This piece was written by The Alternative Information Center (AIC) staff and published on Wednesday, November 7, 2007.
It is short and sweet. The photo tells all about what is happening in the occupied territories…the poverty, suffering, and frequent deaths that occur at the hands of the Israeli Defense Forces and government. As killing Palestinian children seems to have been a common occurrence in the past (see Ehud Olmert’s Profound Ethics and Deep Lies, by Rami Khouri, the editor of the Lebanon Daily Star), one can only hope that the kids in this picture are still alive.
Trapped by the Separation Wall, many people from the Hebron area are forced to make a living by digging for metal in the Yatta dump yard.
The Garbage Cage describes the life of these people, many children among them, who in spite of their so called low position hold tight to their dreams and hopes, their childhood games and small fights, their laughter and pain, their struggle. Their humanity.
If you just treat them (the Palestinians) badly, they will leave on their own. That’s what Moyshe Dayan, Israel’s military hero, said some decades ago, but it is not working.
The AIC, by the way, is a website hosted through a joint Palestinian and Israeli effort. Its stated mission is to function as “an internationally oriented, progressive, joint Palestinian-Israeli activist organization. It is engaged in dissemination of information, political advocacy, grassroots activism and critical analysis of the Palestinian and Israeli societies as well as the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
The AIC strives to promote full individual and collective social, economic, political and gender equality, freedom and democracy and a rejection of the philosophy (ideology and praxis) (weltanschauung) of separation.”
In short, the AIC is a liberal human rights organization by American standards. You will never get the feel of the full brutality of Israel’s military occupation of the West Bank and siege of Gaza until you surf sites such as this one.
