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We All Know the World Is not Fair |
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Gallery of the Israeli Occupation of Palestine
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By Laila Yaghi 6/23/02 We all take things for granted, like watching a movie, sitting on our
deck and watching the beauty of the lake in front of us or the beauty of
the flowers and the butterflies, but do we ever take a moment and think
of the people that are suffering in this world?
Do we ever think of the people that are starving or under
occupation? I often think of people in this selfish world and wonder why they
kill innocent people for a peace of land! The world is huge.
It does not make sense for one to kill a human being and
eradicate him and his entire family from the face of earth for a peace
of land! How can one feel good about themselves after taking by force
people’s homes and then live there instead of them? My Questions arise all the time when I watch people suffering in this
world. I watched many Palestinian immigrants who migrated to the
United States, so they can give their families a better life away from
the bombing and killing of Israelis soldiers. I observed and watched
some of the people I know. I
observed the intense suffering they go through every day which made me
feel that my own problems compared to theirs are mild I witnessed a guy who stayed away from his family for three years to
give them a better life. His
few months old daughter then, is now three, does not remember her
father. His only son, now
12, did not see his Dad for three years!
The father over worked to save money so he can buy his 5 children
and wife a ticket to come to the US so they can try to live in the
shadows of the American Dream But how can this educated abroad father provide for his family by
working in a Subway? How
can he afford health insurance, clothing, food, etc for his entire
family with just one salary? This is an ordeal many Palestinian families face when leaving their
country. The lucky ones
have some money to migrate some where.
But what about the unlucky ones, the Palestinians that are facing
death and humiliation every single day of their lives, what about them? Palestinians
who are denied the right of existence in their own country as equals to
their own occupiers? Palestinians
who are under siege and curfew day after day; their children cannot go
to school or go to hospitals when sick!
Even getting vaccinated against diseases is not permissible when
under siege. What do you
think happens to these children? Also
women, who are in labor, are also denied access to hospitals.
And the struggle continues, kids getting killed by Israeli
soldiers in front of their parents and parents getting killed in front
of their children! Therefore, the Palestinians who immigrated to the US are considered
the “lucky ones”. I
watched the life of many Palestinians being sapped out of them from
either over working or either over worrying about their families or
both. I watched how hard the “lucky ones” have to work in this
country with really no future because they do not know English and do
not have enough time or money to go to college and in the process this
keeps them from getting ahead in life! But the determination in these families make them not give up, the
determination and hope are keeping them alive.
Keeping them from weathering away, from becoming depressed or
handicapped to this unfair world! What is our duty in this selfish unfair world?
To donate money, to volunteer our time to these people who need
help by teaching them English or teaching them how to drive so they can
be independent, to smile to these desperate people and give them hope,
to write letters to the congress in the US to force the Israelis to
withdraw from the occupied territories.
There are many things a person can do.
I ask you while sitting on your porch or deck this summer to make
use of it. Think of these
unfortunate people in this world |