http://www.couscousglobal.com/id/2530 2009-01-14T16:34:07+01:00 About Music for Gaza <p>I do not know.<br/> I always get a strange feeling being at a fundraising party.<br/> I think Merlijn is a hero, and Paradiso is great,<br/> this project is fantastic<br/> and the war is awful<br/> and yes I am angry too.</p> <p>But everyone in the building with the same opinion is to much for me.<br/> I miss the other<br/> the other opinion, the other side, the beloved enemy<br/> my best opponent...<br/> Hamas is using human shields: now that is a crime against humanity as well.</p> <p>I only had Mint tea<br/> but soon the strangest thoughts came in my mind:<br/> Israel-Palestin is basicly a Catholic problem,<br/> in terms of the guilt syndrome Europe has.<br/> And we should have made Israel in Germany<br/> as a punishment.Half of Germany should have become Israel...<br/> that would have been better<br/> and what happened actually with the promised lands,<br/> the birthright of the Native Americans<br/> and the Aboriginals?<br/> And isn;t this a competition in attitudes about life and death?<br/> who wins, the ones who protect life with all means possible<br/> or the ones who challenge death with all means possible?</p> <p>When I am surfing Gaza on the Internet<br/> I think:</p> <p>Enough with the world attention for Gaza<br/> lets focus on other things <br/> they are hijacking the worlds attention for so long<br/> victims for so long<br/> both parties<br/> We just have to move on....<br/> get a life.</p> <p>I know<br/> they want a life as well<br/> and it is not possible<br/> jobs instead of guns.<br/> and ambitions for life<br/> instead of rituals for deaths.</p> <p>may peace be upon you.<br/> what can you do?<br/> well CD's for Gaza is something<br/> at least.<br/> But what can we send their enemy<br/> what can we send the young people in Israel?</p> - ARTICLE text