Maysaloon - ميسلون

A man finally has an internet connection in Gaza and manages to speak with their friend in Egypt on webcam. The friend is shocked, he is almost half the size he was before the seige began. Our TV world does not cover this, it does not condone outrage and fury in this direction. The rebels without a clue in the West are too busy buying rubber bracelets for Darfur and Tibet, boycotting Chinese bras and wondering why the Africans don't want to fix their own countries. Meanwhile, Gaza is being systematically starved and the world looks on with indifference.

I would not go and live and work in Israel - it occupies Palestine. If you ask any Arab or Muslim this they would, usually, unthinkingly tell you that this is a truism not worth mentioning. But the fact is that these same people see no contradiction with living, working and paying taxes in the United States and Britain. These two countries, and others, are occupying Iraq. They support Israel, they blatantly condoned the destruction of Lebanon. They are actively aiming for the partitioning of Sudan, the occupation of Somalia by Ethiopian troops, the clashes in Yemen. They have military bases in the Arab gulfs, which are now their vassals and protectorates. They threaten Syria with sanctions, they have a half English king in Jordan, they support Mubarak as a moderate, they use the Arab Maghreb as a basket for cheap groceries, cheaper prostitutes and hashish. In Syria and elsewhere, Iraqi women are selling themselves to survive, directly as a result of the occupation. An entire generation is missing it's education, provided that is, it survives. It depends on whether you consider almost 1 million dead a generation or not. The fact is, each and every one of us living here supports the occupation. We are supporting neo-colonialism, Israel and the destruction of Iraq. I am sick of blogging, sick of "analysing", sick of the decadence and promiscuity. What the hell am I doing here???

I want out.