Maybe something out of sight of the camera has caught her attention. Or maybe she just doesn’t want to look at the soldiers and their guns.
Or maybe she is traumatised by being alone in a bunch of almost naked men.
John, I scrolled down reading that link and when I saw here eyes looking at me I became overwhelmed with emotion. I didn’t believe I could hate a nation and its evil leader so much until that point.
The Kindle book I am reading at the moment is reporting the feelings of visitors to Nazi Germany in the 1930s. Much was shielded from their eyes, or simply that some could not, or refused to, see, the treatment of the Jews at the time. But what is described by the few has such resonance with me with the daily horrors on the radio and tv from Gaza. One scene in particular was a man and his family in a beaten up old truck with household goods, clothes, personal items, furniture and bedding piled high, driving slowly in the direction of Switzerland. Strikes a sad chord daily, as miserable Palestinians are driven from pillar to post with no homes to go to, and by, of all people, the Jews. Are they totally unable to see the comparison in their support for the instigators of this crime? I am so angry. And helpless.
I wonder if the children and grandchildren of that family on the truck ever made it to Switzerland, or even to Israel eventually, and I wonder if their conscience is pricked just a tiny bit on seeing themselves mirrored in todays events.