WORLD DESCENDING INTO “STONE AGE” USING MODERN WEAPONS The United States House of Representatives followed the Senate in voting support for Israel’s military actions. This abject failure to recognize the plight of the civilians of Gaza, who comprise the vast majority of people in Gaza, indicates an absolute moral and ethical bankruptcy of the United States of America. The news from Gaza is sparse, due to lack of journalists being allowed into the area, but what news there is indicates a very clear picture. Israel’s violence is increasing, not diminishing. Instead of breaking up the fight, and dealing with the combatants in a civilized manner, the choice has been made to condone the inhumanity that the continued combat between two rival gangs of bullies, is bringing upon Gaza’s civilian population.
The people are largely reduced to the most primitive conditions imaginable. Some of the wounded are reported to have suffered three to four days without water or nourishment. It will not become only the “stone age” conditions that people in Gaza are now experiencing, living in bombed out dwellings, shattered by the onslaught. It threatens to become a “stone age” for all of humankind. A “stone age” where the example of Gaza will become the rule, not the exception, and where diplomacy and its handmaiden of international justice, will be mocked, laughed away, and never again trusted or revered. It is doubtful that much of the world will take American ideas, leadership, or American led international justice, seriously, after witnessing Gaza. Today Israeli intensive bombing was shown to have completely destroyed areas of residential buildings. This morning photographs of Gaza showed a massive fire raging in the heart of the city. Without fuel, without water pumps, without water, there is no way to fight fires in Gaza. Munitions were seen exploding into aerial balls of flame, spreading their destruction as they fell from the sky. An area of residences, appeared to have been carpet bombed. The civilian death toll is known to be well in excess of the approximately 800 counted thus far. More than a quarter of those being children. Too young to even know what the conflict is really about. Of the wounded, who have been brought to doctors, we might estimate a similar number of children, more than 500, seriously wounded. Add to that the women, and other non combatants. Combatants seem to be rarely seen. Presumably they have died in the battle. Fuel will soon be non existent in Gaza. The last of the generators will cease to function. The water pumps and sewage pumps have already failed. There is nothing left to sustain humanity or human life in Gaza. Nevertheless the bombs, artillery shells, and bullets continue. The United Nations Human Rights Commission today declared that they believe that there are very severe violations of human rights and international laws in Gaza. It is increasingly important, to the future, that those nations who are in disagreement with the United States of America, clearly express that disagreement, in words and actions. It is impossible to comprehend how the United States can consider itself to be in the right, when so many are suffering so extremely, from two criminal gangs battling it out, using some of the world’s deadliest technology. Civilians are always the victims in conflict, but in Gaza this is more true. The world has a moral and ethical responsibility to stop the fighting and adequately assist the victims, bringing the brutal thugs from both sides of the conflict to arrest and punishment. International justice is a mere farce, if events in Gaza continue to play out as they are playing out today. Civilization is a mere farce, if the conflict is allowed to continue. Humanity is a mere joke if the world cannot act to stop, if not prevent, such tragedies. The world is rapidly descending into the stone age, using modern weapons of destruction. In many ways the destruction in Gaza is mass destruction. In that small geographic space it cannot be otherwise with so many people living there. If the world fails to act, in a truly moral and ethical manner, new empires and alliances will rise up, with different ideas than those that attempted to gain ground and precedence in recent decades. The voices of reason, diplomacy, and negotiation will become drowned out. New voices will rise up, proclaiming a new reign of pure power, force, military might, and military resolve, allied to conquest rather than aligned for cooperation. The United States of America knows not what they do. May God forgive the United States of America, having entered a very dark time in its own history. Perhaps the darkest since its own declaration of independence. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
