Gentle Ramblings

         It was two days until the completion of the Muslim holy month Ramadan, May 10th, which also is the date of an Israeli celebratory holiday, Jerusalem Day. The significance of the day is meant to commemorate the reunification of Jerusalem into Israeli control following the 6 day war in 1967 (theguardian.com). The Al-Aqsa Mosque is one of, if not the most important holy sites in the Muslim religion, but on May 10th it was, more or less, invaded by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) early that morning. Worshippers were attacked with stun grenades, tear gas and a vicious dose of police brutality, only for the fact, Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud Party seemed to want to incite Hamas to retaliate which they naturally did later that day. After the IDF perpetrated violence occurred, several rockets were launched from Gaza toward Israeli occupied territory. More then likely Israel's state of the art, Iron Dome anti-rocket defense system intercepted those missiles...

      On March 3, 1991, which was an early Sunday morning, a man was pulled over for driving erratically, as well as, reaching speeds over 100 miles per hour on the Los Angeles Freeway (lattimes.com). The man took the police on a short, yet dangerous chase through residential neighborhoods before finally giving up and exiting his car. That man's name was Rodney King and what occurred seconds later became a historical incident and certainly not one that you should show your young children. I was 6 years old at the time of this barbaric, criminal act, which thanks to a person with a camcorder named George Holliday, the whole country bared witness to police brutality at is most violent, racist and bloodthirsty. King, supposedly out of his mind on PCP, laid helpless and I'm sure expecting to be killed by these men who were paid to "serve and protect the community." The gangland style stomping and clubbing lasted (on the footage at least) for one minute and nineteen second...