Such a great talent for writing.... I am glad you are on the side of humanity!
On Dec 31 2008, 1:29 pm, Morpheal <[email protected]> wrote: > TRAGEDY OF GAZA IS UNPARALLELED IN ITS DIVISIVENESS OF HUMANITY: > > The Gaza strip is 1.4 million people. Approximately half males, and > half females, and a large number of them youths and children. The > world does not seem to understand, nor does it seem capable yet, of > understanding and entering into an honest, fact based, discussion and > resolution of the situation in Gaza. The media continues to be full of > lies and deceptions. > > Israel could have made peace with Palestine, by improving the > conditions of life for Palestinians, ending its provocations. > Nevertheless, the hardness of heart there, is such that there is a > failure to grant even a semblance of humanity to the targets of the > Israeli attack. Dehumanization of the target is a consistent and > prevalent tactic of the brutalities of war. It largely tends to > determine the means and effects of military action. > > Israel has chosen to continue to dehumanize, deprive, and now to > blatantly and indiscriminately to kill and destroy. Not only to > destroy, but to destroy a region where infrastructure is poor at best, > and the destruction is so much more deadly than it would be in most > anywhere else. > > We can easily comprehend now how any dialogue for peace has become > “empty words”, drowned out by violent actions. There are those who > will deem Israel’s assault on Gaza as unforgivable and irreconcilable. > Even though numbers of casualties are comparatively small (only > thousands as of yet), in comparison to other conflicts, the tragedy > has no political parallel in recent history. It decisively puts one > religion completely against another in deadly and total, essentially > irrevocable, confrontation. We must remember that casualties will rise > rapidly as the action progresses and even if it stops immediately. > Lack of infrastructure and the poverty of the people are factors in > the severity of illness and death that inevitably follow. It is very > doubtful that international organizations can mobilize effective and > rapid enough response to save tens of thousands who will likely suffer > and die as the secondary and tertiary effects of conflict begin to > take hold over the region. First the wounded, then the general > population due to disease, without even mentioning the severity of > psychological trauma. > > We must remember that muslims gained control of the area in 637 AD, > under Amr-ibn-al-s, when a Byzantine garrison and the Jewish community > in Gaza city, defended against a muslim attack. We must remember that > the great grandfather of the muslim Prophet Mohammad (peace be upon > him) is believed buried there, where a mosque was built upon his > grave. The significance of this is that there is reason to think that > Israel has a covert agenda to push muslims out of Gaza, to regain it, > back to the pre 637 condition of being a Jewish city. Of course it is > not possible in any practical sense, but the motivation for pushing > muslims out of the Gaza strip seems to have deep, very dark, roots in > the history of the region. So too, the Byzantine garrison seems to > connect with Europe and America in a way that is unsettling, as to > what motivates the irrational support for Israel’s continued > provocations and attack. History tends to cause such strange > recurrences of the same. It rarely forgets, but subsequent generations > follow rather blindly and unquestioningly where that history tends to > lead them. Usually it leads to tragedy. > > Israel had captured control of Gaza after 1967, when the six day war > took place. It was 1987 when the first Intifada occurred. Muslim > organized resistance to Jewish occupation. The Jewish “garrison” > withdrew in 2005. It had conceded Jericho, on the West Bank to the > Palestinian Authority in 1994. What is noteworthy is that there is no > corridor provided for connection between Gaza and the West Bank. > Israel controls the geography between the two, cutting off and > isolating one from the other. > > More than half of the extremely dense population of Gaza is refugees. > That is more than half a million people. 95% of the commerce and > industries of Gaza were closed down by Israeli closure of Gaza and the > Gaza strip. 75% of the people of Gaza are destitute, and totally > dependent upon charity for survival. Israel keeps interfering with and > cutting off that provision of necessities. After 2005 muslims from > Gaza were no longer permitted to work in Israel, worsening the > desparate situation. Neither could they cross readily to the West Bank > to connect with their own Palestinian people. Gaza became a > concentration camp of destitute refugees, denied any possible hope for > economic development or even the gaining of the means for survival. > Prisoners of Israel and international charity from international > relief organizations. > > We must remember that for every 1 dead there are approximately ten or > more injured. So 400 dead means 4000 wounded. Most with no hope for > any real and effective medical care. We know that Israel counts nearly > every adult male as being a combatant. That is the way it potentially > is with the Israeli army and that is the way it is judged as being in > regard to Gaza. No doubt some women are counted as combatants also. > The Israeli army does include women. The same standards are applied to > counting the casualties on the other side as one’s own. So we have a > distortion of casualty statistics. The number of non combatants killed > and wounded is greatly distorted by how military membership in the > region is accounted. There are many more civilian, non combatant,. > casualties than Israel is willing to admit. Similarly there are more > children, women, the old and infirm, and non combatant males in > jeopardy from the action, if not already wounded and in danger of > dying. Once we understand the severity of the growing toll of > casualties, and the outright lies surrounding the statistics, we begin > to understand why prior avenues of diplomacy will not suffice. The > world community is now being measured by nearly one half of its > membership, as to where it stands in relation to the tragedy. It is > considered a test of that community and its values that has and will > have a resounding echo in all of eternity. > > We must remember that while the conflict is ongoing most of 1.4 > million people have no supplies of necessities. Aid organizations do > not deliver and cannot usually deliver into a region under aggressive > military attack. This fact is part of Israel’s strategy against the > entire population of Gaza. 1.4 million are under deadly medieval style > siege. > > If any sense of real humanity still exists in this world then it must > act decisively and immediately in regard to the tragedy of the Gaza > strip and Gaza City. Civilization cannot really survive the inhumanity > that continues to occur in that region of our troubled world. Humanity > as a whole risks being plunged into a despair of nothing left other > than destruction, violence and deaths, when it fails to enforce > reasonable peace and to remedy the deprivations and oppressions that > provoked and brought about the type of illegal, unacceptable, action > that is now devastating a people and a part of our world that was > already on the brink of total annihilation by destitution, > deprivation, and being kept in constant terror. > > Robert Morpheal --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World-thread" 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/world-thread?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
