Tuesday, 12-04-01

Today like any other day in a Palestinian life. People are killed, houses are demolished, farms are leveled, olive trees are uprooted, and children are massacred. These atrocities are the consequences of the Israeli occupation in Palestine.

Since the establishment of Israel in 1948, the world has turned a deaf ear to the suffering of the Palestinians (Muslims & Christians) in Palestine, or what it is known today as Israel. The suffering of the Palestinians have to stop, occupation has to end. It is unfair, and inhumane for us to keep looking the other way while people are dying and their freedom is controlled by others. Palestinians today are the only people on earth under a ruthless occupation.

You would never imagine a routine day in the life of an average Palestinian. Palestinians were/are proud people. Foreigners came to Palestine at the end of WWII, and through manipulation had control over the population and land, to later declare independence. The League of Nation (UN) interfered and divided Palestine into two countries; one Arab (Palestinian: Muslim & Christian), and one Jewish. However, wars erupted in interval stages, and the western supported Jews occupied more lands. The population in these lands was subjugated and moved to refugee camps within their own land. This is how the Palestinian question came to be as we know it. For the last 50 years, Palestinians are fighting for their freedom. Their methods of liberation varies from extreme style of killing civilians and soldiers in retaliation to the suffering on the hands of the Israelis. To the basic refusal of accepting the occupation on their land. People of human consciousness, regardless of their race or religion should stand with these people for self-determination and independence. America's support for Israel must not blind us to deny others their God given right for freedom. It takes courage to say, the Israeli occupation of Palestinians land is WRONG and MUST END.

If history serves us correctly, we know Hitler was never forgiven for his maltreatment of Jewish and minorities in Germany. I am positive, history will not forgive Israel and the Jewish people for their maltreatment of the Palestinians. Nor should we forget the maltreatment of Hitler or Israel of innocent lives. Some might say, don't you see what they are doing? They are blowing themselves up! To these people we say, desperation of losing hope creates an unbelievable things. It is not the Palestinians to be blamed. It is the occupation stupid! Israeli occupation must end now.

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