Old Testament Justice?
Israel the exterminator.
Most Americans must have seen the news this past week, when the Palestinians in Gaza breached the wall which imprisons them, and hundreds poured into Egypt to purchase basic human necessities? Media referred to it as an Exodus. Egypt has been pressured to seal the people off from entering their country by rebuilding the wall.
Why does the world tolerate these injustices by Israel? How long is the world supposed to feel guilty for the horrors of the German holocaust? And thus permit Israel to repeat virtually the same atrocities imposed upon European Jews by the Nazis, now upon the Palestinians? Israel oppresses the Palestinian people who have a right to the same land Israel occupied after the war. Israel has created a ghetto for the impoverished Palestinian people and seems to be bent upon exterminating them, and yet the U.S. government and the world stands by, endorsing such aggression.
A priest in Gaza pleads for his people.
A Catholic priest in Hamas-controlled Gaza has described the situation in his parish as “almost as bad as hell” and condemned what he called “punishment until death”.
“This is not punishment for salvation. This is punishment for extermination. It is the punishment of a nation.”
The priest explained how thousands of people had escaped Palestine into Egypt when gunmen blew up part of the border wall at the Rafah crossing overnight on Tuesday. The exodus has taken place as a result of an ongoing Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip to combat rocket attacks on its territory.
Mgr Musallam explained: “People have gone to find food and employment [in Egypt]. There is no food here, no employment here. We have a lack of water and electricity.
“The situation is critical. Streets are covered with sewerage. I see the sick crying and dying.
“Our hospitals need electricity and medication but out of 3,700 parcels of supplies only nine were allowed in.”
“I see children crying in huge distress all day long. Two pupils in the school, aged nine and six, were wounded in the bombings. They are afraid and traumatised because of the bombardments and of the darkness at night.
“They cannot even go to the toilet at night. They wet their beds but there is no water to wash afterwards. People come here to ask for water and electricity because we have a generator. They come to cook and they come for a shower.” - TotalCatholic.com
This is criminal - why isn’t Israel considered a rogue nation?
Vox Nova has a good commentary on the Israeli oppression of Gaza: Collective Punishment.
[Photo credit: "Palestinian Child" - Annie's Letters Blog]
