Just now Israel bombed Al-Ahli Baptist hospital in Gaza estimated >500
killed (patients, doctors, visitors etc). This followed the bombing of
another Anglican Hospital in Gaza. !!!! Aided by western governments, the
wanton Israeli destruction continues: of civilian buildings, attacks on
hospitals (four hospitals so far) and medical personnel, destroying
universities, targeting civil defense teams/first responders including
ambulances, wiping out whole families, and denying people water, medicine,
food, electricity, and fuel.Thousands of tonnes of bombs were dropped on
heavily populated areas leveling whole neighborhoods: 3500-5000 Palestinian
killed (number uncertain because of those under rubble of flattened
neighborhoods) and over 10,000 injured. Tens of thousands will die soon
of deprivation and lack of medical care (e.g. thousands on
kidney dialysis). Even Raz Segal Israeli historian, professor of Holocaust
and genocide studies at Stockton University says it is “A Textbook Case of
Genocide: Israel has been explicit about what it’s carrying out in Gaza.
Why isn’t the world listening?”
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/10/16/raz_segal_textbook_case_of_genocide
Why indeed the silence?????????????????????????????????So far, many governments are acting spineless and subservient to US/Israeli
governments (themselves losing credibility among their own people). US
War-monger-in-chief Biden is going to meet tomorrow with the Palestinian
President (term expired 11 years ago), Jordan’s king, and the Egyptian
President. Shame on all four of them for aiding and abetting
murder/genocide. Even Arab and Islamic countries which have relations with
Israel have not expelled “Israeli” ambassadors. Columbia (thankfully)
did. More countries must follow suit (and also deal with Israel’s partner
in crime, the USA!). Enough is enough. Estimated 1500 children murdered in
10 days (many still under the rubble).
Here were my predictions for this terrible year 2023 (sadly much of it came
true)
https://popular-resistance.blogspot.com/2022/12/political-prediction-for-2023.html
and even 20 years ago, I wrote a book explaining how to get out of this
mess created by Zionism and predicting that unless human rights are
centralized, endless wars will reslt that impact the whole world (not just
Palestine). The book Sharing the Land of Canaan: Human Rights and the
Israeli-Palestinian Struggle” can be read here:
http://qumsiyeh.org/sharingthelandofcanaan/
A group of young Palestinian activists just set up a webpage
http://ongaza.org <http://ongaza.org/faq> being circulated on social media
to answer questions like: Isn’t Israel defending itself? What about
international law? US and Arab countries? Do the Palestinians have a fair
chance to get their reality to the world? Where can I get real information?
They answer with useful links/resources and actions that you can do for
peace and justice and hoping that this will stay even if they will be gone:
http://ongaza.org <http://ongaza.org/faq>
Now I do want to say something I said before many times over the past 40
years. There is no win-lose or lose-win scenario here. There is only 1) a
lose-lose scenario which is the destruction of 7.2 million Palestinians and
7 million Israelis living between the river and the sea under Zionist
hegemony OR 2) a win-win situation of stopping 75 year old oppression and
implementing justice (human rights, secular democratic state, equality)
based on international law including UNGA resolution 194 for return of
refugees. Yet, the immediate action is to stop the genocide because every
day creates more killings and millions will become radicalized. (we saw the
murder of a 6 year old Palestinian in Illinois yesterday).
17/10/23
Sympathy with victims and knowledge are not sufficient..Action is the best antidote to despair.
Please act. There are actions listed in this page
http://ongaza.org and actions listed on my website
http://qumsiyeh.org/whatyoucando/ PLEASE act in your own capacity but do go out in the streets today (Wednesday) to demand an end to the genocide committed by Israel aided and abetted by US and Werstern governments.
Small correction/addition to my last email: the hospital that Israel targeted massacring >500 civilians (most children) is Al-Ahli hospital which was first established by the Church Mission Society of the Church of England, managed between 1954 and 1982 by the Medical Mission of the Southern Baptist Church, and since 1980 was run by the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem (see
https://afedj.org/institution/ahli-arab-hospital-gaza-city/)
. Most of the families murdered are those who came to the area in front of the hospital thinking it was safer there since for 140 years it was a model of Christian-Muslim coexistence in Gaza. The images of body parts scattered even a hundred meter away from the site of the Israeli attack are so horrific and beyond description. But even more horrific was that even this incident did not stop the carnage. Israel continued its onslaught against the civilians of Gaza. Israel continues its onslaught on truth and spend billions on propaganda and media manipulation (much of it comes from tax-deductible donations and direct aid from the USA).
Some disgusting western (Zionist) media thus still parrot Zionist lies or give them the benefit of the doubt! Millions around the world are stunned at the depth of depravity of targeting even one of the last remaining bakeries after targeting several hospitals, residential areas, schools, universities, ambulances etc. Denying food, water, and medicine alone should be sufficient to expel Israeli ambassadors from every country on earth. Israel continues this and the bombing of civilians relentlessly. But demonstrations around the world grew.
As I wrote before, pleading to the US dominated western world to accept international law and international humanitarian law is not useful. They are intentionally destroying such law at the altar of the Golden Calf of Zionism. But now the game is up. Since the Nazi era ended, deliberate targeting of civilians was practiced by the US in Vietnam, Iraq and elsewhere (Martin Luther King said that the US is the biggest purveyor of violence in the world).In 2023 (pivotal year), civilized and decent people and governments everywhere must band together to stop Israel and its US mentor and benefactor. The stakes are very high. If Israel succeeds then other ruthless regimes will be encouraged to also get their way by might of arms and ignore international law.
There should be no ‘compromise’ that allows Israel to continue its occupation and apartheid policies in Palestine. A “cease-fire” and having other countries donate to rebuild some parts of the damage happened repeatedly in the past as a face-saving measure. It is like having a rapist stop for a while, treat the victim briefly and then allow the rapist to resume. Apartheid, colonization, siege, oppression continued after previous onslaughts (2008, 2014, 2021). Now, there MUST be a different outcome if nothing else because of the scale of the devastation of Gaza and the vulgarity and open statements by Israeli leaders saying they intend to wipe and punish the population (the “human animals” in the words of the Israeli minister of war and “no innocent civilians” in the words of the Israeli president).
Again condemnations, showing concern, and prayers are not sufficient. Actions to hold the genocidal criminals accountable are needed NOW. See
http://ongaza.orgDemand the expulsion the Israeli ambassadors from your countries.(and the US ambassadors if they do not stop funding and arming the criminals)
Stay human
Mazin Qumsiyeh
