UK Guardian-The day the tanks arrived at Rafah zoo

TexasProgresive

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Sun May-23-04 06:53 PM
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UK Guardian-The day the tanks arrived at Rafah zoo

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1222187,00.html

"People are more important than animals," said the zoo's co-owner Mohammed Ahmed Juma, whose house was also demolished. "But the zoo is the only place in Rafah that children could escape the tense atmosphere. There were slides and games for children. We had a small swimming pool. I know it's hard to believe, looking at it now, but it was beautiful. Why would they destroy that? Because they want to destroy everything about us."

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salvorhardin

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Sun May-23-04 07:13 PM
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1. Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Reading this story I'm reminded of the scene in Haruki Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle where the Japanese soldiers wipe out the Machurian zoo. As they are carrying out their orders a mushroom cloud appears from over the China Sea. It blocks out the sun for a little bit, but the soldiers take just a passing notice of it and continue on in their futile act (on orders) of destroying the zoo's animals not realizing the mass destruction being carried out in their homeland. The destruction here may not be physical, but only our way of life.

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