Tzaporah Ryter

Frontline News: Message from Palestine

Tzaporah Ryter, Nigel Parry and Jef Stout Minneapolis, Minnesota 31 October 2001

Being ignorant of this ongoing war that we are helping Israel to carry out is not merely a matter of our neglect. With weapons we supply, Israel kills in our name. Now that we are understanding to new levels the meaning of collective national suffering, it is finally time that we address those instances where we have not just permitted, but actually aided and abetted that same suffering around the world. 

The television

Tzaporah Ryter Ramallah, Palestine 6 April 2002

A two year old girl, along with a growing number of other civilians, has been killed in a village where I have friends. Terrified people have been calling, telling us that they and their entire family are under a table and everything is exploding or asking to please help to get an ambulance because their wife’s breathing became so strained that she is miscarrying and close to bleeding to death.