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Gaza Is a Moral Reckoning for Israel – And for You and Me


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Some outrages are so outrageous that I don’t even want to talk about them. But that’s when we must speak out.

Indeed, let’s rage against our government’s wholly-unprincipled embrace of (and direct participation in) the Israeli government’s ongoing massacre of the Palestinian people.

* Israel’s ruthless, 2-year invasion of Gaza has already killed 59,000 Palestinian civilians – more than half of them women and children.

* That’s as many killings as our soldiers suffered during the entire Vietnam War.

* Israel’s military has forced nearly all of Gaza’s two million citizens to abandon their homes and towns, herding them into distant camps, many without food, water, toilets, etc.

* Excruciating death by starvation – especially among children – is now at epidemic levels in Gaza, creating a dystopian horror.

* When masses of desperate Palestinians rush to sporadic and inadequate deliveries of humanitarian aid, Israeli snipers and other forces have opened fire on them – just since May, more than a thousand unarmed Palestinians have been assassinated in such ambushes.

Yes, fiendish Hamas terrorists, who literally operate underground in Gaza, are guilty of sadistic brutality against Israelis. But moral retribution requires going after Hamas, not mounting an inhumane onslaught to wipe the Palestinian people off the Earth.

A majority of Israelis are now openly rebelling against their government’s barbaric abandonment of their people’s best values. But what about us? Those sniper bullets and rockets have your and my names on them; those wasted children who’re dying in the agony of starvation belong to us; and it’s our politicians who’re propping up Israel’s corrupt prime minister and war machine. To stop this perversion of our own humanitarian values, go to International Rescue Committee: rescue.org.

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