Democracy Now: Palestinian Astrophysicist in US Recounts How His 11-Year-Old Son Died...

[shireen]

This is utterly heart-breaking.

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/1/16/palestinian_father_in_us_recounts_how

Palestinian Astrophysicist in US Recounts How His 11-Year-Old Son Died When Israeli Warplanes Bombed His Family’s House

As the Palestinian death toll in Israel’s assault on Gaza climbs above 1,100, we take a look behind the statistics. Suleiman Baraka is a Palestinian astrophysicist working at Virgnia Tech with NASA. His eleven-year-old son Ibrahim was killed in an Israeli air strike on his house. His wife and three other children are now homeless in Gaza, along with seventeen members of his family. In his first broadcast interview in the US, Suleiman Baraka tells his story. We also speak with Suleiman’s brother, Sayed, who arrived at the house seconds after it was bombed.

Please watch the video interview, if you can. It's very moving, so profoundly sad.

[EFerrari]

1. Baraka was in the process of arranging for his son to come to the States.

This morning, he looked like someone was killing him on the inside.

[shireen]

2. i cannot imagine that kind of pain

and sense of helplessness from so far away.

[azurnoir]

3. The story is tragic and sad one sentance struck me

if you ask any Palestinian children, a child, “If you look at the sky, what you see?” he will say, “I will see Apache and F-16 jet fighters.”

what of the future? What happens when these kids grow up?

[EFerrari]

4. Well, I doubt this man will be back to teach children to look up and see stars

instead of Apache helicopters.

Another generation radicalized and for nothing except short term political gain while the world sat on its ass and watched.