The Israeli Side

I’m afraid to write, because I feel like I’m suppose to represent “my people”. But I can’t. I read Areej’s letter about the prisoner who was killed in the Israeli prison, and my first reaction was to want to show MY side. Prove semantics and how I can write the whole story with such a different interpretation. But I’m tired of this. I hate wanting to contradict, when sometimes things are just wrong. Just shouldn’t have happened.
I’m afraid to write, because I feel like I’m suppose to represent “my people”. But I can’t. I read Areej’s letter about the prisoner who was killed in the Israeli prison, and my first reaction was to want to show MY side. Prove semantics and how I can write the whole story with such a different interpretation. But I’m tired of this. I hate wanting to contradict, when sometimes things are just wrong. Just shouldn’t have happened.

This whole situation that we’re living in is so messed up. I don’t even know whose side I’m on, and if anyone even deserves to be “Right”.

Killing is wrong, and I don’t care how we call it – defense, army, liberation, terror, shaheeds, occupation, despair or any other name. Its just wrong. And I can’t keep reading both sides justifying it by calling it differently.

I guess I’m waiting for someone to realize that until we stop using killing methods, on both sides, this whole twisted reality will never change. Or maybe just get worse.

So, for now I’m writing my “Israeli side” that’s just sad because people keep dying and I don’t know how it can be stopped.

Janelle

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