My friends, do you recall this horrific, nauseating balcony scene from Schindler's List?
That is what I immediately thought of that when I read this in the Guardian the other day:
[D]ozens of American doctors and nurses who served in Gaza . . . last year testified they had received the bodies of Palestinian children shot in the head or chest by Israeli snipers. Israeli soldiers have confessed that they are deliberately targeting children. Nick Maynard – a British doctor working in Gaza’s Nasser hospital – says that he is seeing clusters of young teenagers who have been shot in different body parts: on one day, it’s the abdomen, on another, the head or neck, on another, the testicles. “So there’s a very clear pattern and it’s almost as if a game is being played,” he says.
What is the difference between the movie scene and what is happening in Gaza now? The answer is, none: it is murder for sport. Just like the filthy Nazi in the film. If that is not an abomination in the eyes of God and all mankind, what is?
This devil's work has nothing to do with religion. It would be the same whether the perpetrators were Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, atheist, or Martian. Murder is murder. And the word for murder of a whole nation or people is genocide. If you need to see it with your own eyes, here are some videos that are very hard to watch - but the world is watching. So is God. And God is not partial.
A report from Turkish state television:
An American veteran describes the war crimes against civilians he saw perpetrated by other Americans working for the Israelis:
Dr. Nick Maynard, quoted above, describes the mass starvation and horrific target practice the Israeli Defence Force has been using on Gaza children:
A final comment from an editorial in the Guardian, emphasis mine:
Faced with the systematic destruction of Palestinian life in Gaza, other states must together produce a systematic, comprehensive and concrete response. If not now, when? What more would it take to convince them? This is first and foremost a catastrophe for Palestinians. But if states continue to allow international humanitarian law to be shredded, the repercussions will be felt by many more around the world in years to come. History will not ask whether these governments did anything to stop genocide by an ally, but whether they did all they could.
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The hatred that is being engendered will last for generations and will fuel revenge which will lead to more bloodshed and violence and atrocities and hatred and revenge and hatred and violence for generations.
Yes, this genocide will blacken the name of Israel for generations to come. As if there wasn't already enough hatred between them and their enemies. I'm sure there are decent Israelis who are as appalled as we are at the atrocities - there have been many protests against the government there. But the decent people, like we ourselves, are trapped beneath the tyranny of right-wing fanatics who have taken over the government and brook no effective opposition - or so it seems to me.
Be that as it may, and even considering the need to strike back against the perpetrators of the horrific October 7 massacre, there can be NO justification for exterminating an entire population. As my mama used to say, two wrongs don't make a right.
The cosmic irony is that the state of Israel was founded as a refuge for those who survived the horrific tortures and killings of the Nazis. But in just a couple of generations, what have their own descendants become?
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