The Lion Broken-Hearted: The Macabre Gaza Zoo

Zoos are a cruel hell to begin with, but especially in the open air prison of Gaza:

Dozens of animals starve at animal ‘attraction’ in Gaza Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2936551/Sentenced-death-world-s-worst-zoo-Dozens-animals-starve-animal-attraction-Gaza.html#ixzz3QhOfGxHm

One might logically think that the man who runs the zoo (watch the video) is slightly disturbed in his quest to keep bringing in beautiful creatures that will keep dying because of the attacks from his oppressors in Israel.

A cruel fate for the courageous.

It is easy to see that a Gazan would empathize with strong creatures that are trapped in cages. This, along with displaying the dead animals' bodies through internet-class-learned taxidermy and having to use a weak home made formaldehyde (the only kind he can get), is a macabre statement on the state of life in Gaza. 

Nothing looks more like defiant defeat than the "reanimated" corpse of a captive lion that was poisoned (through chemical warfare) and starved to death during brutal attacks on its land, which it is essentially a displaced foreigner in. Yes, zoos are rich with irony.

In the article we are told:

Hassan Azzam, director of the veterinary services department in Gaza's ministry of agriculture, said: 'We have humble capabilities,' but the ministry encourages zoos. 

One might be led to ponder the reason for this encouragement for zoos by or for a people who is essentially being forced to live in one; a people that is not much better off than the animals in this macabre Gaza zoo.

Sometimes cruelty begets cruelty. The problem is that we have almost all become complicit with the cruelty of zoos...and Zionism.

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