War Ends, Schools Begin

“Good morning! Still alive?” excited teenage girls asked each other as their class, all in white headscarves, lined up in the yard shortly after dawn at Beach Preparatory School.

School starts early in the Gaza Strip because there is not enough classroom space for all the children, so there must be two shifts a day. Source

Unique says:

“I used to hate schools. If i were these kids, i would be so angry.  I  mean, i don’t have a home, i lost part of my family and friends, i just experienced a horrible war, and I have to go to school?! There better be no homework.”

I remember at the time of Iran-Iraq war, there were many southern Iranians  who would come to Tehran or northern cities and their children would go to the new schools in new cities which had not faced the trouble bombings yet.

Most of the time, they were so confused and lonely. Btw the scenes they had seen within war, had made them kind of upset and mentally terrified.

Though they were studying in ‘clean’ schools and not inside ruins, teachers would take it easier for them, for the homeworks alike.

Now that right away after Gaza war, the schools started, with  sorrow and grief of murdered family and classmates, i am also wondering what will be the homeworks when the hearts are filled with anger.

Well.. Yeah..  Life has to go on..

P.S: Has been cross posted on MidEastYouth

Ask Not Who’s The Winner

Survivers of Hiroshima used to say something strange about the moments after the American nuclear bombing. For sometime after explosion, they could not realise if they were alive or dead, that much the scenes, ruins and massacre of civillians were horrible.

Foto Credit: Unique

While they’re debating who’s the winner of Gaza massacre, i listened to beautiful song of Michael Heart with a wonderful and deep lyric, and i could completely feel and perceive the scenes that has happened in Gaza too.

Like story of woman on TV live from Gaza who had lost 2 of her children in Israel’s phosphorous bombing and while tears had covered her cheeks after telling her story, i heard she was shouting “Alhamdulilah (Praise to God), Alhamdulilah, Alhamdulilah, God never dies, God never dies, God never dies.”

Thanks to Unique and her unique talent that put the inspiration by this song into a wonderful article. She means it when on behalf of Gazans she says:

“We have the right to exist. So God be it if they drown us all with their acid rain. God be it if they burn us with their fiery wrath. They will still hear our echoes. Our echoes which may not drown them and probably won’t burn them, but will definitely haunt them, forever. “

Ask not who’s the winner..

Let them debate.. Let them justify. They are Unilateral People. As Gilad Atzman, the jew poet says. They  love themselves unilaterally. They laterally fail to love their neighbours and even those part of their nation who are against their crimes. But unilaterally assume themselves winner of masscares.

They live behind walls of concrete, hatred and arrogance.

Ask not how far they can go this way..

Ask not how long they can live behind the walls..

Ask not who’s the winner..

Where You Draw The Line

Omer Goldman, daughter of the former Mossad chief spoke live to True Talk radio from Tel-Aviv. Goldman says that she has been sent to jail twice for refusing to serve in the Israeli military because she thinks Israel commits crimes against humanity in the occupied territories and right now in Gaza.

She claims that war on Gaza is political game for the coming election in Israel.

It shows that in Israel -which claims to be the most (so-called) democratic country of the Mideast but has made the previous beautiful mideast like a blood bath- a young Omer doesn’t have any other choice except participating in a war that she does not believe in it. Her ‘undesirable’ voice gets suppressed in jail. It’s something that you might not even get in any ‘undemocratic’ country of the world

On the other hand, yesterday i found this video of Pro-Israeli rally in NYC (i reccommend it ) on Ardent’s blog, containing interviews done by Max Blumenthal with some people who attended the rally.  They call for ‘Wiping Out’ Palestinians.

These statements make me think. It raises many questions in my mind. As an Iranian, i’ve been accused of being from a terrorism region with a terrorist government and a terrorist president who said that ‘Israel will be wipped out’, something that was a ‘prediction’ actually and not an ‘assault’.

I am not going to defend or accuse Mr Ahmadinejad here since i might disagree with him, but the fact is neither the government nor my nation attacked any other nations in the world and have never ‘claimed’ directly to wip out anybody. But they wrote thousands and thousands articles and still spread reports or rumors, accusing muslims i.e Iranians to be anti-semitism, anti-judaism, so and so. While they all know that Iran has the second largest community of jews in the Mideast and Iranian jews -Praise to God- are the most religious jews i’ve ever seen.

Then you see that some Israelis call Israel for ‘wiping out’ the Palestinians. And murdering thousand Palestinians with unknown American weapons is justifed as ‘defense’.

It’s allowed to make a blood bath and they’re not allowed to question it, bcs they might face what people like Omer faced. So what’s the difference? Who is the real terrorist when terrorism means using terror to achieve political goals ? Where you draw the line?

Max then himself comments on the rally and interviews and questions the ultimate brainwashing of the Israeli community:

No one I spoke to could seem to find any circumstance in which they would begin to question Israel’s war. No number of civilian deaths, no displays of extreme suffering — nothing could deter their enthusiasm for attacking one of the most vulnerable populations in the world with the world’s most advanced weaponry. There are no limits, no matter what Israel does, no matter how it does it.

The rally made me think of a passage in “The Holocaust Is Over, We Must Rise From Its Ashes,” a powerful new book by former Israeli Knesset speaker and Jewish National Fund chairman Avraham Burg:

“If you are a bad person, a whining enemy or a strong-arm occupier, you are not my brother, even if you are circumcised, observe the Sabbath, and do mitzvahs. If your scarf covers every hair on your head for modest, you give alms and do charity, but what is under your scarf is dedicated to the sanctity of Jewish land, taking precedence over the sanctity of human life, whosever life that is, then your are not my sister. You might be my enemy. A good Arab or a righteous gentile will be a brother or sister to me. A wicked man, even of Jewish descent, is my adversary, and I would stand on the other side of the barricade and fight him to the end.” Source

P.S: Has been cross-posted on Mideast Youth