Who Cares?
Doctors without Borders reports:
In the year since the Great March
of Return began, thousands of Palestinians, mostly young men, from the Gaza
Strip have suffered life changing injuries at the hands of Israeli forces.[i]
Most have developed “severe bone infections”, In fact, Israeli forces have injured more
than 7,400 Palestinians during the protest. But, who cares?
Certainly not Benjamin Netanyahu. After all, it is his
troops who are causing the suffering. If the Palestinians would just get off
the world’s stage, all would be well.
And certainly not Donald Trump. To him, the world belongs
only to the winners, like himself, and
anyone can see, the Palestinians are not winning.
So, what can we do, if we care?. We might read the news with more critical eyes
and talk to our friends.
You see, when you get down to it, it’s not the Palestinians
who are on trial here. We are.
Are we the kind of Americans who care? I can only hope so.
Thomas Are
September 10, 2019
[i] Yumma Patel, Over 1,000
patients In Gaza s uffering from “severe infections from gunshot wounds
sustained in GrwatMarch of Return. Mondoweiss.net, Sptember 4, 2019.
