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A Word on Qana

I woke up yesterday only to receive a breaking news message from Al Arabiya on my mobile. I was shocked at what I read:
Arabiya:BRK: At least 40 people have been killed or wounded in Israeli air strikes on buildings in Qana, south Lebanon, police sources say.
That alone just made me half-faint. Then I heard my mom from the living room, who asked me, "Did you see what happened this morning?"

"No, I didn't, but I know what it was," was my reply. I went over to see the most gruesome images on Al Jazeera. This, by far, had to be Israel's bloodiest strike since this "war" started: dead bodies all over, houses completely demolished, livelihoods lost, people made homeless, entire families wiped out... What else could go wrong? For one thing, we can be sure that the new Israeli "Defense" Minister, Amir Peretz (who's originally Moroccan, but for shame, he cares not about his fellow Arabs) can wear the label of "war criminal". For another, the I"D"F has just hit its own state with a hammer: Hizbullah promised retaliation for this massacre.

While I was watching the continued coverage of the body search, I could only think of the first Qana massacre, about ten years ago. Now, Qana can mark two massacre anniversaries: the previous one and this one, even though the previous one was much more bloodier, in which over 100 people died. This one involved at least 55 casualties, most of them children... CHILDREN! What was their fault, really? All Israel could do is claim that Qana was a "missile launch site"; they did the same thing back in 1996. In fact, according to the same source I presented regarding the first massacre, that massacre was in fact pre-meditated, much like what we are seeing in Lebanon. The same land mines Israel refused to dismantle or help to dismantle killed a few innocents, and Hizbullah did pretty much the same thing it is doing today: fire Katyushas. The retaliation to the Hizbullah retaliaion was the Qana massacre itself, under the pretext that Qana was a "terrorist haven", even though it housed a U.N. site filled with civilians who were already housed up there. Let me direct you now to this caricature:



You might be asking, "Why the heck did I put that up?" Take a look at the contorted body, the face twisted in an expression of horror and dismay. The figure resembles the casualties at Qana, who were killed by the supposed "moral and humane" Israeli tsahal (I call it "tsahal" because the Israeli "Defense" Force nametag just doesn't suit this aggressive army). Now, why do you suppose the body is not under the boots of an I"D"F soldier, but instead stuck stabbed by the points of the Star of David on the Israeli flag? This is just to answer the question of why many Arabs, myself NOT included, have turned into anti-Semites (a.k.a. "Jew haters"). Well, take a look:



It's the continued acts of killing innocents, destroying buildings and livelihoods, and so forth, that has bred anti-Semitism through much of the Arab world. It's just that...



...the destruction...



...the death...



...and the misery of it all makes one desperate for justice, a goal sought by every man on Earth. It is the perceived "Jewish state", and has identified itself as such. So, why blame the Arabs for hating them? I don't hate Jews, nor do I like them either (I feel Jews are just human beings, like everyone else). And then again, so are Arabs,, but many people fail to see that; Israel is just the newest testimony of man's inhumanity to his fellow man, just for the sake of political/religious aims, and this is nothing new: racism and dehumanization is the earmark of aggression and past imperialism. But seriously, as per this editorial (apologies to my English readers), who is going to try Israeli military and political figures for war crimes being committed in Lebanon? When will justice be served? Only time will tell, but either way, the resistance has to win, and Israel has to lose this war, just so it may know that it can't go unpunished for its many atrocities that it has committed on the Arab people.

Salaam, from
Saracen


P.S. Thanks to Palestinian Pundit for providing me with the pics, though I hope you guys don't mind spreading them around. People have to see this catastrophe, and hopefully work to stop this chaos altogether.

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