Mothers of the disappeared in Latin America feel Gaza’s pain
18 September 2014
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Women hold posters of hunger striking Palestinian prisoners outside the Red Cross offices in Jerusalem in June.
(Saeed Qaq / APA images)
This past summer, as Israeli weapons deindustrialized Gaza and decimated its civilians, leftist publications in Latin America began circulating a 2012 essay by the renowned Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano. Writing in the wake of Israel’s November 2012 onslaught in Gaza, Galeano lamented the “erasing of Palestine from the map.” Palestinians, he wrote, “cannot breathe without permission” and “when they vote for someone who they shouldn’t, they are punished.”
Mothers of the Disappeared in Latin America Feel Gaza’s Pain by Thavam
Mothers of the Disappeared in Latin America Feel Gaza’s Pain by Thavam
