Leave Me Alone (3024 hits)
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Submitted by comicbookguy (View user info) at 2005-08-01 17:54:03 EDT
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The explosion rocked four houses in the Gaza Strip, a fiery inferno that completely destroyed the already dilapidated homes. Revenge came easy to the Israeli army, as the target they had just destroyed was the suspected home of influential Hamas Leader Sheikh Abdul Aziz, a man who had allegedly organized four suicide bomb attacks in the span of two weeks, crippling the already unstable peace agreement between Palestine and Israel.
As the blaze on the homes spread, a four man tactical squad leaped from their tank as they surveyed the scene for any survivors. The orders were clear: the homes, valuables, and people inside that complex were to be all destroyed. This man needed to be killed and the army would extend all means to achieve this. The words "collateral damage" were thrown around quite freely by Israeli commanders. The debate on the justification of their actions would be plastered all over the American evening news.
Andrew Schulman had joined the Israeli Army at 21. Educated at a prestigious school, he left behind his new family to fulfill allegiance to his country. Andrew knew that when the time came, he would die for the state of Israel. His motivation was fuelled by the fact that both his grandfathers had been victims of torture in the famous 1947 war with the Arab Nations; the war that eventually formed the Jewish nation. His grandfathers had died for the cause and he knew he would do whatever it took to fulfill his duty to Israel, The Torah, and the Star of David.
Though he was now four years into his mandatory duty, Andrew dreamed that when his term was over, he would return to his family for good and secure for them the future that his grandfathers fought so hard to achieve for their people. A good education for his child. The chance to worship God and read the words of Moses in a synagogue without fears of suicide bombs or men with assault rifles, killing innocent Jews in the name of Allah.
Andrew's thoughts of home were suddenly broken by a sharp pain in his arm. He turned to his right and saw a boy, no more then 8 years of age, hurling rocks at him, tears streaming down his face. The soldier pulled out his pistol and saw that his team of three was on the other side of the houses. He pointed his gun at the boy who stopped running towards him, but continued to shriek and hurl rocks at Andrew.
Andrew dodged the errant stones and ran at the boy, grabbing him by his collar and hurling him to the ground.
The boy screamed Arabic curses at the soldier.
"Leave me alone!" he screamed as he hurled another rock at Andrew.
This one hit him right in the mouth. Blood began to gush from his upper lip.
Andrew wiped himself off and raised his pistol, aiming it at the boy's head.
"You kill my mother with your bullets so long ago! And now you take my father from me with your cowardly bombs!"
The boy spit at the soldier.
Andrew stared down at the boy. All his anger and pain subsided in an instant as he stared into the young boy's eyes. It pained him to see how much this battered child reminded him of his own son.
It was at that moment that his radio crackled, the words from his commander like daggers to his heart.
"Wrong target."
He bent down on one knee and held the boy's fiery gaze for several seconds before tears started streaming down the young soldier's face.
Andrew spoke in Arabic.
"I have a boy at home in Tel Aviv. He is 6. He is much like you. I cannot imagine what it would be like for him to lose his father."
The boy stood up, his little chest heaving up and down as he clutched the rock in his hand tighter and tighter.
"I am sorry. I am sorry my people have killed your father, ruined your home."
The boy remained standing, unwavering, until the overwhelming sensation of losing his only family became too unbearable. He dropped the rock and fell to the ground, crying uncontrollably.
"Just...leave me alone," he whispered. Please Leave me and my country alone."
The soldier stood up.
He felt dirty and selfish, but love for his family dictated his next actions.
"In ten years, if you even survive that long, you will be a very angry young man. You will be wrongly directed by those with religious influence. I will be sitting in a café with my boy, now a man with his own children, and you, with all the hatred that I've seen in your eyes today, will find us, strap explosives to your body, and kill us all.
I am truly sorry...."
Andrew wiped the tears from his eyes as he aimed his pistol at the little boy.
"...but I cannot leave you alone."
Andrew Schulman, trained Israeli soldier, shot the little boy in cold blood.
And he prayed that God would forgive him.
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Submitted by MyNameIsTim (user info) at 2005-12-06 09:10:29 EST (#)
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so on a scale from 1 to dead, where the fuck have you been?
we need you now more than ever.
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