34 Children
This isn't the first time the Israelis have bombed Qana--nor the first time they wiped out so many civilians who had taken shelter there. There's already a "Qana Massacre" from ten years ago: Operation Grapes of Wrath. This will be--what?--the Qana Slaughter? The Killing of the Innocents?
Qana, where Jesus may have performed his first miracle, turning water to wine. Where the UN has a large compound. Fat lot of good faith or peace workers do anyone over there.
34 kids dead--dusty, lifeless little bodies carried through the rubble by sobbing parents--and Rice leaving town because there will be no cease fire until it's an enduring cease fire. That's our ludicrous, official position.
I'm no politician, but to me the Israeli course looks bound to upend the Lebanese government and build even more support for extremists, in Lebanon and across the Arab world. As if Baghdad weren't reason enough. There's no bomb big enough to make peace here. If it can happen, it's got to happen with diplomacy.
34 children. 34 more families with human cause to take up arms against Israel and their fat ally to the west. Maybe Israel will get them first; they're bombing for another two weeks.
posted by I n g e r @ Monday, July 31, 2006
6 Comments:
yes yes yes...
i listened to a report about this on npr this morning.
it was a weepy start to my working day.
the children.
This is so terrible... I'm having trouble watching the news again. And even reading the news. It makes me feel very down and depressed.
fucked up beyond all reasoning...
peace...or something...please...
~ n
joel and i have been quarreling this since before the bombing began. "but israel's justified," says joel, the anti-semitic jew who's all of a sudden become a zionist. "but it's going to make matters worse," i say and not only because there are now thirty four newly dead. the "it" to which i am referring has little to do with dying. it's because i have heard mothers, palestinian and lebanese, whose children have been killed say, no matter. israel can't win, because we'll make more. what do israeli women do? have one child. two children. we'll have a dozen. kill two, and there will still be ten more.
that is the tragedy. not the living or the dying or the shelling or the conceit on both sides, or how unimaginable they seem. it is that the living and the dying and the shelling and the conceit are such a commonplace that they have become wholly imaginable, and worse than that, replicatable. what is disgusting is that human beings, those killing and being killed, are indecipherable from doritos and donuts, and anyone with sense that THAT is the key to the pogrom, the key to genocide, the key to dachau, and bosnia and darfur, and that indifference isn't a symptom of murder, but the cause of it. the horror isn't that the killing is done with pleasure, with relish, but that it is done entirely without pleasure, perfunctorily.
people whom i grew up around told me that you kept your eye on the nazi who smiled when he shot someone: he was the one you could trust.
I have ban the news from house. I am tired of hearing about innocent people being killed and our government not caring.
We don't seem to have anyone who can promote peace in this administration.
Loved Liam's comments about spicy food.
Mary
The horrors keep mounting..
innocents keep dying...
i too, avoid the news...
how can we make it stop?
:(
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