In the end it came down to a single-page letter, written in Hebrew and Arabic and hand-delivered by an Israeli army officer who knocked at the front door. The letter spelt the imminent destruction of the whitewashed three-storey home and small, tree-lined garden that Bassam Suleiman spent so long saving for and then built with his family a decade ago.It was a final demolition order, with instructions to evacuate the house within three days. If Suleiman was in any doubt about the Israeli military's intentions he had only to look outside his back door where large piles of rubble and broken concrete mark the remains of the seven of his neighbours' houses that were demolished in the same way last year.
In the end it came down to a single-page letter, written in Hebrew and Arabic and hand-delivered by an Israeli army officer who knocked at the front door. The letter spelt the imminent destruction of the whitewashed three-storey home and small, tree-lined garden that Bassam Suleiman spent so long saving for and then built with his family a decade ago.
It was a final demolition order, with instructions to evacuate the house within three days.
If Suleiman was in any doubt about the Israeli military's intentions he had only to look outside his back door where large piles of rubble and broken concrete mark the remains of the seven of his neighbours' houses that were demolished in the same way last year.
It doesn't work that way. Each olive tree destroyed, each house knocked down, each child killed, each action that causes anger and frustration in others who are weaker than they, will cost them in the future.
One would think that when a solution is causing more problems than the problem you are trying to solve, that it is time to re-evaluate the situation. This is continuous madness. Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.
Frank Delaney ~ Ireland
"Jerusalem (Reuters). The international community is worried about the crisis in the Middle East. Representatives of all major powers involved expressed fear that an outbreak of peace could be imminent, and could expand to the entire region in the worst case. Both conflict parties were apparently willing to take extreme measures in protecting their interests, and if necessary, to declare peace on each other. Radical organizations on both sides made unmistakably clear that this would endanger their very existence. "As long as we're here, there will be no peace", said a spokesperson for the..." "If you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles." Sun Tzu
