I understand the impetus behind the counting of children and female casualties. The killing of innocents in Gaza by Israels war machine is a crime. But Palestinian men are victims of Israeli state terrorism too. Lets not repeat the logic of the war on terror, where only children and women can be victims but men (including boys over 15, sometimes 13) are always suspects and thus somehow they share in the blame of their own death. This is the gendering of the War on Terror: our men and boys are inherently dangerous and are merely the potential for violence encased in human flesh. Furthermore, every woman who lives and loves and loses and struggles within Israels military occupation and siege is a revolutionary. You do not have to pick up a gun in Gaza to be a revolutionary or an enemy of Israel. You just have to be alive and to insist on living. After all, isnt that point of settler colonialism?
Posted on: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 12:22:25 +0000
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