While Israel cries in their soup at loosing out on this concert (that the article states is due to a premature announcement which did not come to fruition), the Palestinians are suffering more and more as each day passes. Occupation, land confiscation, home demolitions, economic starvation, physical starvation as goods are not allowed in, all of this happening while next door, Israel is trying to put on rock concerts.
Where else in the world does a government destroy homes at the rate of Israel? NOWHERE.
And who provides the heavy equipment, the bulldozers used to demolish these homes?
The US through it's sale of Caterpillar equipment to the state of Israel. What would you do if your house was bulldozed in such a fashion? Where would you go to live after you have lost all that you own to a force which acts with total impunity to cleanse you from your land?
The Palestinians are crying, "Gimme Shelter" as they are tossed into the streets while the US is birthing a "New Middle East". This is NOT America's land to "birth", this land and these homes belong to the Palestinians!!!!!
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Today, Monday, May 21, 2007, again the government of Israel again demolished homes of its citizens. This time in the village of Attir, north of the town of Hura. The government demolished four homes. About 40 children were left without a roof over their heads and with harsh memories they will carry their entire lives.
For more information on home demolitions, go to ICAHD
Gimme Shelter
(M. Jagger/K. Richards)
Oh, a storm is threat'ning
My very life today
If I don't get some shelter
Oh yeah, I'm gonna fade away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
Ooh, see the fire is sweepin'
Our very street today
Burns like a red coal carpet
Mad bull lost its way
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
Rape, murder!
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
Rape, murder!
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
Rape, murder!
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
The floods is threat'ning
My very life today
Gimme, gimme shelter
Or I'm gonna fade away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
I tell you love, sister, it's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
Kiss away, kiss away
Too bad you'll be missing out on the Rolling Stones this summer Israel. Spend that time listening to the voices of your "cousins" who cry out to the world for shelter from your aggression.
"Gimme Shelter" (Live FANTASTIC version from Twickenham Stadium, London 2003)
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