Topic started by rassool snyman (@ netcache1-ctn.is.co.za) on Sun Feb 8 05:14:15 EST 2004.
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A Time of Terror

A shot rings out at a lonely Israeli checkpoint. The officer rushes out to investigate and sees a young Israeli soldier, cigarette dangling casually from his lips, a still smoking gun clutched in his hands standing over a spread-eagled corpse. Little dust devils do swirling dances and a hawk screeches a lonely cry high over the frozen tableau, the desert seemed to stand still and almost to be holding its breath.
“What happened” the officer asked his hand on his sidearm
“ Just killed terrorist…. Sir” he answered in a voice tinged with insolence
“How did you know”?
“He had a beard like the fanatical Hamas, Bin Laden, al Qaeeda types. Sir”
“And”?
“He was a trouble maker sir, when I asked him to stop, he said I should. The cheek of it”
“When I asked for his travel documents he said “all men have the right to free travel over his father’s lands”
“Then”
“I asked him where was he from. He remained silent and just pointed at the sky”
“Any way he has been in the hands of the security forces before. And he seemed like a real tough one sir. They seemed to have gone over him quite a bit. He had wounds on his hands and feet and they seemed to almost go right through” he then gave a sardonic laugh and said “ they must have made him sings a symphony when they did the feet routine …sir”
“ You say that with almost a sense of glee soldier.” Said the officer with distaste
“ This is our land sir, God promised it to us and no damn Arab will take it from us or put one dirty foot on it” said the soldier with cold, grim determination
“What made you shoot him”?
“He was walking straight up to me and had that fanatical look all these fundamentalist have, and said he had a message for me”
“Was that when you shot him”?
“ No sir when he reached into his garment, he was reaching for something, I didn’t wait to find out so I shot him. Regulations permit me to sir” he said defiantly.
The officer trembled, his face turned an ashen hue as he read the blood soaked paper retrieved from the still body
“Unless all men lay down their arms and live like brothers the wrath of the Lord shall descend like locusts and smite them. Signed the son of Mary,” read the scarlet sheet.
“Did he say what his name was”? He whispered with a quaver in his voice
“Jesus or something like that” said the private prodding the body with his hob-nailed boot.


Copyright 2003 © Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

Responses:

• From: tigerboy (@ d40a7bba.rev.stofanet.dk) on: Sun Feb 8 09:20:05 EST 2004
  
  Cool! Great text... people are fighting against "terrorist", but they forget who the real terrorists are... The one who trains child soldiers or the one kills children because they don't belong to their “holy people”...
  
  The world aren't able to distinguish between those fanatical who believe that GOD gave them the country they live in and that nobody else should ever be able to live in this HOLY LAND or those who already live in this "Holy land" (were people get killed because of their religion, language, race or colour) and want to live here without any fear for future... and the "holy people" are not able to understand that those who already live in that country wants to live in FREEDOM...
  
  If the freedom loving people wants to enjoy freedom the bas'tards won't accept that... because they say "this is our country... we can't here first"... where do these fools want us to go? To hell? Do they want us to commit mass suicide?
  
  Would god really allow them to kill to get these non-holy people out of the “HOLY LAND”? I don’t think so…
  
  Rassool are you Israeli? Im maily talking about the conflict in Sri Lanka... But I think Arabs and Israeli have complicated the conflict too much for ordinary people to understand...
  
  We shouldn't let the past demand us to become killers... But we should be able say that the earth is our home... And we should realize that there is no "holy" land in this unholy world.
  
  
• From: ... (@ d40a7bba.rev.stofanet.dk) on: Sun Feb 8 10:02:01 EST 2004
  
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• From: rassool snyman (@ netcache1-ctn.is.co.za) on: Sun Feb 8 23:38:05 EST 2004
  
  no im not israeli, im south african but i see the conflict only in teerms of justice and injustice as that and that only is what it is all about.politicians and priests are the problems and more likely than not the cause of conflict as they always claim to be the voice of god or the people and oppress in his/their name.poeople can live in peace anf harmony if we did not pay as much heed to these people and allow them to lead us into conflict.
  the earth is ours and we should share it in peace and harmony.
  rassool
  
  
• From: tigerboy (@ 80.208.243.3) on: Tue Feb 17 06:30:26 EST 2004
  
  Sorry for the delay (hope you're still there)...
  Again you are right. We are letting these fools rule ourself by getting angry and which makes us hate them too...
  
  But tell me, do you support the Irish Army, The suppressed people of Spain and other people fighting for freedom? I have heard that SA supports any kind of freedom fighters including our Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam though I myself do not support every single action carried out by them... (And the Indian Tamils do not support them either.)
  
  I support all freedom fighters expect Al Quida (I don't know what they are fighting for). But does that matter? No! The "GREAT" Americans (God's people) says that the free man should remain free. And that he should fight for his freedom. But these bas'tards only care about themselves. They want peace and peace only. They want to rule the world just like they do right now, nothing else.
  
  You think we should fight for any suppressed people or do you support any other way of handling this situation?
  
  

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