them to create a state. It also annoys me that Israelis somehow thought that they would not be bombed by the Palestinians, it is a the simple application of logic, Israel has been founded upon Palestinian land and it now continues to take more. Rule one of Imperial adventures is, you will bleed for it, Israel is bleeding for the crime of colonisation and racism.
To me it is the right of any occupied people to fight back, I see no difference in the way Israel bombs hostpitals and schools and the way Palestinians blow up school buses, except in the death toll and the idea behind them. The Israelis murder Palestinians to get rid of them, to continue the expansion of their zionist dream, the Palestinians blow themselves up becasue they now have nowhere else to go, the Gazans live in refugee camps and are expeposed to brutality on a daily basis, they have lived no other life. The Israelis take away their food and destroy their homes, they shoot them when they protest peacefully. Then the West, that most disgustingly hypocritical of civilizations dares to tell them about peacefull solutions? Lokk, they say, look at what happened yesterday at the dividing wall! It is of no consequence, because the West, following Washington's lead, does not care about the Palestinians.
And so, when these young men and women (some of them university students) have had their families murdered or brutalised, they see no other way, and they are right, they strap a bomb onto their bodies. They walk into an Israeli school bus, and their despair, anger and pain is so strong, they see only enemies in the faces of children and they set it off. Children are no longer children and life is no longer worth lving.
I hate Israel, because they forced a people so close to the edge that they have no other way out other than to kill.
An Israeli soldier kills because he is ordered to a Palestinain blows himself up because he has lost everything. This is the difference.
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