Can Israel do no wrong?

I invite you to read a rather horrendous account of what life is like for Palestinian inhabitants of the city of Hebron on the Israeli-occupied West Bank. This is a diary written by two American women who visited that place with a group of political activists. Here is an excerpt of what they saw:

"The souks, Old City markets, have wire screens or makeshift netting overhead: insufficient protection for attacks from [Israeli] settlers living on the floors above. The wire screens are heavy with trash, bricks, giant concrete chunks, and exploded plastic bags that contained human waste when they burst onto the people and racks of goods below. Hisham told us one young man was in a coma after a sharpened metal rod came through the screen and penetrated his skull. Now, when one looks up, one can see piles of objects that got caught in the screen: crowbars, bricks, stones, chairs. While walking through a market, we saw a settler woman throw sand from her third story apartment down at a crowded market where Palestinians were shopping. It fell on a Palestinian woman's head, as well as on one of our delegation members, Eddie, who because of being Mexican-American has often been perceived to be Arab on this trip. [...]

Solidarity activists escort [Palestinian] children to school to protect them against stone-throwing [Israeli] settlers, and walk with herders to their grazing lands. Settler children throw stones at Palestinian children on their way to school -- children under 14 cannot be held responsible, Mikhael told us, so they are careful about who throws the stones. One school finally had to change its hours and days so that the children would not be walking to school when settler children were home to attack them -- they're the only Palestinian school not open on Saturdays, and the kids have no recess so they can leave early enough to get home safely. "

Read the whole account here.

It is really unfathomable how the very people who endured such atrocities towards themselves just for their ethnicity, can horribly mistreat other people based on their religious/ethnic identity. Why we choose to look the other way is beyond comprehension. This is racism, pure and simple. I am glad to see that there are Israelis who speak up against it. It is too bad that our propaganda machine we call news media would not report true stories like this one so that the people of this country could make a balanced opinion on what is really taking place in Israel.