WORLD SILENCE AS GAZA BLEEDS

January 8, 2009 at 6:36 am (Complicity, Gaza, Guest Post, Israel, Palestine)

WORLD SILENCE AS GAZA BLEEDS

January 8, 2009 at 6:36 am (Complicity, Gaza, Guest Post, Israel, Palestine)

The following was sent to me by an American reader….. it is an interesting read. The views do not reflect those of this site, but are still worth reading.

World silence as Gaza bleeds

By Phinn

Watching the unfolding events taking place in Gaza and one can’t help but be in awe at the level of inhumanity and devastation that is taking place before the eyes of the world. I am reminded by a quote from the Talmud,

“Who can protest an injustice but does not is an accomplice to the act”

What I have been witness to these days is nothing less than one of the greatest injustices promulgated so far in this 21st century.

The lingering and relentless tensions between the Palestinian people and Israel are something we are all too familiar with in our time. Each day a new series of events unfolds where each side blames the other in a perpetual cycle of barbarous brutality with no signs of finality. The “Religion of Peace” and “God’s Chosen People” setting an example for all the world to see, begging one to ask, is this the pinnacle of a civilized people or the oubliette of the savage man?

What is even more disturbing is watching the reactions from my fellow countrymen to these unfolding events. The few cries of injustice washed out in a chorus of rapturous and almost gleeful voices, in full support of the wholesale slaughter of our fellow man and the silence of the accomplices. As the never ending stream of broken bodies are pulled from fields of rubble, I hear people tell me, they deserved what they got. May there be a God in heaven; I don’t believe he ever thought that any child deserved such a fate.

I take a step back in wonderment at where are the world’s calls for justice, for compassion, and sanity and I find nothing but a slight murmur just above silence. The extent of outrage over such inhumanity has been little more than press releases saying what a terrible thing this is, but all sit idle by and twiddle their thumbs in quiet approval through their despicable apathy. Has the world become so numb as to no longer feel, or does it just no longer care, because its silence is deafening.

We are not witnessing a war or a conflict between equal parties; we are watching the butchery of man as though a group of hunters were shooting canaries in a cage with a shotgun. A population of people already on the brink of starvation with no place to run, no place to hide, only the search for a place to lay down and die. Death may come from above in the sky or from a snipers bullet afar, it may be a tank shell bringing your house down upon you, rest assured death cometh sooner or late. This is not war, this is a pretext of the hell that awaits our complicit souls, and it is man in his lowest form.

The Palestinians make a costly mistake when they voted for representation by Hamas, a price they pay with the blood of their children. What Hamas has done has no excuse but let there be no mistake, where blame may be shared. Israel broke the ceasefire agreement on Nov 5th and by refusing to lift the economic siege of Gaza as they agreed to. When offered a chance to extend the ceasefire and lift the siege, Israel refused. When Israel trained for this invasion a full year prior to any ceasefire even being signed, it leaves one to conclude this was the desired result. These are facts of public record and admitted by Israel herself.

I can’t help but think, this is the company my country keeps, this is the kind of behavior it condones, as we are tired inexorably by our “special” relationship. This is the level my people been brought to, from a nation that championed the belief that all men were created equal and thus to be treated as men, not beast. This is what we are now and will be remembered by in future generations. We won’t tell our children and grandchildren about a glorious battle where the righteous gained a foot, we will hold our heads in shameful reluctance that we lost our souls and traded our humanity for the favors of another. I no longer recognize my own country and known not what has become of my people.

“Mankind censure injustice, fearing that they may be the victims of it and not because they shrink from committing it”