| In Nazi Germany, they used bulldozers to clear the corpses of the dead inmates in the concentration camps of Belsen and Buchenwald. In Israel, they use bulldozers in Palestinian camps to kill the living. |
| No one with a heart beating at the same rhythm as that of the rest of humanity cannot but be horrified at the cold-blooded genocide committed by the Israeli army when on 16 March 2003, a workday Sunday morning, a young 23 year old American student - Rachel Corrie – was deliberately run over by an Israeli army bulldozer while she stood on a mound of earth in an attempt to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian physician’s house in the Gaza strip. The Israeli authorities later justified the act, maintaining that ‘the home was being destroyed in an effort to block arms smuggling’, and then exonerated the driver. In an age when the Arabs are accused of stockpiling weapons of mass destruction, a single Israeli bulldozer has been used as a weapon of individual destruction. [EXTRACT] |
Published in DAWN 22 Sept. 2003, and reprinted in WHEN BUSH COMES TO SHOVE & OTHER WRITINGS (2006). |
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