don quixote's travels

a travelogue in the time of the information superhighway

1994

My story starts in drizzly, dreary, grey England. I worked as a nurse in a specialist cancer hospital in Manchester. One day, I suddenly entered her world, there she was. At once beautiful, but decaying visibly. Eyes that melt you, fumbled for reasons. High on morphine, she slumped on the chair. Her legs, previously long and graceful, were now fat and full of fluid. She was loosing her hair, something that upset her most. We all witnessed her struggling with the remains of her dignity and modesty, but she carried on fighting. Her mother applied facial cream like a corner man at ringside, her father just looked lost. She was a twenty seven year old woman, right before us, dying in her prime. She seemed to hold up a mirror to the thoughts sailing across my mind, a metaphor for what we've all become and what will become of us. So much potential, so much waste. It is at moments like this that we can take the looking glass to our own fragile existence, and ask questions of it. Cancer had infiltrated her womb, the very giver of life. I became aware of a feeling that her death had released something else, a thirst for living itself. She haunted me. Four months later, I set out on an adventure to view the world that she would no longer see.

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Tuesday 29 July 2014

GAZA - CAUTION ANTI-ZIONISTS! DIRECT ANGER AT ISRAEL NOT JEWS OR JUDAISM


http://www.truetorahjews.org/issues/paris

Anti-semitism is raising it's ugly head in Europe,again, Jewish areas and business's are being attacked for the actions of Israel and Gaza is fuelling it and being used to justify it. Anti-Zionists and anti-racists/fascists have a responsibility to distinguish between Jewish people, Judaism and Zionists (who desire a peaceful 2 state solution with justice for the Palestinians) AND the Neo-Zionist Rightist ultra-nationalistic apartheid Israel which is currently brutalising Gaza (and it's own people) through indoctrination in Israeli schools and in the media, using racist colonial language and imagery to demonise Arabs and Muslims.

So accepting people are angry at the deliberate bombing of schools and hospitals by Israel, the lies their polished propaganda machine uses to justify it and the complicity of US/UK in supporting this slaughter, anti-Jewish sentiment and actions are racist and wrong, always. The government and military of Israel and her backers are responsible, as well as the 80% of the Israeli public opinion who cheerlead the IDF in its terror. So many Israeli Jews are opposing the war on the Palestinian people, refuseniks are increasing and outside Israel, enormous numbers of the diaspora are opposed to the occupation,however, many will keep their heads down fearing the anti-Semitic backlash.

So, challenge the racists wherever they raise their heads, in the ranks of the anti-Israel protests as well as amongst the Neo-Zionists in and outside Israel.
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