You follow the news day in and day out – and you despair.
Soon, it will be two years since Israel unleashed its latest round of genocidal savagery against defenceless Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.
The question is no longer how a decent human being could call themselves an “Israeli”, let alone a Zionist, but, more urgently, how we, humanity at large, can manage to live with ourselves as this ferocious mass murder continues at the hands of a heartless, remorseless regime.
The numbers are staggering – in the tens of thousands, if not more. The crime is overwhelming, and the coalition of European and American states aiding and abetting – indeed joining – in the barbaric act leaves no room for hope.
How do we survive with a sense of morality, of right and wrong, in the face of such sadistic brutalities: war crimes and crimes against humanity, including mass murder, mass starvation, total occupation, targeted assassinations, the killing of journalists and medical professionals and the deliberate targeting of children – lured to places in search of food and then murdered – not to mention the systematic eradication of all signs of social life and the very infrastructure of civic existence?
This is Israel: a genocidal state. How would humanity live with that fact? ….more
