This is me, writing on a bad day.
I wonder if we should be searching for ways to alert future Life Forms
on this planet, that violent domination only leads to extinction.
Humans have not learned this basic lesson despite recording the
results for thousands of years. But maybe Non Human Life Forms can
learn from our failed attempts to rise above our animal nature. Even
as some people around the globe struggle to find ways of ending
violence and cruelty, we are doomed. We are doomed because the
marbles are all held by the Violent Ones. They have the means to
poison the minds of young men and women, to lead them into behaving in
violent ways. Indeed, it is amazing that so much good has happened in
this world gone mad. In my wanderings through Science Fiction
stories, there was always a small number of people who managed to save
themselves from the holocaust that brought an end to the world as we
know it, and begin a new enlightened world. But with our current
methods of destruction, it is doubtful that anyone could survive.
Still, since our choices are to stay the course or to embrace the
coming Failure, I will keep on keeping on.
Carl Jarvis
On 6/17/17, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I decided to post some of the material about what Israelis do to
Palestinians on a daily basis to try to communicate what the actual
situation in Israel is. This incident occurred at a weekly protest march
held at a displaced Palestinian village by its residents and its
supporters.
Be aware that young Palestinian boys throw stones at the occupying force as
a symbolic protest. I mention this because it is briefly mentioned in this
report and people need to understand what stone throwing is actually all
about.
Miriam
Mondoweiss
Israeli soldiers held gun to Palestinian teen's head, made him say
'Mohammed
is a pig'
Kate on June 16, 2017 1 Comments
Baraa Kanan, 19, detained and abused by Israeli forces, according to a
testimony he provided to the Israeli human rights group, B'Tselem. (Photo:
B'Tselem).
Violence / Detentions - West Bank / Jerusalem / Israel
B'Tselem: Israeli forces abuse Palestinian, force him to say 'Muhammad is a
pig'
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) 13 June - Israeli forces abused and humiliated a
19-year-old Palestinian for hours when he was detained last month during a
march in the village of Nabi Saleh in the occupied West Bank district of
Ramallah, while the youth reported that he had feared for his life and was
severely degraded by Israeli forces, according to a report released by
Israeli rights group B'Tselem on Monday. Israeli forces detained Baraa
Kanan, from the village of Beit Rima, at the same march Israeli forces shot
and killed 22-year-old Saba Abu Ubeid and injured at least two others.
Kanan
was riding in an ambulance with a relative and fellow demonstrator who had
been struck in the head with a stone thrown by another protester during the
march when the ambulance was stopped by at least 10 Israeli soldiers .
"While they led me along, they swore at me and called my mother names,"
Kanan recalled to B'Tselem. "One of them tightened the blindfold on my eyes
and ordered me to say, 'I'm friends with the soldiers'. I repeated what he
said. Whenever I stopped, he ordered me again to say, 'I'm friends with the
soldiers.'" "They knocked me down and then picked me up. They beat me and
swore at me," Kanan continued. "They didn't let up. I was terrified that
they were taking me to some lonely spot so that they could murder me and no
one would find me." Kanan added that soldiers finally stopped, at which
point one said to Kanan "You're a big-time terrorist. I'm going to shoot
you." Kanan said that he heard the soldier load his gun and felt the gun be
placed on his head. "I was sure he was going to kill me," he said. Kanan
said that the soldiers then beat him again, and "covered his legs with
earth
and then removed it." According to B'Tselem, he was also transferred to a
tent and made to sit on the floor. The soldiers' removed his blindfold and
"forced him to say 'Muhammad is pig' and 'Muhammad is a dog', and snipped
off bits of his hair with scissors." After the soldiers finally returned
his
identity card and removed his plastic cuffs, they left Kanan in an area
unknown to the youth, after Kanan had told the soldiers he did not know how
to get back to Nabi Saleh..
