This video made me really angry. Mainly because I had such a difficult time deciding who i sympathized with more. On one hand, Abigail, the mother of Rachel, the Israeli victim of the the suicide bombing at the supermarket, is suffering severely because she cannot understand why her daughter was a victim of a terrorist attack. She feels she daughter died in vain. Mean while she lives in freedom, in a country that is not pleasant due to its violent oppression of the Palestinian people but she still has her rights. The video's perspective leans its sympathy towards Abigail but also sheds light on the true issues that have arisen as a result of Israeli occupation in Palestine.
On the other hand, the family of Ayat is also suffering from the death of their child, but not the same way as Abigail because they truly believe that their daughter died for a cause. They believe that due to the oppression practices like killing, violence, imprisonment and demolition, that their children are raised in a much different world that Abigail's. Ayats family believes that the actions of their daughter should be honored because she was speaking out against a condition that all her people are extremely unhappy with. This is condition that has been effecting the minds of young people in Palestine who grow up under this oppression, where all they know is that they are not free but believe they should be.
I do not agree with what the Israeli's are doing in Palestine, but I do sympathize with Abigail more than the mother of Ayat because Abigail and her family never asked or caused trouble within the political system yet her daughter was killed. Ayat's family never asked to be victims, yet they are and that is unfortunate but I do believe in Abigail's point, that violence wont solve anything and that Ayat deliberately involved herself and Rachels in a violent act against politics. Although what Ayat did is considered honorable amongst the Palestinians it seems to me like what she did made no progress and only resulted in the loss of two young lives. Her actions did not solve the issue, the simply made a statement which many other before and after have made as well with little progress also. Although i dont agree with what the Isrealis are doing in Palestine I do beleive that these suicided bombings and terrorism are causeing even more conflict and making little progress.
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Thanks for commenting on my page Chelsea. I agree with you. You said in your blog that you don’t agree with what’s going on in Palestine and you sympathize more with Abigail than Ayat and I completely agree with that. I think as American's, a country that is looking on from the outside at the situation in Palestine, we find it easier to sympathize more to in the case Abigail. It angers us to hear that Ayat believes that her daughter died with honor and for a justified cause. In my eyes losing anyone like the way Ayat did is not honorable.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Chelsea. Regardless of how you look at it, this is a terrible situation, and Palestine has really lost a tremendous amount due to the circumstance. The fact of the matter is though, no matter how you look at it, people killing people, for whatever reason, is wrong, not matter how terrible the situation is. What is more appalling is that this kind of behavior is actually being defended, and not just by this one particular family but by many thousands of Palestinians. Unfortunately, with this kind of ideology, even if it's only shared by some, there isn't going to be any way for peace to spread throughout the region.
ReplyDeletefor every action, there is reaction. America has a great deal on the conflict between palestine and Israel, people here didn't face the situations that palestinians face everyday, I would die for my country, maybe not blowing myself up, but i would love to die for my country in order to free my nation from the occupitoin that we been suffering for the past 60 years, people in Palestine didn't choice to kill. its weird here, when Israel kills more than 5000 palestinians within the past 2 years, its ok, they have the right to defend themselves, have you asked yourself from what?. using the worst weapons, the unhuman weapons, its fair, when palestinian who sees his nation tiring apart, and he-she decide to do somethin about it, they get to be called terrorist. fair or unfair, it doesnt' matter,, just when you want it to matter....
ReplyDeleteResponding to all three comment above: I do agree with Jen that killing is wrong no matter what the cause. And Louis agrees with me that it is difficult to sympathize with a family who is not grieving the the death of their daughter but rather celebrating her actions as though she did die for her country. Aloosh, I think it is an honorable thing to be willing to die for your country, to sacrifice your life so that your nation who has been suffering could finally be free, that I think is most honorable and would be worth celebrating. In regards to this, I understand the direction that Ayat was heading towards when she decided to kill herself, however was anything accomplished as a result of her suicide bombing? All she did was kill an innocent girl who belonged to the county tho has been oppressing Ayat's nations but had no control over the situation. I know that she did this to make a statement and it was received well by the Palestinian people who think she died a hero, but in the greater picture, I don't see how anything was accomplished. I didn't noticed anything being accomplished throughout the whole video. Even when the two mothers met, their conversation turned political, the argued and nothing was resolved. This is why this video made me angry.
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