It's a beautiful Summer but always remember to take moments to think about what we can do to make the world a good place for animals to live in. Please pray for dear little Bobbie - his mouth was tied with electrical tape and his face swollen with scars when he was found by animal welfare officers. And remember to thank those people down at the SPCA and SAFE because without them so much suffering just goes unnoticed - they always appreciate donations for example of pet food, so next time we're in supermarkets we have to think about the things we're buying and whether we really need them and can replace it with for example something for a cat. We can go one lunch break without whatever we were going to have - we can even go without the meal of lunch. If one cat misses out on one day it might be their last. So many of them are put down each year simply because the SPCA doesn't have enough resources to look after them. I think what we could do to help is to share our love for animals with the little children we know, and as they grow up they'll become more aware about it and have a passion for making a difference. It can be quite easy to just become desensitised towards animal welfare and say things like: "that steak was delicious" at a restaurant or: "that burger was delicious" without thinking about the animal who never got a choice as to how their life would turn out. Here is Bobbie's story: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10551876, http://www.stuff.co.nz/4819528a11.html. It makes you so incredulously sick. I used to have a pet goat called Lucky, except he wasn't very lucky because my dad and his friends had hunted his mother when he was a baby and instead of running away he stayed by her body crying so dad took brought him back here. Can you imagine a little child who loved and needed his or her mother, but someone came along and murdered her, leaving that child with the only thing that loved them. We do this everyday when we buy meat at the supermarket. I'll never forget all the joy he used to bring me and my family, and never forgive myself for doing that to him. Animals deserve so much better and we're failing them.
15/01/2009
01/01/2009
I saw something that broke my heart today
I looked out the window and saw a cat that looked like my dear old friend Claude who used to sit with me out on the balcony at nights when I was lonely. I thought perhaps the neighbours across the street had got a new cat, but then later I started to notice that this cat was going door to door, probably looking for its home. It was so heartbreaking as there wasn't really much I could do... If only there was some way humans and animals could communicate better.
I don't endorse the domestication of animals, nor the breeding of them for the purposes of food. I wish more people could see the harm that's being done to them - if you're reading this I encourage you to visit www.safe.org.nz. If we can't look after those who need our love the most in this world, how are we ever going to be able to save it?
I don't endorse the domestication of animals, nor the breeding of them for the purposes of food. I wish more people could see the harm that's being done to them - if you're reading this I encourage you to visit www.safe.org.nz. If we can't look after those who need our love the most in this world, how are we ever going to be able to save it?
Heartbreaking stories
I've just been spending New Year's Eve reading an article on the background behind the Israeli and Palestinian conflict. It's really sad and a reminder of how we need to constantly stay focused on being aware about why these wars happen, and to always ask ourselves what we can do about all the suffering of those far away from us. Below is an extract:
In a joint operation called "Operation Unity," the three Zionist terrorist gangs, the Haganah, the Irgun and the Stern Gang surrounded the village at 4:30 AM, and then went in, raping and killing as they went, looting valuables and destroying property. The slaughter went on for two days. On the second day, a Red Cross volunteer happened onto the scene, and later described what the Zionist terrorists told him was "mopping up." He indicated that the "mopping up was being done with knives, machine guns and grenades." In a previously secret British report, quoted at "Deir Yassin Remembered," (a web site operated by an international group of scholars, half of whom are Jewish or Jewish Israelis), "many young schoolgirls were raped and later slaughtered. Old women were also molested. One story is current concerning a case in which a young girl was literally torn in two. Many infants were also butchered and killed. I also saw one old woman... who had been severely beaten about the head with rifle butts. Women had bracelets torn from their arms and rings from their fingers and parts of some of the women's ears were severed in order to remove earrings."
Reports by some of the survivors:
Mr. Fahimi Zeidan, 12: "The Jews ordered all our family to line up against the wall and they started shooting us. I was hit in the side, but most of us children were saved because we hid behind our parents. The bullets hit my sister Kadri [age four] in the head, my sister Sameh [age eight] in the cheek, my brother Mohammed [age seven] in the chest. But all the others with us against the wall were killed: my father, my mother, my grandfather and grandmother, my uncles and aunts and some of their children."
