Children of Gaza, Run to the Angels

[balantz]

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/10-3

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Caged, starved, sniped, suffocated. They are slaughtered like sheep, but the leaders of the free world just cannot seem to find a moment to comment. Golfing, vacationing, Obama, Bush, even the EU, they just aren't important enough. My mutterings have become a like a canter. I call out to these stricken and shattered little bodies, who frankly never experienced life to lose it. The only consolation to offer is the respite found in death.

A crowd gathers, shrouded in gas, smoke and dust. In the front stand eight young fathers, each holding a white swaddled bundle of what used to be a son, a daughter. For a few moments there is no screaming, no chanting or crying, but a moment of quiet and stillness that presses one to wonder just whom has been granted the greater mercy, the toddler who caught the snipers bullet, or the young father, who will have to find some way to live beyond this moment?

A young boy sits on the sidewalk beside his mother. She is propped up against the wall of a collapsed building and her life is bleeding out all over the sidewalk. It is spattered on his face and smeared on his shirt. She uses the last of her strength to lift her arm and clutch his cheek in her palm and then she is gone. He rests his head in his hands and cries. He is all alone.

The camera zooms in on the scene of a freshly detonated building, a civilian home. A little girls brown curly hair covered in dust and eyes wide open is all that can be found of her. Her mother wails and pulls her hair while her father frantically searches among the rubble for the rest of his daughter, where could she be? I whisper again, "you will be made whole again in Paradise. Run to the angels".

What amazing faith. What strong devotion that a father loses his mother, father, wife and eight children, that this man before anything can assert, "God is Great, Thank God for Everything". He holds his child, now still and ashen, he smothers him with kisses and then gently pulls back the sheet to expose two bullet holes in his chest. He then tenderly places the child beside his brother and again, pulls the sheet back of his youngest son to reveal a single snipers bullet to the chest. He can barely compose himself and he moans to the sympathizing camera man, "God is Great, Thank God for Everything".

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[AwakeAtLast]

1. 10 recs without a reply - I'll start

Thanks for posting this - there will be more coming out in the days ahead. Truly heartbreaking.

[BunkerHill24]

3. I am one of those who rec'd but didn't comment

I thought the article speaks for itself. Its hard to comment when you can't think of anything to say, or how to put it into right words. :cry:

[AwakeAtLast]

5. Well, truth be told, that happens to me sometimes, too

but at least we're keeping it kicked!

[The Doctor.]

6. There are no words....

just an indescribable rage.

[The Doctor.]

2. ....

There are not words for what can 'rage' and 'despair' come close to saying for what pain has been caused.

[balantz]

4. Thanks all for keeping this kicked. n/t

[balantz]

7. This suffering and misery is a horror that many of us are sheltered from.

In our daily lives and also by the censorship of the MSM.

[Mnemosyne]

8. We are witnesses. No words.

:cry:

[Th1onein]

9. Oh my God.

How dare we let this continue without doing something to stop it? How can we look ourselves in the mirror if we don't do SOMETHING?

[Judi Lynn]

10. "Run to the angels." Unbearable. Thank you, balantz. n/t

[MasonJar]

11. This article needs to land squarely on Obama's desk. He has not

stepped up. It should also land on the desk of every senator and every representative. Can anyone here easily access these websites? If so, please send this, in bold print if powssible. I am disgusted with the USA once again for siding with inhumanity.

[Judi Lynn]

12. It may be useful to examine page of photos posted by bstender, in laststeamtrain's thread,

"Gareth Porter: Israel Rejected Hamas Ceasefire Offer in December.'"

Please check post #2:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x415402

I thought of this article posted by balantz the moment I saw the images.

[Ripley]

13. K/R for Poignancy and OUTRAGE

at the politicians who don't have time to think about this. America is led by the soulless.

[balantz]

14. A kick for all the innocent babies everywhere who's lives are destroyed by the evil of greed n/t

[BunkerHill24]

15. ................

:kick:

[Judi Lynn]

16. Kick.

:kick:

[waiting for hope]

17. Kicking you but too late to rec -

This is all too sad and also an outrage. There are no words to really describe the lack of compassion.