The Olive Trees

Is it just me, or do other people also have trouble understanding what Mr. Isphahani has to say?

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Just last night I was wondering why the hell so many powerul nations across the world can`t even unite for one cause (that being the liberation of all innocent humans from torture and terrorism) and forget their internal problems for a while to make the world a better place. We are turning our own future generations into rebels, fighters, jihadis, heartless monsters by propagating violence and trying to occupy land after land with no respect for human rights. One feels quite helpless and stupid when you see all this... and we the common people can do nothing about it.

Nice work storyteller.

But often in our one sided sympathies for the Palestinians, we ignore the human cost borne by the Israelis, and by that I don’t mean the security forces, I mean the civilians. What must be life to live in a constant dread? For Palestinians, not knowing when a missile/bulldozer razes their homes to ground, for Israelis, not knowing when a suicide bomber blasts him/herself apart, killing many more. Not knowing when a bullet answers a small stone. Not knowing when a knife stabs an unsuspecting passer by.
I read this book, Broken Bridge, by Lynne Reid Banks (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0380723840/qid=1085209279/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/103-8478763-3948602?v=glance&s=books) that so rightly captured an Israeli family’s anguish and yet the Palestinians weren’t painted in bad light. What you learn after reading the book is that not Palestinians, not Jews are suffering in Israel, humanity suffers, a bullet, a blast, a stab doesn’t bother with religious inclinations.
I don’t side with Israeli action but I do sympathize with Israelis, just as I mourn for Palestinian losses.
Its become such a vicious game, loyalties lie tattered on a blood stained ground, sympathies are dime a dozen, senses numbed and fingers trigger happy. In both camps.
All the while it makes great news copy; documentaries are made, features filed, photos of five years old lifeless forms plastered across newsprint…that’s what the Palestine/Israel conflict’s been reduced to. News. Words. Protests. Prints. And once in a while, heart-felt tears.

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If you want to, there`s an interesting blog: This Normal Life (http://brianblum.blogspot.com/) for an alternate perspective into the conflict.
Rafah Kid Rambles (http://www.rafahkid.net/blog.html
or try this: Visions of Conflict (http://www.fotolog.net/regevn)
Ta`ayush.org is a site on Arab Jewsih partership for a donations campaign for the families whose homes are being demolished by the IDF.

Dear Storyteller,

A real heart touching story. It reminded me of a poem ``Tears of Blood``; the same is appended below:-

Sometimes tears have to drop
But too many tears turn into blood
Oh Palestine my ancestors’ land
Your earth has turned into red-colored sand
In it you have buried so many boys
Innocent, young still playing with toys
But their little hearts have turned into men
So fast before they had a chance to begin
A life like other men with family and kin

Born into their own country they face persecution
And live their lives full of confusion
Oh little boy playing with sand
Shot dead from snipers in your own land
Mother’s tears fall like razor sharp
Penetrating down deep with permanent scars

Oh world wake up his mother screams
Another atrocity with holocaust fears
Peace has been written in Rainbow colors
And doves are praying for all the mothers