Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Mandy Lightspeed My-fetish Mf2004-11-24
See, imagine, feel the pain of others
"Only when we hurt others we are unable to imagine. "
This is the title of an article written by Juan Goytisolo to the English newspaper" El País "(January 13, 2009). I join him with all my commitment not to be insensitive to others' pain, not to erase the humanity of people outside my family.
I quote: "The willful refusal or induced to recognize the harm they cause is often a product of anxiety, the horror of our own past, ancestral fears its repetition in the future. We kill out of fear, trapped in a spiral of anxiety, suspicion and aggressive impulses that is difficult to escape. Because of this we let the force of reason Give way to the logic of force. We are not guilty of evil we inflict on the basis of that would swoop down on our heads. The logic of fear / punishment / fear is endless, but the anxiety and blind faith in one's own strength are bad advisers. "
writes that he and I write about Gaza.
Never before has hurt me the pain of indolence.
Since Al-Jazeera (english.aljazeera.net) became my favorite news channel, a multiplicity of perspectives round and round my mind. Any way I can not stay with only one perspective of history. I personally need to know more, and I need to know about the voices of others, need perspective. I, personally, I feel very committed to listening to others. My mind is small and need from the minds of others, to help me think.
My only point: being open to hearing other voices.
Listen for example, as Goytisolo listens to a teacher secular Palestinian unrelated to any political struggle: "Look at the young people in the field. Crowded living without work, leisure, opportunities to migrate or start a family. Slowly dying in life and feel his heart is transformed into a bomb and one day, without telling anyone, either run with a gun to a suicidal terrorist operation. They do not mind dying, "beyond ideology, because they are already dead. Has reached a point where life and death are almost the same. "
The lack of imagination regarding the pain of the Palestinians," the ethical capacity, and human-first, to put in place, locks in Israel a dead end: the to hit harder and harder enemies.
We know and recognize the dignity of those to save ours. Boris Gerson sent the story of Ahmed Khatib, a Palestinian boy of 12 who was shot dead by Israeli soldiers while playing with a toy gun. The boy's parents donated his organs to six Israelis. Explained to reporter Chris McGreal The Guardian that his decision was a gesture of peace and at the same time, resistance.
Another benchmark is the documentary Encounter Point (Encounter Point). The protagonists of the film are the Palestinian Ali Abu Awwad and Robi Damelin Israel.
Ali traveled to Saudi Arabia in the year 2000 to receive treatment after an Israeli settler has caused a gunshot wound. There he learned that his brother Yusef was killed in an Israeli military operation. Ali spent many years in an Israeli jail for demonstrating against the occupation, throwing stones and being a member of a political party. When Yusef was killed, Ali joined the Israeli-Palestinian Forum of Families of Fallen Pro Reconciliation and Peace to work alongside Palestinians and Israelis who support non-violent methods and reconciliation, as well as founding the Al Tareek (The Way). Ali fighting vehemently against those advocating hatred towards the "other" in both towns, as well as against those who accuse him of working to stigmatize the "enemy."
In 2002 a Palestinian sniper killed a group of Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint. Robi's son, David, was one of them. Robi was plunged into a deep depression after losing her son. He touched defending an Israeli settlement in the occupied territories, whose existence is opposed politically. After David's death, Robi joined the Israeli-Palestinian Forum of Families. Dedicated his life to promoting Israeli-Palestinian reconciliation in Israel, the Palestinian Authority and international level, as the voice of that circle.
Israeli-Palestinian Forum of Families of Fallen Pro Reconciliation and Peace is a framework that brings together approximately 500 families of both peoples, who have lost first-degree relatives in the context of conflict and violence the region. This forum, also known as "The circle of parents", was founded in 1994.
here among us in this city Silvana Rabinovich and a large group of people, certainly one today I invite you to join the task of taking testimony of Palestinian children killed in the war and take a dead child (http : / / www.uninomuerto.blogspot.com/), and writes:
"Hundreds of children have lost their lives during the ongoing military offensive Israel in Gaza. That fact alone, regardless of analysis, positions and affiliations, should be enough for all people of good will in the world feel ashamed of this war and all wars.
... and since the pain has fueled the war effort, we believe it is possible to transform the suffering of our fellows in a database for fraternity and coexistence, provided we are able to approach the suffering and try to perceive what victims feel.
For this purpose we decided to take as relatives of some of the girls and children who have died in this attack, we are ready to witness and suffer his absence and to honor his memory: adopt, each of us, a minor died in the offensive.
will, henceforth, part of our family. Endeavor to communicate with their families to share their devastation. Try to get to know our little dead, to find out details of his life, to have with us a picture of them. Telling our friends and our acquaintances in Israel's military offensive in Gaza killed a child to us that we love.
The initiative "Adopt a dead child" looks challenged the conscience of every Jewish person -On which now weighs molten lead Israeli military incursion into Gaza, as a call to responsibility for each other; Obligado, before the rest of mankind, every Jew can now go back shameful act of sharing, giving its one-to assume-the Hebrew words that name the parents "orphan" children: shacul av (father grieving for a child), shculah em (mother orphan child.) We intend to stop the conversion of the pain of both peoples in additional fuel for the war and transform the dead of both sides in the seeds of peace.
So today we undertake this initiative.
I sign for them.
I just want to hold me responsible for the pain of others, and declare it inadmissible remain indifferent to the tragedy and the depth of the destruction and human suffering. The tragedy does not distinguish between insiders and outsiders.
I can feel your pain, and I affix to it.
Sabina Alazraki
s_alazraki@hotmail.com
s_alazraki@hotmail.com
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