After watching this video, my point of view of life changed. Most importantly my understanding of the conflicts in Palestinian-Israeli people. It is very difficult to take sides or to sympathize with either side. Both sides of the conflict, Israelis and Palestinians, have their reasons to fight. And right to protect their space and territory. It is ashamed that it has to be that way, killing each other.
But most difficult is to be the mother of the 17 yr. old victim Abigail Levy. Just to know that she was randomly selected by a suicidal person to make up a point on their Jihad, means to me to appreciate much more who we have around and the kind of living and freedom we have in America.
The Palestinian bomber's mother did not have an idea of her daughter's whereabouts. That fact could tell us as outsiders and analysts of the information that parents do not have an idea of what their kids are doing or thinking, what the plans are and what groups they are involved in. the kind of friends and all those questions that come up with a mother's testimonial like the one of the suicidal girl mother.
Again is it is obvious how the news and in this case video takes sides, why is it that news and media make such effort to take sides on the stories they present. Israeli girl Rachel Levy is portrayed as sweet, not daring to hurt anyone, while Ayat Al-Akhras is a martyr on her school, pictures of her with guns and being excused and justified for her actions and deviation from school. It is just projected bye the media as a crazy non sense behavior that is impossible to understand, but easy to reprimand. By this comment i meant that they focus only on the bombing attack but they do not see it as a reaction for an previous action from the other party. I just can think that the reason would be that Israeli and therefore Jewish community is dominant around the world and they are represented in more countries than Palestinians.
Israeli population is much more large and its members are holding positions in society of power and status. Most of the Israeli people I happen to know are holders of PhD's, Masters Degrees, Doctors, Lawyers or somehow they have influence and power in society while Palestinians are barely making it out day by day. To better explain my point is to point the huge Menorah that was placed in NYC commemorating the Hanukkah, or how some regular calendar shows a remainder of Jewish holidays and celebrations.
Changing the perspective a little and going back to the suicidal girl, her family seems to justify her actions by enforcing and promising to kill more people, and that lack of courage of others had push her to blow herself up. But how and what the point of killing people is? What is the purpose of having this kind of madness and ideology around? Maybe Palestinians think that murder is the only option to solve this problem. That radical answer is the only option they have. But as the movie goes along it is understandable that their "resistance" is demonstrated in art, word, or by violence in some cases.
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