"Silent enim leges inter arma" (For the laws are silent among the armed) -Cicero
Israel is bombing Palestinians along the Gaza Strip. They are getting ready to launch ground forces and more killing.
My image of Israel is a video of a Palestinian father, Jamal Al-Durrah trying to protect his 12 year old son Mohammed Al-Durrah from Israeli gun fire; a father's most horrific nightmare made real on a city street. Despite the father's pleas his son Jamal is shot and killed by Israeli bullets.This incident, which took place on Sept. 30th 2000 lives forever in my mind.
The United States president, Barack Obama, issued a statement, "we support Israel's steps to protect themselves" but he is not speaking for me. And I am certain he is not speaking for any decent human being who objects to bullying and wholesale murder.
Israel is doing just that. And I feel the way decent humans must have felt in the late 1930s when they read about the Germans and the atrocities that they were perpretrating on Jewish citizens.
I can not, in good conscience, sit idly by and let the rest of the world think that all Americans are pro Israel. I most certainly am not.
I see the Israelis government for exactly what it is: a blood thirsty aggressor. A militarily superior power, courtesy of wealthy Jewish American benefactors, using air strikes to rain death upon its weaker neighbor, the Palestinians. What is the Palestinian crime? Existing apparently.
I am writing this in hopes that others around the world will speak up and DEMAND that Israel cease killing innocent men, women and children at once. Not in the name of any make believe god or nonsensical holy belief, but in the name of decency and what is the right thing to do.
"The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything." -Albert Einstein.
