Pictures from Palestine:
Routinely, homes are demolished by armoured bulldozers - supplied by Caterpillar, who have still refused to accept any responsibility for the death of Rachael Corrie the US citizen who was deliberately crushed to death by one such machine after talking with its driver.
The Palestinians want to live in peace. They build homes with their families, and the Israeli army is ordered to destroy them. No warning is given. The first that the home-owners know is that the giant tank-like bulldozers (often accompanied by US-supplied main battle tanks) arrive and start smashing the walls down. From anecdotal accounts, I heard of several families who died in such actions.
Not only homes are destroyed by the Israeli army. The specially-built military bulldozers demolish schools, too. Even if this is not part of a plan to destroy the education available to the Palestinians, it is obvious that persecution of this scale isn't going to endear the Israelis to their neighbours.
Life for the people of Palestine has to go on. When their homes and schools are destroyed, they move on and try to live. The greatest resistance to the constant oppression by Israeli forces that they can make is to continue to live.
These are just some pictures of the aftermath of an Israeli military bulldozer. If peace-workers had been present, it is likely that these homes would have stodd just a while longer - but when the Israeli Army are prepared to deliberately crush US peace workers to death in order to destroy Palestinian homes, nothing is certain.
The International Solidarity Movement (also see the ISM's main site) tries to make living a little easier by using their international status to negotiate with the Israeli forces. Sometimes it works. Sometimes the Israeli soldiers arrest ISM volunteers, sometimes they shoot them. We can't be there all year, in all of Palestine.
Routinely, homes are demolished by armoured bulldozers - supplied by Caterpillar, who have still refused to accept any responsibility for the death of Rachael Corrie the US citizen who was deliberately crushed to death by one such machine after talking with its driver.
The Palestinians want to live in peace. They build homes with their families, and the Israeli army is ordered to destroy them. No warning is given. The first that the home-owners know is that the giant tank-like bulldozers (often accompanied by US-supplied main battle tanks) arrive and start smashing the walls down. From anecdotal accounts, I heard of several families who died in such actions.
Not only homes are destroyed by the Israeli army. The specially-built military bulldozers demolish schools, too. Even if this is not part of a plan to destroy the education available to the Palestinians, it is obvious that persecution of this scale isn't going to endear the Israelis to their neighbours.
Life for the people of Palestine has to go on. When their homes and schools are destroyed, they move on and try to live. The greatest resistance to the constant oppression by Israeli forces that they can make is to continue to live.
These are just some pictures of the aftermath of an Israeli military bulldozer. If peace-workers had been present, it is likely that these homes would have stodd just a while longer - but when the Israeli Army are prepared to deliberately crush US peace workers to death in order to destroy Palestinian homes, nothing is certain.
The International Solidarity Movement (also see the ISM's main site) tries to make living a little easier by using their international status to negotiate with the Israeli forces. Sometimes it works. Sometimes the Israeli soldiers arrest ISM volunteers, sometimes they shoot them. We can't be there all year, in all of Palestine.
annalee:
Ah I see! I think I remember now. Im glad you liked my pictures. Sad photographs and things on your journal, hopefully things will get better for these people.