Most people in the UK feel utterly powerless as they watch a genocide happen in real time, fully backed by our bastard of a government. For as long as I can remember the people of Britain and Ireland have had a lot of love for the Palestinian people and their ongoing struggle, this isn’t something new.
The world is watching Israel kill thousands of innocent people, at least half of them children, without any remorse. They won’t stop until they’re gone. They’ve blocked all water, food and aid. They’ve cut the electricity and internet so that Palestinians cannot communicate with or show the world what is happening. They're killing the journalists who report on what’s happening without consequence. They’re telling people to evacuate and then bombing them as they do. They say that there is no such thing as an innocent Palestinian civilian but 50% of the civilians are children, all they want to do is play!
Palestinians are currently waiting for death at any second, they pray that they die together so that nobody has to look for the others. They pray their children die quickly so they do not feel pain. There are bombs falling all around them relentlessly and they’re just waiting for one to hit them.
People are angry and heartbroken because how can Israel get away with this? Why is the West funding this? Why are Israelis gleefully supporting this? Nothing has been learned from what has happened before, history is repeating itself and it’s making people want to shout about the injustice of it all. That’s not self centred, that’s being a decent, empathetic human being who wants to do something, anything, to help.