The plight of Palestinians

Jan 19, 2024 Editorial

Kaieteur News – It is people that are dying in Palestine. Where is the voice of the world? It is the elderly, the newborn, and women and children (non-combatants) who are under constant gunfire in Palestine, in the congested confines on their own land to which they have been condemned. What has happened to the conscience of the rest of the world, and all the inspiring postures of those who call themselves global leaders? What is taking place before the eyes of the world in Palestine to the Palestinian people is not war, it is vengeance, blood lust run amok, and the Israeli’s version of the Final Solution. This can’t be right, this can never be condoned or upheld or supported in any way, shape, or form. Humans are being deliberately starved into submission, hunted down like animals, and eradicated in pockets, or one by one.

Americans and Europeans love to hold aloft the Geneva Convention, and speak solemnly about its restraining provisions. There is this obscene hypocrisy where some polite clearing of the throat is coming from officials in Washington and other influential world capitals calling for ceasefire and restraint. It is about the extent of the interest and involvement of those who have much in common with the Israelis and can bring them to a halt. Where there should be energy and stirring commitment to put a stop to the barbarisms from the side with all the weapons and resources, there is mainly a blank wall of thick silence. The Palestinians have their backs so much against a wall that their friends are few and far between. When they speak, their voices and anger are quickly swamped by the overwhelming tide of a Western media cohort that is conspicuous in which side is hailed as heroic and glorified, and the other side that is denounced and demonised.

Few are those who should have any difficulty in deciding who has the upper hand, and by far, and who has the more powerful and vocal friends beyond compare. In this bloody vortex, the land now sown with more hate, the Palestinians are being ground into dust. It is as if they are not people, but vermin to be exterminated in the most calculated and coldblooded manner. The word now attached to what is happening to the Palestinians is genocide. As much as that is a harrowing thought, and a word freighted with the gruesome, it still is not enough to capture and convey the violence wreaked with unrestrained vigor on a virtually captive people. Genocide, as terrible as it is in the mere contemplation, still feels like a lukewarm description of the deliberate destruction of a people and their spirit to stand up and resist their circumstances, their oppressors. From all indications, the devastation of the will of the Palestinians seems to be a primary objective of the Israelis.

It is the inexplicable trajectory of irony that the same people whose recent history of less than a hundred years ago was of being victims of an unprecedented holocaust, a long genocidal season without equal, are themselves now the perpetrators of genocide (or worse) against those who fall and cower under their guns. How is, what is occurring today in Palestine different from the visions and practices of the jackbooted Aryans, who first came under the cover of dark, and then around the clock, to wipe a people from the face of the earth? There is something just as machinelike in its precision, no less clinical in its operation, in what is being meted out to the hapless Palestinians, who are foodless, friendless, and defenseless.

There is the clearest discernment of over 1000 Israelis killed in a surprise attack. But do the retaliatory schemes and actions translate to more than 20 Palestinians victimised for each Israeli life lost? For every single bullet and strike fired on behalf of the Palestinian cause on the first day of this new conflict, do there have to be a thousand shells and warheads pouring out with grim determination from Israel? This is anti-human, it is anti-life, and there can be no other description but that it is anti-Palestinian existence. Humanity has fled, the beastly in man now rages uncontrollably.

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