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GAZA IS HISTORY REPEATING - ANOTHER TOTAL FAILURE OF HUMANITY THE WORLD COMMUNITY MUST BREAK THE SIEGE OF GAZA ONE MILLION FOUR HUNDRED AND SEVENTY FIVE THOUSAND HUMAN BEINGS ARE NOW FACING THE IMMEDIATE DANGER OF IMMANENT PERISHING No one has ever won over a population by a long process of deprivation and harassment, followed by mass brutality, traumatic wounding of bodies and minds, besieging with terror and inflicting death. History has taught that again, and again. Repeating that error is not humanity's progress, but is in fact its decline. The principle of besieging, depriving, militarily beating, a population always required continued and persistent oppression to guard against their rising up against the oppressors after the fact of that oppression. Nations and empires could subdue, by military means, if they were willing to continue to subdue by intensive military involvement. When that subjugation came to an end, usually due to overextended and strained or failing military resources, the conquering power inevitably failed. We have seen every empire and nation that followed that same pattern of aggressive subjugation fail. None has ever succeeded, in the long term. Each has had to invest an increasing amount of military commitment to continue its subjugation of the growing hatred that came from conquest. Primitive lessons that many "advanced" nations have failed to learn. Some nations have not advanced in their humanity and in terms of their civilization in thousands of years. They still insist that they must repeat the same errors of ancient history. We must also consider that if a gang of criminals (or terrorists) is active in a city we cannot punish the whole city. We know that people in a condition of fear will choose those they see as stronger, often allowing bullies, those perceived as the strongest men in their community, into power. People often feel they have no choice. It is the act of those who have been made too afraid, for too long, and who feel victimized and powerless already. That is when dictators rise up. That is when extremism rises up among a population making it victim. Severe economic hardships, persistent victimization, harassment from another power, a feeling of being consistently oppressed and deprived, kept in a condition of constant and increasing fear about the increasingly uncertain and difficult future, is the socio-economic decay in which political evil begins to grow and thrive. If you add more of the same decay, the way one adds manure to a farm field, you can expect more growth. In the instance of political evil. The people / remain the victims of circumstances that they themselves did not cause, and cannot themselves find any ways to change. The cure for the situation would have been to further socio-economic growth, to provide for human needs, building new trust in peace and a partnership in progress to better meeting real human needs. When the people feel secure and protected, are provided for, they will tend to eliminate the criminals themselves. The criminals will lose their power over them. The bullies will no longer have gangs to follow them. Those do not thrive in any semblance to normalcy and reasonable human prosperity. They thrive in difficult situations of human suffering. A ghetto is a ghetto, even if it is 1.5 million people. Gaza was being turned into an Israeli run ghetto, a prison in effect. In prisons and ghettos, all manner of thugs, bullies, toughs, tend to rise up and "run" the inmates. A simple study of prison societies will provide adequate proof. Imprison a whole population and the same sociology becomes applicable. People are won over by care, concern, understanding, provision for needs, kindness, and generosity, rather than persistent abuse. Winning over the people does not require military action. Completely to the contrary. Winning them over with kindness and generosity would have destroyed the power that had been gained by any criminals (intent on acts of violence as their chosen means of political expression). We can only hope that the humanity of those who oppose Israel's inhumanity in Gaza is far greater, and that it would not seek to inflict upon all of Israel a similar fate to that which it has inflicted on Gaza. Inhumanity does give rise to inhumanity. The fact that there are war criminals, does not imply that all of the people of Israel should suffer because of that gang of bullies and the wrongs they have inflicted. This is the same principle as is applicable to the fact that all of Gaza should never have to suffer because of the wrongs done by a gang of bullies from among them. The danger is real. Those treated as if they are wild beasts, being hunted as prey, will become wild beasts and will hunt their prey. They learn the lesson that is taught to them on the basis of how they are treated. Treated in inhuman, brutal, ways, most people tend to become inhuman and brutal. True humanity is about breaking that cycle of violence, of inhumanity and brutality. We must recognize that the innocents: infants, children, women, non combatants, far outnumber those who are guilty of actual acts of violence. They outnumber them at least 50 to 1. That is if we accept the 25,000 number that has been claimed to be the strength of the Hamas fighting force. That is one million four hundred and seventy five thousand innocent people, now virtually without sewage treatment and pumping, electricity, fuel for heat and cooking, food to eat, medicine, and safety from violence and terror. The world must do anything necessary to immediately end the wrongful siege of Gaza. The siege of Gaza must be broken by any means necessary to break it. Diplomatic or otherwise. For the sake of one million four hundred and seventy five thousand human beings who are now entering the condition of immediate peril to their continued survival. Robert Morpheal --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
