"Not My War Drum"

[eumelia]

While I was in Tel-Aviv and protested with my fellow comrades, both Jewish and Arab, against the aggression and war, the IDF began it's ground offensive.

The irony... it is anvil-like.

The body count in going to rise and rise and rise.
And more and more blood will permeate this (un)Holy earth.

The demo was large, over 10,000 people.
It was the first time I'd seen the Palestinian colours fly outside the West Bank (up until last week, there was an injunction against waving Palestinian colours).
There was also a counter-demo of Israeli Fascists.
And I do mean Fascists, saying the IDF must deploy and destroy and calling us - the anti-war demonstrates - a Fifth Column.

I'm an Israeli Jew.
And Palestinian-American Suheir Hammad speaks it exactly the way I see it.

Peace with our enemies.
Hope for us all.
Free Palestine.

Comments

[mao4269.livejournal.com]

I'd certainly agree about the "classic" examples, but I do have to say that given how all over the map (literally) the rockets have been, I don't think it's fair to use last Wednesday (or even this morning) as an example of Hamas targeting children because they just don't have the capability to target more specifically than a particular city. That being said, civilians in a time of war don't tend to self-segregate by age, so you could certainly argue that targeting civilians *is* targeting children.