Editor's note: This is the Gaza War Chronicle written by Tang Danhong for Voice of America. The article does not represent the views of the Voice of America. Please indicate if the reprint is from the Voice of America or VOA.
1. Rapists
That was a psychedelic night. Young people's bodies are full of vitality and joy. As if on a journey to bliss, the air is filled with love, perhaps love is the air. Music touches the radiant nerves in the physical body. They jump and jump. Some people have drunk alcohol, some have smoked marijuana, and some have swallowed ecstasy. These substances raise love, giving, accepting, and being loved from both inside and outside the body and mind. You love life so much, love many, many people, and feel like others love you too. It's like being washed away by a certain divine nature, you become pure and ethereal, and the worldly disputes and utilitarianism lose their meaning. The pure and free soul is immersed in God's love and care. In the embrace of God, you jump and jump... Love, tirelessly jumps.
The rocket bombs flew in, and the glider plunged into the crowd like a strange bird. Pickups flew in one after another, and Hamas, fully armed, descended from above. Some people initially thought they were making a movie. If Hamas puts away its gun and walks towards the dancers, these Jews will pull them together and share beer or marijuana as brothers. Everyone loves each other, whether you are Arab or Jewish! Hamas shoots at people whose hearts are still filled with mysterious love. Those who danced all night, their bodies mixed with love and fear, fell into a pool of blood. Their blood and bodies contain these two essence: love and great fear
Hamas found a living Jewish woman in the pile of Jewish corpses that had been shot by hand. At this moment, Hamas is the winner. A brief victory in a local task still couldn't help him get rid of the feeling of failure. The Jews have not yet been truly defeated. In his eyes, this woman is a Jewish man's woman. The holy warrior conquered her with violence and fear, like a conqueror inserting a flagpole into the fortress of the conquered. A woman who rapes an enemy, a winner or a loser, has a beauty of victory.
That woman may have lost her memory for a few minutes. Then she found out that her friends had all left, or rather died. She is the only survivor. The holy warrior is raping her. The corpses of her boyfriend and girlfriend accompanied her, witnessing the rape.
War is often about rape: conquering and forcibly occupying through violence. Or rather, war and rape are both about men's power. The loser feels like they have been fucked by the winner, and sometimes it's true. The loser goes to rape the winner's woman. Hamas has extreme patriarchy and extreme hatred towards women. Hamas is extremely contemptuous of life, and the authority of fatherly rule can sacrifice children. For women who give birth to life, Hamas enjoys the pleasure of blasphemy: the paradise of the holy warriors has 72 virgins.
All life values are in heaven. To become a martyr in this life, one can reach heaven. Martyrs do not linger on the earth. Saint warriors do not love any women, or rather they do not love anyone. Otherwise, how could Hamas hide behind women and children? How can children be incited to hate, to become martyrs, and to promise their virgins in heaven? That is an obscene scene where virgins are used to worship patriarchy, and it is also unbearable to sacrifice patriarchy with women and girls, but they will receive countless virgins' rewards. Extreme patriarchy wants the world to become a paradise for men. All the spiritual ancestors of totalitarian tyranny can fraternize and father son kill each other for the sake of power. To create genocide for the sake of power. A patriarchal world can only survive by obedience and obedience.
Where have we been? Hamas is demonstrating Jews on the streets of Gaza. What did Hamas want us to watch for its candid and candid live broadcasts around the world? Her delicate body was almost completely naked. A uniformed man with a gun pressed his legs against her waist, while another uniformed man with a gun grabbed her hair and almost sat on top of her head. She is like the beast they captured. The uniformed men with guns have absolute control over her. Her long hair was scattered, her face was covered in the dirty and greasy bottom of the pickup truck, and her legs were broken into a strange posture. She may have died, or she may still be in agony. I hope she is unconscious. The scumbags pressed her down and paraded in public. The men of the same color rushed towards the car like a flood, emitting angry and joyful roars. They molested her body with their eyes, punched a woman who had no ability to fight back with their fists, spat at her, filmed, uploaded, and broadcasted... Finally, her body and head separated - her head was discovered.
In another video uploaded by Hamas, the jihadists open the back of the jeep and drag the woman's hair out. At the age of 19, her face was swollen and looked completely different from the photo. The photo shows that she has just joined the "Hand of Peace" organization and is full of smiles willing to listen to the "other party". In the video, she had her arms cut back and a thin black binding rope tightly wrapped around her wrists. They grabbed her disheveled hair and pushed her. She was staggered and pushed into the jeep by these holy warriors. Why did they first stuff her in the trunk and then drag her out and stuff her into the car? Her gray white pants were soaked in blood between her legs. How could there be blood there? Where was she so badly injured? Where are the heavily armed holy warriors taking her?
Why rape? Why can't we love? What can you gain by raping us? Can you get love? Why don't you sit down and talk to us calmly, and after that, we won't fight or hurt again? Can't we give it a try? Be neighbors, friends, and even love each other. Why rape?
