Saturday, January 24, 2009

A trip to the Gaza Strip -- Israeli punters watch the war

Good mornig

If you wanted to know the dangers to which Israeli citizens are exposed in the Gaza Strip, this may be the video to view – and you may be less surprised that peace in the Middle East seems farther away than ever.

To say Shalom and Salaam and Paz and Friede and Peace strikes me as almost cynical. Especially when I hear the young woman say, "Those over there all have to be radically erased out; the whole town must be wiped out. […] Yes, I am a tiny little bit fascist."
Makes me feel really sick…

Thank you, R.G., for this illuminating link.

PS: I know that not all Israeli are like the people shown in this clip. I know that there are Israeli who are doing everything they can, often at great risk to themselves, to improve the inhumane conditions of Palestinians in Jerusalem, in the Gaza Strip and in the West Bank in general.



1 comment:

Margaret Powell - happy out at sea... said...

The original link no longer works, but YouTube, where else, has the video, with English subtitles:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulIJmBjhpzg&feature=related