While They Prayed…

Today’s missile attack on a school refuge which killed over 100 and seriously injured hundreds during morning prayers guarantees that there will never, ever be peace in Israel. With nowhere in Gaza safe from Israeli missiles and shells; most homes, schools, mosques and hospitals destroyed; with disease and starvation now common, when will the world act and the USA stop supplying Israel the means to destroy and kill?

As I watch the TV coverage supplied by brave journalists, I see young children wandering through the ruins confronted by broken bodies, body parts and blood. Ask the question: how will this horror effect these young children who themselves have probably lost relatives and friends? Physically and mentally it is hard to imagine that these children are not dreadfully harmed by what they experience and see.

And how will they respond? In the only way they will be able to when they grow older, by joining in with the revolt against Israel’s rule and harm. Israel refuses to stop destroying, killing and injuring until Gaza is no more, and a once proud nation is ground into dust. That’s why there will never, ever be peace in this region. The real shame is that Israel and its allies fail to see this and press on regardless.

Surviving families were left only with body parts

Israel claimed that the school which was destroyed today was a base for Hamas fighters. One of the multitude of fatal lies told during the last 10 months. A recent Israel poll indicated a renewed and strong support for Israel’s leader Netanyahu. I find it hard to believe that Israeli citizens support what is happening in Gaza and the person responsible for it. And in the meantime the Israeli hostages remain held, in poor health and in constant danger.

USA Election

If there was a single item that proved that Biden was unfit to be president for another 4 years was the fact that he waited so long to admit the fact. By nominating the vice president for November’s election against the criminal Trump he at least has given the Democrats a fighting chance of beating the biggest threat to Americans and the world. But he has also left it a little late to change a thoroughly right-biased Supreme Court…

Gaza

With Israel’s most recent assassinations of Hamas and Hezbollah leaders it is clear that Israel’s leadership does not want a ceasefire, rather that the destruction of Palestinian people and Gaza infrastructure continues with annexation the final objective (look at the map and the location of this strip of land). Biden’s devastating failure (along with other USA allies) is to have continued to supply Israel with the means of carrying out and sustaining one of the most destructive and genocidal wars on record. With close to 40,000 dead (70% women and children), nearly 100,000 injured (many seriously), 21,000 children missing and thousands still remain buried underneath rubble the USA still declare that Israel is allowed to ‘defend itself’, and support is ironclad. The USA’s view that the International Justice System is incorrect in its condemnation of Israel’s actions is beyond comprehension. One wonders what is causing this unremitting support? Could it be that the USA views Israel as its only solid base in the Middle East and in effect a proxy power?

The USA could stop this destruction and slaughter overnight by refusing to supply any more offensive weapons and support to Israel until a permanent peace is negotiated. Further, that other supporting nations also cease supply and support. In the meantime Gaza’s infrastructure, including hospitals, mosques, schools, power and water; domestic dwellings are beyond repair and Gaza has been effectively rendered uninhabitable. In addition, the Occupied West Bank is slowly but surely being annexed through the destruction of property and roads, the false imprisonment of nearly 10,000 Palestinians (many of whom have been tortured), and the robbery of Palestinian homes and land by Israeli settlers. Israel has ignored all UN current and past resolutions.

The once proud, productive, prosperous, secular and creative state of Palestine has slowly but surely being dismantled, person by person, brick by brick, olive tree by ancient olive tree. And by another state who experienced and never forget the horror of the Holocaust perpetrated by the Nazis.