.Imagine.

Imagine your nearest airport being bombed. Imagine bridges and roads around you being destroyed. Imagine power plants, electricity, hospitals, government buildings being destroyed and sewers that stop functioning. Imagine no water coming from the tap. Imagine no food or medicine or outside humanitarian help being allowed into your country. Imagine a rain of bombs falling over houses, churches and stores so that ten, twenty, fifty civilians are killed every day.

Imagine an army kidnapping half of your government and taking them out of the country. Imagine the same army every night firing sound bombs above your roof so your windows are blown open, nobody can sleep and your kids getting stomach pains from pure stress. Imagine having to pass through military checkpoints every day to get to your job. Imagine being refused to travel outside your country. Imagine a concrete wall, eight meters high, being built around and inside your city. Imagine waking up in the middle of the night and being told that you have five minutes to leave your house because it's going to be demolished by the army's bulldozers. Imagine international sanctions because you voted for the "wrong" political party.

This is what everyday life looks like in Lebanon and Palestine right now. This is just some of the ways that the Palestinian and Lebanese people are being collectively punished by the military supreme Israel. The latest weeks we have heard Israeli officials claim that what they are going to do is to "bomb Lebanon 20 years back" and to "make sure that no one in Gaza can sleep". And this goes on right now, right before our eyes.

What would happen if let's say Iran or Sweden or Russia invaded or occupied your country? What would the UN, USA or EU say and do? What is it that makes Arab lives – Palestinian and Lebanese – less valuable in the eyes of the world than your life and our lives? Why aren't we doing anything? The Israeli occupation of Palestine and the attacks on civilians in Lebanon are serious and obvious crimes against international law and human rights.

Our thoughts are with our brothers and sisters in Palestine and Lebanon.

Peace in the Middle East! Justice for Palestine and Lebanon!

The (international) Noise Conspiracy

-The Black Mask Sub-committee of Violence and passion.

www.palestinemonitor.org
www.electronicintifada.net/lebanon
www.electronicintifada.net
www.palsolidarity.org
www.dci-pal.org
www.stopthewall.org
www.humanitarianinfo.org
www.hrw.org
www.zmag.org