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How long after this week’s Gaza massacre are we going to continue pretending that the Palestinians are non-people?

Remember how they were to blame for their own exodus seven decades ago, because they followed the instructions of radio stations to leave their homes until the Jews of Israel were ‘driven into the sea’. Only, of course, the radio broadcasts never existed

‘How long are we going to continue pretending that the Palestinians are non-people?’

Monstrous. Frightful. Wicked. It’s strange how the words just run out in the Middle East today. Sixty Palestinians dead. In one day. Two-thousand-four-hundred wounded, more than half by live fire. In one day. The figures are an outrage, a turning away from morality, a disgrace for any army to create.

And we are supposed to believe that the Israeli army is one of “purity of arms”? And we have to ask another question. If it’s 60 Palestinians dead in a day this week, what if it’s 600 next week? Or 6,000 next month? Israel’s bleak excuses – and America’s crude response – raise this very question. If we can now accept a massacre on this scale, how far can our immune system go in the days and weeks and months to come?

Yes, we know all the excuses. Hamas – corrupt, cynical, no “purity” there – was behind the Gaza demonstrations. Some of the protesters were violent, sent burning kites – kites, for heaven’s sake – across the border, others threw stones; though since when has stone-throwing been a capital offence in any civilised country? If an eight-month-old baby dies after tear gas inhalation, what were her parents doing bringing their infant child to the Gaza border? And so it goes on. Why complain about dead Palestinians when we have the Sisis in Egypt and the Assads in Syria and the Saudis in Yemen to contend with? But no, the Palestinians must always be guilty.

more:

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/gaza-palestine-israel-conflict-us-embassy-jerusalem-jared-kushner-donald-trump-a8355631.html

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  1. It is interesting and important to note that we would not have any ‘Palestinian Refugee Problem’ if the Palestinians at the time of the Nakba would have listened to the Khalifa of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at, who told his members to ‘stay put’ (resulting in the peaceful and nice Kababir Ahmadiyya Jama’at, near Haifa). And, yes, today’s Muslims, with their terrible political state of affairs, could also benefit to ‘hear and obey’ the current Khalifa of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at. Why not learn from the terrible mistakes of the past?

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