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A report from the BBC reads: “A toddler lies still, face down, in a street in Gaza City. Her legs are curled, her head turned to one side – as if asleep. A man lies next to her on the ground. He reaches out, gently touches her side, and then, as life drains from him, his hand collapses onto the asphalt. Mohammad Majdalawi and his two-year-old daughter, Layan, were shot by Israeli snipers.”
And here we are – silent and sorrowful witnesses to these deaths. We watch in anguish as the people of Gaza starve. We see the hungry children of Gaza gunned down for a bite of dry bread. A commander gives the order: all weapons aimed at the enemy. Targets locked, triggers pulled. A soldier watches, smiling with satisfaction, as his two-year-old enemy dies. The soldier returns home – a hero of the homeland, of the land and its flag. A soldier of God. A soldier of the “chosen people.”
Further afield, Islamic fighters hide in tunnels – armed with looted supplies and weapons shipped by “the leader of the Muslim world,” Ayatollah Khamenei. They turn the death of children, women, and youth into capital, to drive Israel into the sea. And this nightmarish cycle of death, killing, and sorrow continues.
Meanwhile, governments stand and watch. Some are fervent devotees of the Israeli state, supplying it with an endless stream of weapons of mass destruction and unwavering political support – giving this enemy of humanity free rein to pursue genocide in Gaza. All Western governments, from Europe to the United States, are complicit in this atrocity.
On the other side stands political Islam and the Islamic Republic of Iran, shedding crocodile tears with every Palestinian child’s death to prolong their own survival. Arab states – the sanctimonious friends of the Palestinian people – continue circling the Kaaba, counting their windfall oil profits, all the while playing their part in this machinery of destruction.
Where does the civilised, humane world stand? To end this endless grief that haunts the world, the ground beneath our feet must tremble. The pressure must be greater. We must act – urgently. We can turn this dreadful page. The children of Gaza, all the starving Layans, are looking to us. Where do we stand?
Editor: Patty Debonitas
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