Brand Israel A Terrorist State

(PINA): The current massacring of Palestinian civilians in the refugee camp of Jenin and the cities of the West Bank reminded me of a story my Serb teacher told me in high school more than twenty years ago. She had been a young girl during the Nazi invasion of Yugoslavia and remembers the conduct of the German soldiers as they filed through Belgrade.

She remembers receiving rich German chocolate and cakes from the soldiers. The world may have painted German soldiers as barbaric Visigoths, but to her, they were civilized and did not inflict harm on civilians.

I decided to conduct some research of my own and find any story, any documented factoid of the Israeli army’s treatment of Palestinian children. I came up empty. Instead, I came across a plethora of the most revolting pictures of twisted flesh and once-human carcasses that had been shot, trampled, bulldozed and run over by tanks. Picture after picture of mutilated bodies, smashed skulls, bloodied torsos, missing eyes, and splattered brains.

As a journalist, I am sometimes sent pictures directly from Occupied Palestine. They are horrific and I shudder to try and describe them. I am at a loss for words, frankly. Yesterday, I received a selection of photos of one family that had been bulldozed to death as they tried to hide from the Nazi Israeli onslaught.

One picture was of a young girl – half her head was missing. Another picture showed an elderly man, perhaps a grandfather or uncle – the bottom part of his jaw was ground up flesh. Then the picture of what looked like the mother, her chest deflated, her guts meshed in with her ribs, the look on her face one of horrific silence.