Today on the news there was a Lebanese man holding a small child’s body. It was grey from the ash and dirt and rockets. It had no arms. It had nothing below the ribcage. And though it had a perfectly clear face, the back of it’s head was missing. What the fuck, Israel?!?
How this is appropriate retaliation for the abduction of two soldiers escapes me. In fact it certainly seems like collective punishment to me. everyday i feel more and more like i am living next to a napoleonistic little warmonger of a country. I found myself being asked to defend Israeli foreign policy. And I found myself being asked to support American foreign policy for supporting Israel. And I refused. I couldn’t. as I think about most of the surrounding countries here, all I see are problems. And those problems didn’t just pop up by themselves. A woman said to me, “we just want to know what we (arabs) did wrong to make you hate us.”
‘Nuff said.