Bea · @HerNameIs_Bea
19th Oct 2014 from TwitLonger
Inas Shawkat 5 #Palestine was murdered Today by #Israel. Humanize her memory:
Why are people not screaming & shouting higher about the abuses committed daily against people who are not even treated as if they are people? Only what happened to ONE palestinian little Girl, Inas Shawkat 5, who was run over and killed by a settler 19/10, should be enough to cause a huge wave of protests. Should be enough to awaken a huge amount of humans who all demand an immediate change. Demand all the obvious and basic Human rights. Demand what they would have demanded if it was their own children who were kidnapped, tortured and even killed. But maybe that’s the core. People who are not recognized as human beings do not touch your soul. They will not leave you sleepless at night, and they demand no changes. As hollow, almost invisible shadows, we do not see them sharp enough and do not hear them clear enough to follow and act on their righteousness appeal for justice. Their deaths are totally unconcerned to us because we have never even counted them as really alive.
Palestinians are not described as people. They are portrayed as terrorists, backward people or nothing at all. Discrimination, lack of freedom, walls, checkpoints, differential system of laws, different ID-systems, threats, harassment, torture and even murder can then be accepted without any second thoughts, because the injustice does not touch Your soul. Maybe it does not even touch the surface of it.
Either we continue to be silent and accept this situation, or we can challenge the status quo and demand a change. It requires that we fully take in the scene from outside of Ramallah. The woman packing her daughters Hello Kitty school bag and hours later sitting in the emergency waiting room, The dusty road and the car close to two small girls. Stop. It should STOP. Loud Noise, Screaming and then Silence. Blood covering dusty stones. The little girl in the midst of the dust. Curly brown hair against grey, dusty and dirty cement. The sharp, life changing, silent pain that paralyzes us. That Brings us to the floor because the pain is stronger than our legs. Stronger than anything we ever have felt.
Because only when we can feel shame, despair, fear and the full extent of injustice and sorrow for EVERY humiliated, injured and killed man, woman & child even if he/she is Palestinian, it's a really beautiful day again!
Rest In Power Inas Shawkat. You were more Human than Most of us.