I made a promise to myself earlier in the day that I will begin updating this blog again. When I turned my computer on tonight I was thinking my first post back would probably be about Mubarak (the Pharaoh) who refuses to get the hint that his old ass needs to step down once and for all. However, a friend of mine on Facebook posted a link from 972 Magazine about an 11-year-old Palestinian boy being arrested by Israeli "border police."
Inside the Military Repression of Nabi Saleh: Arrest of Children from Joseph Dana on Vimeo.
I'm seething with anger right now and I'm not sure if I'll be able to truly express how I feel about this video and the injustice that Palestinians are constantly being subjected to.
Israelis constantly talk about terrorism and how they live in fear from terrorist attacks. What about the daily terror that Palestinians are forced to endure from Israelis? Grown men running after and arresting an 11-year-old boy...is that not terrorism? Ripping a child from his mother...is that not terrorism?
What are these so-called police officers thinking when they are running after and arresting children? What are they feeling when they take a child away from his mother? How the hell do these assholes sleep at night?
A nation built on the occupation of another group of people will never succeed. A nation that uses intimidation, force, and imprisonment to subjugate another group of people will NEVER succeed. A nation that finds it necessary to arrest and terrorize children is an immoral nation that will NEVER succeed.
My thoughts all over the place and I don't want to go off on a tangent, but I'd like to end this post by saying this: FUCK YOU Israel.