Into the Second Year of Israeli Genocide in Gaza. The collective West’s complicity reflects moral bankruptcy, as in that of Canada
Into the Second Year of Israeli Genocide in Gaza. The collective West’s complicity reflects moral bankruptcy, as in that of Canada
“We are angry, we are broken. This would have been the time of joy, instead we are mourning. We are fearful. More than 20,000 children – thousands are still under the rubble. Close to 9,000 children killed in the most brutal ways day after day, 1.9 million displaced, hundreds of thousands of homes destroyed… Gaza as we know it no longer exists. This is an annihilation. This is genocide. The world is watching. Churches are watching. The people of Gaza are sending live images of their own execution. Maybe the world cares. But it goes on.”
“Bethlehem is besieged. Jerusalem is wounded. And Gaza is being annihilated. This year we say, Christ is still under the rubble in Gaza… He [Jesus] was born among those under occupation, to stand in solidarity with the oppressed and the repressed. In his childhood, he became a refugee, to stand in solidarity with the displaced and the exiled.”
—Rev. Munther Isaac in Bethlehem, West Bank (Occupied Palestine), on Christmas Eve 2023.[1] [2]
Bethlehem has been delivered a mortal wound that now runs through the ancient city where, as both the Gospels of the New Testament Bible and the Qur’an narrate, Virgin Mary brought forth into the world the child Jesus (Yehoshua in Hebrew, and Isa in Arabic). It is the wound that now divides the world in the first quarter of the twenty-first century, and the beginning of the third millennium, into two unequal parts, the Global North and the Global South.
This division is not natural brought about by some feature of geography; it is a division designed and imposed by men of war, plunder and pillage, from the Global North as were once the Crusaders a millennium ago, mortally wounding the township of Jesus’s nativity whose birth symbolized heavenly peace for all people and who later announced, “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.”
Israeli genocide into its second year and continuing has exposed the “collective West” represented by the G7 countries, six of the seven belonging to the Global North – Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, and the United States – except for Japan, complicit in the genocide, especially the United States and Britain with their ample material and diplomatic support for Israel and its genocidal war-mongering government led by prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. ****
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