“To honour Hiroshima without acting for Gaza is to betray both.” In Japan for the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Palestinian genocide survivor Mariam Khateeb demands action.
Due to family reasons, I see in Gaza the horrors inflicted by the Nazis upon a few members of my family (non-Jewish opponents to the Germans’ occupation of my home country).
Like Gaza Palestinians today, they were arbitrary jailed; deported for some to concentration camps; starved or gunned down, etc.
There are those of us who absolutely knew what was going to happen in Gaza.
Two days after the Al Aqsa Flood I was already saying that we would be facing events that would stretch far,far beyond what had up until then been regarded as conflict restricted to a local region. It was inevitable that the actions of the remains of the British Empire would eventually lead to the demand for justice for those who had been dispossessed by the imposition of an artificial “nation” by a foreign power. What this awful situation has shown us is that what we believed were the central tenets of our so called “western civilisation “ were nothing short of lies. The arrogance and pomposity of our faded empire having the bare faced cheek to lecture others about morality and decency is revealed for what it is. White supremacy and racism masquerading as liberal democracy. I’m sure that there will be an attempt to get this to go away and fade into obscurity but it will never be forgotten nor forgiven. In my opinion the only way to resolve this hideous mess is by the complete dismantling of the state of Israel as it exists presently and the replacement of it with a single state with equal rights for all of its citizens from the river to the sea.
Thank you very much for this testimony.
Due to family reasons, I see in Gaza the horrors inflicted by the Nazis upon a few members of my family (non-Jewish opponents to the Germans’ occupation of my home country).
Like Gaza Palestinians today, they were arbitrary jailed; deported for some to concentration camps; starved or gunned down, etc.
#StopGazaGenocideNOW
There are those of us who absolutely knew what was going to happen in Gaza.
Two days after the Al Aqsa Flood I was already saying that we would be facing events that would stretch far,far beyond what had up until then been regarded as conflict restricted to a local region. It was inevitable that the actions of the remains of the British Empire would eventually lead to the demand for justice for those who had been dispossessed by the imposition of an artificial “nation” by a foreign power. What this awful situation has shown us is that what we believed were the central tenets of our so called “western civilisation “ were nothing short of lies. The arrogance and pomposity of our faded empire having the bare faced cheek to lecture others about morality and decency is revealed for what it is. White supremacy and racism masquerading as liberal democracy. I’m sure that there will be an attempt to get this to go away and fade into obscurity but it will never be forgotten nor forgiven. In my opinion the only way to resolve this hideous mess is by the complete dismantling of the state of Israel as it exists presently and the replacement of it with a single state with equal rights for all of its citizens from the river to the sea.
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Poignant and powerful writing. May the world act now. Deploy international Peacekeepers before it’s too late. 🙏🏼
The most horrible thing is that we know what genocide looks like and still can't stop it. It's something I will never understand.
Another very powerful reminder of what these great nations of the west truely stand for. Humanity not even in the top 10.