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Palestinians – people or pests to be eradicated
Editorial…
Kaieteur News- The Palestinians are being treated like flies. Nuisance creatures to be swatted and crushed out of existence. They are not seen as people anymore by the rampaging Israeli warmongers and their backers. Palestinians are pests to be eradicated at a whim. They are then forgotten until the next round of warplanes, dropping their deadly charges from overhead. Later, war tanks and bulldozers are sent to continue the ordeal of human suffering on a wanton scale.
A dozen dead yesterday, a few hundred struck down overnight. What does it matter, they are only Palestinians? If their neighbors don’t care, it shouldn’t be expected that the rest of the world would care. It is a rare development for a people to be subjected to one catastrophe after another, but that has been the harrowing experience of Palestinians. They have the terrible misfortune to be in the wrong place with the most unimaginable neighbors, and with everybody pulling them one way or the other. Their misfortune is to be on their own land that others covet with a passion. The first handicap of the Palestinians is that theirs is a one-sided battle, since their Israeli neighbors have everything in their favor. They have the best weapons, they have the most powerful friends, and they have the best foreign supply lines to replenish their blood lust.
Those in the wider world who tried to mount a defense for the Palestinians in the court of public opinion, now find themselves facing the wrath of Americans incited to teach them a lesson. The cycle of violence and vengeance that has dogged the Gaza Strip for so long, has now reached farther afield and functions on a different world stage. South Africa is the first to be targeted, with the other defenders of the Palestinian cause given a choice; continue in that manner and be ready to pay a bitter price, or pull in horns, and start over much wiser, not sticking nose into the barbarous killing field that is now the Gaza Strip.
If 400 Palestinians dying in one savage strike is not a holocaust, then an inferno gets the message across just as well. The irony, the tragedy, is that a different kind of torture chamber has been transported from Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, to what was once the storied names of Judea and Samaria. Men, women, and children are dying or already dead, and the world is reduced to the role of a silent, fearful bystander. The old is sent off, the young dispatched, with cold-blooded and modern efficiency, and not many States, not many leaders, have the courage to whisper war crimes. The killers are incentivized, the victims who are despairing- if not already dead- are grievously wounded. Palestinians treated like animals, and the best that the world can do is raise its glass in a toast and wish for peace to prevail.
This is not the essence of hypocrisy and utter cruelty. It is about condoning criminality of the most heinous sort, while the world comforts itself about how civilized and compassionate it is. America, the arsenal of democracy, has distorted into America, the arsenal of barbarity and of frightening lunacy. America and Europe pride themselves as the strongholds of Christianity and all that are of standards and decency. Where are the standards, and what happened to the distinguishing decency in the Palestinian situation?
What is being delivered by the planeload and truckload to the Palestinians have been the fate of the poor and powerless throughout colonial and imperial times. There are bloody conquerors, which means that there are savaged, bloodied victims. Guyanese should take note, for they have oil and rich natural resources. The Palestinians have their land, which traces the source of their ongoing tragedy. Guyana’s oil has brought the vultures circling overhead, ready to pick to the bone. They are ready to deal with any Guyanese so lacking in good sense as to stand against them. Guyana’s leaders have proved their mettle. They have become very skilled at bowing their heads and taking their kicks, without saying a word. The altars of capitalist greed and political betrayals must be served. Today, the Palestinians suffer; the horrors of Guyanese are now beginning.
(Palestinians – people or pests to be eradicated)
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