Haven't been on MN in about a year and my once funny to me moniker seems very inappropriate here but I can't bloody change it despite trying.
I just had to log in and write as it feels like the world has turned it's back on what we are seeing on the news and the far starker realities you can see on social media and the internet.
I have this evening read about and seen a photograph of dead Palestinian children, younger even than my own, babies really, lying in the street, no dignity in death as has been the same for them in life.
What fucking world are we living in where despite what side of the war you believe to be right that this is allowed to happen?
Families where when they go to bed at night, they have to think about whether to sleep in the same room and all perish if a missile hits or to sleep in separate rooms and hope that if something happened, some of them may be spared?
In contrast, I have seen images of Israelis in deckchairs on a beach watching missile strikes as some macabre form of entertainment. I have also read the post up thread about the chant about there being no school as there is no children left.
WHEN IS THE WORLD GOING TO FUCKING WAKE UP AND STOP THIS??
Just now on Sky news, it was reporting that there have been 1450 Palestinian deaths since the conflict broke out, the majority of these being civilians. In contrast, 67 Israeli deaths, the majority being soldiers with only 3 civilians. Doesn't this statistic fucking say it all?
It seems that terms of war crimes and atrocities are saved for ...well what? Bandied about when our nice little allies are attacked? Yet, Palestinians are suffering war crimes and atrocities at the hands of Israel yet nothing, absolutely fucking nothing, is being done to stop them - no condemnation from western world leaders at what is clearly genocide, no interventions, nothing.
Today, the ceasefire was brought to a sudden end by the kidnap of a soldier allegedly by Hamas. Where is the proof of this to justify the retaliations? Wasn't it acknowledged that the 3 teenagers alleged to have been killed by Hamas was unsubstantiated?
I am disgusted by the apathy of Cameron, Obama et al. I am disgusted at the one sided nature of reporting that is spewed out and I am sickened that innocent children, men and women are caught up in this daily hell with no end or resolution in sight.
Is it any wonder there is such hatred towards the west when we stand by and watch these atrocities? In fact, in doing so, the west then becomes complicit to those acts.
I've cut and pasted this from the Al Jazeera website - In a speech published after the ceasefire broke down, Saudi King Abdullah hit out at the "inexcusable" world silence over Israel's "war crimes" in Gaza."We see the blood of our brothers in Palestine being shed in collective massacres, that have spared nobody, and in war crimes against humanity... all taking place under the eyes and ears of the international community... that has stood indifferently watching events in the whole region," the king said. This silence is inexcusable" and will "result in a generation that rejects peace and believes only in violence," he said.
Says it all.