So does Bush's illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq. On Dec 29, 2:58 pm, Morpheal <[email protected]> wrote: > GAZA “HOLOCAUST” REQUIRES WAR CRIMES TRIALS > > BBC quotes a Palestinian in Gaza: “There are shortages of everything > here from bread to electricity. People just want to live as humans but > have to go without fuel, without being able to heat their homes, > without electricity for 18 hours at a time.” > > That was the situation before the attack by Israel. The situation in > the Gaza ghetto, where Israel has kept a concentration of arab, > muslim, palestinians virtually prisoners, never knowing if they will > have any food, medicine, fuel for cooking, electricity,... or if they > will not have anything at all. Can we expect every Gaza Palestinian to > control his or her anger, during years of suffering, held in what > increasingly becomes an Israeli concentration camp ? No. Some have > attempted to express their frustration and anger at Israel, by > retaliating. While Palestinian anger and violent retaliation, using > rockets against Israel, is never right, can it be considered > provoked ? Certainly it has been provoked. Provocation to anger, and > loss of tempers, has occurred. The historical record in Gaza, as to > the suffering of the people there, is enough to show that there has > been continued, consistent, repeated, provication to anger. > > Who then is guilty ? The provoked or those who have continually > chosen to provoke them ? > > In a civilized world one nation cannot take upon itself the punishing > of a whole population, by violent means, simply because a minority > within that population are alleged to be acting wrongfully. When one > such group does so to another, injuring and killing women, children, > non combatants, indiscriminately, simply because they happen to belong > to a particular ethnic, religious, and national group, then that > nation is conducting the equivalent of a “holocaust”. The world cannot > permit Israel to conduct the equivalent of a “holocaust”. When will > the historical victims of that type of violence learn that they > themselves must never, under any circumstances, victimize others in > any way similarly to the manner than they were victimized. Jewish > people were deprived of the means to life, segregated due to their > Jewish religion, as an ethnic group, wrongfully tortured (traumatized, > wounded) and killed. Now Palestinians, who are arabs according to > ethnicity, and of the muslim religion, who have already been > segregated and substantially deprived, are now being wounded, killed, > and further deprived of the means to life, simply because they are > muslims, arabs, and chance to be living segregated on the border of > Israel. It is not likely that any of the wounded and killed are rocket > firing terrorists. And even if one is, among a hundred casualties, it > cannot be right. Where the practice follows such similar principles, > the victimization, of ten, a hundred, thousands, or millions, is not > the question. The question is the victimization as such, and it must > not be allowed to happen, and it cannot be right, no matter who the > people happen to be, according to religious creed, or ethnicity. > > Punishing a whole people, for the wrongs of a few of their numbers, > cannot ever be right. It cannot ever be justified. It cannot ever be > tolerated by humanity, and it must never be tolerated or excused, for > the sake of humanity. Much more so when the people who have acted > wrongfully were provoked. > > I recall a Palestinian saying that peace with Israel was, in his > opinion, an impossibility, and that living with Israel was also an > impossibility. I did not really agree with or perhaps understand his > contention on that issue. Surely Israel’s current actions in Gaza are > proving him right, and are proving me wrong, in my naive belief that > peace between arab muslims and Israeli Jews can be realized and is > possible. I was naive, before the Gaza holocaust began. I thought both > sides would and could find common ground, and work together for a > common peace and betterment of the shared human situation. Not so. The > Gaza holocaust has destroyed that possibility. I now cannot see how > that possibility could, or would, ever likely be restored as a real > possibility. Arab muslims will be hunting their jewish attackers, both > those who gave the orders and those who followed the orders, for > generations, in the same way as Jews today still hunt Nazi war > criminals. The Jewish criminals of the Gaza holocaust, will eventually > have to pay the same price as the Nazi holocaust criminals paid after > that era came to an end. Will they not ? Isn’t it the same logic, of > segregate, deprive, attack and murder, women, children, non > combatants, innocents, and isn’t it the same price to be paid ? > > There will have to be a war crimes trial after the Gaza holocaust. > Will there not ? > > How else can the United Nations, and the world community, possibly > claim any sense of justice in the matter ? > > What Israel has now done is create a situation in Gaza from which > those imprisoned there, starved, deprived, segregated, and oppressed > in a climate of constant fear, cannot possibly recover. There are no > ways, no means, for recovery. There is nothing there, in Gaza, to > facilitate proper care for the injured, or to provide means for the > living. They say “the city is dead”, and in fact it means humanity is > dead. Israel is murdering humanity. > > Robert Morpheal --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. 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