Showing posts with label Gaza. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gaza. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Take Time to Weep, Take Time to Grieve for the Loss of the Innocent

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/what-they-didnt-tell-you-ab…/



What They Don't Tell You About Dahlia

By Sherri Mandell

"....the reporter tells you about the terrorist [Maher al-Hashlamun of Islamic Jihad] who is from Hebron, how he was in an Israeli jail for five years for a firebombing. The reporter quotes his Facebook page: 'I’ll be a thorn in the gullet of the Zionist project to Judaize Jerusalem.'

We learn nothing about 26 year old Dahlia, who was just getting started in life after finishing college, studying occupational therapy so that she could have a job where she could help people who were sick or infirm or disabled to live in a fuller way.

...And they don’t tell you how she had to hitchhike to get to her job working with children in Kiryat Gat or that she was the main volunteer at Yad Sarah in Tekoa which lends medical equipment like wheelchairs to those who are sick or injured. They don’t tell you how she liked to help brides look beautiful by doing their makeup for them before their weddings.

They don’t care that Dahlia’s father Nachum drives the ambulance in Tekoa. Day and night he is called on to make the drive to Jerusalem, and that Dahlia’s mother cares tenderly for the elderly."
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Instead, Palestinian drivers who intentionally crash into civilians to kill them,
are acclaimed heroes by Palestinian leaders.

The driver ran over Dahlia, then got out of his car and stabbed her to death!

Where is the outrage
among Palestinians for such despicable murders?!

Take time to weep, take time to grieve for the loss of the innocent.

Weep for the family of the little infant intentionally
murdered by a Palestinian militant.

Weep and grieve for Dahlia, an innocent civilian standing at a bus stop.

Weep for nearly 1,000 civilians killed by Israel's bombing of Gaza.

Weep for the 100 year old conflict in Palestine-Israel
where evil rules the day.

Weep and demand a stop to this evil.


In the Light,

Daniel Wilcox

Friday, August 1, 2014

SAVE THE CHILDREN!


SAVE THE CHILDREN!

SAVE THE CHILDREN!



"...we must begin again by trying to imagine our enemies' children who, like our children, are in mortal danger because of enmity that they did not cause.

It is useless to try to adjudicate a long-standing animosity by asking who started it or who is the most wrong. The only sufficient answer is to give up the animosity and try forgiveness, to try to love our enemies and to talk to them and (if we pray) to pray for them."
Wendell Berry

Sunday, July 27, 2014

WALLS AND BORDERS

Walls
“American didn’t bring democracy. It brought walls.” Yousif al-Timimi in National Geographic July 2011


There’s something in man, uh human
‘That loves a wall’…
Jerusalem
China
Istanbul
Hadrian
Mellah
Venice
Pale
Richmond…well,
An upside-down
Walled trench;

Speaking of
‘Somme’
Others…
Warsaw
Berlin
Panmunjom
Ben Hai…a river wall,
Selma
BelfastKashmir
Baghdad
Gaza
Yuma…ah finally a rime,

Aleppo,
El Pas--
‘Add’ nauseam
And
Two kinds of mortars
Bricks ‘unmortified’

Mortgaging tomorrow for yesterday;
Good ‘fencing’, uh yes, ‘know’…


In the Light,

Daniel Wilcox

*First published in The New Verse News
in different form
*Robert Frost

Monday, July 21, 2014

BAN HAMAS and all other religious and political thugs...GAZING ON GAZA



BAN HAMAS, and all other religious and political thugs who treat humans as cannon (er I mean rocket) fodder!


Gazing on Gaza

Like Samuel, Vonnegut gets called up from the grave

to say—
Judge for yourself,
No one’s got eyes
To see, no one with a Kingly, Martin sort of vision/dream;
Only strident martinets
Now heaving/hurling—ethically sick,
While UN diplomats ‘jawbone’ us to death
With nice resolutions; Samsonlite…

Where has their gaze gone
(I mean gaza)?
Samson’s at it again
Bringing the building down

Because he’s lost his gaze or gaza;
Only covered women (and children)
Walking wounded,
Or buried, burned, abandoned

Like the 4 youths (3 versus 1),
Or cowering from the rockets
In Tel Aviv and Gaza City

No Delilah here;
Just Philistine rage and Samson’s might,
And many less hairs,( er I mean heirs)…


Judges 15-16
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Side note:

As you can imagine, since I lived there, knowing both

Palestinians and Israelis, this tragedy gets to me and

brings out the sarcastic.


Brief Bio:

Daniel Wilcox's wandering lines have appeared in many magazines

including Word Riot, Write Room, Camel Saloon, Dead Snakes,

and Unlikely Stories IV. Three large collections of his published

poetry are in print.


Before that, he hiked through Nebraska, Cal State University Long Beach

(Creative Writing), Montana, Pennsylvania, Europe, Palestine/Israel,

Arizona...Now he resides with his wife on the central coast of California.

Sunday, July 13, 2014

IMAGINE from World Vision

Remember the lyrics from "Imagine" by John Lennon--"Imagine there's no countries

It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too

Imagine all the people living life in peace..."

Here's a new version from World Vision:
"Imagine if nations and societies took a more holistic approach that involved the business and educational sectors, as well as governments, leaders of faith communities and international donors.

Imagine Bill and Melinda Gates sitting in same room with Goodluck Jonathan, Ban Ki-moon, Cyrus Mistry, chair of the Tata Group, Pope Francis and the Dalai Lama all to commit to the resources and political will to save the current and future generations of children from being pawns of war, greed, lust and politics.

Imagine the conference’s opening address is delivered by two boys, one from Palestine and one from Israel, friends of the four who were murdered. And they, in turn, reiterated the statement issued by Naftali’s family: “There is no difference between blood and blood. Murder is murder, whatever the nationality and age.”

And finally, imagine if those children, as future young leaders in their communities, could lead us all forward to regain our humanity together."

Alex Snary leads the operations...in Jerusalem, West Bank and Gaza.
Bill Forbes is the Director of Child Protection for World Vision globally.

This Land Is Mine by Nina Paley