1. Teenage boys all over the world suck. They can be really stupid and mean.
2. Occupation destroys people through the mundane. We crossed Calandia Checkpoint and the Wall, which goes down the middle of the street, was under intense construction with three groups of workers at different points along it, each group protected by an armed "security" man (all men). They were putting electric wire wrapped in razor wire on the top of the Wall and again two feet below that. No one looked twice, even though it's brand new. It gets worse daily, and that's normal. I asked someone why the razor wire. Apparently last year during Ramadan, Palestinians put ladders against the Wall to eat with family--once divided by a street; now divided by a street with a Wall planted into the middle of it. Ramadan is coming, so the Israelis must prepare for this "breach of security."
3. It's really heart breaking to see old men sitting on crates with cardboard boxes upturned, on top of which some veggies and herbs are for sale. Next the the old man, who shouldn't have to make his pennies at this point in his life, is a boy of 6 who sells shitty juice for a dime. A 70 year old man and a 6 year old child both trying to feed themselves. Retirement and youth denied by occupation's everyday violence.
4. Americans have to wake the hell up because Israelis won't. They are so amazingly delusional about the situation. Tax paying Americans have a moral obligation to know where their money goes and to challenge its use for ethnic cleansing. WAKE UP AND CHANGE THIS ATROCIOUS, INHUMANE SITUATION. You are paying for it. The bullets in the guns are yours! And they are mine. And if you can't tell, I'm pissed off about it. You should be too.
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Great passion, Peace Seeker! I'm pissed off too. But it isn't enough to be pissed off at each cut of the "death by a thousand cuts" being cruelly, deliberately administered by Zionist Israel. We must somehow devise means to whack back at these cuts wholesale. Cure the disease (Zionism)...don't react to each cut (water theft, new illegal-settler roads, illegal-settler violence, economic de-development, each meter-by-meter extension of the Apartheid Wall/Barrier, on and on by the thousands) -- which is, after all, symptomatic of the disease -- as if each were separable and treatable individually. That's the plan, you see: the Zionists' making us chase our tails, pissed off, while they chase hegemony, dunam by dunam, creating irreversible facts on the ground.
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