If you are still with me after scrolling past the same picture 8 times, you have more than half a thought more than most. The Palestinian people suffer under the conditions that engulf them, permeate their lives, and doom their children as assuredly as their parents. Their crime? "Being alive and in the way" and not protected by the population that governs their occupiers and isolation walls. The same is true of the American Indians-Native Americans-Tribal Peoples-Indigenous Population of America. Over the years, decades, centuries, there has been an incredible amount of unnecessary suffering at the hands of others who controlled them not by RIGHT but by MIGHT. America claims them in its ideal form...as a free people promoting freedom and equality and justice. America does not claim them in reality because they are an inconvenience that must be contained and in many cases ended, for all intents and purposes. The population of America does not protect either the Palestinian children or the Native American children because we do not pay attention enough to what WE are responsible for...in every blanket firing and carpet bombing, every removal of ancestral lands to which they were intimately wed, every broken treaty or false promise to fix the situation. I pray for the children of the world, especially those who have been targeted as inconvenient and preferably invisible by the ones who keep it that way.
If you want an inside look at Palestinian Life, I suggest: The Tears of Gaza. WARNING: I includes sensitive information about real-life issues in Gaza.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ubuiz-T4DxI
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