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I wish for justice.



On a related front:

So. Here's the thing I don't understand why nobody's talking about, not even, so far as I can tell, The Nation:

So they pulled all the illegal Israeli settlers out of Gaza, and then they blockaded the roads in and out, not letting Palestinians carry on normal business or trade. They lobbed missiles into Gaza from the moment the pullout was effected, something that nobody but me seems to remember. Gaza has been under seige all along. Israel has also demanded, and gotten, and international embargo on basic aid to this bit of land where self-sufficiency has never been allowed to grow, where every attempt to have normal relations with the world has been rigorously squashed. Okay. I understand that people want to maintain a fiction that the conflict is symmetrical, that Israel, a fairly wealthy nation with a sophisticated army and nuclear weapons and ongoing subsidies from the US, is equally under threat from the Palestinians. I don't understand why but I do understand that it is the case.

But why is the state of seige being ignored? Why is the fact that the Palestinians have been locked up without the ability to ship out their produce, or trade, or get their ill and injured to hospital, -- not to mention simply visiting their own relatives, which I understand is a luxury and a resistant occupied population has no actual right to it -- why is this completely out of the minds of the world?

flash fiction thingy at Nature magazine

Where did I see the details of the flash fiction thingies at Nature? I have an idea that I think belongs there and I want to check if it does. If it doesn't, I still want to do it, but I'll find another home for it, maybe.