We're under attack. Does anyone care?
Maybe animal rights activists will care that a horse died in Gaza this morning, because they don't seem to care about the people, writes 17-year-old Ranana Mermlestein, a Gush Katif resident.
Gush Katif - We were sitting in class Sunday morning. The whistles of mortar shells before they hit the ground are in the background, along with a speaker announcing: “take cover.” Each of my friends has a private miracle to tell - the bomb that "just missed," a door shutting a second before a mortar shell dropped at the threshold.
Apparently the Arabs' warehouses were full, and they had to free up some space – as of this entry, 90 mortar shells have hit Gush Katif in the past 24 hours, and there's no sign of a break.
I've been listening to the radio all morning, trying to hear “breaking news,” one of the reporters talking about the mortar attack; but the reporters are preoccupied with Prime Minister Sharon's meeting with Bush and no one cares.
I keep waiting for a reporter to scream into the microphone: “The emperor has no clothes, Gush Katif is being bombed. Where is the truce?” Apparently the journalistic conscious is calm because Arik worries about the settlers, even in a prestigious location in the south…
Dear friends, the “dream” Nitzanim project is about to burst in the near future, because it is a little weird that someone who spent the past year and a half walking all over us would suddenly become so concerned about us.
He reminds me of a rapist
Sharon reminds me of a rapist who gives his victim candy after he rapes her, so she will be left with a good taste in her mounth. It is no wonder they are talking about leaving the houses to those who have been trying to murder us for years. Giving my home to Arabs is like giving Yitzhak Rabin’s house to Yigal Amir when he gets out of jail.
And to all the various “green” organizations, I want to say that it seems you care more that a blue-winged butterfly freely flies over the Nitzanim beach than you do about people who will be hurled out of their homes. The latter are like paper cups, so it doesn’t really matter where we throw them.
Harsh words? Too blunt? This is exactly how I feel. I've been stabbed in the back, and someone twists the knife a bit more every day in order to humiliate me more.
A horse died this morning
At least this morning, a horse was killed in Neve Dekalim, so maybe the various animal rights organizations will cry out. It seems for them, it’s not enough if my brother and I get hurt - we need an animal so that it really hurts.
Until now, I never heard them or their friends raise their voices in protest at the sight of what my brother and I go through.
I laugh when I hear the disengagement mentioned on the news. The latest thing is the missile-alert facility they put up in Ashkelon. It only shows you that they know the disengagement will actually only destabilize the security situation in Israel.
People, when are you going to wake up and open your eyes? The priorities in this country are all wrong. If people care more about animals than they do about people, and they don’t care about all the wrongs that are done to the Gush’s residents (deployment, 90 mortar shells etc.), we have hit rock bottom.
