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Perhaps as much as the bombing, the people fleeing their homes in northern Gaza in anticipation of a bloody invasion, I am frightened by the dehumanization of the very real humans in Gaza that I am bombarded with. Whether its by people labeling them as terrorists or Hamas supporters or placidly suggesting that they are victimized only by Hamas using them as human shields...or by people posting photos of small children with heads blown open, or limbs blown off, causing us to look at these children, not in their human childness, but as gory images... I want to resist this dehumanization, if only for a moment, by describing the Palestinain human beings that I know in Gaza. I know pharmacists in Gaza. I know doctors. I know people who work for the United Nations, who work for humanitarian organizations, who work for human rights orgainzations. I know people who run youth programs and teachers. I know mothers. I know a father whose 9 year old son was executed while he was holding him in arms--and who then struggled with how to raise his surviving children without being surrounded by trauma and violence. I know a father who bought his little girls bunny rabbits so they would have something small and cuddly in order to retain their own humanity. I know accountants. I know taxi drivers who have invited me to their home for lunch and introduced me to their families. I know small children who, while living in tents in horrible conditions, wake up in the morning and have their faces scrubbed clean and the sand brushed out of their hair with what little water there is so that they will go to school fresh and have a chance at learning. I have friends who are new mothers and new fathers, just figuring out how to meet their infants needs. Many of the young men and women I know I remember as teenagers, when we used to gather at pizza restaurants in Gaza, and now gather at beach-side cafes and smoke arghillas, reminisce, talk, laugh... This post will not do anything to end the horrible madness. But my God--if we dont insist on holding people--all people--in their humanity and reminding ourselves of that every moment of every day--what chance to any of us have?

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