At a morgue in Gaza City, Palestinians mourned the arrival of children killed in the Gaza conflict.Wissam Nassar for The New York Times-7-29-2014
If you see the vast majority of Palestinian people as decent human beings and not as caricatures bent on suicide, homicide, and self-degradation, you've seen beyond the distorted media presented by the major news outlets of the U.S. You've uncovered the cruel dishonesty of Israeli and AIPAC subterfuge and spin.
If you are nauseous over the images of dead children in Gaza, and the savage indifference of the majority of Israelis and affiliated American Jews and American Christians, then please consider the following campaign:
If you are Jewish, write and meet with as many rabbis as you can. If you are a Christian, write and meet with as many Christian clergy as you can. Insist that they take on the humanitarian cause of the Palestinian people.
There should be moral outrage projecting from pulpits everywhere. Your rabbi or preacher or priest must show his or her congregation the extraordinary gap between professed faith in G-d and the passive acceptance of the horror show currently playing out on a 32 by 6 mile strip of land by the Mediterranean Sea.
Rabbis and Christian clergy have to be taken to task. They have to take the lead in debunking stereotypes and myths about the Palestinian people--G-d's children just like all of us. They have to lead us in organized pressure on our government and the U.N. and the Israeli Government and business world.
If G-d's love does not spread to all, then it does not exist, and we are all pagans.
Amen! "Blessed are the peacemakers,
ReplyDeletefor they will be called children of God." Matthew 5:9
R H, Knoxville,TN
Another amen. And if our religious leaders are not peacemakers how will their flocks come around?
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