I spent the weekend in Jerusalem, and I spent the day composing, in mind, a lovely blog entry about spirituality and brotherhood and how we all believe in the same God...
Well, not anymore.
59 dead people in Gaza TODAY, at least 20 of them children.
FIFTY NINE. And counting. Surely more by the time I finish this entry.
Mass-murder? Massacre? How can you put a label on that?
Well, thankfully, I won’t have to: the Israeli deputy minister of Defense, Matan Vilnai, has threatened of a “Palestinian Holocaust”. Thank you, deputy minister. So, genocide is what you have in mind? Thanks for speaking it up.
Being in Palestine - albeit on the other side of the country, in the West Bank - gives a whole new perspective to this. I am, like the rest of the Palestinian people, under the mercy of the madmen in West Jerusalem, who seem to be set on celebrating 60 years of Nakba with, well, another Nakba.
Think of it. Deir Yassin and the like, 1947/1948: Jewish terrorist organisations (Haganah, Irgun, Stern, etc...) would circle Palestinian villages and mass-murder everyone inside.
Gaza looks scarily like that. It’s circled, its people are trapped inside, and the Israeli army, which is little more than a highly trained and well organised terrorist organisation, is mass-murdering them.
One ‘good’ thing that might come out of this, though: rebuild the ties between Gaza and the West Bank, reminding those in the West Bank and in East Jerusalem of how bad those in Gaza have it.
I hope the Palestinian politics will follow.
2 comments:
I can't believe Matan Vilnai actually said that... when will this end?
it's been too long and painful, when will it end?.. Take care there.
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