Children of Gaza, Run to the Angels

[DogPoundPup]

Ironically, it was in Palestine, 20 years ago, that I concluded that there is no God. For how could a God, who claims to love all and treat all with impartiality, allow such horrors like those in Palestine to happen?

This unbelief grew stronger with each curfew, with each strike that mourned the death of yet one more martyr, with a decapitation induced by gunfire in the main square on a sunny Ramallah afternoon so many years ago. But it was cemented the day I had to tell one of my fifth grade students that his brother had just been taken away by the Israeli army. His expression, his body going limp, the shuddering of his shoulders as he wept with his classmates…that's what finally did it.

Nearly 20 years have passed since that day, and I have now married into a Gazan family. I am a wife and mother, the sister and aunt of so many kids living the horror of what Gaza has become. As we watch the footage of Israel's onslaught, I hear myself, whispering as I see one more martyred child, "Run to the angels….run." After so many years, this living nightmare is fostering a burning desire to believe once again in the afterlife.

Caged, starved, sniped, suffocated. They are slaughtered like sheep, but the leaders of the free world just cannot seem to find a moment to comment. Golfing, vacationing, Obama, Bush, even the EU, they just aren't important enough. My mutterings have become a like a canter. I call out to these stricken and shattered little bodies, who frankly never experienced life to lose it. The only consolation to offer is the respite found in death.

Continue reading: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/10-3

[RandomThoughts]

1. I diagree

although there is great suffering at times, people never give up hope and wish death. That is a victory for evil, one of those children might grow up to save 1000s of lives with ideas of peace.

Its really hard for me too, when I think on the wrong in the world. I know God could make every person be perfectly nice in an instant. But to do that he would have to remove free will. And without free will, people do not exist, they litterally would only do what god programmed them to do, so would not exist to love others or even God.

I think he does what he can, by trying to work through those that work for peace, and he makes a difference through many good people.

But it is not him causing the suffering, it is man causing it.

[democrank]

2. Peace, precious children

~PEACE~