Time to See

JENIN REFUGEE CAMP 

By Housewife4Palestine


When a parent abuses a child, too often they will tell that same child even before the tears and pain is wiped from their face, “What ever you do, do not tell anyone that I punish you like this, or it will become worse for you.”

So the child lives in silence with their torture. In time the child may not know the difference of what this parent is doing is right or wrong. After all, most children believe that a parent is suppose to love them and maybe when they say you are bad you begin to think maybe you are. And that this treatment is normal.

But yet, when you look at other families and homes you began to understand that what is happening to you is no good. In time, you rebel; to save your own life.

One thing torture can do especially when that parent really wants you dead is to make yourself stronger and refuse to die. When mental abuse is present, one often does things to protect even their mind from making them crazy.

But the major problem is not the abuse always, but the silence. Because silence, can hide many things. Like the heinous situation among the Palestine people for many it has been hidden in the West. Like that same parent not wanting the child to tell, because truth can bring repercussions to the abuser.

At one time for many in the West, to find information of what is really going on to the Palestinian people was in a way held in mystery. What one usually hears in the American media is how bad the Israel’s are beaten and bombed, not such massacres like what happened in Jenin, Sabria and Shatilla for example.

Until the invention of the computer into mass production, to learn the truth about this part of the world was extremely hard research for some and often times it took years to gain the understanding through this clouded mystery of a forgotten people. But I am yet reminded, of the rare film makers that produce documentary after documentary to show the real crimes, and wonder again why no one listens.

Even with this knowledge gained by some, we then acquire a bigger problem, why doesn’t anyone really step forward and put a stop to the real terrorist attacks done to what actually is an innocent people. Their major crime is they where born countless generations in what is known as the Holy Land and their great struggle to survive abuse far better then the worse parent. And all they wish is a homeland built with real peace.


Jenin a Documentary (2002) 

"Now have come to you, from your Lord, proofs (to open your eyes): if any will see, it will be for (the good of) his own soul; if any will be blind, it will be to his own (harm): I am not (here) to watch over your doings."
( سورة الأنعام , Al-Anaam, 6:104)
قَدْ جَاءكُم بَصَآئِرُ مِن رَّبِّكُمْ فَمَنْ أَبْصَرَ فَلِنَفْسِهِ وَمَنْ عَمِيَ فَعَلَيْهَا وَمَا أَنَاْ عَلَيْكُم بِحَفِيظٍ