Jordana Horn's column "Being There" (DP 4/8/92) describes her feelings when she visits the site of the Holocaust about 40 years after it happened. Is it ironic that her very own article will be used in the future to portray the emotions felt when an American Palestinian visits the Palestinian homeland in the year 2020, about 40 years after the intifadah. I ask the Israelis if they want a Palestinian in the future to look back on the Palestinian struggle for independence and say, "I felt that I too was a survivor, from a generation removed, when I walked out of the crematoriums alive." Probably not. But this is what will happen. Open your eyes and look to see what the Israeli soldiers and settlers describe as everyday events; they all see the Palestinians "gripping the barbed wire fence, wanting to tear it apart as its jagged edges clawed into my hands." I ask the Israelis to take heed of Jordana Horn's warning and when you "read the captions, the statistics and sequences of events," do not put up a barrier or "feel an inner glass wall forming between myself and my emotions, and I did not want to fight it, because it would be a temporary anaesthetic numbing me to terrible tremendous pain." Listen to the "thousands of beating hearts" in the Israeli occupied territories and stop and think of the 21,000 Palestinians who have been killed since 1988. Will this be all looked upon as a holocaust? GALEEB KACHRA Engineering College '94
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