2. Freedom Warrior
Gentlemen refuse to call Hamas a terrorist, preferring to call it "Palestinian militants" or "Palestinian armed groups". Some people believe that Hamas is a freedom fighter for the liberation of Palestine. Some people say that the Hamas attacks were not "out of thin air" and seem to be a form of karma. It seems that their rape was attributed to their ancestors. Perhaps there was a mistake in the multiverse and a parallel spacetime collided with us. I was thrown into a chaotic world. In the dimension of deja vu, the sea of people dances the flag of Palestine, setting off the black flag of the Islamic State. The banner of 'Free Palestine', the sign of 'I am with Gaza', and the resounding roar: 'Freedom, freedom, freedom, from rivers to oceans, Palestine will be free!'
In parallel time and space, it's like a Holocaust has never happened or a lie from the Jews. In the world of "anti colonialism and anti oppression", Jews have long been disconnected from this land. Jews were massacred by the Nazi Empire and should go to Europe to establish their country instead of Palestine. Jews invaded, occupied, settled, and colonized Palestine. Palestinians are innocent victims. The Middle East War in parallel time and space is actually a war against Jewish colonization and the struggle for the liberation of the Palestinian nation. Bus explosions, body bombs, violent killings, rockets, rape, and torture are all means of resisting colonial tyranny, and enslaved individuals have the legitimacy and legitimacy of violent resistance.
What does the killing of the Peace Music Festival mean? What does it mean to rape women, torture girls and elderly women? What does it mean for a woman who is being paraded on the street by the thigh of an "armed group"? What does the blood on the woman's pants mean? All of this, in the parallel time and space of ideology, must have different appearances, and even different interpretations given by women.
A young woman, all her hair wrapped in a black headscarf, without any leakage. She put on foundation make-up, eye shadow and light lipstick - I mean, dressing is our common nature. She drew a Palestinian flag on her right cheek and a map of "Palestine" on her left cheek. The green, white, red, and black colors of the Palestinian flag fill the 'State of Palestine'. A territory without Jews. During the anti Israel demonstration in Berlin, she took the interview microphone, faced the camera, and calmly told the audience, "Now imagine: if your land is genocide and occupied, don't you defend yourself and let your land be stolen and occupied? I think Hamas is doing self-defense and taking back its own land from occupation
In that 'imagine it' dimension, the story is a more secular version. The framework and content of nationalism, as well as its role, have changed. Hamas is actually a Palestinian freedom fighter who opposes colonial oppression and strives for national liberation. The Jews imposed cruel racial segregation and genocide on the Palestinian people. Hamas armed groups resist Jewish settler colonialism, everything is related to the cause of free Palestine——
You must look directly at the back of that statement. There is a recent, large-scale, and all encompassing background: the massacre of genocide by anti colonial armed groups; Freedom fighters rape segregated women; The pups of armed individuals who tyrannize oppressors; Rebels paraded the streets to show off enslaved people; Freedom warriors beat women and spit on them; Liberation soldiers brutalize pregnant women and infants... In the struggle of the proletariat to eliminate the exploiting class, or in the struggle against imperialism and settler colonialism, the proletariat or freedom fighters can exterminate humanity. Cruelty, rape, and dehumanization have all been endowed with legitimacy that is "historical", "profound", and "not out of thin air". The legitimacy of patriarchal totalitarianism.
Three days after the Hamas massacre of Jews, on October 11, 2023, Human Rights Watch (HRW Chinese) tweeted on X as follows:
In this Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestinian armed groups seem to intentionally target civilians indiscriminately and take them hostage, which constitutes a war crime under international humanitarian law. The Israeli authorities cutting off Gaza's electricity supply and other punitive measures against Gaza's civilian population constitute illegal collective punishment and a war crime.
At the same time, the decades of systematic oppression by the Israeli government in the occupied Palestinian territories have constituted racial segregation and persecution as crimes against humanity.
During previous rounds of hostilities, Human Rights Watch recorded violations of the laws of war committed by the Israeli military and Palestinian armed groups, respectively. Israel has repeatedly carried out indiscriminate air strikes, resulting in a large number of civilian deaths and some families having no survivors
The freedom and liberation fighters "seem to intentionally target civilians," which means they may not have intentionally targeted them. War crimes or seemingly war crimes.
Israel's "targeting of civilians in Gaza", "indiscriminate air strikes", and "crimes against humanity". It's not like it seems, it's absolute.
I hardly look at those bloody and terrifying photos, let alone describe them in my own words. But my gaze lingered on a seemingly magical image. Against a certain background of dark matter, some white, light red, and deep red blocks, intersecting and spiral lines, exuding a soft fluorescence... You wouldn't expect it to be an adult and a child, tightly hugged and bound together. The Saint Warrior armed personnel, the Freedom Warrior, burned them alive. A clump of ugly and blurry coke, it's difficult to distinguish what it was originally. The X-ray rotation irradiation of CT scans stacks the tomographic images layer by layer, outlining the images of their deaths. It seems like an image of Nirvana in the dark: the long and young tightly embrace each other. Parents want to protect their children so much. Children need their parents so much. In this way, they were sent to hell by Hamas, armed individuals, or freedom fighters.