Let the rain come down

I was on the bus heading into work today. Every person that had the Metro paper was reading the front page, as though all at the same time. A picture with a Canadian girl in Beirut, wearing a black top, hands on her head. This was penned on the ride in. At first I wasn’t going to post it, but I thought about it, and came around.

The rain of leaflets start to fall. The old Reservists heed the call.
Call to arms, a call to fight. So shows the strength of Israeli might.
A fragile army Beirutis know. A questioned Resistance, friend or foe?
Stranded persons who see the fight. A gruesome sight this hopeless plight.

A resealed hole, a stiched up wound. The realization of imperative doom.
Unbalanced death, old and new. Fifteen Gazans to a Jew.
To nurse a hurt is to salt a cut.
And one world with eyes, but sight sealed shut.

While the world gears its head toward Lebanon, Israeli soldiers have entered Nablus in the Westbank, bulldozing the PA headquarters. The interior ministry, the police headquarters, and Palestinian homes have been demolished. People are without food, without water, and now with the detention of foreign activists, without a voice. The army said the incursion was performed to flush out wanted fighters connected to Hezballah. There army in Lebanon says that the Hezballah are connected to Syria and Iran. Truth is, with Israel displacing so many people from so many areas in the Middle East, it’s become increasingly more difficult for them to invade a country that doesn’t have inhabitants of another.

I read an article in the Metro paper, the headline was about Hezballah rockets killing two children in Israel. After I read the article, I noticed that it only mentioned one sentence regarding the two children. The rest of the article was about Israel’s unjust killing of Lebanese civilians. It’s weird how they have the moral fibers in them to write the truth (because they have to) but will mislead the reader with a contorted headline. The average person just glancing over the page would’ve seen an anti-Hezballah theme; someone reading the news would’ve taken away something completely different. But that’s the way the cookie crumbles here, and this cookie has a real bad aftertaste.