Torturous Treatment

August 7, 2002: During an arrest campaign in Beit Lahia (Gaza Strip), Israeli soldiers hand cuffed, blindfolded and half buried this Palestinian man

* Buy a t-shirt to help this man and his family

"In sum, Palestinians must die a slow death so that Israel can have its security, which is just around the corner but cannot be realized because of the special Israeli "insecurity." 

The whole world must sympathize while the cries of Palestinian orphans, sick old women, bereaved communities, and tortured prisoners simply go unheard and unrecorded. 

Doubtless, we will be told, these horrors serve a larger purpose than mere sadistic cruelty.  After all, "the two sides" are engaged in a "cycle of violence" which has to be stopped, sometime, somewhere. 

Once in a while, we ought to pause and declare
indignantly that there is only one side with an army and a country: the other is a stateless dispossessed population of people without rights or any present way of securing them. 

The language of suffering and concrete daily
life has either been hijacked, or it has been so perverted as, in my opinion, to be useless except as pure fiction deployed as a screen for the purpose of more killing and painstaking torture -- slowly, fastidiously, inexorably. 

That is the truth of what Palestinians suffer. But, in any case, Israeli policy will ultimately fail. " - Edward Said

The Palestinian Children's Welfare Fund - www.pcwf.org 

Tshirt made in Jerusalem to help the family of the man that the Israeli soldiers buried in the ground during the month of July 2002 during the Israeli attacks on Palestinian cities. He was left in the heat all day long, buried to his chest, blindfolded and handcuffed in front of hundreds who passed by and looked at him. The Israeli soldiers made fun of him in front of the public and humiliated him. Our objective is to sell the t-shirt and send the profits to his family in Palestine and to show the world the actions of the "only democracy in the Middle East."
 

Please see the following link to order:  http://pcwf.org/embroidimages/tshirt/tshirt.htm