wow. This story has been bothering me ever since I first heard about it. No political outrage. No global media blitz. An all-American blonde-hair-blue-eyed pretty college girl from Olympia is mowed down by a bulldozer for acting as a human shield defending the home of a doctor.
In Palestine.
Crazy how that changes things, huh?
Still, you’d think that the world would have officially cried out in rage over this. No one kills an American, especially a 19 year old college girl who obviously upheld the American ideals of Freedom & Human Rights.
But it’s American foreign policy to support Israel in Palestine, tacitly if not overtly. So we hear a deafening silence over this incident. Regardless of how you feel about Palestine, Israel, or America, how does that make you feel? That you can march forth upholding the ideals you’ve been raised with, the ideals that are pounded into your head from day one by the nation you love, and yet when you look for a little back-up…
And yet how often do you hear the adamant assertions of the government, “We take care of our own”?
That’s what gets me about this article.
Once again it’s a question of policy before people. I don’t like it. I don’t see how anyone could.