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“we had a hard time last night it reminded me of cast lead”

another one of those nights. like thousands others around the world, I can’t sleep, I keep checking the news, keep trying to call friends, keep waking up to check again. how many times have we lived through nights like this? and the cynical question we silently ask ourselves is: will it be the killing of a handful and the severely injuring of a few more, or will it be the beginning of another horror of hundreds or thousands of children, women, elderly, fathers, mothers, sisters, daughters, friends, cousins, wives, grandchildren etc. massacred? as I write this, the drones are still flying over Gaza. One Israeli died of his injuries from a Qassam rocket, so I think this time your mainstream media will mention this. It will frame this as another outbreak of violence, like some inevitable, incomprehensible cycle between the two sides without any fathomable reasons or real triggers that just keeps costing lives (always more Palestinian lives, but in western mainstream media, the Palestinian martyrs are usually referred to only as numbers in the “Gaza Strip controled by the radical islamist Hamas”, they don’t seem to … Continue reading

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ibrahim al zaza (12 year old child who was hit by a missile from an israeli unmanned drone while playing with his cousin in front of his house)

wrote this the same day i wrote the previous post. 12 year old ibrahim succumbed to his terrible wounds on september 19, far away from his mother and siblings. he was send back to gaza as a maimed corps. —————– … Continue reading

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