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Category: Violence, War 7 comments
18 Jan 2004 @ 17:30 by george dafermos @195.97.43.65 : infuriating art... 19 Jan 2004 @ 03:02 by Yuval Dinari @212.150.223.219 : Comment Firstly, the story as you described it is inaccurate - the ambassador didn't destroy the piece "the moment he saw it". First he asked the museum to remove it and after beeing denied did what he did. Hanadi Jaradat murdered 21 peopple. Some of them were Arabs (Haifa has a mixed population of Jews and Arabs). Their faces are not shown. Their story is not told. They remain silent and anonymous in the work of Dror Feiler as they are in the new headlines regarding this matter, as they were the day they died. 19 Jan 2004 @ 06:45 by ming : Art I'll bet the story and pictures of the victims have been widely distributed. Which of course serves to illustrate the horror of the crime. Normal families with little children and with real lives. But it doesn't serve to bring light to why it happened. I believe that it is quite worthwhile to look into the eyes of the killer, to ponder what the hell was going on for her. There are answers there somewhere. Just as there are some answers hidden somewhere in the ambassador's motivation for doing what he did. The motivation for hatred usually isn't very rational, but it still has some kind of form that we might examine and maybe understand. One of the things art can do is to make you see things in a way you hadn't before, and maybe somehow leave you a little wiser. If is for sure not just a system of keeping score or of dissemminating polically correct propaganda. At least not in non-totalitarian countries. And, no, putting the pictures of the 21 victims in little boats instead of the perpetrator would maybe have been a strong art piece too, but wouldn't have made us any wiser. 19 Jan 2004 @ 17:13 by ming : Who was Hanadi Jaradat? From a comment elsewhere: Who was Hanadi Jaradat? Jaradat was a 29 year old lawyer from Jenin. She had lost a lot to the Israelis and the intifada--eight years earlier, the distant cousin whom she was to marry and whom she loved was killed in an encounter with Israeli security forces before they could marry. Her cousin, Salah, and brother, Fadi were shot down in cold blood on the night of June 12 at the family home in front of her eyes and those of the cousin's pregnant wife and two year old son. Fadi, initially wounded, was taken by soldiers and shot again to make sure he was dead. When the family got the body back to bury it, Hanadi reported to Al-Arab Al-Yum that her brother had been shot in every part of his body. Her brother's wedding would have happened three days later, on June 16, to eighteen year old Abir. After Fadi died, Hanadi became the breadwinner for the family because her father was ill with cancer and could no longer work. The only thing that had improved his health was Fadi's upcoming wedding. With Fadi's death, her father was left a broken man. She said: "If our nation cannot realize its dream and the goals of the victims, and live in freedom and dignity, then let the whole world be erased." This article was originally published in the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz Ticking Bomb (More details here) 21 Jan 2004 @ 09:27 by dharmicmel @63.202.152.99 : man's inhumanity to man echo, man's inhumanity to man constant echoes, like existential background; like bombs going off inside our heads, our hearts it's a madness, and we cannot fully fathom it, much less decide what to do about it; how can these things go on, day after day?; there are of course many reasons, but none of the reasons ever explain man's inhumanity to man not justice, or lack thereof not freedom, or freedom denied not dignity, or lack of respect not wellbeingness, or the chaos of days, the lesser in the existential trenches if art reflects life, and if life is so seeded with this tragic darkness of days, then what can really be said about art, and life?; it has to be very heavily laced/dosed in existential despair, because, as it is, none of us like having our lives ripped to pieces, or having our foundations shattered, our souls plunged into the abyss it's man's inhumanity to man, and it comes in abundance, in all shapes, sizes, and colors in black of heart, the hands left empty to the task, the heart behind one wall after another; down time, down side, earth echoes the villages of the down, the temper of the down, the rage of the silent and anonymous and some say and go even further silence to darkness, signature of consent and that, really, indicts us all and then, to make matters even worse still, the wall of existential sleep forever, and a day man's inhumanity to man, threaded throughout the human spectrum and experience; it seems, at times, so impossible to comprehend; my heart goes out to one and all, no matter what side they are on, because it is, at the most basic level, a human tragedy but heart, in this world is not enough, is it?; and still, the beat goes on, man's inhumanity to man dharmicmel. wednesday. 21 january 2004 ce 21 Jan 2004 @ 11:19 by sharie : this makes me cry how sad for her, how completely devasting... she was absolutely driven mad by the hatred she experienced. So sad. 27 Jan 2004 @ 09:22 by mmie @148.4.51.183 : art and life I don't htink it was hate I think she had absolutely nothing to live for. No one with a good prosperous life would resort to such an act. She' been driven by helplessness and hopelessness given the situation she's forced to live in. Other entries in Violence, War 8 Nov 2008 @ 15:46: War Hurts Families 21 Oct 2008 @ 08:33: 36 MILLION DEAD BY AMERICA’S AGGRESSIONS, WHAT SAYETH OBAMA? 5 Sep 2008 @ 11:35: BEIJING OLYMPICS: LAST GAMES, AS WORLD WAR III COMES 17 Aug 2008 @ 12:48: AUGUSTUS CEASAR OR BONAPARTE RETURNED TO ROLE-PLAY GLOBAL TYRANT 9 Apr 2008 @ 15:44: An Introduction To Social Pathology Of Police And Federal Agents 3 Apr 2008 @ 18:10: Few Care To Listen, *Until They Discover That... 12 Nov 2007 @ 11:23: Re: happy veteran's day & Pakistan? 17 Sep 2007 @ 09:57: This Is Worse Than Viet Nam 28 Aug 2007 @ 19:56: AmericanMilitaryCoup-2012 16 Aug 2007 @ 23:55: The War Ahead
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17 Jan 2004 @ 17:14, by Flemming Funch