Are we humans yet ??

Today's Anne Frank . . .


The face of this petrified child — photographed in her place of hiding as Israeli soldiers stormed into her family home with deadly force during the 2008/09 war on Gaza — starkly portrays the kind of fear that Anne Frank may have had also been terrorized with when her sanctuary was ruptured by Nazi soldiers.

This child of innocence, represents the harrowing plight of every child living under damning occupation, or under circumstances where they are willfully deprived of the ethical right to aspire unto adulthood with the dignity of humanism, and with unconditional access to the enhancement of hope, learning and survival.

This year marks the 80th anniversary of Anne Frank’s birth. We could begin by questioning what might have become of the terrified Palestinian child pictured above.

Is she alive?

Does she have any pencil or paper to write her diary?

If Anne Frank were alive today, she would have given a conscientious resonance to the outrage: ‘NEVER AGAIN’!


— Dom Martin