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Gaza the stain on heart

Stories and News No. 1135 Once upon a time a human being . A seventy years old creature, in these times . An old and tired person. Not for the age itself. We cannot let the numbers to judge, because words and stories, art and more or less virtuous politics failed in this. It is the story of a wrong life. A living tragedy, further grown up in its horrible semblance of normality. In 1948 the first birthday, while in the background, down there, somewhere, possibly beyond the sea, the picture sadly appears, ever too much like itself. You can see a furrow, a line, a slip of beating flesh. In short, for the most, a strip named Gaza . In the image, to outline the essence of the painting, you might get the plots whose sign insists in the same stretch with dull stubbornness, to confirm the saying that hell is repetition more than anything else: the rockets of Hamas , let they be cursed, if they were really launched, or not, the trail that they draw on the celestial vault in t...

Where nothing is

Stories and News No. 1096 Where nothing is. Where there is nothing , fourteen years old Wesal Sheikh Khalil has died. She was one of over sixty victims in Gaza last Monday while Israeli snipers fired tens of thousands of protesters along the perimeter fence. Where there is still now a whole nothingness , a young girl had already made plans for her funeral: "If they were to shoot me during the protests at the border, Mom, bury me in the exact spot where I died, or maybe, next to my grandfather's grave." Because where there is nothing , Wesal thought death was better than her life, that’s what her mother said the day after her youngest daughter’s disappearance. This happens where nothing was and still is. Because where there is only emptiness , with an unprecedented ease, you could give love. Almost as much as that which allows you to sell hatred and resentment, masking them for the latter. In fact, the power of nothing in the hands of others is immense. Eve...

Mistaken killed in Israel

Stories and News No. 802 In Jerusalem, somewhere, where the Story is told. From above. Very high. Where things of the world must necessarily be small. And confused. "A man was killed", the voice that saw says. "What man?" the voice that writes asks. "A Palestinian ," the other voice replies. "A Palestinian was killed," the second voice repeats. "A Palestinian was..." the voice that will share is about to announce before being interrupted. "Hold on," the voice that saw says, "he is an Eritrean ." "What do I write, then?" the second voice inquires. "What do I spread, then?" the third voice asks. " Eritrean killed by mistake ," the first voice replies. "Eritrean killed by mistake", the second voice repeats. "An Eritrean has been killed by mistake", the voice that will share echoes. "Another man was killed," the voice that saw says late...

Gaza children killed letter to citizens of Israel

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Gaza attack dead children killed video 2012

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Gaza man sets himself on fire video protest

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Israel Gaza blockade legal? 50 aid groups say no

Stories and News No. 471 Fifty international aid groups and United Nations agencies urged Israel on Thursday to open Gaza’s borders, saying its border blockade violates international law and indiscriminately harms Gaza’s 1.6 million people ( New York Times ). The video : Share the post: