Ive stopped myself from watching any videos of the Israeli atrocities being afflicted on our people because Ive been afraid. Afraid of hurting. Of feeling helpless. Of feeling suffocated. Today I watched several. Out of all the vidoes...films of physical brutality, torture, point blank shootings, murders..., the one video that affected me most, that had me shaking in grief and rage was one in which no physical pain is inflicted at all. It is a video of soldiers arresting a five year old boy. I am sure you have seen it. The soldiers follow this child around even as he is walking away and eventually they put him in their jeep and drive away. Nothing very dramatic happens I suppose. And yet...YET...its enough to leave any one with a heart...any one with a child of their own in tears. Because whats clear is the emotional and psychological trauma that the Israeli soldiers are quite happily inflicting on the child. Fear games. Scarring. For life, ideally, as far as they are concerned. Before the child was ordered in to the jeep, he threw, what can only be called a tantrum. He was jumping up and down and screaming and crying. He looked EXACTLY like my nephew. He looked EXACTLY like any of our four or five year old kids who would scream and cry if they were being asked to do something they didnt want to. While our kids are blessedly only tantrumming over bedtimes or that the apple juice wasnt orange juice...our OTHER kids, yes OUR KIDS, are crying out of the sheer terror of being forced into a car with armed enemies. We Are All The Same, we are Mamas to the world, we are parts of a single body...if one of us aches, we all ache. I dont know what our test is. If Palestinians are being tested with their hardship, are we being tested with our ease? What are we meant to be doing? What does Allah want from us? I dont know. I dont know. I dont know. All I know is that we are witnesses to a cruel, evil and systematic oppressive genocide unfolding before our very eyes. To remain silent is unconscionable. To do nothing is unfathomable. And if our location or our circumstances or our realities means that apart from our duas, we can do nothing else and all we have is this stupid Facebook medium to express and share our outrage and grief, then that is what we must do, so be it, come what may.
Posted on: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 16:21:31 +0000
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