I share with you the same thoughts and I understand if you feel shame and angry.

If you did once this time I felt this all the time and through all the years.

I grew up in this shame and anger…I grew up when thousands of people been killed in Palestine…I grew up when thousands of people turned homeless…I grew up when thousands of innocent children born in wars and been killed…… and I grew up when I start to see the faces of innocent children looking for a home to hide, searching for a place to be safe, for a mother and father to protect them, searching for water to drink or food eat, for a hospital to take care of them or medication to treat them, or to go to school to study….nothing is there?!! The truth they grow up in empty streets, destroyed houses, they grew up with no parents no brothers no sisters no relatives no water no food no schools no hospitals…… and they grew up in a place where they are not even allowed to scream for HELP JUST TO LIVE AND NOT TO BE A TERRORIST !!

As a person whom belongs to the Arab community we felt ashamed through the years, since the law becomes a law of one state! This is the State of Israel. What you called the deliberate cruelty of the Israeli state to Gaza and other places doesn’t not surprise me anymore because simply it is becoming something ordinary for the majority of people in the world….and this is big ugly truth.

What surprises me the most are when the state of Israel – which was a state in itself by breaking the international laws and stealing land from the native people whom now called terrorists- claimed that unarmed people are “terrorists” and when politicians say “I am shocked” of what has happened in Gaza (or I mean in the international water) without expressing any act of condemnation towards the State of Isreal… and this is another ugly reality.

we have grown to know what is right and what is wrong.

Malika