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Walk in their shoes

by Ted Rudow III, MA (Tedr77 [at] aol.com)
It’s the Israeli occupation that’s at the root of the Mideast problem. Put yourself in the Palestinians’ situation for a moment. Walk in their shoes with me. For more than 40 years you’ve been occupied by a foreign power with the most powerful military in the region.
They seize your country, move in hundreds of thousands of heavily armed settlers, and pen you up either in squalid refugee camps or poverty-stricken cities and villages, separated by roadblocks and patrolled by their military with tanks and machine guns.

When they want more of your land, they just take it, and there’s nothing you can do about it, since they control the courts. If you build a new house where they don’t like it, they’ll just bulldoze it. Or if one of your friends or neighbors does something they don’t like, they may bulldoze both his house and yours, as well as everything on your land, with barely enough warning for you to get out before it comes tumbling down around your ears. If they want to cut off your meager drinking water so they have more water for their lawns and swimming pools, they can do it.

If you demonstrate against these injustices, even doing as little as throwing rocks, you may get shot and maimed or killed. They may close your camp or village and surround it with tanks and snipers, cutting off food and medical supplies. If you get sick and need to go to the hospital, that’s too bad. Pregnant and about to deliver? That’s tough. In fact, they may tear down your clinic or use your hospital for target practice. Got kids who need an education? Forget about it. Even if they let the school open, you couldn’t afford it anyway, since you have no money, no job, and very little food.

Ted Rudow III, MA
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