Ms. Haleem Eid, 30: "A man [shot] a bullet into the neck of my sister Salhiyeh who was nine months pregnant. Then he cut her stomach open with a butcher's knife."
Ms. Naaneh Khalil, 16, saw a man: "take a kind of sword and slash my neighbor Jamil Hish from head to toe then do the same thing on the steps to my house to my cousin Fathi."
Ms. Safiyeh Attiyah, 41: "I screamed but around me other women were being raped too. Some of the men were so anxious to get our earrings they ripped our ears to pull them off faster."
Mr. Mohamed Jaber, student, "The Jews [broke] in, [drove] everybody outside, put them against the wall and shot them. One of the women was carrying a three month old baby."
Mr. Abu Mahmud 70: "They took about 40 prisoners from the village. But after the battle was over, they took them to the quarry where they shot them dead and threw their bodies in the quarry. After they [the terrorists] removed their [the terrorists'] dead and wounded [from the village], they took the prisoners and killed them. They took the elderly prisoners, women and men and took them out of the village, yet they killed the youths."(DYR)
There are reports that both the British commander in the area and the Jewish Agency both knew what was happening, but no one intervened to stop it.
The whole article detailing the background of how it began is available here.
In a joint operation called "Operation Unity," the three Zionist terrorist gangs, the Haganah, the Irgun and the Stern Gang surrounded the village at 4:30 AM, and then went in, raping and killing as they went, looting valuables and destroying property. The slaughter went on for two days. On the second day, a Red Cross volunteer happened onto the scene, and later described what the Zionist terrorists told him was "mopping up." He indicated that the "mopping up was being done with knives, machine guns and grenades." In a previously secret British report, quoted at "Deir Yassin Remembered," (a web site operated by an international group of scholars, half of whom are Jewish or Jewish Israelis), "many young schoolgirls were raped and later slaughtered. Old women were also molested. One story is current concerning a case in which a young girl was literally torn in two. Many infants were also butchered and killed. I also saw one old woman... who had been severely beaten about the head with rifle butts. Women had bracelets torn from their arms and rings from their fingers and parts of some of the women's ears were severed in order to remove earrings."
Reports by some of the survivors:
Mr. Fahimi Zeidan, 12: "The Jews ordered all our family to line up against the wall and they started shooting us. I was hit in the side, but most of us children were saved because we hid behind our parents. The bullets hit my sister Kadri [age four] in the head, my sister Sameh [age eight] in the cheek, my brother Mohammed [age seven] in the chest. But all the others with us against the wall were killed: my father, my mother, my grandfather and grandmother, my uncles and aunts and some of their children."
Ms. Haleem Eid, 30: "A man [shot] a bullet into the neck of my sister Salhiyeh who was nine months pregnant. Then he cut her stomach open with a butcher's knife."
Ms. Naaneh Khalil, 16, saw a man: "take a kind of sword and slash my neighbor Jamil Hish from head to toe then do the same thing on the steps to my house to my cousin Fathi."
Ms. Safiyeh Attiyah, 41: "I screamed but around me other women were being raped too. Some of the men were so anxious to get our earrings they ripped our ears to pull them off faster."
Mr. Mohamed Jaber, student, "The Jews [broke] in, [drove] everybody outside, put them against the wall and shot them. One of the women was carrying a three month old baby."
Mr. Abu Mahmud 70: "They took about 40 prisoners from the village. But after the battle was over, they took them to the quarry where they shot them dead and threw their bodies in the quarry. After they [the terrorists] removed their [the terrorists'] dead and wounded [from the village], they took the prisoners and killed them. They took the elderly prisoners, women and men and took them out of the village, yet they killed the youths."(DYR)
There are reports that both the British commander in the area and the Jewish Agency both knew what was happening, but no one intervened to stop it.
The whole article detailing the background of how it began is available here.
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