Yesterday, Yussuf invited me to have lunch in his home. He is a member of the poular committee in Beit Ummar. There were no actions planned for our region and I got busy with the important task of playing with kiddies!
The day was beautiful in Beit Ummar, but a few kilometers north and south the streets were overflowing with blood. This was the scene we heard about from friends and we watched the television. Yussuf whispered, with warmth, a plea that I go back to America and tell my friends to come to Palestine and witness this occupation with their own eyes.
We ate tuna, eggs, tomatos, with pita and tea, while watched the death toll rise in Gaza and South Lebanon on t.v. I wanted to cry, but didn't feel I had the right to, Yusuf wasn't crying, neither was Fida, his wife. It seems people adapt to "very difficult."
Watching war from a living room in Palestine is very different than watching it from the U.S. The stakes are higher, everyone knows someone affected. The news is clear, the gory details go uncensored. We can see U.S. tax dollars raining on innocent civilians. Bodies put in freezers. Caskets accumulating. Doctors trying to rescue children. I can go on but maybe Yussuf is right, you need to come here and watch war for yourself.
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Apuntes Palestine are the notes of a Boricua
from New York in The Occupied Palestinian Territory.
Apuntes is my way of taking notes, taking aim,
indicating, pointing out, and promoting
views from the ground in Palestine.
9 comments:
Along with the "U.S. tax dollars raining on civilians" do you also see Hezbola intentionally attracting the Olympian drizzle?
>I can go on but maybe Yussuf is right, you need to come here and watch war for yourself.
I guess your right, sitting here in my "save" office and watching the news of this war I don't understand is not the same like you see it every day. I adore you and all the other bloggers to bring a unsensored view into this war.
It's wonderful how safe things are when Iran and Syria aren't nearby. What a wonderful world it would be if they weren't around to stir things up.
reals....you are a hero. i am sooo proud of you.
hermano, thank you for witnessing.
you're in my thoughts a lot. un abrazo fuerte te mando.
thank you for the continued words as a U.S. citizen. This nation has so much blood on its hands. It ceases to amaze me how easily people are duped into repeating like robots whatever CNN, FOX news, the media and the White House tell us- if they tell a lie enough, we all beleive is as historic fact. All of a sudden this is all about Syria and Iran....does anyone remember the lie about Iraq or is our collective memory so damaged by ipods, hollywood, and priviledge.
The Palestinian people and all people who refuse to be occupied and controlled by U.S.'s greed are the real heros.
Fernando,
Thank you for creating this space to share these stories. What happens when you watch war from inside palestine? What changes for you now? What do you do when you come back to the states? The disinformation is brutal here.
Israel buries the latest hope for peace in the region--a referendum that was moving forward throughout Palestine--under brutal force. They pummel civilians in Lebanon and the US government sends its approval (and continues to send its money) hoping, of course, that they will destroy Hizbullah in the process and continue to open up the regional economy to takeover by US corporations.
How do we continue to raise consciousness here and continue to broaden the movement against empire while increasing our confrontation...the two dominant anti-war coalitions, UFPJ and ANSWER, don't have successful responses to these questions...
salud compa,
he estado pensando mucho en ti cada vez que veo las noticias. es dificil imaginar todo esto aun oyendolo de alguien que conoces bien. las noticias aqui cuentan mas de lo que pasa que las de USSA. eso no es dificil. y el hecho de que este sea de los pocos gobiernos que se hayan quejado por lo de libano hace que los acusen de antisemitas, la misma mierda de siempre.
cuidate y haz lo que puedas.
suerte, salud
lopex
Reals,
Mandando solidaridad, cariño y fuerza para todos alli. Dejate llorar si necesitas, no hay porque compararte. seriously.
Cada un tiene su manera.
Kid, even though the news here in Brasil ain't that much better than the states' junk, let me just tell you that tons of folks are seethingly angry and feeling helpless.
Thanks for putting your words out for us to get the closest glimpse we can until we make it out there ourselves.
abraços fortes,
vero
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