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Subject: The suffering of the Palestinians

Author:
Mohd Som

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Date Posted: 18:39:11 09/13/02 Fri
Author Host/IP: j18.bkj27.jaring.my/161.142.101.152

Here is something worth reading:

"No one could testify more to the atrocious terror of occupation more than the people of the Palestinian West Bank city of Nablus. In the last 5 months, they have been under curfew for no less than 112 days. In fact, in the last 81 days, curfew has been lifted for a total of ONLY 50 hours, and until the end of this week, the number of those hours will not increase, as the continuous stretch of
11 days under strict curfew is set to continue to reach unprecedented heights of disregard of human rights and dignity. It seems Ariel Sharon is more of a fan of stretching records than the Chicago Bulls of the 90s.

But what do all those amazing numbers mean, for anyone who's lucky enough not to live under Israeli occupation, their true worth is surely elusive. Curfew means not being able to leave your house. No matter what happens, you simply can not
open your door to the world. You need to buy food, your kids need to go to school, your wife needs to give birth, you need to go to work, but still you are all barred from leaving your home. No matter what reason you have for getting out, there is no way you can, unless off course you are willing to be shattered to pieces by the huge Mirkava tank just around the corner. Your life has to be put on hold until the Government of Israel decides to let u get on with it. 180,000 people's lives are suspended indefinitely, they can not see each other, get married, buy bread, or have fights. In situations like this you start even missing the bad stuff you go through in your daily life. You yearn to make stupid mistakes and be punished for them; you yearn to be sad and upset like normal people."

Therefore, let's try not to complain and sulk if we are short of something, or that we are struck by calamities because we may never know that some people suffer more than us.

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