It’s the little things about occupation

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

http://972mag.com/its-the-little-things-about-occupation/90744/

Sometimes the daily, petty nastiness of the occupation is encapsulated in the dismal theft of a few farming tools.

Ryad, who lives near Bethlehem area, has a small orchard with apricot, hazelnut, olive and fig trees. Near the orchard is an ancient agricultural structure, aged some 100 years, which serves Ryad and his family as a tool shed, as well as a resting place in the far too many hot days.

One day, Ryad was asked by his nephew, Khader, to hold a family barbecue by the shed. Ryad agreed. When Khader got there, however, he was shocked to see a few men, whom he would soon identify as Israeli civilians, attempting to damage the structure. Khader shouted at them and moved in their direction, and the three immediately fled.

When Ryad got there, after being summoned by Khader, he found that the Israeli civilians had not limited themselves to their attempt to destroy the structure: they also stole some agricultural tools and silverware that were in it. Why? Just because.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

1. Painfully more...

“To plunder, to butcher, to steal: these they falsely name empire: they make a desolation and they call it peace.” These are piercing words by the Roman historian Tacitus in the mouth of the warlord Calgacus, planning his final battle against the Roman invader. To the insurrection of people fighting for their freedom, we give the misnomer of “disturbances of order”; land stolen from them by the cunning of jurists, is called “public lands”; coated steel bullets, “rubber bullets”; shooting an unarmed man, “the soldiers were acting in accordance with the rules of engagement.”

[WhiteTara]

2. They were well trained

in cruelty.

[King_David]

3. Explanation ?

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

4. The words are pretty clear to anybody that is unbiased, King.