In the April 15 issue of Haaretz.com, Gideon Levy writes about Nasarin, a nine year old child whose face got in the way of a rubber bullet.
This is a little story about a little girl, orphaned and poor, who peered out from the door of her home into the street, at a time when the Israel Defense Forces came to capture wanted men and the children were throwing stones at the soldiers.
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There are no dead people in this story, and it is almost certain that little Nasarin Abu Hashhash will recover from her injury. Then she will return to her home in the Al-Fawar refugee camp, south of Hebron, to the house that her father began to build with the compensation money he received from the Polgat textile firm in Kiryat Gat, where he worked for 17 years as a tailor until he was fired, along with all the workers from the territories at the plant. He didn't manage to complete the construction of the house, and it stands half built, without a floor and with second-hand doors. A short time after his dismissal, the father died at an early age, leaving 12 souls in the house, whom nobody can support.
What is to become of Nasarin, and all the children like her, in the shattered jaw that is the Middle East?
Who will answer for those whose bodies and spirits are ripped apart in the service of god or country?
Is it too much to think that an Armageddon of sorts is already upon us?