The Earth is Closing In on Us (read this - it is special)

[TomInTib]

The Earth is Closing in on Us

The shells keep falling. They’ve gotten inside my head, so that its not just my house shaking but but my brain throbbing. It’s like someone is banging a gong next to my ear every few minutes; sometimes 5 times a minute, like last night. And just when I savor a few moments of silence, it starts again as if to say “you're not going to get away that easily.”

We went to sleep to the rattling of our windows and invasive pounding and after-echo of the shells. We sleep as they fall. We pray fajir, and they fall again. We wake, and they are still falling. When they are closer, when they fall in Shija'iya east of Gaza City, they make my stomach drop. And I want to hide, but I don't know where.

The Earth is Closing in on Us.

That's the thing about occupation-it invades even your most private of spaces. And while the shells were falling inside my head, they also killed little Hadil Ghabin today.

more from this wonderful, poignant write:
http://a-mother-from-gaza.blogspot.com/2006/04/earth-is-closing-in-on-us.html

[Selatius]

1. One day, the US will be made to pay an awful price for supporting...

Israel's occupation of somebody else's home. It's US warplanes and tanks Israel uses. It is a bad foreign policy that puts people in US in danger. There will never be peace if things do not change.

[Tom Joad]

2. Thanks for posting this.

We must be willing to listen to victims of US/Israel policy in Palestine.

[Lithos]

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