Hope?

I was going to write a blog about hope. After all, that's what I'm trying to do here... focusing on hope. I'm interviewing people in the peace movement here in Israel, trying to find out what made these people break out of the official collective narrative, based as it is on myths that shape the mainstream interpretations of both past and current events and that thus make every peace process seem inconcievable. I'm talking to people who are objecting to it, trying to create an alternative viable framework of the conflict, one that focus less on 'security' and more on justice. What made them change, what made them realize that what's going on is unjust? I believe that this is where hope is. And I wanted to tell you about them, the small minority working hard to change the dangerous course of an overwhelming indifferent current. But in the face of a horrible invasion of an overpopulated impovered small strip of land, where people already are fighting hard for their daily lives, stripped of virtually every right theoretically entitled to all that fit the label 'human being' and even internationally boycotted on top of it all (!), how can I?

Just kilometres away, Israeli tanks entered Gaza last night. Operation Summer Rain (what cruel brains are naming horror after beauty?) has begun. Electricity and water is cut off, bridges bombed, sonic booms dropped, everything explained by the need to rescue the Israeli soldier who was kidnapped on Sunday. Seeing that Israel has what is probably the best and most effective intelligence services in the world, the need for 'extreme actions' (as Olmert put it) to win the soldier back is somewhat hard to believe. Consider this: The state of Israel can track down a wanted high-ranking Palestinian leader in a matter of minutes and assassinate him on the spot if they so wish (the killings of several Hamas leaders in 2004 serves as a good example). They are able to do this because of the many desperate Palestinian informants that get assurance that their house will not be abolished or a permit to visit relatives in Israel proper as payment for information useful to Israel. Shin Bet was even able to sack a Palestianian teacher in an Arab village just because he had told his students about the PLO in the classroom one day (an act which was of course deemed highly illegal). It's virtually impossible to hide anything. And yet they are not able to locate a kidnapped soldier? Don't bullshit me. Why does the world believe this shit? How can the world let this happen? Why are nobody stopping it? When will the world realize that violence and force only reproduce violence and force?

I feel like paying Ehud Olmert a visit, I feel like picking up the phone and call The White House, I feel like running into the UN's General Assembly, anywhere where this God-stolen power is gathered, hands are shaken and nothing but top-salaries are improving, I want to rush in there, and scream.
A lone, loud, intolerable scream.
In the midst of silent dark suits and nicely decorated neckties.
Would somebody then understand?
Would somebody then care?