The quality of this video, is not 1.class, but still... This is precisely, what I have been posting about, lately.....
- 85 % of the people living in the Gaza strip/ The West Bank would not be in dire need of foreign aid, if the Israelis abandoned their inhumane blockade and opened up the borders....!
Give people their lives back, let families be families. Men and women would be able to work proudly and provide for themselves and their children....(We all know how damaging, long term unemployment is to your psyche) And in this way nurture hope and the will to live in peace, instead of feeding hate and the promise of a better life in Paradise...
This is not much to ask for..... (If you understand Danish, here's a great LINK to a radio item about the Palestinian Olive farmers harvesting under "Police protection")
But, right now, it seems like the the far Right, has won the post-election chaos in Israel and the future looks even more bleak......
You might find this video a bit..... eh, well .... eh ahem.... I find it hard, not to say something rather unkind about I think of the song it self and the way it's performed, it is a bit over the top, and sounds like thousands of other ballads of exactly same sort... The images are heartbreaking though and drives the message home.... It just might do the trick, where such tricks are necessary, where mere facts aren't enough...
And by this; I mean the big wast majority of the worlds population! Who didn't pay too much attention, when it all this mess went down in Gaza and who most certainly will not do so now that it's supposedly "all over"! Our, for ever shortening, 'attention span' will quickly turn to something else. We'll forget that the aftermath of war is almost as horrendous as war itself - The suffering is longer, so much longer! People are still dying from the wounds! People are grieving over entire families gone, People (by this term I mean children, women and men old and young) are suffering from "Post traumatic stress syndrome" with all that entails!!! People are now living in "tents"! There's no water, no food, no sewage, no electricity etc etc ... 3 out of 4 in Gaza is unemployed (!!) due to the 19 month long Israeli Blockade makes it absolutely impossible to maintain a steady job and the whole Palestinian population is totally dependent on foreign Aid... (Here's some links to random articles on the Blockade from Nov.2008; Counterpunch
The Israeli border blockade is still in full vigor; This meaning no building materials, no fuel, no medicine, nothing whatsoever!!!
The EuropeanUnion and some Humanitarian Aid Org.'s (like the UN) are for the very first time (!!) refusing to pay for all the damages done by IDF (Israeli Defence Forces) arguing, that Israel should pay for some of their destruction as well! The EU, UN, Red Cross/Half Crest and different NGO's has paid billions of $ for the rebuilding of Gaza and the West Bank, every time Israel has bombed and pulverized the infrastructure, houses, schools, hospitals, food storage etc in Gaza... But Israel refuses to pay a penny, they say, not surprisingly; It's all Hamas' fault (!!!)
