Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Bulldozer redux--Israel get a taste of its own medicine

Another bulldozer attack in Jerusalem. Horrors! Stories on telly show the killing of the Arab from occupied East Jerusalem being killed at almost gun point. He did not expect to live, it goes without saying, when he began rolling over motor cars in the street. His was an act of desperation underscoring the sorry plight even of Arabs with Israeli passports. The world or let's say the western eye recoils at the use of a bulldozer as a instrument of violence and a political statement. Well, blinkered western eye where has your vision been for the past 60 years: Israel uses the bulldozer as an instrument of violence, retaliation, and complete punishment collectively for any Arab, read Palestinian, challenge to its occupation and to its treatment even of its own Arab citizens as second class. Well, now, like it or not, the bulldozer is giving Israel a mild taste of its own medicine, and Jerusalem doesn't like it. Tell that to the uprooted Palestinians, the land the Israelis stole from the Arabs, to the dead, and to the parents of Rachel Cory whom an American made bulldozer crushed.

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