Occupation Kills

“Occupation kills” – I had the pleasure of watching a documentary about the Israel and Palestine conflict. It surely beat the hell out of me. It’s really tough to believe that human mind can go to such an extent as to be termed CRUEL. The documentary starts with a mom explaining the situation of their kids. One woman goes on to say this “The kids always think of staying at home. They are too afraid to go to the school which is in the next building; because they feel when they come back I and their daddy would be dead!” The director shifts focus to her daughter who is just 6 yrs old but asks questions which makes me dumb - “I can’t even wear the sunglass which my dad gifted me and walk in sun for few mins, I can’t even wear the bangles and necklaces which my mom gifted me last year and all my clothes stink of GAS! I can only breathe GAS everywhere! Why are they spoiling my new clothes by bombing? Everything smells of GAS”.

I was in fact shocked to hear the statistics. The US has well established itself for “sanction”. It’s really disgusting to observe that the amount of aid that goes out of America to 190 countries totals 62.5 billion dollars every year, whereas the amount received by Israel is 62 billion dollars! There are hardly 5 million Jews in Israel and they get the most. This further leads to the figure of 3 million dollars per day to Israel. Further strengthening the ties between two countries is the American Pro-Israelic Council that contributes enormous amount in name of Christianity, but at the ground zero its barbarism to the core. We all know US is one egoist son of a bitch! But, what about the Jews?

I seriously like Adolf Hitler than this bloody Jew. Why would the Israelis destroy 14000 homes of Palestinians in middle of the night? By Jove it killed so many harmless and innocent kids, disabled and old people who wouldn’t even know how to hold a rifle. It’s really sickening to see the rubbles in documentary and come to conclusion for yourselves than learn something from reading the news. During one such “uprising”, says an old Palestinian “the Israeli army came at night with tanks and guns. The commander asked us to get dressed and vacate our homes. I came out of the door only to find the sniper’s bullet hit my palm. I collapsed. I am 83 yrs old and couldn’t get up. The commander came near me and kicked my groin. He said “get up you oldie!” I told him I was hurt and old to get up. He aimed his rifle at my ankle and fired. I don’t know where to go! Please suggest me a place to go and fend for myself.” After listening to his words only thing that lingers in my mind is the thought that earth is most stupid and the humans are the cruellest creatures in this entire universe. No doubt about it.

There are basically two types of Jews who came to Palestine explains Noam Chomsky “the one group of settlers are those who feel that Palestine is their holy land since the book mentions so and other than them no one have any right to occupy it. The other group of Jews are those who were promised extravagant lands and sums by the government so that they would live in Palestine. This made the influx of Jews into Palestine to double every 5 yrs. This accompanied with the barbaric torture and killing of Palestinians by the Israeli armed forces reduced the Palestinian population to mere 4 million from 7.5 million in 1950s while the Israeli population jumped to 9 million in just 2 decades. “

The other facts are more disgusting! Israel is the only country to have violated each and every treaty or law enforced by UN Security council on many instances and US has vetoed more than 40 times to save Israel from getting charged in UN court of law! Adding to this, Israel has 400 tanks and millions of weapons when Palestine has only ZERO tank and the Hamas have to steal the weapons from Israelis! Of course US have branded Hamas as terrorist organisation!

At the end, an Israeli social worker says “We have evolved to be human now! Some of our soldiers have refused to serve in this uprising; even some of the army officers supply weapons to Palestinians to defend themselves. We have strengthened our campaign to provide water supply and food to Palestinians”. I am genuinely surprised to find an Israeli organisation called “Organisation against Home Demolition”!

A question still lingers in my mind! Are Israelis human? Why would Jews being the purest breed of Christians amount to such acts of extreme barbarism in name of GOD when Christianity is least fundamental (in fact liberal) compared to other religions on earth?

I am forever indebted to the writers and directors of this documentary for creating such a wonderful thing amidst high risk! The only thing that spoiled my mood at the end of the show was a group discussion initiated by the organisers discussing this issue as if it was happening in neighbouring area and they could approach municipal council about it! Far more worse is when someone stands up and says “We as Indians have to do something about it! We are secular and peace loving nation. We should force our govt to take initiatives and help them”. Huh! A dumb ending to intelligent play!