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    The House That Became A War Zone

    And interesting article - all though of course it will be seen as anti-Israeli propaganda. It does none-the-less give some insight into what the daily nature of occupation is about - and why I fully expect the withdrawl from Gaza to decrease Palestinian militancy in the long term.

    The house that became a war zone

    Chris McGreal
    Tuesday October 4, 2005
    The Guardian



    The first soldiers to arrive on Khalil Bashir's doorstep in Gaza five years ago explained the new geography of his home in terms he understood only too well. His three-storey house was to be like the West Bank, the Israeli officer said, with its areas of divided security and administrative control.
    The army designated the living room as "Area A", after the part of the occupied territories where the Palestinians have control, and told all three generations of the Bashirs, from 81-year-old Zanah to her five-year-old granddaughter, that they were confined there for most nights and sometimes for much of the day. It was the only part of the house they could still call their own.
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    Last month, after the soldiers hauled off the machine guns and finally drove away, Mr Bashir ventured up the stairs of his home for the first time in five years. What he found was a relatively small thing compared with the shootings of his sons and the destruction of his orchards, but it left him flummoxed for the first time since the soldiers arrived: placed around the walls were the Bashirs' cooking pots, each with a pile of human excrement in the bottom.

    "The moralistic army used our cooking pots as lavatories," Mr Bashir said. "They dominate my bathroom and they use the toilet all the time. So why did they behave in this way? They used our cooking pots and they left them behind deliberately. They gathered everything, even empty bottles, sandbags and took it with them. But they left this as a souvenir."
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    By their fruits ye shall know them.
    Hey come on , they can clean up the excrement the soldiers left behind , pity they can't clean up the bullet in his sons back .

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    Yep, another case of evil, Christ-murdering Jews torturing the innocent, freedom-loving Palestinians.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tribesman
    By their fruits ye shall know them.
    Hey come on , they can clean up the excrement the soldiers left behind , pity they can't clean up the bullet in his sons back .
    They can always take it out
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    They can always take it out
    Yes Henry , removing a bullet from next to someones spine is so very easy , I wonder why the doctors didn't just dig it out

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    This is most definitely not a microcosm of the situation as a whole. Microcosms are by definition representative of a larger whole. If this were a true microcosm of the larger situation, the Palestinian father would have spent his time trying to figure out how he could somehow strap a few kilos of C4 to his son and sneak him into the middle of the group of soldiers. Actually, belay that last; he would more likely try to sneak his explosive-laden son onto the bus the soldiers' children took to school.

    The Palestinian family in this story are reasonable, calm, almost saintly people who appear only to want peace between Israelis and Palestinians.

    If that were truly the case will all Palestinians, there would be no conflict.

    Sadly, this is not the case.
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