PROVOKING THOUGHT

The world stands aghast at the carnage happening in the so-called 2-state areas of Israel and Palestine. As we write over 9,200 are dead and 24,600 have been injured.

Everyone talks of the Israeli right to defend itself; the point being missed here – and we would like to ask why – is that the people of Palestine also have a right to live their lives however convoluted that existence undoubtedly is.

HAMAS is a political authority that has earned the franchise of the people in the Gaza. All the public services were made available by them, elected to so do by the people of Gaza. 

As much as the LTTE in Sri Lanka had their political wing, as events have shown there is a renegade group of pro-Palestininan life, who pass themselves off as being representative of the Palestinian people. Internationally they would be called terrorists and the Israeli reference to them (HAMAS) being IS and IS is HAMAS rings true.

However the State of Israel cannot in the guise of eradicating the terrorist virtually carpet bomb legitimate civilians in the North Gaza. That is tantamount to a perversion of the various treaties in place to protect humanitarian concerns globally.

As much as they may not like it Israel must be forced to stop its cavalier attitude of bombing so-called outlaw positions in the full knowledge that the target will necessarily involve the wonton loss of civilian life. Over 2,000 children have perished. The numbers are rising not abating. The world watches aghast.

Israel has run raids in Syria and in the Lebanon. Is Netanyahou trying to get beyond himself by starting a war in the area. Is the Israeli PR machinery so narrow in their focus that they fail to discover the carnage that is happening in the Gaza right now? Perhaps the UN should consider revoking the Israeli membership of the UN. 

As much as you, me or anyone else, the Palestinian People (wherever they may be – Gaza or the Westbank )  simply do have a right to life. That’s a fundamental part of the United Nations Charter.

It is about time that the world listened to itself and took a firm hand in reining in the horses – stop an end to the genocide that is happening before our TV screen.