Thursday, December 30, 2010

The misery seeps through the tunnels and fundamentalism by schools

(ES)

The brutal blockade to which inhabitants of Gaza are subjected by the State of Israel leads them to obtain supplies through the smuggled goods that enter the tunnels connecting Gaza with neighboring Egypt.

No less striking than their own brothers, at the other side of the border, trade with the misery of the Gazans.

Being locked in a ghetto, with a subsistence economy, and condemned to international aid, leading the Palestinian people to a life deprived of freedom and dignity.

In this environment children grow up in Gaza, which for generations only remember the violence of the Israeli army and Hamas militias, which have been bombed, burned and abused, and have experienced the death of family members only by the fact being born in a strip of land occupied.

Such an environment of violence is the breeding ground for religious fundamentalism, which together with the lack of resources and staff to educate these children, feeds the religious fanaticism.

It is the paradox of the state of Israel, which block the Gaza Strip to defend itself against terrorism, but with that lock does not do more than add fuel to the fire of the Palestinian problem.

While continuing expansion of Jewish settlements, the international community seems to look away or sidestep to avoid disturbing an uncomfortable partner as Israel. Arab countries look to Iran with fear, and Iran will remain having a sworn enemy that threaten while there is a problem in Palestine.



Monday, December 20, 2010

When everyday life is no longer news.

(ES)

When you look at an object from a distance is impossible to see its details.

Thus, a foreign observer might think that the terrorism of ETA is the
guerrilla insurgency of Basque village against the occupation of the Spanish state, and going even further, equating the Basque people to terrorism.

Nothing is further from reality today. In diagnosing the problem and on possible solutions.

Similarly, and from a distance, I refuse to believe that all Palestinians are terrorists, but in his case, yes we can talk of occupation, blockade and apartheid by the state of Israel.

They have taken their land and have them evicted from their homes. Suffer continual humiliation by the occupation army and settlers. Have been used as human shields, bombed, despised by the Israeli courts, violated his rights ...

In no way justify the violence of the militants of Hamas, which is news every time they launch rockets against the Jewish settlers, but the misery of Gaza, lack of schools, the terror to the housing records by the police, to the bombing, the hell in which live their lifes every day thousands of families make the environment more aggressive that you can imagine. And in this miserable and violent environment is where Palestinian children grow up, deprived of all freedom, especially freedom that gives education, and without any possibility of being able to develop as free
and fearless people.