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Lines, Borders and Human Rights
Posted by Pepper in Irrationality, Religion, WTF on November 7, 2009
Natural Growth.
Well, what is natural growth? If you ask me however- I’d say it’s the way a child grows, or plants do… or kittens…It’s the way your life grows…. you grow- from child to teenager, teenager to adult, young to old. It’s the way your hair grows, thins and greys.
It’s also the way cities grow… the way they get more crowded, the way there are more roads, more cars, more sound… less trees. It’s the way they grow upwards, houses keep getting smaller and playgrounds less in number. It’s the way we are a little closer to the skies to make room for all of us.
Yes, that is natural growth; not what happens in West Bank, Gaza. Because only in West Bank, there exists a ‘unique’ phenomenon of uprooting the local Palestinians off the area because the ‘ever-growing Israeli population would need more room’ as a consequence of their ‘natural growth’.
Can you imagine India making room into Pakistan, Bangladesh making room into India, Iran into Afghanistan, or France into Germany, Spain into France, Italy into Austria… it does not work this way. This is not how it’s done, this is simply not fair.
You don’t grow naturally into another’s place, and much less in a place that’s not yours in any sense but religious. You believe that’s your place because some holy book says so…. you don’t move natural inhabitants off a land because the land you’ve taken from them needs to expand…. if anything, this is a blatant violation of human rights; don’t let any ‘holy’ book tell you anything different.
The donkey in convict’s suit
In a zoo in Gaza, two donkeys were given a dye job… ummm… to make them look like zebras. Well, look here for details, if you’d need some kind of proof.
Believe me now? You just can’t make this stuff up, can you?
What may be the reason for all this… err… fuss, you ask?
They wanted to show their children how a zebra looks like. You cannot get the animal in Asia, which is found mostly, if not only, in Africa. On top of that, they are expensive and Gaza’s Palestinians are impoverished. A genuine zebra would have been too expensive to bring into the Israel-blockaded Gaza via smuggling tunnels under the border with Egypt.
Rather sad, if you look at it this way, but- if you ask me- it STILL does not make it right.
Poverty is cruel and sad…. but I would still prefer you to not take the path of deceit. I understand that for the children, it was fun of sort sorts, but playing with their trust, saying that it was a zebra they were looking at while it was actually a donkey, is something I just could not justify…. maybe it’s just me.
And also did you think what those zebras went through being taped all over in masking tapes and dyed with a paint brush using women’s hair colour?
I think that there are some things that should be left to only the willing humans. Please spare the animals, will you?
What do you think?
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